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Wait until you read about the Roman Republic thousands of years before this time - you’re gonna love it.

• cambalache 6y ago
  Yeah but besides the sanitation system,the aqueduct, the roads, the irrigation system, medicine,oratory, law, historians, dramatists,Vitruvius..what did those lousy Romans have?
  • lootsauce 6y ago
    great Monty Python bit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo
  • donw 6y ago
    They did invent chemical warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum
    • gpm 6y ago
      1. Are you sure you linked to the right page? That looks to be a condiment. 2. Chemical warfare was used before the Romans, for instance, like that condiment, the greeks had it before them. (Though I don't believe the greeks invented it first either). For example, see this wikipedia article (which is really in need of some improvement) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_warfare
      • hnick 6y ago
        Garum is supposedly similar to south-east Asian fish sauce so as someone who can't stomach even regular seafood, let alone that horrible stuff, I'll stand by their humorous assessment :)
  • DrScump 6y ago
    ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
• ReverseCold 6y ago
  And the indus river valley civilization! They had a pretty advanced irrigation system.
  • selimthegrim 6y ago
    They used flood irrigation, more precisely - https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p077x0m7/why-did-an-entire-civilisation-vanish- https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p077x0m7/why-did-an-entire-ci... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation#Climate_change_and_drought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation#Clim...