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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (3 children)

27 BCE (Fall of the Republic)

395 AD (Split of the Empire into East and West)

476 AD (Fall of the city of Rome and the Western Empire)

717 AD and 867 AD (Byzie stuff? Not sure)

1204 AD (Sack of Constantinople and the break of government continuity in the Byzantine Empire)

1453 AD (Siege of Constantinople and conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks)

1806 AD (Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the Germanic state which claimed legitimacy by being crowned by the Pope)

1917 AD (Fall of the Romanov dynasty which claimed dynastic continuity with the Byzantine Empire and called Russia the 'Third Rome')

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

717 AD (-718 AD): Siege of Constantinople by the Umayyad Caliphate

867 AD: Basil I murders Michael III, becoming emperor and establishing the Macedonian dynasty, beginning a Byzantine revival

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And if you go by the last one, you can say that they sold Coca-Cola in the Roman Empire.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, I love unexpected comparisons like this!

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai

[–] tetris11@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I need some dates on this one.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Woolly mammoths walked the Earth while the pyramids were being built (well, one small corner of it).

Oxford university was teaching before the Aztec Empire began.

I think I read through an entire AskReddit thread of these. A few I came across on my own and was surprised by: Fibbonacci of the numbers fame could have met Ghengis Khan, Benjamin Franklin could have talked to Isaac Newton, and Galileo was literally the same age as Shakespeare.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And TBF there is a pretty good argument that Russia picked up where Byzantium left off, on cultural and religious fronts.

Edit: And if you accept that, maybe 1917 was just a change of dynasty, and it either never fell or fell in 1990.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't give Putin more ideas!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

Truly, he would be a shit-tier emperor. The battle of Teutoburg forest could be blamed on an unlucky surprise, at least.