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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] 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.