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Dizzy_Ad_1735 t1_itdjkz0 wrote

Reply to comment by Bashstash01 in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator

Rome is remembered for its supreme power, advanced engineering, military successes, religious customs, entertainment and its brutality. Whatever your view of Rome, you can’t deny that its international rule had wide-scale effects on our development. Beginning in the 8th century BC, ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peaked encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of Western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. It lasted for over 2,000 years, it's legacy is felt to this day. The United States of America is the modern Rome, it similarity is uncanny.

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David_bowman_starman t1_itdbohs wrote

Reply to comment by gmorf33 in Human 'bog bones' discovered at Stone Age campsite in Germany by wishywashy9101

Currently we think that writing arose more as just a slow evolution from counting, as the symbols for amounts became more streamlined and abstract over time, eventually turning into a full written alphabet. But it definitely was reserved for only an elite few for a long time, even if more just for accounting purposes.

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Doctor_Impossible_ t1_itdakh6 wrote

Reply to comment by LimpingIceberg in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator

>Why aren’t Goebbels and Himmler prominent name in the general public when they are practically the architects of it all?

You're claiming Goebbels was one of two main architects of the Holocaust, when he didn't even attend the Wannsee conference. Why?

The actual architects are the men who planned and implemented it. Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann, etc.

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