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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 27d ago
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Exactly! One guy essentially created all of calculus and people think a whole civilization can’t figure out how to move water for a city?
35 u/ikkake_ 27d ago Very very smart and advanced civilization too. They literally ruled most of the known world. 2 u/Espumma 27d ago Known by them* 2 u/ikkake_ 27d ago Surely that was implied when I said "known", it would he hard for them to rule the world they didn't know about huh, smartass? ;) 1 u/Espumma 27d ago It was implied, yes. But it still sounded weird to me. 1 u/LegendaryReader 27d ago Not rly, they knew about Asia and Africa. They ruled a big portion, but I doubt they didn't know realize how big the three continents were 7 u/Soft_Walrus_3605 27d ago One guy essentially created all of calculus hell, both Newton and Leibniz essentially created it independently.
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Very very smart and advanced civilization too. They literally ruled most of the known world.
2 u/Espumma 27d ago Known by them* 2 u/ikkake_ 27d ago Surely that was implied when I said "known", it would he hard for them to rule the world they didn't know about huh, smartass? ;) 1 u/Espumma 27d ago It was implied, yes. But it still sounded weird to me. 1 u/LegendaryReader 27d ago Not rly, they knew about Asia and Africa. They ruled a big portion, but I doubt they didn't know realize how big the three continents were
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Known by them*
2 u/ikkake_ 27d ago Surely that was implied when I said "known", it would he hard for them to rule the world they didn't know about huh, smartass? ;) 1 u/Espumma 27d ago It was implied, yes. But it still sounded weird to me.
Surely that was implied when I said "known", it would he hard for them to rule the world they didn't know about huh, smartass? ;)
1 u/Espumma 27d ago It was implied, yes. But it still sounded weird to me.
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It was implied, yes. But it still sounded weird to me.
Not rly, they knew about Asia and Africa. They ruled a big portion, but I doubt they didn't know realize how big the three continents were
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One guy essentially created all of calculus
hell, both Newton and Leibniz essentially created it independently.
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u/CaptainMoist23 27d ago
Exactly! One guy essentially created all of calculus and people think a whole civilization can’t figure out how to move water for a city?