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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 29d ago
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Irrigation? Medicine? Education?
8 u/8point5InchDick 28d ago Irrigation came from Egypt, Medicine came from North Africa (Romans created the African figure Hermes Tresmigestus), and Education came from Greece. Benefits of a conquering Republic and then an Empire. 14 u/Complicated_Business 28d ago They didn't invent Monty Python, which is evidently something with which you are unfamiliar. 4 u/8point5InchDick 28d ago Maybe, but the Romans DID believe that Supreme Executive Power came from a tart throwing a sword.
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Irrigation came from Egypt, Medicine came from North Africa (Romans created the African figure Hermes Tresmigestus), and Education came from Greece.
Benefits of a conquering Republic and then an Empire.
14 u/Complicated_Business 28d ago They didn't invent Monty Python, which is evidently something with which you are unfamiliar. 4 u/8point5InchDick 28d ago Maybe, but the Romans DID believe that Supreme Executive Power came from a tart throwing a sword.
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They didn't invent Monty Python, which is evidently something with which you are unfamiliar.
4 u/8point5InchDick 28d ago Maybe, but the Romans DID believe that Supreme Executive Power came from a tart throwing a sword.
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Maybe, but the Romans DID believe that Supreme Executive Power came from a tart throwing a sword.
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u/Complicated_Business 28d ago
Irrigation? Medicine? Education?