alt Hacker NewsREG: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
To me, what would suck the most is living in a place after the Romans where you can see signs of their civilization but you're living a rural peasant life.
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toyg • yesterday at 10:06 PM
In many ways, that's how a lot of people feel in modern Britain: everywhere you see signs of XIX century grandeur, but "on the streets" life can feel depressingly backwards.
Shitty-kitty • yesterday at 10:06 PM
Brewing alcohol was known to hunter-gatherers. Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities). Medicine/education, that's the Greeks.
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The idea entered our collective subconscious and is still going strong:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder...
Imagine growing up in Cairo.