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[-] Hegar@kbin.social 81 points 10 months ago

I'm hoping for an interview with an Etruscan king on why Italy has no distinct culture of it's own.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 27 points 10 months ago

By Etruscans, do you mean that land-stealing rabble filled with wannabe proto-Villanovans?

[-] UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Castenaso or bust!!

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 70 points 10 months ago

are the french in the room with us now?

[-] teft@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago
[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 31 points 10 months ago

Don't use such language; there are innocent ears around!

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Takes a lot of gall to talk about Gauls!

[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Charlemagne enters the chat

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

Wait until Macedonia arrives

[-] Tja@programming.dev 69 points 10 months ago

All of Europe? Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders...

[-] NIB@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Italy's? Dont you mean Greece's? Italians(romans) were just wannabe greeks, greekaboos. Literally every aspect of roman society is copied from the greeks. And luckily for us, greeks were one of the first people who started writing down shit, in a language we can understand, so there is no reason to go further back.

[-] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 33 points 10 months ago

Its true. Many people believe that anal sex was invented by the italians, but that too was invented in ancient Greece. The romans merely took it and adapted it for use with women.

[-] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

Twitch that is some damn good bait

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

If we go back far enough, most countries in Eurasia today belong to Iraq (Mesopotamia) following that logic

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Didn't human life evolve in modern day Ethiopian? So technically, every country belongs to Ethiopians and their descendants.

But since all humans are Ethiopian descendants, it should be all good in the neighborhood

[-] NIB@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well maybe culturally influenced but Mesopotamia didnt "conquer" Greece. Well Persia conquered greek cities in western Anatolia(Turkey) but that happened later on. As i wrote, before classical Greece, you are basically entering a prehistoric era from which we only have myths and archeological artifacts. What little text we have from back then is either too limited or incomprehensible or non historically accurate(myths).

As far as Greece is concerned, there was the Minoan civilization(in the island of Crete and other islands), whose writing(linear A) has basically nothing in common with (ancient) greek. We still havent decyphered Linear A. They are the basis for the whole Atlantis myth and they were probably destroyed by a tsunami(Santorini's volcano going boom).

After them we had the Mycenaean civilization, which is a greek mainland one. They used linear B, which was between linear A and greek. We have mostly decyphered linear B. Myceneans are the trojan war greeks.

After that we had or maybe didnt have the "dorian invasion"(northern greeks? fucking/conquering the Myceneans??? noone knows), which caused cultural changes and many centuries of "dark age". And only after that we had the classical greek city states and the start of history.

History and national identities are very messy. And once you start going prehistoric, it is even more ridiculous. Which is why every country has artificially created its own national myth/history.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Does the Dorian period occur at the same time as The Bronze Age Collapse?

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

If Greeks wanted the glory they should've beaten the Romans.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

In your face, Plato!

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Instructions unclear turned the Romans into Greeks.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

On the other hand, Greeks clung onto the Roman identity for a really long time. And I mean even after being taken over by Ottomans.

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[-] TakiMinase@slrpnk.net 31 points 10 months ago

As a part celt I'm waiting for reparations.

[-] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I would be satisfied with Ulster, so, if you could have those deeds collated and overnighted to me in the US, that'd be great. Don't forget the mineral rights.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

The Roman empire is eternal, after all.

[-] Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Could there be a small Gaulish village that resists them?

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

The Romans had this thing called a fasces that symbolized power.

Maybe we should name this movement to restore the Roman Empire after this?

Fascesism? Not that's too long... Fascism... yeah that rolls off the tongue.

Wonder if anyone has thought of this before?

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Sounds good to me. Time to bring enlightenment to the disgusting barbarians once again.

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 24 points 10 months ago

Sorry, but North Africa, Siciliy, Corsica, Sardinia and Iberia all already rightfully belong to the Vandals.

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[-] pacology@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Jokes asides, revanchism was one of the main ideological engines of the Italian facist party, from which Meloni takes strong cues.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 10 months ago

Well, Rome controlled those territories, so I can see it. Also, Carthage must be destroyed, so…

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago

That's what the salt in Trapani is for...

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Can you link to the article? I am not seeing it on Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/site-search/?query=Meloni
https://www.reuters.com/site-search/?query=Meloni+tucker&offset=0

And the picture is from a different article. As is the dateline.

Believe you have found a piece of DIP.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 52 points 10 months ago

It's not real. It's making fun of Putin's recent interview and claims.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

Ah, I didn't see what magazine I was on

[-] Diasl@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Was so incredibly obviously satire as well 🙄

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago

Sooner have people question satire, though, than take it as fact.

[-] user134450@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Indeed. atetheonion might contain a bunch of idiocy, but i would not be offended by being included there just because i was sceptical of something.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Poe's Law has entered the chat

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

I love your efforts to investigate this. I wish everyone was this critical of random internet crap.

[-] nuke@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

It's a joke

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am starting to think Tucker is not interviewing but enlisting people for his new superpower.

[-] _xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

wait, which focus path should i be taking in hoi4?

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The ones that leads to the united nations of earth for your Stellaris playthrough

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[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The one where you put the pope in absolute power

[-] Agosagror@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Italy is the funniest state ever conceived, up above Russia. The war in Ukraine is just Putin trying to take the number one spot.

[-] tonho@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I wonder how much time would take the president of USA to justify new Mexico, Hawaii and Puerto Rico

[-] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 10 months ago
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