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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 10 2010, 05:18 PM (621 Views) | |
| Michelle | Dec 10 2010, 05:18 PM Post #1 |
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I love this time period as well. It's fascinating. Rome was started on about seven hills, not Romulus and Remus. |
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| CJ | Dec 14 2010, 10:55 PM Post #2 |
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Well, the idea that Romulus and Remus were raised by wolves just seems absurd, and doesn't say much for the credibility of the rest of the legend. |
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| Michelle | Dec 14 2010, 11:25 PM Post #3 |
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Well, it's just a legend. Can't blame 'em! |
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| CJ | Dec 15 2010, 09:41 PM Post #4 |
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It's a real pity our academic knowledge from this period was lost to us, and not rediscovered until the start of the Renaissance. Who knows how our technological development might have been were it not for that? |
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| Michelle | Dec 16 2010, 12:02 AM Post #5 |
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I know what you mean there. I never would have been able to take Early Western Civilization. |
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| CJ | Dec 17 2010, 09:36 PM Post #6 |
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What I mean is, our technological advancement was put back hundreds of years by it. |
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| Michelle | Dec 17 2010, 09:38 PM Post #7 |
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Oh, all right then. |
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| CJ | Jan 7 2011, 01:28 AM Post #8 |
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Yeah...when the Great Library in Alexandria was destroyed, and then the Roman Empire fell, we lost all of that accumulated knowledge. |
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| Michelle | Jan 7 2011, 01:33 AM Post #9 |
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Oh yeah, I remember that
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| CJ | Jan 11 2011, 12:44 AM Post #10 |
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It's amazing how durable their buildings were. Quite a lot still exist (albeit in ruined form) 2000 years later! |
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| Michelle | Jan 11 2011, 10:54 PM Post #11 |
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I know, it's amazing. |
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| CJ | Feb 17 2011, 11:19 PM Post #12 |
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Yeah. Roman concrete was pretty durable too, much more so than modern concrete. |
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| lamna | Feb 17 2011, 11:39 PM Post #13 |
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Well there might not have been much. With so much cheap labour around, why bother with machines? |
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| Michelle | Feb 18 2011, 03:07 AM Post #14 |
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They created the first speed bumps too. |
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| CJ | Feb 20 2011, 01:58 AM Post #15 |
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Oh, dear. I can't imagine riding over them would have been very comfortable .
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| Michelle | Feb 24 2011, 01:11 AM Post #16 |
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I know, I think it would hurt
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| CJ | Feb 24 2011, 01:14 AM Post #17 |
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I mean, it's not like they had the tyres that we do now, lol .
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| Michelle | Feb 24 2011, 02:00 AM Post #18 |
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I know lol
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| CJ | May 17 2013, 05:33 PM Post #19 |
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One thing that I learned recently was that a lot of Greek marble statues weren't plain white (as they appear today, and as they're often depicted), but were painted in bright colours. Back in the day, the Parthenon would have looked something like this: http://www.midwestmodel.com/UserFiles/Image/models/m_parthanon1.jpg |
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