“All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

qaz@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

“All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

Klear@quokk.au · 5 months ago

Yeah, besides roads, what have the Romans ever done for us?

PugJesus@piefed.social · 5 months ago

Brought peace?

tetris11@feddit.uk · 5 months ago

Pax Romana was a misspelling in history books, with “Pox” being the correct word due to all those damn poxy romans ruining the countryside with their damn sexy aquaducts

At least that’s the part of history I choose to misremember whilst doodling in my textbook

ODGreen@lemmy.ca · 5 months ago

The Romans create a desert and call it peace.

– Some Roman Dude

Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

All of those perks were great, but odds were very, very good that you’d be one of those slaves that served them.

I’d rather shit in the woods personally.

“Wine” snort, yeah the barbarians were sober

I Cast Fist@programming.dev · 5 months ago

I love doing my slave labor for the ~~res publica~~ imperium! One day I might even be a real ~~boy~~ Roman citizen! If not, R E V O L T!!!

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 5 months ago

I know it’s a joke but the history of water management is way cooler than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_water_supply_and_sanitation