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  • folkrav@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    It’s incredibly easy to fall into the trap of seeing modern societies as more advanced. There’s no reason to think they weren’t just as intelligent and resourceful as we are today. They just lived a long time ago. If history can teach us one thing, it’s that nobody rules the world forever, as advanced a civilization can be.

    • KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Prior to collapsing, Rome achieved a sustained population in excess of a million people.

      This did not occur again anywhere else until the mid 1800s.