Did you guys know the Romans literally had handguns?
http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2008/04/from-catapults-to-cosmology.html
>But those are just crossbows!
Nope. They fired bullets.
>The Dark Ages are a myth!!
Sure they are.
>>76098605
Not suprised one bit. Hard to really say what has been concealed or forgotten.
>>76098605
That's dope as fuck!
>>76098605
I guess that makes them kangz then.
>>76098605
I heard a black engineer from Egypt created the first one
>>76098757
The Romans in particular were way more advanced than people give them credit for.
>>76099068
Romans always were kangs.
The Romans also invented steam power. It was a toy to them, though. It never occurred to them to use it to power manufacturing or parts of their navy.
Mfw the industrial revolution could have happened 1000 years early and allowed Rome to conquer the world
>>76099377
They would have gotten to it eventually.
>>76099501
If they had, they'd be easily the most advanced civilization on Earth (even more so than they already were).
>Mass produce equipment standardizing military throughout empire
>Cross the Atlantic and set up colonies in the Americas
>Britain never rises
The only obstacle to complete world domination would be their inability to control such a large empire, but if the British could do it
>>76099827
But the British couldn't do it. That's why they collapsed. Same with the Romans. People can never grasp that you can't have corruption in your government and keep an empire intact. The Greeks couldn't learn this, the Romans couldn't, the Brits couldn't and now the Americans can't.
>>76099377
Romans also never discovered coal, which is critical for cost effective steam power. Even then, it wasn't until Watt improved the efficiency of Newcomen's design that steam engines really displaced horses in industry.
>>76099377
Was it not a Greek man who invented it during the time when Greece was under control of the Roman Empire?
Hero of Alexandria?
>>76099207
Romans had plumbing in an age when the rest of the world was shitting in fucking public. Even their architectural style was based and survives to this day.
hmm
without the metallurgical technology to extend the design, steam power is pretty limited
if you want to see the ballista taken to its theoretical height, theres a neat blog by a guy interpreting and rebuilding a late Roman era ballista
http://wattsunique.com/blog/the-orsova-ballista/
seriously the coolest guy. i wish he was my dad
>>76100312
God, Jew York is such a dark, ugly town.
>>76098605
LITERALLY the only two things Romans lacked that we have are the combustion engine and electricity.
And even with that, they still lived better than us.
>falling for the "future means progress means better life" meme
>>76099945
*jews*
>>76101121
Not only, but they've been a major component in all of these collapses.
>>76101287
Egypt-Jewed
Babylon-Jewed
Rome-Jewed
French Empire-Jewed
Czarist Russia-Jewed
Germany-Jewed
USSR-Jewed
USA-in a stage of being Jewed.
>>76101525
Yep. In fact, the story of Exodus is now known to be war propaganda and the exact opposite occurred - the ancestors of the jews were probably the Hyksos who invaded Egypt as merchants and beggars, worked their way to the top of Egyptian society through corruption and nepotism, then took over and changed policies to favor themselves and harm the natives until they got kicked out.
Jews were jewing 4,000 years ago.
>>76101812
>industrious society
>full of mathematicians, thinkers, artists, poets, and engineers
>studying the natural world, the human body, building wonders
>subverted by the Jews
>infiltrated by foreigners
>spiraled into degeneracy and was utterly destroyed
When will this trend be broken?
>>76100785
And advanced medical techniques/germ theory
>>76102689
When we institute eugenics. And not one microsecond before.
>>76102128
I love the "Picasso" one that is photoshop brush art from pol.
It always makes me kek idk why.
>>76098605
>Richard carrier
Good job posting something from a literal cuck
>>76098605
http://www.strangenotions.com/gods-philosophers/
the dark ages are a myth
>>76102689
When you build a wall to keep out the hordes
>>76103119
>Genetic fallacy
So what? Did he invent Rome?
>>76103268
They absolutely are not. We are only now discovering just how much knowledge was lost.
>>76103281
Worked for China, right?
>>76099154
Well the earliest crossbows appear to be a Hittite invention from a single inscription we have from around 2800BC but a crossbow really isn't a difficult concept once you have a bow. Torsion technology and retraction systems obviously required more technical expertise. In the classical period they first appear to see regular military service under the tyrant kings of Syracuse who had them built to penetrate hide panels the carthaginians put on their ships to catch arrow fire.
