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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by laingc on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:43PM (#23239950)
Wait until you read about the Roman Republic thousands of years before this time - you’re gonna love it.
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by cambalache on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:59PM (#23240130)
Yeah but besides the sanitation system,the aqueduct, the roads, the irrigation system, medicine,oratory, law, historians, dramatists,Vitruvius..what did those lousy Romans have?
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by donw on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:15PM (#23242313)
They did invent chemical warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by gpm on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:12AM (#23243221)
1. Are you sure you linked to the right page? That looks to be a condiment.

2. Chemical warfare was used before the Romans, for instance, like that condiment, the greeks had it before them. (Though I don't believe the greeks invented it first either). For example, see this wikipedia article (which is really in need of some improvement) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_warfare

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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by hnick on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:21AM (#23243834)
Garum is supposedly similar to south-east Asian fish sauce so as someone who can't stomach even regular seafood, let alone that horrible stuff, I'll stand by their humorous assessment :)
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by lootsauce on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:27PM (#23240467)
great Monty Python bit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by DrScump on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:39AM (#23244297)
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by ReverseCold on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @06:28PM (#23241049)
And the indus river valley civilization! They had a pretty advanced irrigation system.
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by selimthegrim on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:09PM (#23241407)
They used flood irrigation, more precisely - https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p077x0m7/why-did-an-entire-ci...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation#Clim...

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