Name one thing the ancients did better than the Medievals.

>>2025306
Paganism.

>>2025306
Infrastructures and architecture

>>2025308
>implying the Catholic church didn't outdo them in even that

>>2025306

"""Gay""" sex.

>>2025306
Anal.

>>2025306

Empires?

>>2025306

Keep standing armies around without them violently overthrowing their monarchs or rendering them into impotence.

>>2025306
Literacy

>>2025314
Roman roads were notorious for being dangerous and uncomfortable to walk on. Most peasants (the overwhelming majority of the empire) preferred to walk alongside the roads instead of on them. And forget about transporting anything over wagon, you'd be lucky if those things could even last 5 miles. Wagons were primitive in the ancient world, compared to the technological advancements made in the middle ages. Roman roads were solely adequate for moving troops, and only then just barely.

As for architecture, there's a reason why every roman temple is now a ruin, whereas Catholic cathedrals have stood for centuries.

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>>2025326
>>2025335
>

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>>2025336
Nope.

>>2025338
>Keep standing armies around without them violently overthrowing their monarchs or rendering them into impotence.
Change the "without" to "with" and you'd be correct.

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>>2025339
Swing and a miss.

>>2025345
>Most peasants (the overwhelming majority of the empire) preferred to walk alongside the roads instead of on them
B-but they had ditches alongside them for drainage, so the stupid peasants would be wading in water

>>2025370
The Romans weren't known to be intelligent.

>>2025306
running water

sewers

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>>2025306
Carroballista

>>2025360

When exactly did the standing army turn against the Julio-Claudians? Or the Flavians? Or the Spartans?

>>2025411
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's called the Praetorian guard and all the times they assassinated emperors who weren't paying them enough?????????????????????????????

>>2025395
Bingo

>>2025345
yeah judeocentrists bombed all the good shit

>>2025426


Since when are bodyguard units a standing army? It's hardly like medieval polities who shunned standing armies didn't have problems with their own household guards.


Furthermore, Sparta didn't even have them, and I don't see any citations of the two dynasties I mentioned. That makes it a longer eriod without substantial problems than most medieval states existed.

>>2025434
[citation needed]

>>2025358
>Medieval
>Spanish Empire

Are you stupid or something?

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>>2025345
>As for architecture, there's a reason why every roman temple is now a ruin, whereas Catholic cathedrals have stood for centuries.

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

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>>2025306

Pretty much everything.

Art.

>>2025345
>As for architecture, there's a reason why every roman temple is now a ruin, whereas Catholic cathedrals have stood for centuries.

This has to be b8.

>>2025314

Gothic architacture > Roman architecture

Philosophy.

>>2027195
this is the correct answer.

>>2025345
Think theres alot more reasons than that.

>>2025306

Flying machines.

>>2025366
>that dude in the second-from-the-back row who's falling asleep

just like modern lectures!

Concrete.

>>2025306
Build roads