ITT: Historical Pottery

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>first King of Rome is called Romulus
>first Emperor of Rome is called Augustus
>last Emperor of (western) Rome is called Romulus Augustulus

>first Roman Emperor to reign in Constantinople called Constantine
>last Roman Emperor to reign in Constantinople called Constantine

also
>fall-of-rome.jpg
reeeeeeeeee that's not a painting of Rome you spiv

>>2697299
really makes you think

also
>The myth of the samurai was being created when the myth of the knights was being parodied

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>>2697299
THAT ISNT A PAINTING OF ROME

>>2697368
really stimulates the intuition

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>>2697299
It's almost like periodisations are the product of scholarly debate and are set down by people.

Not to be "no fun allowed" or anything.

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>>2697299
pic related is pottery

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>>2697299
>A Germanic Christian tribe called the wanderers move peacefully into Carthage and built bathhouses so wonderful they wrote poetry about it
>Because they were the wrong kind of Christians the Romans wrote so much slander the name of their tribe is now the root for the world Vandalism.

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>Titanic
>Is called "The Unsinkable Ship"
>Sinks on its first voyage

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>people called the turks
>they turk constantinople away from the greco-romans

you can't make this shit up

>>2698879
dindu nuffin

>>2699324
really it kinda was an inside job

see fourth crusade

>>2699353
>First crusade helps Byzantines save themselves
>Last crusade helps Byzantines get destroyed

there's probably a karmic element since they were the ones who encouraged Germanic murderhobos in the first place

>>2698879
>rebuild Carthage
>wonder that Rome talks shit about them
who would have guessed

>>2697299
>First imperial dynasty of China is Qin.
>The last one is Qing

>>2699386
Well it takes a long time for the Chinese to hit the G-spot, amirite?

>>2699404
kek

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>>2697299
Rome is the China of Europe. China is the Rome of East Asia.

>200's BC
-Roman Republic rises in ascendancy
-China as an empire, founded
>Late 200's BC and 100's AD
-Rome fights and defeats worst enemy: Carthage
-Han China fights and defeats worst enemy: Xiongnu Empire
>0-100's AD
-Roman Imperial Golden Ages
-Han Golden Age in China
>200' AD
-Crisis of the Third Century in Rome. Rome divided into shitty Imperial factions fighting each other
-Collapse of the Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period in China
>300's AD
-Rome manages to regain stability under , good Emperors, tetrarchy, Christianity.
-China manages to regain stability under Sima Jin Dynasty.
>400's-500's AD
-The Shittening, Western Roman Empire falls. Romaness moves to the Eastern Empire..
-The Shittening, The Sima Jin dynasty falls to infighting and then invading Nomadics conquer North. Chineseness retreats to Southern China.
>600's-800's
-The Byzantine Empire's golden ages.
-Reunification under Sui. China's golden ages under the T'ang Dynasty.
>900's AD.
-Turkic Invasions lead to huge territorial losses for Byzantines. Internal problems at home and in the Balkans.
-Fall of T'ang in China, generals fall into infighting as a century sees 5 dynasties and 10 Kingdoms in quick succession
>1000's-1100's
-The Byzantine Renaissance. Much stability and sciences
-The Song Renaissance Period of Chinese history. Also much stability and sciences
>Mid 1200's
-Byzantine in Crisis from Invading Crusaders, Muslims.
-China in Crisis from Invading Jurchens & Mongols.

>>2699435
>-The Byzantine Empire's golden ages.
>What was Iconoclasm controversy

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>"War to End All Wars"
>Is only the first one

>>2699572
heretics gonna heretic

>>2699572
>What was Iconoclasm controversy

A mere internal distraction.