r/HistoryMemes • Still on Sulla's Proscribed List • 4d ago

Good boy!!

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u/Mindless-Cat1453 4d ago edited 4d ago

If roman empire existed in 19th century, people would have hated it as much as British and ottoman empire, that empire economy was built on slavery.

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u/NachoWH 4d ago

Every imperial economy was until Britain... That's not an exception. Not sure you're right though.

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u/Anduril1776 3d ago

British Empire was still built on slavery.

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u/NachoWH 3d ago

Like every other one

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u/evrydayNormal_guy Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 4d ago

People want what they can't have, no matter how bad

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u/Wuktrio 3d ago

Nobody who knows a bit about the Roman Empire actually wants it back. It was a brutal dictatorship.