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Deceptichum@quokk.au to History Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

[Memopotamia Monday] parley

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[Memopotamia Monday] parley

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Deceptichum@quokk.au to History Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    3D triangle

    Behold! The pyramids:

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      Diogenes bursts into the lecture hall, holding up one of these

      “BEHOLD, A PYRAMID!”

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        Relevant

        https://youtu.be/4rSw_fqA3aM

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      I truly believe that the 3D Doritos were the dream of the Egyptians. We have since achieved their vision.

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    Writing was independently invented 5 different times.

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      And every time by Nabû.

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        Not Brahma?

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    What’s kind of sad is the Sumerian invention of writing was as much about enforcing debt, taxation, property, and thereby creating a strong heirarchical upper class that wouldn’t have been possible in stateless systems.

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