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It would be really cool to be a ship’s captain in 600 BC in the Mediterranean
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:45 pm
Everything would be so much of an adventure and every day would be something new.
The Mediterranean hadn’t been sterilized yet into the cookie cutter symmetry you would find even by 400 BC or 300 BC.
But, this is the start of the Great colonization across the black and Mediterranean seas. You see a village in the distance off some dark shore? It could be anyone. It could be Phoenicians. It could be Greeks, it could be Kemetics. And their society could be more outlandish than anything you could imagine. With little input from their original homes, you’d get all sorts of crazy cults and weird governments and stuff.
As a ships captain, you were probably a bit of a pirate as everyone was pretty much a bit of a pirate at this time. You probably were also a merchant. And you’d have more freedom to go where you wanted more so than anyone else alive at the time.
Hell, some phonecians supposedly traveled to England
The Mediterranean hadn’t been sterilized yet into the cookie cutter symmetry you would find even by 400 BC or 300 BC.
But, this is the start of the Great colonization across the black and Mediterranean seas. You see a village in the distance off some dark shore? It could be anyone. It could be Phoenicians. It could be Greeks, it could be Kemetics. And their society could be more outlandish than anything you could imagine. With little input from their original homes, you’d get all sorts of crazy cults and weird governments and stuff.
As a ships captain, you were probably a bit of a pirate as everyone was pretty much a bit of a pirate at this time. You probably were also a merchant. And you’d have more freedom to go where you wanted more so than anyone else alive at the time.
Hell, some phonecians supposedly traveled to England
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Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:46 pm to athenslife101
Being Stuck on a boat for months with sexually frustrated men has always been a dream of mine
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 8:47 pm
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:46 pm to athenslife101
You would die so fast
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:47 pm to athenslife101
And the next day you die from pneumonia
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:48 pm to athenslife101
Go climb Everest.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:48 pm to athenslife101
Imagine the stench.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:49 pm to athenslife101
Youd get kidnapped, human trafficked into slavery in the bowels of Babylon
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:49 pm to athenslife101
Gay men with scurvy woohoo sign me up
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:50 pm to athenslife101
But then you get the plague.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:51 pm to 1BamaRTR
Why do you think it would be smelly? People swam, a lot.
Also, prostitution was pretty legal everywhere. I think they’d be fine sexual health wise
Also, prostitution was pretty legal everywhere. I think they’d be fine sexual health wise
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:52 pm to weagle99
You know, most people throughout history have managed to not get the plague
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:52 pm to LSUtoOmaha
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This post was edited on 11/22/20 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:54 pm to athenslife101
quote:
Why do you think it would be smelly?
Everything was smelly until a little more than 100 years ago.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:54 pm to athenslife101
Wouldn’t Medusa or some harpies try to kill you? Too dangerous for Bob!
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:55 pm to theunknownknight
quote:You forgot unbathed, various infections of both skin and internal organs, probably covered in parasites, suffering from scurvy, where a minor scrape can cause loss of life or limb due to lack of medicines and medical treatments and as previously stated, hygiene.
Being Stuck on a boat for months with sexually frustrated men has always been a dream of mine
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:56 pm to athenslife101
It's fun to dream about being a big, important ship captain, but eventually you've got to grow up, set aside the dream, and get a real job... like personal assistant to Ed Orgeron.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:57 pm to ExtraGravy
Except we know people flocked to be rowers. Also, most ships had to be pulled onto land every night to let the ships dry out. So you’re spending plenty of time on land
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:58 pm to USMEagles
I’d rather be a PA then my current job. I keep writing long ranting threads about it and not posting it because no one cares. So I try to post positive stuff
Posted on 5/29/19 at 8:59 pm to athenslife101
no air conditioning? hard pass for me
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:04 pm to athenslife101
Scylla and Charybdis would have been a problem.
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