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re: It would be really cool to be a ship’s captain in 600 BC in the Mediterranean
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:05 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:05 pm to athenslife101
They didn't even have video games. What a dumb era.
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Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:06 pm to athenslife101
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Why do you think it would be smelly? People swam, a lot.
And? That’s not the same thing as a bath. Plus even if it was, they weren’t swimming multiple times a week. Especially being on a ship doing manual labor outside while not cleaning yourself for months on end.
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Also, prostitution was pretty legal everywhere. I think they’d be fine sexual health wise
STDs everywhere
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:07 pm to athenslife101
Baw I’m watching porn on this little device that contains the entirety of all human knowledge and history, eating cheez-its and watching Chernobyl, all while sitting in a 68 degree house
Why would I want to be a frickin ship captain 2600 years ago
Why would I want to be a frickin ship captain 2600 years ago
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:08 pm to athenslife101
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The Mediterranean hadn’t been sterilized yet into the cookie cutter symmetry you would find even by 400 BC or 300 BC.
What do you mean by this?
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:09 pm to theunknownknight
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Being Stuck on a boat for months with sexually frustrated men has always been a dream of mine
Why do you think Terd is always so angry and always banned.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:09 pm to athenslife101
I could get by without a lot of modern conveniences. The one that gets me is no toilet paper. I read recently that the Romans used a communal arse cleaning stick thing. Like I would wipe my shite on it, then pass it to you to use. I get nauseous thinking about it.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:15 pm to biglego
By 400-300, you aren’t seen as many random small colonies. Things are setting down pretty much to where they will be till the Romans take over
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:25 pm to athenslife101
I don't want to live in a world where seatow isn't a call away
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:27 pm to athenslife101
Was just a weird phrasing. Cookie cutter sterilized is often used to describe suburbs not the ancient Mediterranean 
Depending on the exact time and place, I guess you’d see a mix of Greeks, Carthaginians, Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, whoever was in Italy at the time...you think that’s cookie cutter? Plus the Greeks weren’t monolithic.
Depending on the exact time and place, I guess you’d see a mix of Greeks, Carthaginians, Egyptians, Persians, Phoenicians, whoever was in Italy at the time...you think that’s cookie cutter? Plus the Greeks weren’t monolithic.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:28 pm to athenslife101
I get what you are saying, but the Mediterranean was always difficult to govern or control well into the 18th Century. And on the other hand by 600 BC it seems as though the Greeks, Carthaginians and Etruscans had a pretty well set colonial system established.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:29 pm to athenslife101
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Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:30 pm to athenslife101
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athenslife101
Checks out
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:32 pm to athenslife101
Go walk thru the ghetto at night. It'll be exploring thru the land of the savages.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:34 pm to athenslife101
Read Braundel's series "The Mediterranean". Things were already resolved. along the shore communities were spaced about a day's sail/row ahead.
Would you be a good CEO for a boat, keeping the propellers running and the sails mended? Except you had to keep the propellers that you owned well fed and healthy or you'd lose your investment.
Would you be a good CEO for a boat, keeping the propellers running and the sails mended? Except you had to keep the propellers that you owned well fed and healthy or you'd lose your investment.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:16 pm to athenslife101
Yeah, there were actually a few fish in that sea back then.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:22 pm to athenslife101
quote:absolutely dominated. They ran that shite. Everywhere. Jews get a bad rap. The original 'you will never manufacture, but buy and sell' was the Phoenician (a distinct maritime tribe of Lebanon).
Phoenicians
They invented arbitrage.
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:24 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:bc those were badasses
Why would I want to be a frickin ship captain 2600 years ago
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:27 pm to athenslife101
Would rather live 12,000 years ago before the ancient advanced human civilization was wiped out by asteroid impact.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 10:28 pm to athenslife101
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Posted on 5/29/19 at 11:35 pm to athenslife101
I'd settle for being Tom Sawyer, riding down the river on a raft with Huck Finn, and Big Jim. 
This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 11:36 pm
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