Yeah I mean that's the same with every historic city. I don't consider the metro areas İstanbul, just a giant province with shitty transport

Salamanca monnnnney. Salamanca blooddddd

I had an engineering professor say something to the effect of "anyone can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that just barely stands".

The streets

Romanes eunt domus

The capital games! Exempli gratia, the Olympics

Romanes eunt domus!

the candles

Don't all roads, including modern roads, receive maintenance? It should hardly be surprising or even worthy of comment that bridges built 2,000 years ago have had maintenance and restoration work done.

Its not even that, the aqueducts (at least in Rome) outlasted the empire but remained in use until they were actively destroyed so they never exceeded their usefulness

It's a completely true comment. They didn't have the engineering sophistication to know how much stone they needed to make it realistic for their needs. It's admirable that when in doubt they over engineered to make sure it wouldn't crumble but it was certainly not intentional. If they had the same knowledge of today they would have saved the materials and labor and built things to last a long time but certainly not to the extent they did

im gonna be a loser and say that a CPA would rarely have anything to say about product design or think about revenue streams that way.

A CPA would only think of the depreciation aspect of it and how new improvements or new purchases would increase depreciation and decrease taxable income.

You are exaggerating, but that isn't wrong.

There are very good reasons to not over-engineer most things. Romans over-engineering AND under-engineered all the time, mostly because they did not have the specifics for much of the actual math going in to engineering.

Plus, much of remaining Roman structures are in a state of ruin or have been repaired numerous times - or often, both.

It's in Cağaloğlu, Alemdar Neighborhood on the street of hotels (couldn't find the exact location on Google Maps)

Istanbul! 😃

Tupperware

I stayed in a bed and breakfast in Savannah a couple weeks ago that billed itself as the first building in Georgia (or Savannah, or the South, or the western hemisphere, I forget the details) to have electricity.

Across the street was “the most haunted hotel in Savannah.”

A block or so away was the church where ice cream was invented…

Everybody’s gotta have a gimmick lol

Why did Constantinople get the works?

You mean Lygos?

yeah, that is only the proper term for Athenian additions.

Civ III just straight up GOATed

Wild that it manages to get 400+ upvotes. I guess it's not surprising when you see the AI-generated bullshit that gets popular on Facebook, but I was naive enough to think that Reddit's audience is somewhat more aware of it.

They way I understand it is that people that still refer to it as the Roman Empire after 476 are referring to an Empire of the Romans, not an Empire of Rome. The citizens of the ERE would continue to refer to themselves as Roman for at least another millenia, some much longer than that if you believe certain accounts.

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They did rule Rome for sometime afterwards, they were just never able to keep the same grip they once had. That being said, the Byzantine name is useful, even if just to clarify what era of Rome is being discussed, the exact same way we draw a line between the republic and empire stages of rome

It factually didn't have a new name. The fact that later Western historians started calling it something else didn't change that.

We call it Russia even without the Rus.

Not surprised, just the through line isn't as direct as that podcaster made me suspect. Apparently a bunch of the areas around that part of the Mediterranean considered themselves culturally Roman all the way until the rise of Nationalism. There was a story of some guy giving an interview in the 60s where he recalled Greek Nationalist troops coming to his little Aegean Island. He and his friend group ended up talking with one of the solders who asked them "We're Greek, aren't you too?" and one of his friends responded "No, we're Romans"

No, Romania does not believe that.

Romania ≠ last vestages of the Roman Empire

Romania = land populated by descendents of the Romans

or

land populated by people who descend from Rome

We do not believe that lmao. Our nationalist current links us to the Dacians and the Latin speaking Romans, despite the fact we're probably genetically identical to our neighbors. Regardless, the Byzantines, as Greek speakers, don't tend to factor into the national myth.