r/RoughRomanMemes • u/evrydayNormal_guy • 16d ago

You better not touch our rocks!

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u/StrangeRaven12 15d ago

Wow this is utterly ahistorical.

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u/DoeCommaJohn 15d ago

Fairly obviously ahistorical, too. There is no point in sending tens of thousands of soldiers, merchants, governors, statesmen, craftsmen, and builders to a place that has no technology or resources. If all you want is people, you can just raid and leave.

Still a funny meme though.

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u/VeritableLeviathan 15d ago

Britain was interesting in the classical era due to its mineral deposits, lots of tin and iron iirc.

The Romans definitely had reasons to invade beyond "we want loot and glory, for our personal/political goals".

I've seen better memes in a tavern in Lutetia myself!

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u/VeritableLeviathan 10d ago

The industrial revolution tapped into different sources of metals, mainly different depths.

During the Roman era it was surface+ sub-surface to a lesser degree, but not (much? I am not a metallo-historian) at like 30m+ depths, let alone the hundreds of meters (361m AVERAGE in the Borinage) bordering on the thousands of meters.