• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    44 minutes ago

    First stop, Nalanda university. It’s said that when the Mongols burned it, it didn’t stop for a month.

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    9 hours ago

    In their haste to preserve the scrolls, they tip over some oil lamp and… 🔥

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      It had to happen, because it did happen.

      Unless we’re playing by Back To The Future rules, in which case … I dunno man, whatever gets him to not hook up with his mom.

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    11 hours ago

    Maybe that’s why so few books survived the fire.

    They were brought to the future and we are in the in between time. * X files music*

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    9 hours ago

    I appreciate that you have removed gender stereotypes from this meme format

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    11 hours ago

    Someone needs to take out Machiavelli or otherwise prevent him from writing The Prince while we’re in the past. Might not do anything but it could fix a lot if it does

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        11 hours ago

        Yes. I read The Prince and I think Machiavelli’s reputation as malevolent and scheming is undeserved. Perhaps he shocked the sensibilities of some by saying the quiet part out loud, but it would be foolish for either a ruler or his subjects to be unaware of that quiet part due to misplaced idealism. This remains true in the present day.

        Edit: I assume that you know this, but I thought that a reply to you was a good place to say it to others.