>>47969765wooly mammoths were still alive when they built the pyramids. not a lot of them, but some.
Rome had only been an empire for 25 years when Jesus was born. One of the main causes for the transition from republic? People felt Caesar was too cozy... with Egypt. Pretty much same egypt. More unified, a little more greek, tried out monotheism for a single pharoah before trying to erase all trace of him. Otherwise unchanged.
The Aztec Empire was founded 20 years before Columbus was born. Oxford University was 300.
When pilgrims were landing at plymouth, Santa Fe already had hotels and resteraunts.
Spain was still fascist when Microsoft was founded.
My grandfather grew up with most of his neighbors riding around in horse and buggy. He lived to see the space shuttle.
We sing about how it's a small world. But nobody ever acknowledges that it's also a short one.