Inventing is hard work. Not for the Romans!
Inventing is hard work. Not for the Romans!
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Hey you stole our ship design.
Nope, look we added this pointy bit here, come closer and let us show you.
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Caw caw smash.
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Now I want a trireme with a Corvus painted to look like a crow.
And I will definitely be referring to it as my ship's Corvid. Any time a newcomer tries to correct me, I'll just point to it and ask "You sure about that?"
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"See? Totally different."
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I would say romans iterated well.
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They even stole the Greek gods.
And the Etruscan gods. And the Carthaginian gods. And the Egyptian gods. And the ... you get the idea.
The Romans even had a standardised ritual for stealing gods from a city they were about to conquer: Evocatio. In the ritual, priests would call upon the enemy god(s) to abandon their city and come to Rome, where they would receive a bigger temple and more devoted worship than in the city about to be conquered.