• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    15 days ago

    Explanation: During the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire went through a prolonged crisis known as… well, the Crisis of the Third Century. Everything that could go wrong, essentially, did. Plague, invasions, secession, coups, civil wars, military rule, hyperinflation, corruption, banditry, breakdown of law, religious fanaticism, rising popularity of trousers…

    The Empire survived, but only barely - and in a form hardly recognizable to the Principate of the first two centuries AD.

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      15 days ago

      Just because they were going through a crisis or several, did they really have to phone it in quite so hard when it came to nomenclature? I mean, they could’ve gone with something to better express the truly unprecedented combination of crises being faced… Perhaps something along the lines of “3rd Century Sucksapalooza” or “Sucksception3CE” or even, “CrisesThroupalypse3C”?

      Just because you’re facing incipient destruction as a society doesn’t give you license to be lazy in your titles, is all I’m sayin