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- historymemes@piefed.social
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Explanation: During the First Punic War, Rome started a naval war against Carthage, one of the foremost naval powers in the Mediterranean, all whilst not having a fucking navy. Forethought is for Gr*ekoids!
In order to remedy this extreme imbalance, Rome created a navy, taking a Carthaginian shipwreck and copying the design 100 times over. Instant navy!
They would go on to win the First Punic War, inexplicably.
In order to remedy this extreme imbalance, Rome created a navy, taking a Carthaginian shipwreck and copying the design 100 times over. Instant navy!
Now you’re doing them great injustice, they did innovate on the design by adding a device that allowed them to simply invade the enemy ships with their land army. (And made the ships top-heavy and susceptible to sinking in bad weather)
