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The military is timeless - Ancient Roman soldiers digging ditches (lemmy.world)
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Join the Legions, they said, see the world, they said...

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Also the most effective. We'll be digging ditches on Mars someday, probably.

The Roman Legions had a lot of advantages, but one of the biggest was that they were treated as an empire-sized construction crew! Good way to keep those rowdy soldiers too busy to get into trouble, too...