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The one that fascinates me is the parts of Europe that have summers where the sun doesn’t set and winters where it doesn’t rise. I am super curious about how such a situation affects people before clocks were invented.
I'm a very simple person: I'm fascinated by ancient Greece and Roman empire. In general, history long ago interests me more than recent history. It's amazing to have well-preserved texts about everyday events, play scripts and political debates from a time when people in Scandinavia didn't know how to write at all.
That Romans managed a huge empire for several hundreds of years, when the fastest you could send a message was either by horseback or quite primitive ships. Kingdoms in North Europe were small up until the middle ages, it was only because the Vatican pressured us that Swedes, Gutes and Geats decided to gradually merge their kingdoms under one leader during the 12th century CE.
I could go on. I'm one of those who regularly thinks about the Roman Empire, just like that meme.
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