• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    We should always remember the words of Boudica:

    “Blah blah blah… I’m saying whatever the patron of whatever Roman historian tells him to write down! These words will be warped again and again by future historians to serve their interests and nothing I actually said was ever actually written down. But apparently there will someday be archaeological evidence that someone in the time period I might have lived in went on a genocidal rampage and burned several cites to the ground, so that’s inspirational, right? Fill in whatever you want for this quote (it’s what everyone throughout history has done) and remember that civilization is bad and genocide is good! But rephrase that to sound good, ok?” - Boudica

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      the picts, celts, angles, britons and saxons - variously and over hundreds of years, along with Romans, Vikings, and Gauls - eventually formed England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Germany and their peoples.