• @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    4 months ago

    The vast majority of the population were slaves, who had to be well-muscled to lift heavy stones to build all those beaux-arts star forts of the Tartarian Empire. Then there were the barbarian warriors, who needed the musculature to effectively wield a zweihänder. If you saw a skinny dude, chances are he was an evil wizard.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      114 months ago

      I assumed they all had Annunaki personal trainers.

  • @Chocrates
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    174 months ago

    Pronounced pectorals came with the invention of the bench press I am pretty sure. They could be yoked for sure but likely not like that

  • Zloubida
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    134 months ago

    The bronze was discovered during research into more efficient gym machines.

  • @gedaliyah
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    104 months ago

    Of course, they were all on the paleo diet!

  • @Glytch
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    64 months ago

    I’m convinced that’s a promotional image from Conan Exiles and I won’t hear any dissenting opinions.

  • @dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    54 months ago

    I mean… How inaccurate is this, really?

    I mean, the Neolithic period got people farming I guess, but it’s a tough sell.

    Is the issue that the folks are in anachronistic clothing and have gym bodies instead of working bodies?

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      It’s basically ignoring at least 4,000 years of human civilization prior to that. The stone age is generally when people start talking about the origins of humans, despite us existing for a couple hundred thousand years prior to that.

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        64 months ago

        I suppose I’m not conflating “rise” with “genesis”. Human organizational structure was slow to ramp up and I don’t think the bronze age is a terrible place to draw a line and say “this is where things start to heat up”.

        • @AngryCommieKender
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          74 months ago

          Drawing that line there allows one to claim that Native Americans and other indigenous cultures aren’t “real” civilizations, and therefore their citizens aren’t “real people,” depending of course on the level of bigotry and conservative/religious ideology that one is promoting.

    • @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 months ago

      The biggest issue I see here is a man with clearly a great enough surplus of food to bulk. That wasn’t happening unless you had access to a large farming community supporting you at the expense of most others and at least a rudimentary knowledge of nutrition.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    24 months ago

    This is a good time to plug a book: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated (Turning Points in Ancient History)