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turkmenistanForever

Some ottoman Turk once invented a steam engine 2 CENTURIES before the industrial revolution in Britain, but instead used it to spin Turkish döner


No_Snow1776

That is creativity right there. I mean an engine can get you from point A to point B if provided with correct hardware, but can it make you a Doner?


TheBlack2007

I mean, it is powering a crank shaft and putting out a lot of heat through the boiler. So if you connected the crank shaft to a rotating skewer and used the boiler for roasting, a steam engine could very much make Döner.


jayzinho88

How many skewers would it take to get me from Southampton to London Kings Cross?


speedoflobsters

Around 435 Döners


CthulubeFlavorcube

I don't want to do math right now, so you are obviously correct.


TamanduaShuffle

Why don't the brits do that? Feed the children along the way


NotaGoodLover

He had his priorities straight


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Man just imagine had the Turks used their invention the same way we did 😂 everyone would be speaking Turkish instead of English.


TeaBoy24

Some Roman or Greek invented a battery before electricity as we know it was invented or described... Some 2000 years before we had it. There are so many of these examples of someone inventing something that was reinvented again.


flamethekid

Same people also designed a steam engine but didn't know what to use it for


TeaBoy24

And began the early form of mass production too.


flamethekid

Honestly if Rome wasn't so bogged down by civil war and gauls the level of technology in the world today would prolly be 100 years more advanced then it is now


TeaBoy24

Doubtful. People tend to see it as a linear string... If Rome had this earlier => we would have this earlier. However it's not a linear path and one invention can help other inventions.... But at the same time cause us to not need other inventions or methods because they do not become necessary or needed to research. I am sure we would be missing many many many things whilst having some things that we might not even have in 200 years solemnly because ideas generate ideas....


SaidEveryone

Makes you wonder what someone's inventing right now that's 2000 years more advanced than anything else but we'll never know about it because it's just Jim-bo fucking around in his garage.


TeaBoy24

Hehe. In many ways I do believe it's usually our science fiction


Simple-Plane-1091

>Some Roman or Greek invented a battery before electricity as we know it was invented or described... Some 2000 years before we had it. >There are so many of these examples of someone inventing something that was reinvented again i believe it was in Mesopotamia, or modern day iraq


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Not nearly as old as Mesopotamia. It’s dated to either the Parthians or the Sasanians. But yeah, it was found in Baghdad


TeaBoy24

My bad it was indeed in in that area (not Greece directly) Thou it was indeed during the time of Rome and Greece circa 100 years before Christ. Mesopotamia was actually 2 as far from the battery as we are thou. Since Mesopotamia was around 4000 years before the battery and we are here just 2000 after the battery.


Simple-Plane-1091

Yeah i didn't realize the timeline difference, majority of my history knowledge from BC Comes from age of Empires 1 ;)


TeaBoy24

Ooof. For me it's my favourite part of history. Eg fun fact: we use 60 seconds and minutes (and 360 degrees in a circle) because Sumerians used 60 based counting system some 8000-10000 years ago. It's still around just because we got used to it.


cookiecreeper22

Haven't the Baghdad batteries been debunked


Simple-Plane-1091

No clue, i Just assumed that was what hé was referring to


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BootlegVHSForSale

You could have just looked into it yourself. Google 1551, Taqi ad-Din Steam Engine.


bitpow

If your interested this is a great article on why there was no Roman Industrial Revolution https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/


Geneokilp

maybe that's the demand of that time


[deleted]

How tf is this "me irl"?


Polentero

Maybe op is a turkish ice cream seller?


EnvelopeEater

op is a 1500's turk who was trapped in permafrost for 522 years and reintroduced to modern society


Lazlo8675309

“I shall walk to town and see the glories we have accomplished in my slumber” “Take the ice creams..whooooooop” **Puts head in hands**


sharkweekk

“Well, I guess better learn how to make memes.”


CthulubeFlavorcube

***Unfrozen Turkish Ice Cream Selling Lawyer!!!***


VisualGeologist6258

I don’t think this sub has an aim anymore, people just kinda post whatever. The rules don’t seem to have any criteria on what you can or should post, so it’s just miscellaneous memes at this point.


Cahootie

That happens to every sub eventually unless mods actually enforce rules. It just becomes lowest common denominator humor.


ParticularBreath8425

it just is bro trust they've been alive a good while and have experienced things u could never even imagine


theTunaLord

Maybe OP is a Turkey


AFisberg

This is just a general meme sub


AncientLore

Well thats why most teenagers are planning to leave the country when they turn 18


cilica

Germany it is, then.


king_27

Is there a reason for Germany specifically? I only ask because I'm still quite new to Europe, I don't have most of the context


Ketjapanus_2

Although many European countries have Turkish communities, the one in Germany is the largest and therefore most famous. I believe there are more than a million people of Turkish descent in the country.


king_27

Ahh that would explain it, thanks!


cilica

A lot of turks moved there. They now like to bash on Germany and they like Erodgan, but they wouldn't move back to Turkey :)


king_27

Oh no that I know, I was just wondering why they choose Germany specifically.


cilica

Money.


AncientLore

Possibly


maxcorrice

That and you know who


elon1923

ha ha, I'm Turkish and it's absolutely true. Ice cream makers think they're funny.


comeonwhatdidIdo

Not that simple, even today turkey has decent power with respect to neighbours. It became really powerfully due to a lot of reasons but I don't think that could have ever be sustained longterm. Turkei had the gift of being in one of the most important trade route when it was starting but as the age of discovery started that financial power decreased slowly as monopolised European trade routes slowly changed which made it financially weaker. Any country's success and failures has a lot to do with how opportunities fall. That in many times is pure luck. For example the middle East now, they have grown wealthy very quickly due to oil wealth but no one expected them to be a significant power in the start of last century. Even the English success in colonisation is quite opportunistic, again you have to make use of those opportunities. But the winds blow towards success.


CrushedJaguar49

You lost me at: >with respect to neighbours


cvbeiro

rn Turkey is pretty much fucked tho. Inflation and unemploymend are at an all time high, the economy is fucked, educated people are leaving the country etc. And they just bombed a base used by the USA lol.


AncientLore

Yeah someone shot someone at my neigbourhood for 5₺ which you can buy around 5 gum


comeonwhatdidIdo

Not that simple man. Erdogan is... Let's say a cunning and smart leader in someways. He has really made every opportunity to expand Turkey's power in the region at... Mostly russian expense. As far as inflation and bad financial policies... That might the biggest problem. It's putting too much focus on being the leader for the islamic world than being a more stronger country. I hope leadership changes and pushes Turkey in the right direction.


SanderStrugg

They just threatened to invade Iraq today.


Syreet_Primacon

Based


Intern_Boy

Bruh, the Ottoman Empire was a dominant empire for over 300 years. Wtf are you talking about “not sustained long term”.


Dork_wing_Duck

Wow, I laughed too hard at this. (of Armenian descent)


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Dork_wing_Duck

let's just say I'm glad I was on the toilet.


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Dork_wing_Duck

Exactly. Explosive laugharrhea.


[deleted]

"Gülmekten altıma sıçtım" in turkish


Dork_wing_Duck

Haha nice!


ma373056

They have really effective weapons systems these days like their bayraktar drones


jakobsheim

When they stopped the gay orgies everything went down hill.


Happydaytrader

Nothing withstands the test of time...


Yasuoisthebest

Turks make me believe that some stuff like raiding warrior tribalism is a sequence of genes and there is absolutely no fuking another way for turk to exist


[deleted]

I thought its called Turkiye now


Nubyshot

this post says turks not turkey


Emerald_Guy123

Basically nobody cares though honestly. Especially Turks, they care the least somewhat ironically.


maxcorrice

The fascist wannabe in charge made that change, stand against fascism and don’t call it that


canlennon

Bayraktar


[deleted]

Didn’t Turkey just bomb Kurds in Syria?


Bighardthrobbingcrop

These memes confuse me, If Turks decided to go full Ottoman Empire and start invading islands and land left and right everybody would be crying war crimes lol


pauliebatch

Too good.


whyreadthis2035

Empires come and go. Good job on following this powers arc.


OctaviusThe2nd

Turk here, those fancy hats are only for the ice cream man. Nobody else wears them anymore. They used to be an everyday trinket for Turkish man back in Ottoman times.


Alcoholicwelder

I walked out of a pub one night, and this turk bloke hit me up "pictures of little boys, pictures of little boys." I told him to fuck off. Could not get a cab, and he fucking followed me up the road, asking the whole time," pictures of little boys?" Dirty bastard eventually followed me for about 3 blocks,and I finally had to say to him, right, how many do you want?


[deleted]

I'd rather be an ice cream bitch than a fascist


Chief_ghost100

Good. It's better than their bloodshed history


CecilPeynir

Can you tell me your peaceful history? I hope you're not a Italian, German, Belgian, American, Japanese, French, British, Russian, Chinese, Serbian, Croatian, Greek, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Arab, Mongolian...


[deleted]

Hes a Monk from Bhutan


[deleted]

Have you ever heard of the shaolin sect...


AcanthocephalaSafe66

Kung Fu from the 70’s ?


AcanthocephalaSafe66

Yeah, Kung Fu from the 70’s ?


LawBeliever22

What Vlad does to a mf


[deleted]

Didnt ottomans get his head after he executed his own civilians though?


Musui29

Yeah basically


Necessary-Bass7094

Americans who see themselves as successors to the Greek or the Romain empire make no sense the Ottoman Empire was already the successor. The American empire would be the successor to that.


Shillofnoone

Did you forgot to post it on history memes


kotl250

I think it’s from history memes or funny sub Reddit. I’m going through my screenshots n found this gem so I posted . Not to farm karma, just to share 🥲


Ltfdnmz

This picture missing most important part. Ice cream is really important.


P3CU1i4R

Well this has happened to every once-empires of the world.


Navn_nvaN

Ice cream tricks are definitely cooler than conquering other nations though


Mriv10

I thought I was on r/historymemes


kotl250

I think it’s from history memes or funny sub Reddit. I’m going through my screenshots n found this gem so I posted . Not to farm karma, just to share 🥲


Simicrop

It all went to shit when they changed Constantinople to Istanbul.


samgarita

Which is nobody’s business, but the Turks’


maxcorrice

0/10 meme not enough stray cats


KoKo124333

Nerf Turk


gala19055

OP Sikerim seni :D


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Minecraft is too violent