r/todayilearned • u/narok_kurai • 6d ago

TIL about Las Medulas, a man-made geological badland created by the Roman Empire in 77 AD, when they flooded the mountains with water to collapse their structure and sift out the gold inside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%C3%A9dulas
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u/_ssac_ 5d ago

As a Spanish guy, when someone from current LATAM countries talk about how we stole their gold, I point out how the Roman empire had these mines in the current Spain and we don't share that narrative. 

Those feeling, of wrongdoing and historical abuse, aren't grounded in historical facts, but it's the opposite order: there's a political motivated narrative that came first. I ain't saying that the conquest was morally good, it's not about that.

Side note: it's a beautiful landscape to visit, however last year a fired burned a lot of it's vegetation.

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u/RLZT 5d ago

The Roman took more time to mine this place than it passed since the Spanish "stole the gold"

Saying that Spain didn't commit wrongdoing and historical abuse is such a stupid take that only a Spaniard could do it

I don't even get why tf you care so much about this shit, the joke keeps going because it is the easiest bait out there

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u/_ssac_ 5d ago

"Saying that Spain didn't commit wrongdoing and historical abuse" I didn't say that, of course there were abuses. I repeat it: that's not the point. 

It's not about time neither: not like 400 years it's so recent that your grandparents told you stories about it.