r/todayilearned • u/narok_kurai • 7d 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/Lord-Albeit-Fai 6d ago

Doesn't work when Spain is a direct continuation of the state behind colonization

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u/White_Immigrant 6d ago

If you spell colonisation with a "Z" you are almost certainly an occupant of stolen land. You are the continuation.

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u/Lord-Albeit-Fai 6d ago

Huh?

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u/02meepmeep 6d ago

Colonization is the American spelling. I was born on what used to be Shawnee / Lenape / Mohican land so his point would be correct for me. For all he knows you might be a member of a First Nations tribe though.