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This was the second one, as the first one was actually made in 1769, making the first working car seven years older than the United States

This city, also known as Chicago of the Desert, dates back to the 16th century, when the locals started building apartment buildings with mudbricks, some of them with over 11 stories and over 32m (100ft) tall. There's usually two apartments by floor, and those are still the tallest mudbrick buildings in the world

The first one is the Vergilius Romanus and the second one the Vergilius Vaticanus, both were made around 400 AD. By the Late Classical Period, when the codex replaced the scroll, this kind of book started to become common, and it would be the standard book format for over 1000 years

Is there a huge power plant there I don't know of?

They were also used in Korea, Vietnam and Japan. Some people still use them today to attract luck

In the USSR there was a rule that all citied with over 1 million inhabitants should be rewarded with a metro system

Two brothers from Roman Egypt

I'm also interested by those somewhat large islands formed by this river in Botswana

You would be able to socialize in the Baths of Caracalla, explore barbarian territories in Germania and Scythia when want medieval vibes, attend gladiatorial games in the Colosseum, explore the deserts of Cyrenaica, attend masses of the early church, sail through the Mediterranean, and of course, all the violence caused by the 3rd century crisis would certainly bring kind of a gunless Wild West vibe