I just made a beat. Played a few chords. Played random notes in a scale (I think it was C-something, C minor?) Then I played the root note for the bass.

Hadrian was born January 24, 76AD and died on July 10, 138AD, at 62 years old.

He was fond of Greek culture and architecture. If gyros even existed back then, they'd be missing tomatoes, since my understanding is they're native to the americas and didn't reach europe until the 16th century. I wonder what he thought of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered a ton actually in just 11 years, from Macedonia to Egypt to the Pakistan/India border, and founded some 16 cities (11 of which were named after himself) along the way. He was also tutored by Aristotle until he was 16 years old. One of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy I Soter, kidnapped his corpse while it was en route to his motherland of Macedonia, after dying in Babylon. Ptolemy buried Alexander somewhere in Egypt, in a tomb made of gold. Ptolemy then went on to establish the Ptolemaic dynasty, ancient Egypt's final and longest-lasting dynasty, lasting until Cleopatra died at her own hand. Octavian, who had defeated Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the battle of Actium, changed his name to Augustus and became the first emperor of the roman empire. He was pretty cool, we have a month named after him.

After Augustus died we got Tiberius, then Caligula, then Claudius, then I think its Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian. This would make Hadrian the 14th emperor of Rome, but I might be missing some.

Back when Rome was a Republic, they had enemies in Carthage, near modern day Tunis. There were a few wars between Rome and Carthage, they're referred to as the punic wars. Punic gets its name from the latin word "punicus" meaning "phoenician," as Carthaginians were phoenicians who'd sailed west. Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who could have gave Rome. He actually led the most successful ambush in military history at the battle of lake tasimere, where some 15,000 Romans were killed. History'd be a lot different if he took Rome out. He was born 247BC and was 19yo when he led his soldiers across the alps. He brought 38 war elephants and a ton of infantrymen and cavalry but by some estimates as many as 1/2 died en route. The second punic war broke out after Rome allied with a city south of the border they'd established in a treaty after the first punic war. The agreement was that land south of some river in the iberian penninsula belonged to carthage, and north of the river, to rome. Anyways there were 3 punic wars. As tensions built up to the third punic war, roman currency had minted the phrase "CARTHAGO DELENDA EST" - "carthage must be destroyed." Eventually they sieged the city of Carthage after having them surrender a bunch of weapons and naval ships. Carthaginians decided to stand up for themselves after they were demanded to move their city some 16km inland.

The Peloponnesian war was fought between Athens and Sparta starting in 431BC. At the time, Greece wasn't a unified country, but a conglomerate of city-states. Just some 6 decades prior, they had united to fight off the invading Persian forces in 490BC.

There's a lot more to be said about all of the aforementioned, and even more to be said about topics not yet mentioned. The wording of this wall of text could use some work but its late and I'm just wasting time because I don't want to go to sleep. Vacation's over and I work in 6 hours. In that time I still need to get ready and drive to work, and should squeeze in some sleep and food.