historical facts that will distort your sense of time many people born near the end of the Victorian era were alive to see the moon landing woolly mammoths were still roaming the Earth when the Great Pyramids were under construction while the Vikings were raiding the Great Wall of China was still being built the cowboy era and the Victorian era took place simultaneously the T-Rex lived 18 million years closer to our time than to the stegosaurus Abraham Lincoln was alive during Japan's Samurai era when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas Leonardo da Vinci was only 40 years
old Cleopatra lived closer to our time than she did to the construction of the pyramids Machu Picchu and the cine Chapel were constructed just 33 years apart the Eastern Roman Empire collapsed only 39 years before Columbus set sale for the Americas Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire
