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Almost every ancient society has some form of dragon. There’s Roman, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Aztec, to name a few. I know dragons (probably) didn’t exist, but is there some sort of primeval thought process that would lead to people imagining dragons?

by /u/mammothman64 in /r/AskHistorians

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