[She shakes her head. The empires are meaningless to her. Any history prior to the formation of Panem was kept from the Districts. Anything aside from the basics. How those people in the centuries before had used and used, wasted and wasted until little resources were left. Wars broke out over what remained. And from those ashes, Panem arose in North America.

She didn't even know if anything even still existed in those other places on Earth.]

The Romans did. [Because Plutarch had somehow known that. Had somehow known the history kept from the rest of the country.] At least, Plutarch said that. Panem et ...something. Bread and circuses. He said that's where we got our name.