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"I get that dudes are more likely to take an active interest in such topics but the way they go on about it it's like: damn bitch, how do you get through life with such an incurious mind?? I would think any person, male or female, would occasionally think back on ancient civilizations, even if just i"
"This "How often do you think about the Roman Empire" shit is so blackpilling. Just this week I've heard three separate instances of people conflating Alexander with the Roman Empire and one guy who thought the movie '300' was about Ancient Rome."
"Men are so unnerved by their own mortality that they constantly strive to assert themselves in the hopes it'll make them immortal. This is why historically they built cities and did conquests and tried to get their names remembered forever. This is also way a few years ago every man was acting like "
"Fu Lin is the ancient [Roman Empire]. It is situated in the Western Sea. To the south-east it borders Persia, to the north-east is the territory of the Western Turks."
"As someone who converted to Christianity to cope with the horror of living in the Roman Empire and coming of age in the Decius era, it annoys me to watch kids who were born nearly 1800 years later convert. Not because I feel like I have some greater claim to Christ or His worship, but because it's s"
"I don't know what it says actually. But, hey, feel free to speculate"
"Dudes are busy thinking about the embarassing defeat of Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae (what kind of regard marches 7 legions of foot soldiers against mounted arches lmao) while wammin are out there thinking about muhfukkas getting stabbed in the dick."
"Not an expert at all but I think that's basically what happened with the Roman Empire. At the end there was a quasi feudal barter type of economy in place because the imerial government was too weak or full of psychos to provide any kind of competant leadership."
"You'll hear them singing laments about the Roman Empire and linking it to oppression under Thatcher in the same badass song"
"The USA is too big to fail. There won't be a revolution or a break up. The most likely outcome is a fall of the republic similar to what happened in Rome. Congress will become more and more dysfunctional, leading to an inability to pass desperately needed reforms."
"just read that the Basques were considered one of the smaller ethnic groups in the Roman empire numbering around maybe 60k people and they're still around! they survived Indo-European invasions, Roman assimilation, Germanic and Islamic invasions, numerous medieval kingdoms, empires and the 20th cent"