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Post by vadersfist on Jun 29, 2006 16:45:35 GMT -7
Not to mention it was also the division of the barbarian peoples north of the roman empire that allowed them to be conquered by the Romans
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Post by Lord Revan on Jul 3, 2006 19:36:35 GMT -7
and the greeks
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Post by Master Chief on Jul 8, 2006 15:34:19 GMT -7
I hate it when in movies, the romans say they own the world. They didn't. There was still more territory to the south and to the east. They should have conquered it. Why not, the mongols, and even the british later on had a larger empire than they did.
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Post by Lord Revan on Jul 9, 2006 14:12:36 GMT -7
The british had better technology to maintain a larger empire. But the romans considered the rest of the world "uncivilized," and therefore the "real world" was Rome.
It is possible they could have expanded as a Republic, but when control of the empire shifted to the emperors, then there was too much corruption to expand effeciently.
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