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In reply to the discussion: "We are doing what the Roman Empire did right before it Collapsed" [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)The crisis of the third century? The end of the Tetrarchy? The sacking of Rome? Each of those is 200 years or so from the others. That's roughly how long our country has been around.
If you were to put us on Rome's timeline, 1783 would correspond to 509 BC (independence from the monarchy). So 230 years later would be 270 BC. This was the year of the consulship of Clepsina and Blasio, and by this point Rome was just bringing the Italian peninsula under her sway. This was the year Hamilcar Barca (father of Hannibal) was born. So look out for children of people born this year; don't let them have elephants.
The entire Mediterranean was still Greek; from Syracuse in Sicily around to Alexandria in Egypt Latin wasn't even known yet, and Greek was what would get you everywhere.