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In reply to the discussion: "We are doing what the Roman Empire did right before it Collapsed" [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)31. The violin was invented after 1500 AD... but sure. Why not?
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cthulu2016
Mar 2013
OP
The Romans had the right idea, but they didn't have the will to fully implement the plan
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#3
I remember hearing/reading about a boy/young man being distraught that Socrates would not have him
Ed Suspicious
Mar 2013
#28
Actually he was an "Impertor", which was what a successful General was called in the Republic
happyslug
Mar 2013
#112
well, he wasn't the emperor, he was the dictator, and being every man's "wife...."
Moonwalk
Mar 2013
#96
It's difficult to translate the modern concepts of sexuality to the ancient world
Recursion
Mar 2013
#68
There are many who claim the "Dark Ages" was part of the plan to purge Paganism.
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#93
Do you honestly believe the wealthy went away just because religion changed?
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#101
Hell no, the empire declined because they outstripped their most basic resource, wood. That's what
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#110
It is a well known historical fact that teh gays made the Roman Empire fabulous before they
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2013
#13
While I was channel surfing I stopped on Fox for 30 seconds and the topic was-oh yeah
Boomerproud
Mar 2013
#19
Both, the Gothic war of 535-553 were one of the longest, most expensive wars in the history of Rome
happyslug
Mar 2013
#50
Actually the movement to Revanna was in the 400s, the Aqueducts were NOT breeched till 536
happyslug
Mar 2013
#109
There used to be a poster here who thought EVERYTHING was analogous to the "fall of the Republic"
alcibiades_mystery
Mar 2013
#23
I heard there are something like 200 theories for the decline and fall of Rome.
tclambert
Mar 2013
#55
But...But...But, please tell me that Nero at least played his fiddle while the fire burned
Tyrs WolfDaemon
Mar 2013
#30
Many scientists think we didn't even have full consciousness until 2000 years ago or so.
randome
Mar 2013
#75
Read: The Rise amd Fall of the Greatest Powers by Paul Kennedy. We are on the way.
jwirr
Mar 2013
#77
Every great empire that rises up will come down. I remember back in 1966 when my English
southernyankeebelle
Mar 2013
#78
happened to the spanish empire as well. we don't PRODUCE anymore. we just push money around.
pansypoo53219
Mar 2013
#104