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>the Romans live in a small city-kingdom synthesized from two different cultures (the Latins and the Etruscans)
>expel their king, proclaim a Republic, and within two centuries become a superpower
>conquer the entire known world and then return to tyranny, yet reaching a level of prosperity unparalleled in the pre-industrial world
>plunge into a Crisis that, by all laws of common sense, should have destroyed the state, yet they survive and reunify the Empire despite all the odds
>for another three centuries they remain the hegemon, while existing in a state of constant warfare and crises, WH40k-style

Truly, those eleven-odd centuries of Roman history, from the proclamation of the Republic to the Arab conquests and the transformation into the medieval Byzantine Empire are pure historical kino and a the best example of how to built a great civilization
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Oh sure lets follow the Roman example of slavery and unrestricted war and our civilization will be "great". It will surely work, bro
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>>221929883
>yet reaching a level of prosperity unparalleled in the pre-industrial world
Retard
>>221929990
Ok lets get started.
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>>221929883
what prosperity? 90% of people living in rome were living like complete shit and rebelling on a monthly basis
this "prosperity" is all just the rich holding it while they send the poor to die in wars to loot more lands and they get more money
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>>221931597
The average Roman liver much better than the average barbaren . They had bread and games, actual sewers, bathrooms instead of just shitting in the street, bathhouses for public sanitation, they lived in actual insulae instead of mud hits with no insulation etc

Nobody but the rich lived "well" by our standards in the ancient world, but they had it better than some German washing his hair in piss
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>>221931597
Sounds like today
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>>221931597
I have the feeling non european hands wrote that
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>>221929883
>conquer the entire known world
>except all the areas they knew about, that they bordered, but didn't conquer
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>>221931597
This, where does OP think Christianity found all of its initial purchase? Slaves in the silver mines, dispossessed peasants who had their land stolen by the elite, and brigands living off the margins of society that's who
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>>221929883
ROME HAS CONQUERED
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>>221929883
>>the Romans live in a small city-kingdom synthesized from two different cultures (the Latins and the Etruscans)
that's anti greek discrimination.
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>>221931716
not everyone was a northern european and even then they lived better being free than being taxed to shit and drafted to retarded wars
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>>221931597
>they send the poor to die in wars
Warring was a relatively safe and very well paid job
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>>221931597
All so-called civilizations are like this. An unfair hierarchy, the state, a parisitic wealthy class. The solution? Anarcho-Primitivism.
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>>221933745
Kek. Now, this is coping, barbare.
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>>221933745
>lived better being free
LMFAO
The whole concept of citizenship was a uniquely Greco-Roman thing. A first in the world. Everyone else everywhere else was a subject of some king or potentate of some kind.
You could could argue that it was no different with the Romans, but at least citizens had rights . Subjects are the property of their life and he can do whatever he wants with them.
Get the fuck out of here
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>>221933745
Also you're insane if you didn't think people everywhere else weren't being taxed to shit and drafted into wars
The only reason the Romans revolted was because they could. They were citizens. Any eastern potentate or Celtic chieftain would've had rhem slaughtered wholesale
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