Re:Do all roads lead to Rome?
by behnamoh on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:40PM
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really unfortunate for the Roman empire to collapse. i’m sure the world would have been a better place if they survived a few more centuries. maybe the vicious and barbarically brutal muslim invasion would end sooner. maybe the Persian empire would have survived longer and the problems with modern Iran would never come to be.
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They were going crazy by the end, their collapse made space for the Islamic Golden Age, which is the main reason we have any surviving texts from the classical era. They were much more open to foreign ideas and had a focus on translation at a time when orthodoxy and nativism prevailed under Rome's rule.
The only reason we needed classical texts rescued by Islamic scholars in the first place is because the Roman empire collapsed.
We’d have vastly more texts if it didn’t.
Not saying it was good or bad.
Re:Do all roads lead to Rome?
by thejohnconway on Monday December 25, 2023 @06:52PM
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The Roman Empire survived until at least the 13th century, when the capital was sacked by Christian crusaders. We know what continuation of the Roman Empire looks like, because it happened historically.
Modern Iran problems were caused by the CIA, not Roman Empire.
do you people just sit around waiting for opportunities to say racist things on the flimsiest basis or what
So are you saying it an empire with a slavery-fueled economy itself fueled by constant war of expansion would have been more desirable than Christian kingdoms based on serfdom also frequently at war with each other ?
Re:Do all roads lead to Rome?
by gchamonlive on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:17PM
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solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant
https://www.thearticle.com/tacitus-on-empires-and-wastelands