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Colliseum- with bloody battles and gory fights
Movies-- SAW VI (all SAWs) horror movies
Economic collapse-- although Rome lasted 200 years with a failing economy...
Rome- sent money to China to pay for their luxuries
USA-- sends money to China to pay for goods, if not luxuries from other countries
Did I miss anything?
Why are we repeating history??
Well if you're speaking of the Roman empire, it was an autocratic form of government, not a democratic. Many people get confused because the Roman empire had a Senate which held no actual power. It was merely a body of legislators with perceived power, not actual power.
The Roman army was never that big, it was based on conscription and usually only sons from wealthy families joined at first. During the Punic Wars, the Romans lost a few battles but eventually won. The size of the Roman army to the amount of land the Roman empire controlled after they defeated Carthage was not sufficient and ultimately lead to their demise.
Music and literature were prominent forms of entertainment, not just prostitutes.
Rome actually traded with China, they didn't just send money for silk. Rome often sent over rugs and glass and in return China sent silk.
I think you really need to brush up on your history.
Well if you're speaking of the Roman empire, it was an autocratic form of government, not a democratic. Many people get confused because the Roman empire had a Senate which held no actual power. It was merely a body of legislators with perceived power, not actual power.
The Roman army was never that big, it was based on conscription and usually only sons from wealthy families joined at first. During the Punic Wars, the Romans lost a few battles but eventually won. The size of the Roman army to the amount of land the Roman empire controlled after they defeated Carthage was not sufficient and ultimately lead to their demise.
Music and literature were prominent forms of entertainment, not just prostitutes.
Rome actually traded with China, they didn't just send money for silk. Rome often sent over rugs and glass and in return China sent silk.
I think you really need to brush up on your history.
At times the Senate had no power, but many times Dictators and Consuls would listen to them.
The Roman Army was not big, my mistake, but powerful, they fought MANY MANY wars, not just the Punic Wars... they were a professional army, after the Punic Wars, not just conscripted (fair warning, I'm assuming conscription means volunteer civilians??)
They could defend themselves, when it fell though, they couldn't raise an army of 10,000 even.
I was just listing similarities, theatre performances too were entertainment.
Rome had many imports from other countries. They DID export goods, but had very few to export, like olive oil, wine, but China and Asia had many goods and spices, silk, etc that Romans were buying, so merchants were sending money out of Rome, which lead to EXtremely high inflation (USA...)
Well if you're speaking of the Roman empire, it was an autocratic form of government, not a democratic. Many people get confused because the Roman empire had a Senate which held no actual power. It was merely a body of legislators with perceived power, not actual power.
The Roman army was never that big, it was based on conscription and usually only sons from wealthy families joined at first. During the Punic Wars, the Romans lost a few battles but eventually won. The size of the Roman army to the amount of land the Roman empire controlled after they defeated Carthage was not sufficient and ultimately lead to their demise.
Music and literature were prominent forms of entertainment, not just prostitutes.
Rome actually traded with China, they didn't just send money for silk. Rome often sent over rugs and glass and in return China sent silk.
I think you really need to brush up on your history.
Well, any student of American history would tell you, that America was founded upon the traditions of the Roman Republic and Ancient Athens.
you did forget one thing, Rome fell and so will the United States in the future, but only time will tell. All great civilizations come to an end.
Its not simple at all, but we're REPEATING HISTORY...
We're taught history on the basis of "Those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it"
And America hasn't last 1,000 years, as Rome did, and I doubt they will, so why are we falling faster?
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