I’m more willing to bet this is VPN servers running linux

There are two governments

Tyrannies and Bureaucracies

Somehow we hate both.

Now I’m curious where you draw the line.

For me, I don’t really see a definitive fall of republic and rise of empire. Maybe I like Gibbon too much, but I like the idea of republic in decline and that starting a series of events that would lead to the rise of empire.

But if I had to pick a point that marks the peak I think somewhere around the full defeat of Carthage is when the Republic as a concept started to wane and groundwork for “Emporers” was beginning.

I bet if I look around I’ll find your line.

The fall of Carthage! Rome’s dominance was its own undoing!

Probably was too.

Just gotta tell the women who get pregnant to leave the babies out to die or maybe raise it with one of the men in the haram.

Not yours though. Wife would be PISSED

The Last Kingdom did such a good job showing how

1. Mundane medieval warfare was since it really wasn’t often grand scaled. Post Roman Europe was mostly small skirmishes with occasionally large scale warfare, but it was few and far between until probably Charlemagne (citation needed. I am NOT a military history guy.)

2. Brutal. There was no even match up. It was either a one sided slaughter or the battle didn’t happen.

The Battle of Thermopylae where king Leonidus and his “300 spartans” (it was actually a few thousand of a coalition force) held off the Persian invasion of Greece.

The plan was to use the narrow mountain path to pit a few of tgeir well trained soldiers against a few of Persias rank and file. The idea being a few well trained soldiers could take out a lot more rank and file if they didnt have battle tactics to worry about.

What caused Leonidus to lose that battle is an alternate route through the mountains that let the Persians flank the Spartans and probably totally destroy them.

What’s mind blowing is this was hundreds year old history when Rome tried the same thing.

This one spot is famous for losing battles and ancient people loved choosing this battleground and then losing

Saved the whole collection earlier.

How does “getting Romans killed” (See every time Rome went to war, lost tens of thousands, said “fuck you” and raised another army) compare? Or is this still killing romans?

Its always interesting to me how much human sacrifice does happen in ancient western/European cultures.

Especially considering how much judgement modern history puts against it while also simping for Rome endlessly.