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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7739336" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>Empires are a vehicle for their Emperors to gain power, mostly the other cultures that were conquered were every bit as tyrannical as the Romans were, its just that they were smaller. The benefit of the Roman empire was that it kept the peace for those living within it. If you replace a bunch of smaller kingdoms fighting for territory with a much larger empire, the wars one experiences are much fewer. The Emperor doesn't want competition to his power, so he keeps the peace, and not all emperors were as bad as Nero. Rome build roads, encouraged commerce between the various parts of the Empire, new ideas travelled around on the peaceful roads. The Romans kept down banditry, and unless there was a civil war, most wars occurred in the periphery with the empire expanding into new territories and other nations and tribes fighting to keep their independence. Under Rome Christianity flourished, and their were worse things than the Romans, for example the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan, that was mostly a bandit kingdom, they didn't build roads or make civic improvements, they just pillaged and plundered. The Third Reich was more like the Mongol Empire than it was like the Roman Empire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7739336, member: 6925649"] Empires are a vehicle for their Emperors to gain power, mostly the other cultures that were conquered were every bit as tyrannical as the Romans were, its just that they were smaller. The benefit of the Roman empire was that it kept the peace for those living within it. If you replace a bunch of smaller kingdoms fighting for territory with a much larger empire, the wars one experiences are much fewer. The Emperor doesn't want competition to his power, so he keeps the peace, and not all emperors were as bad as Nero. Rome build roads, encouraged commerce between the various parts of the Empire, new ideas travelled around on the peaceful roads. The Romans kept down banditry, and unless there was a civil war, most wars occurred in the periphery with the empire expanding into new territories and other nations and tribes fighting to keep their independence. Under Rome Christianity flourished, and their were worse things than the Romans, for example the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan, that was mostly a bandit kingdom, they didn't build roads or make civic improvements, they just pillaged and plundered. The Third Reich was more like the Mongol Empire than it was like the Roman Empire. [/QUOTE]
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