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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7739501" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>The Carthaginians kept on attacking and attacking the Romans, until the Romans reached a point where they had enough! This was Republican Rome by the way. I think what made Rome great was that it was a republic, to a certain degree the Roman Republic was acting in service to its people, they had overthrown their king and declared a republic, when the Republic became the Empire, the Emperors inherited what the Republic achieved. Each Emperor was different, some of them were evil, others were not so much. Rome was a mixed bag, it was not all bad and it was not all good. Some of the people nailed to crosses and some of the people condemned to death in the Arena probably were murderers, some were people who just had a disagreement with the authorities. A lot of captured criminals were enslaved and the soldiers of defeated armies were enslaved, but to be fair, the enemies of Rome also followed that same practice, it was just that the Roman Empire was more successful in its conquests than many other competing kingdoms. The Ancient World really didn't offer much that was better than what Rome had, it was a world of Kings and tyrants, Athens experimented with Direct Democracy, but only male citizens could vote and most of them had slaves. If Rome went against an actual modern Democracy like the United States, then we would know who to root for, but no such country existed back then.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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