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Were the ancient Romans fundamentally a shit people?
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Date: May 4th, 2012 4:53 PM Author: Lime spot The Roman armies conquered large territories, sure, but Romans themselves were not terribly productive. They had some productive colonies/provinces but Romans themselves didn't produce much or export much. They were organized, to be sure, but weren't they fundamentally just glorified goombahs who leached off their colonial subjects and eventually got their shit pushed in by hulking germanic types? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614794) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:02 PM Author: unhinged frozen business firm selfie If you walked through ancient Rome you had to watch out for pots full of piss and shit being dumped out of windows. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614859) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:03 PM Author: sticky hot karate meetinghouse sanitation standards were worse in Europe for about 1000 years after Rome's demise though. At least SOME Roman buildings had sewage systems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614868) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:04 PM Author: unhinged frozen business firm selfie True. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614873) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:06 PM Author: sticky hot karate meetinghouse What you're saying isn't true of the Romans, but VERY true of the Arab caliphates. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614885) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:10 PM Author: Lime spot The wealthiest parts of the Roman empire were in north Africa/Asia minor though. The western empire's shittiness and poverty caused it to fail 1000 years before the eastern empire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614908) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:17 PM Author: sticky hot karate meetinghouse Rome itself was not shitty and poor. The colonies in Western Europe were not technologically or agriculturally advanced prior to being colonized, so they were less valuable, but it's not Rome's fault they were backward. If anything their crime was taking too many colonies in the West that weren't really worth it to them in terms of what they could produce. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614946) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:16 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library TRIGGERED cumskin shitmods literally deleting threads about ancient rome again, 180000000000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50013257) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library During its prime, Roman army had min height of 6'0" for 1st Coho
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library only to completely debase their currency to prop up their MI complex, gradually replace native romans with barbarians, and annihilate their middle class in favor of Feudalism? certainly nothing like what happened in america, that's for sure
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:17 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library superior anglo culture (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50013262) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 10:15 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50013461) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2026 12:07 AM Author: Irradiated trust fund library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50018505) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 9:11 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50028409) |
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Date: July 28th, 2026 9:29 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50030900) |
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Date: July 29th, 2026 5:34 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50032810) |
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Date: August 3rd, 2026 7:35 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50043376) |
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Date: August 4th, 2026 9:51 PM Author: Irradiated trust fund library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50046011) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 11:40 PM Author: nyuug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50059964) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 11:41 PM Author: ,,,,.,,,,.,.,,....,,.,,.,...,,.. your great grandmom was a whore for thousands of japanese soldiers. maybe sit this one out? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50059972) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 11:55 PM Author: nyuug TRIGGERED CUMSKIN ALERT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50060020) |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: nyuug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50062275) |
Date: May 4th, 2012 4:59 PM Author: sticky hot karate meetinghouse They made all the buildings and roads and aquaducts and stuff. Their colonies probably produced more food or whatever, but the Romans were responsible for the technological advances of the day. Also, there were emperors like Tiberius who brought in socialistic reforms favoring the poor, even circumventing the senate to do so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614849) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:08 PM Author: Pontificating range they had baths in every two-bit town and garrison. which were extinguished upon rome's fall and still haven't been fully reintroduced to europeans today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614888) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:17 PM Author: Aromatic corn cake pisswyrm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614954) |
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Date: May 4th, 2012 5:15 PM Author: beady-eyed factory reset button i always picture roman citizens in togas drinking wine and eating grapes on a pleasant day while the germanic barbarians were wearing bear skins and living in the woods at dusk by a campfire, but i have no idea if this is accurate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#20614933) |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 1:01 AM Author: tats actually german barbarians wore leopard skins, they hold a wooden club in one hand, and meat on the bone in the other hand (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50060089) |
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Date: July 20th, 2026 9:20 PM Author: Narrow-minded location scourge upon the earth they made their bones of of initially being way more productive, Romans could field an army of 50k, lose the entire thing, then rinse and repeat but the med advantage in grain production went down over time and they got lazy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50013269) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 11:59 PM Author: George Jetson Think abt leaving your home at night w no street lights and no real police. Was like that Rome every night. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50060032) |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 8:37 PM Author: cowgod The actual city of Rome seems like it must’ve been like having 1 million mouths to feed. Maybe they had a complex Service Economy and they had people in Offices processing health insurance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1940422&forum_id=2/#50062279) |