Theses/ "The War of the Worlds"

[Buzzer]

Roman Empire had no worthy concurrents except Karfagen. RE easy defeated other countries.

That idea is overblown. People tend to look back on history and assign the winning of wars to things like military tech or quality of weaponry. Rome had stolen most of its tactics from the Iberian tribes, including their shields and pila. It had stolen the ability to build any combatworthy ships of any sort whatsoever from a wrecked Carthaginian bireme. The only thing that contemporary writers particularly ascribed as being "special" about Roman forces whatsoever was their level of discipline. They were physically small and dwarfed in terms of physical strength by enemies like the Gauls and Germans. Only modern writers write in terms suggesting that Rome was so heads and shoulders above its opponents in every aspect that it was virtually guaranteed that they would prevail. Roman culture, religion and society borrowed almost entirely from the influence of Greece, which was in a very long period of decline by the time of the rise of Rome. Their cavalry remained an afterthought or, in less kind words, a joke for much of its history as a power.

I think people are far too quick to write the sudden successes of various powers in human history as being something special, unique, and superior about the way those people did things, and far too slow to think about it in terms of someone being in the right place at the right time when the state of the world around them was a perfect time for them to be lucky and their enemies to be unlucky. When Rome declined in almost precisely the same way the formerly magnificent Greek civilization had done, and like them was overrun with "barbarians" and largely faded from history, suddenly no one is talking about superior tactics or superior technology or superior practices anymore. It's an interesting disconnect.

The rise of western civilization can similarly be "qualified" by the fact that the world around them had largely been catastrophically devastated (to a degree that is consistently underrepresented in a typical western education of world history) by the Mongols who had set back the stability and the population of many parts of the areas they conquered by as much as a thousand years (many areas in the Middle East literally did not recover to their pre-Mongol population levels for about that long) and who had bypassed Europe because it was considered crap land for horses and too poor and backwards to be worth the effort to pillage. Europe's rise even in rationalism and the sciences borrowed heavily from Arab and Moorish learning and education, who had been working on curing people with surgery and pharmaceuticals at a point in time when Europe was using knives to cut markings into the foreheads of sick people to release demons. Chemistry, Algebra, these words come from Arabic. But in our standard education at least here in America... the rise of the west was entirely about superior learning and superior culture and concepts of liberty and enlightened governance, with little contribution from anyone at all except maybe a slight nod towards ancient Greece.

[James]

And the languages of today are based on the Latin, Greek, and in some cases Hebrew, which shows these languages are still apart of our culture

[Gaveston]

Heliogabalus should have been killed before he became emperor. He died a nice death tho

He was 15 when he became Emperor. It's so cruel to wish death to a child..

[Gaveston]

I read history of Heliogabalus like a fiction book. To me if historical event has no influence on modern life it becomes a kind of fiction tell. As for Heliogabalus he has only aesthetical influence on nowadays. Thus there is no difference between history of Heliogabalus's reign and The game of thrones. It is not right to see in victims of Heliogabalus real people; their death and torments have no ethical importance for our time.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Moreover , Roman Empire had its own Hollywood i mean Coliseum, it is ancient version of TV )
Some of Roman Emperors were great showmans), you know... , Neron for example,
and Heliogabalus, especially...))
Do you like Heliogabalus?

Too much lead in their pipes.... which became one with their drinking water....

But I like modest doses of madness - be it mercury or lead poisoning....

Besides, its hard to judge a 14 year old emperor who only held the office for 4 years. Especially in the third century AD when Rome was falling apart at its rotten seams...

The Games were a thing... Modern times we have sports which are filling the same needs - Well actually I think reality TV is the real blood sport which entertains the masses while the modern Rome is slowly ripping at its seams from too much internal rot.

History continually repeats itself...

Men live and die, Empires rise and fall, but earth abides.

[LocoFlex]

I can see there is relation between life and language, but not always language determines life relations, could be the opposite.