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Did Rome ever have an empress? (I know the Byzantines did, but you can't have a Roman empire without Rome  )
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How big was the population of Rome/the empire?
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May 27, 2012 05:51
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[quote="Grand Fromage" post=""404"] Basically because there was never any kind of set method of succession. [/quote] Wait, what? I must not be as educated as I thought I was about Rome, I thought the position of emperor just passed down from father to son?
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May 28, 2012 01:01
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In your opinion, who was the "best" Roman emperor? What about "worst"?
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May 28, 2012 04:15
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What was Switzerland/the Alps like in Roman times? Were they really sparsely inhabited? How much do we know about pre-republic Rome? Farecoal fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jun 2, 2012 |
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Jun 2, 2012 02:57
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Mithra6 posted:This particular CD concentrates on wind instruments. It's pretty dissonant by today's standards. Sometimes I think it sounds creepy, but I like it. Reminds me of Majora's Mask: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0  Anyway, what was the most "prestigious" legion, other than the praetorians?
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Jun 4, 2012 23:11
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Did the Romans actually die/paint the armor, shields, and clothes of their troops red?
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Jun 5, 2012 20:51
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I just discovered that the early Popes and Roman emperors co-existed? How did that work? I also discovered there was a pope named Pope Hilarius
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Jun 7, 2012 02:40
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Grand Fromage posted:
Except, according to Wikipedia, the Popes were heads of the church before Christianity became the religion of the empire. The pope and emperor passing each other in the hallway must have been awkwarddddd Yeah, I know, that probably wasn't how it worked.
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Jun 7, 2012 03:28
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physeter posted:The only hitch with that is to most English speakers, upper class Brit speak sounds fairly effete. It's something of a disservice to the Roman upper class, who were pretty far from that. I think its cool as hell, but we can settle this in the arena later. Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:If you could choose any Accents (Speaking English) to portray Roman Nobles, which would you pick? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iSPc8oU7YIY#t=9s Fromage, didn't you mention that the Romans invented the hamburger? Farecoal fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jun 9, 2012 |
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Jun 9, 2012 23:35
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Christoff posted:I mean I understand why it's a dead language, kind-of. Speaking of, do Catholic priests still do Mass in Latin? If so, how close is it to the Roman Latin? Groda posted:Except for French, which underwent saponification. It got turned into soap? Man no wonder France smells so clean
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Jun 10, 2012 05:42
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What was the most important/influential part of the empire other than Italy? And what was generally the second biggest city in the empire?
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Jun 11, 2012 02:23
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General Panic posted:They're still arguing about whether Henry VIII's main health problem was syphilis, scurvy or just being a big fat slob and whether Napoleon died of cancer or arsenic poisoning. I thought it was a hunting wound? Grand Fromage posted:It's not true. Salt was part of the rations. Pliny the Elder says it as an off-hand comment in one of his histories (and he claims it as an old defunct practice even when he's writing) and it got blown out of proportion. They were paid in coin. Wasn't salt extremely valuable in Roman times, and even up until recently?
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Jun 13, 2012 22:20
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How important was religion to Roman life? Actually, Fromage, can you talk about religion in the empire in general? Also, how much do we know about vulgar Latin?
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Jun 14, 2012 00:43
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Now that I think about it, why didn't the Roman's conquer Ireland?
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Jun 19, 2012 02:40
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TildeATH posted:The Arabian Peninsula was a no-man's land between Persia and Rome, equally affected by both. The Umayyad Caliphate had its capital in Damascus, which was Roman Syria. When the Abbasids overthrew them, the remnants of the Umayyad dynasty relocated to Cordoba, which was in Roman Hispania. Augustine was in Hippo, which is modern-day Libya, and is the founder of Scholastic philosophy. Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople and Jerusalem were all Apostolic Sees. It's ignorant bordering on propagandistic to think of Islam as being some kind of Eastern import. Nobody's saying its Eastern, but it originated in an area completely outside Roman control, in the southern Arabian peninsula.
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Jun 20, 2012 03:45
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TildeATH posted:Gunder Frank makes mention of it in p. 250 (Second page of the article) here: Well what if I don't believe in this "world-systems"?  Fly Molo posted:
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Jun 27, 2012 03:34
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: Fine, screw you guys, we'll do our own thing. Oh, whoops, we kinda killed every living thing in Jerusalem. Our bad.
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TildeATH posted:Hey that's cool. This isn't an argument, I'm just presenting all these facts and poo poo, but cool stories are always cool, bro. I know, I was just kidd- BOSNIA GIVE BACK KLAY TO GLURIOUS SRBIJA
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Jun 27, 2012 22:57
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Eggplant Wizard posted:Whatever she was before she was Athena made her a goddess of war, wisdom, and crafts I'm fairly sure that her war aspect was different from Ares in that he was sort of the god of the horrible side of war, slaughter and dying and PTSD and what have you, while she was the god of just wars and bravery and what have you.
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Jun 29, 2012 01:22
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Grand Fromage posted:Marcus Furius' olive oil is the best, tell him about this ad and get 10% discount. This is starting to get creepy.
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Jul 3, 2012 23:04
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