The Roman Monarchy --> The Divided Empires

I desire to live in the times of the Roman Republic. I also wish to discuss the ups and downs of the Roman Civilization. I have to go to bed now, but i would like to get the topic started.

I think the slavery system they used was very well planned. What do you think?

It was good. It actually gave an incentive for the slaves to gain citizenship.

I think the slavery system they used was very well planned. What do you think?

Third Servile War. Well planned indeed.

So no more hunter gatherer romanticisation? Now onto romanticising the roman empire?

Wonderful, you merely have 2000 more years to advance to reach reality! Progress!

It’s ok Redem, I love and extensively study Roman history. Books at the ready!

Omega that would mean no kongregate, or any of the modern luxarys we have today =[

I, too, think that it would be amazing to live in the times of the Romans.

I think that their educational system was, indeed, very advanced and useful. Instead of filling the childrens’ minds with opinions and hypotheses such as they are today, the Roman education centered on deriving meanings from poems, and other works of literature. They focused much more on literature than that of the maths and sciences.

It’d be cool to chill with some Roman philosophers, but giving up my laptop?

Thanks, but no thanks.

I think it’d be sweet to live in a world with no technology. Nowadays, that’s basically how we compete with each other. Who has the better iPod, who has the most money, blah blah blah.

As compared to who had the best cow, or best horse?

But there was no toilet paper! Correct me if I’m wrong here please, but I heard that if you were lucky you got to use a cloth on a stick soaked in pickle juice. :) no thanks.

They focused much more on literature than that of the maths and sciences.

Yeah because the Greeks had already done most of the intellectual heavy lifting for them.

But there was no toilet paper! Correct me if I’m wrong here please, but I heard that if you were lucky you got to use a cloth on a stick soaked in pickle juice. :) no thanks.

or a sponge on a stick if you were rich.

Anyhow, no more H/G society huh? Roman society had it’s ups and downs, but I think any benefits of living back then are vastly outweighed by the technology we have today.

I think it’d be sweet to live in a world with no technology. Nowadays, that’s basically how we compete with each other. Who has the better iPod, who has the most money, blah blah blah.

It would have been the same back then, just whose loin-cloth had feathers and whose wenches still had all their teeth. And in the future it will be whose laser-powered backscratcher.

The Romans were brilliant. They were more advanced than the people of the Middle Ages in some fields.And the Roman language, its amazing.I speak it. The Romans were the greatest empire ever.

Originally posted by OmegaKaiSi:

I desire to live in the times of the Roman Republic. I also wish to discuss the ups and downs of the Roman Civilization. I have to go to bed now, but i would like to get the topic started.

I think the slavery system they used was very well planned. What do you think?

Yeah, thing is it was legal to have sex with children, you could be crucified by saying as much as the Gods dont exist and if you were low in the social ranks you were treat like crap.

Although they were an amazing civillisation that shaped the world, just like the Greeks.

Yeah, thing is it was legal to have sex with children, you could be crucified by saying as much as the Gods dont exist and if you were low in the social ranks you were treat like crap.

Most of that was true all the way through to the early 1900s.

I’m obsessed with the Roman culture almost as much as much as Napoleon. It would have been interesting to live in the Roman Republic, and see the world as it was back then.

yes, the romans were brilliant. but no plumbing? no high life expectancy? insane diseases? oh, and jonny666, that might be true in the later years of the empire, but they were generally tolerant of other religions.

yes, the romans were brilliant. but no plumbing? no high life expectancy? insane diseases? oh, and jonny666, that might be true in the later years of the empire, but they were generally tolerant of other religions.

I’m pretty sure the Romans had plumbing.

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/science/sewage.htm

Also: Wasn’t this thread made a little under year ago?

Originally posted by JohnRulz:

Yeah, thing is it was legal to have sex with children, you could be crucified by saying as much as the Gods dont exist and if you were low in the social ranks you were treat like crap.

Most of that was true all the way through to the early 1900s.

Well, no, you wouldn’t be cruicfied for one and child sex was classe as wrong, most sex was. And yeah they did have plumbing.

Originally posted by Jonny666:

Originally posted by JohnRulz:

Yeah, thing is it was legal to have sex with children, you could be crucified by saying as much as the Gods dont exist and if you were low in the social ranks you were treat like crap.

Most of that was true all the way through to the early 1900s.

Well, no, you wouldn’t be cruicfied for one and child sex was classe as wrong, most sex was. And yeah they did have plumbing.

Crucification was still happening
In some countries the age of consent is very low, and in several US states it is still 14
Plumbing did exist, but was not always available.

It was only available in major cities that were well under Roman control. Much of Rome’s sewage system still uses the old Roman lines, just repaired and expanded on. Sometimes, it’s just the same.

The old civilizations failed for a reason. Don’t dwell too much on the past. We have it easy the current times so cherish it before its gone…

The other half of the Roman civilization survived for a long time.