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Ancient Rome
I am currently going through a phase of loving the Roman period! The more I'm reading into it the quicker I'm getting sucked into the whole era.
Does anybody else have a passion for this period in history? If so, do you have or know fo any good books or films or even games haha! I'm almost addicted haha.
If not feel free to share your knowledge on any other period in time
I love Ancient Rome, I've recently bought 5 books (I'll link 3 of them). But I just find it really fascinating. I'm going to study it for the next year then probably move on to Ancient Greece. Been at it hard, it really is an amazing history.Originally Posted by uewho
I am currently going through a phase of loving the Roman period! The more I'm reading into it the quicker I'm getting sucked into the whole era.
Does anybody else have a passion for this period in history? If so, do you have or know fo any good books or films or even games haha! I'm almost addicted haha.
If not feel free to share your knowledge on any other period in time
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubicon-Triu...ref=pd_sim_b_2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Rome...2493464&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Caesar-Life-...ref=pd_sim_b_4
You can try reading 'Rubicon' by historian Tom Holland. It's not like reading from Gracchi to Nero, more like a novel very fast paced.
Thanks for that!
I got into it by reading Warrior Of Rome books by Harry Sidebottom. They're historical fiction, based around battles and so son, but its the descriptions of everyday life that interests me more than anything!
I actually got into Roman history by playing Assassins Creed (sort of modern Rome though, I think it was the 1600s) and watching Gladiator
From there I decided it was a really interesting history. A lot of great figures too.
i am the reincarnation of mark Anthony
Check out Cicero. He was an orator and politician and was very influential in the Caesar, Mark Antony time period.
Smart man, and pretty funny.
watch Spartacus
Actually that series 'Rome' on HBO was pretty decent, accuracy-wise at least.
i like spartacus, lots of naked ladies in it, thats the level i operate at
Xena the warrior princess.i like spartacus, lots of naked ladies in it, thats the level i operate at
yep, her and more, tis all good viewingXena the warrior princess.
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The average life expectancy of a roman slave in the construction and mining industries was 10 months. The real reason Rome fell was because it killed its workforce faster than it could replace it.
I thought Rome fell because it expanded it's borders way too far and simply wasn't able to control it's Empire anymore, and of course, like all Empires, it got old, decadant, sloppy and lost it's dynamism.
Never heard the theory that it fell because it's slaves died too quickly.
It was a slave economy. They needed to conquer more and more territory in order to capture enough slaves to replace the slaves they killed.
Rome "expanding" isn't as we imagine it today. Rome wasn't a country that took more territory like a WW2 era Germany trying to expand itself. They took cities, regions etc and planted a governor and sometimes left a garrison there. Rome's empire was more like the French empire with lots of protectorates which they "sort of" controlled.
Locutus is correct as well. Having your entire agricultural system based on slavery is going to have problems during periods like plagues when he slave population begins to run thin.
There is also the productivity question.
A slave has no interest in maximising output, only what it takes to survive.
Whereas farmers working their own land have a direct interest in productivity.
In some cases farmers in Rome were producing 16 x the crops that slaves were.
The 2 systems could not exist side by side.
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