The secret that allowed Rome to become a global empire rather than just a single state was the change they made to military conquest. Prior to the Roman empire, any conquering force would invade, pillage, murder the younger males, rape the females, and go home. Roman realized that this was a huge waste, so they instead began to install Roman colonies in these areas who would transfer the wealth of these regions, including slaves, back to Roman. They granted local “Latin” rights to the remaining males and impregnated the local females to produce more soldiers for the legions.
What intrigues me is why someone would go to the trouble of producing YouTube videos to deny this documented history? Could it be that the Roman empire was, in fact, the structural model for the Catholic church?
Well except for the Catholic church not having armies that would attack other nation states then making more catholics from priests, sure...
The Catholic church is obviously tied to Rome - no argument from me there but I’d argue it’s more of a synthesis of the Christian movement at the end of Rome trying to keep Jesus’ message going before it, too, was corrupted internally leading to the Protestants.
Could it be that the Roman empire was, in fact, the structural model for the Catholic church?
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It was not the structural model, it morphed into the Roman Catholic Church...
Emperor Constantine made sure of it.
Hence, Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. You see how this works?
“What intrigues me is why someone would go to the trouble of producing YouTube videos to deny this documented history?”
Thank you. You took the words out of my mouth. It looks weak to go to the trouble to rebut such nonsense.