Posted on 11/26/2019 6:05:44 AM PST by shoff
New DNA analysis has found that Roman satirists may have been right when they spoke of Greeks and Syrians taking over their city. Things started to change however from 900 BCE to 200 BCE, as Rome grew in size and importance, and the diversity shot up from 27 BCE to 300 CE, when the city was the capital to an empire of 50 million to 90 million people, stretching from North Africa to Britain to the Middle East.
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Immigration and lack of assimilation were the big problems. Rome lost battles, sure, but the Roman Empire wasn’t killed on the battlefield. The culture just faded and it no longer had cohesion. Died with more of a whimper than a bang.
Or from Rome....
Well, the Via Appia does run from Brindis to Rome....Rome began its fall when it instituted the Dole to foster the “finer tastes” and to “institute tranquility” - they called it “Cura Annonae” or “grain dole”...so says Wikipedia and other more “modern” versions of history....when I was in school, history teachers were allowed to speak the truth that Rome’s version of Welfare/EBT was a deciding factor in the fall of the empire because it wasn’t just as Wiki and others state today, it was also used to support “artistes”...
(The Orontes was a river in Syria.)
Sounds familiar.
HMMM. Trying to think of another great empire that is following the same path.
(I wish the Daily Mail would go back to when it wasn’t requiring readers to turn off their add blockers...)
476 AD to be exact
immigration without assimilation is invasion. The best examples I can think of occurred in Britain. Romans 100 AD ish. Viking shortly after the Romans left, Saxons 600-700 AD, Normans in the 11th century and Muslims in the 21 century.
And then there is Kosovo where the Albanians forced out the Serbs and Cali where the Mexicans are forcing out the Americans.
If a society does not force immigrants to assimilate, that society will be conquered and forced to assimilate to its’ new rules norms of behavior. Western Europe(we) is now experiencing this. Maybe the men (or women) of WE will grow a pair? Probably not, I’m waiting to see election results in France where Le Pen is the only sane choice. Oh and we better reelect Trump.
It’s more fun for Republicans to virtue signal and be pro legal immigration ( invasion ).
“immigration without assimilation is invasion.”
Exactly, look what happened in the Americas after 1492.
It became “Balkanized” so badly, that it soon didn’t exist.
All roads DID lead to Rome
Needs to be changed to
ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA !
That’s why Rome was identified in Jewish history as Edom.
Exactly. Splitting the empire into 3
Paying barbarian tribes to serve as legions or not attack Rome
The amazing thing is that a city\empire could last so long
The official religion had become Christianity. So I ask those who blame immorality. Didn’t that make Rome more moral than a few centuries before
“Roman satirists may have been right when they spoke of Greeks and Syrians taking over their city. “
But they were cool with Rome annexing Greece and Assyria?
Kind of like when the British annexed all over the world then years later welcome them to the UK
Ad Blockers are most likely working on a way to ‘spoof’ the publications into thinking it is turned off.
How can this be? Rome fell around 400AD, but diversity is our strength.
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The Eastern Roman Empire didn’t fall until May 29th,1453, when Muslim armies took Constantinople.
This fact puts Muslim expansion into perspective.
It was happening at the time of Columbus. Its is still happening now. How many millions were enslaved, how many male African slaves were castrated, how many young European male slaves (Slavs) were castrated, indoctrinated into Islam, and then used as shock troops for the Muslim invasion of Europe?
How many sleeper agents have now infiltrated the West, to be called to action by Iran and other bad agents.
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