To: MrsEmmaPeel
Don’t forget the Later Roman (Byzantine) Empire without which Islam would have taken Europe from the southeast around the time of Charlemagne. I have long been a fan of their valor.
31 posted on
07/10/2009 7:46:37 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Yeah - true — but I have to admit — my favorite era is the 2nd century AD - the time of Trajan.
34 posted on
07/10/2009 9:16:03 PM PDT by
MrsEmmaPeel
(a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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