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To: decimon

Other than that, what did the Romans ever do for us?


5 posted on 04/28/2011 12:44:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Caligula?


8 posted on 04/28/2011 12:47:01 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! That is such a great scene.


54 posted on 04/28/2011 8:34:45 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dfwgator
Nothing much.

Just a substantial part of our vocabulary, the transmission of Classical culture and architecture, engineering, better agricultural practices, a temporary relief from attacks by other barbarians, participation in a large free trade zone with reasonable protection against marauders and pirates, eventually a new religion called Christianity, a concept of law and justice that went beyond things like trial by ordeal or combat, freedom from being being sacrificed to various gruesome pagan deities, cities, sanitation, etc.

Nothing much really. We were much better off in the 700’s and 800’s - right?

66 posted on 04/29/2011 6:59:13 AM PDT by ZULU (Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescent excrement)
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