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To: SunkenCiv

Why the year 320? The city may have been at a population peak, but all of its major architecture was already 200 years old, except for Caracella’s Baths, which were 100 years old. Of course within a few years, as first Constantinople was established, and then the western capital moved to northern Italy, Rome went into a rapid decline, which was accelerated by the sacking of the city first by the Visigoths, then by the Vandals.


9 posted on 11/12/2008 7:45:31 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Hope Hussein doesn’t get any ideas with Washington...


11 posted on 11/12/2008 8:25:08 PM PST by Dallas59 (Redistribute Obamas Wealth)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Why the year 320?

Yes. I'd rather look at 320 BC, or the port of Cosa around 100 BC. Better still I'd like to dig up even a partial Etruscan-Latin dictionary!

17 posted on 11/13/2008 3:15:28 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Stop feeding Leftist education systems. Don't let your kids go there.)
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