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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (162610)5/19/2005 6:58:31 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>> The City of Rome, which around 100 ce held about a million people, imported its wheat from North Africa. That's what I'm saying.

Ok, I can live with that. I thought you meant a citizen of Rome (Citizen was a real status, as in Mark Anthony's "friends, Romans, citizens"). Hell of a way to justify a civilization though; the good of a city at the cost of a continent.

Rome lasted in name for a very long time. In theory it still lives in the Catholic Church. But the ideals of the republic died way before 6th C. Eventually Rome died not because too many people wanted to join in, but because it failed to reform itself to provide scalable and equitable services for all its citizens. Militarism is a very self destructive path. And this is a worthy lesson for everyone to remember.
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