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To: bentway who wrote (262278)	11/26/2005 9:17:11 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573213

They prospered so much that keeping the barbarians out, who wanted to get in and prosper with (or on) them, called for just a little more than a couple of minutemen at the borders. As for slavery, well that was quite normal everywhere until it was finally abolished sometime in the 19th century in most parts of the world. Except of course in the Middle East, which followed rather late. Don't forget that slave - or rather forced, sounds better you know - labor was a significant factor keeping Stalin's socialistic paradise economy afloat as well. Nevertheless, the Roman empire delivered peace to all of what was known as and within reach as a civilized world to them at the time. Taro