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Well, they were called the Etruscans, and they had their own fully-formed, complex society before the Romans came barging in. The Etruscans lived just north in Rome, in Tuscany. Originally, they just lived one-room huts on the Italian plateau. They herded pigs, sheep, and cattle, and fa...
The legend says that Romulus became the first King of Rome in 753BC and populated his new city with runaway slaves and convicted criminals. He stole women from the Sabine tribe to provide wives for the slaves and criminals and to populate his new city. The Sabine tribe were not happy abou...
You got owned worse than anyone in ancient Rome, and they had slavery! Hey, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, and Karl Brandt! I don’t like you! Steve Irwin, I’ll go easy on you because you’re slow, but you’re just Jack Hanna crossed with Johnny Knoxville. Your show shouldn’t...
To think about gender and sexuality in ancient Rome, there are several things that may spring to mind first. Would it be the oiled-up, Bacchanalian orgies so often depicted in movies? The heinous treatment that was so commonplace towards women? Or could it be the abuses endured by Roman ...
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If we still had brave, intelligent, and honorable leaders like Andrew Jackson the public would still have a voice in politics. Good leaders like Andrew Jackson weren’t afraid to stand up to the elites but, these rent a whore politicos today go to the highest bidder to the detriment of ...
Roman citizens served as the public face of the Roman Republic, a state in the ancient Roman era. The Republic started in 509 BC after the destruction of the Roman Kingdom and ended in 27 BC during the creation of the Roman Empire....
The news media have always been and continue to be in the hands of Jews. These lie factories, thanks to the Internet, are in freefall collapse and deservedly so. If the news media had been honest, we would have been informed and warned of the criminal conspiracy so that we could have...
The growth of Spartacus’s force was aided by other factors. Throughout his rebellion, his army spent much of its time in rural areas and small towns, places that were poorly defended but had an abundance of slaves. Additionally, according to ancient sources, Spartacus insisted on equally divi...