Rome Power and Glory Part 2 Legions of Conquest i

The rise of Rome's legions.

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Education

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• Ancient
• Rome
• armies

[xSkraelingx]

@brendameistar

No one man's accomplishments will surpass that of a whole continent. Whoever the fuck zhuge liang was, he was smarter than you, because it takes a special kind of idiocy and obsession to post a comment like that.

[brendameistar]

lol, greatest? i highly doubt the entire europe at the time was smarter than zhuge liang.

[augustusempire]

@PoppingSanta I can manage that.

[augustusempire]

@RomaInvicta1 yes, I am just very detail oriented.

[RomaInvicta1]

@augustusempire I'm sure you'll appreciate that I wan't trying to be totally accurate but rather expressing the splendour of Rome as well as I could. :)

[PoppingSanta]

@augustusempire

When you run out of letters, just make a "-" sign in the end of the message and then an "-" in the begining of the new message, I'm trying to spread it all over YouTube ^^.

I have lots of research to do on the Assyrians!

[augustusempire]

@PoppingSanta sorry, my post ran out of room. The vast majority of ancient rulers did not want to risk their armies against the fearsome Assyrians in open battle, so they would try to get the advantage by hiding behind their walls, and even then the Assyrians would almost certainly win (one example of a loss was Jerusalem).

[augustusempire]

@PoppingSanta The whole Romans as innovators thing was just adding information not yet in the conversation, not me auguring against you. But as far as the Assyrians are concerned, obviously some armies were dumb enough to face them in open combat, otherwise there would be no reason to fear them in open combat.

[PoppingSanta]

@augustusempire

Sounds like a bunch of propaganda. There have never been any soldiers that are so "hardcore" that no one were brave/stupid enough to face them.

And nothing of you said were either necessarry to say or new to me. The fact that almost everything in Roman Culture and Military tactics/equipment is borrowed from others has nothing to do with this, and does not change the fact that the Individual Spartan Soldier were better than the individual Roman Legionnaire in 1v1.

[augustusempire]

@PoppingSanta The thing about Sparta vs Rome was Sparta was the best at an old style of fighting, while the Romans were good fighter, and awesome innovators, they knew how to take a good idea and run with it. Think about it, the gladius and pilum from the Spanish tribes, the manipular legion (c.370 or so to 102 BC) from the Samnite tribes, architecture and religion from the Greeks, and many more.