Rome The Battle of Philippi

The Battle of Philippi, and the death of Cassius and Brutus

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[Jurjenjans83]

"When in doubt... attack!"

[DorianVonKlaus]

Roman soldiers fighting Roman soldiers , so stupid

If they didant have civil wars all the time they would've conquered so much more ..

And perhaps lasted longer ..

[maaderllin]

@DorianVonKlaus of Alexander's superior tactics and army ^^

[maaderllin]

@DorianVonKlaus for their own general instead of the emperor, and allowed freedom of religion, banning all possibilities for any of them to impose itself. Well, it would have been taking advice from how the Persian empire was administrated. :P Every colony and conquered territory had the right to preserve their culture, religion and internal gestion, but they had to pay taxes, be under the rule of a satrap, and provide men for the army :P And persia failed only because (...)

[maaderllin]

@DorianVonKlaus Totally. In the place of Diocletian, I think I would've made things differently. Tetrarchy was just as destined to fail that the system of the time. Instead I would have reformed the Empire so that each Province would have got its own system of gestion similar to the Republic, with 2 consuls etc. But the emperor would have acted like a "federal" level, acting as arbiter, ruling the army, always changing the General so loyalty of men couldn't have grown (...)

[DorianVonKlaus]

@maaderllin

Indeed , Corruption , greed and lack of trust did play a huge factor into the collapse of the roman empire, epsically when they constantly cooed and assassinated each other for little reasons , whilst all these problems are occurring the overall administration of their territories across their whole empire slowly but crumbled.

A dam shame i say..

[maaderllin]

@DorianVonKlaus Roman society, expansion and preservation didn't rely only on the military you know. During the "Later Roman Empire" (Time period following the reign of the Severus dinasty) Problems of administration and corruption made the Empire very hard to control and govern.

[noblered5]

Not on his birthday!!

[romandef]

@squamish4244 you are welcome

[squamish4244]

@romandef Thanks.

[romandef]

@squamish4244 Plutarch

[atlcoatl]

''this is how history is made'' yes, it truly is...

is there any way of watchin this and not feeling proud? knowing that, as latin you share the architecture, the laws, the very language. ^^