The Great Empire Rome 1 The Republic of Rome i

The beginning of Rome.

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• Rome

[forbesy33]

@LaserBeam002 petty for a megalomaniac lol

[EuropeanNinja]

Is it just me or is Joe Mantegna (from Criminal Minds) the narrator.

[Forysan]

@LaserBeam002 welcome to 21'st century secular academia (particularly in the US), It's not about pursuit of knowledge, or an unbiased open forum as a means of doing so anymore. It's about IVY league universities getting grants & pushing humanism. regardless of the facts.

[LaserBeam002]

This documentary says romulus and remes fought over a petty family quarrel but other documentaries say the two brothers founded a town/city then fought over who would rule. I would say that is not a petty quarrel.

[HistoryLover1550]

For fellow Ancient Rome lovers, check out the movie 'Agora' I LOVE this documentary!

[pissedpatriot1776]

@killthespyder yeah, thats exactly what NERO said... and he made things even worse....

[halotube015]

and don t fergett ezio auditore da firenze

[Forysan]

@arzgania How so?

[arzgania]

WARNING:

Some of the following comments below are filled with hypocrisy, nonsense, and inappropriate conclusions derived by the most delusional/pessimistic amongst us. PLEASE READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

[killthespyder]

Study the social parallels, and it becomes obvious that America is falling in a very similar manner to Rome. But nevermind the economy. Nevermind the greed and lust for power, never mind the sleeping people and dumbed down immoral society, who cares nothing for the Republic once fought for. Let's instead blame religion and Christianity. Yes! Christians Christians Christians, religion religion religion. It's all their fault! This is why America is falling, and indeed will fall! Damn I'm so wise!

[killthespyder]

Look mom, I went to college and read a history book. I know how to attack Christianity and religion for everything. I'm an intellectual, because I do what all the "free thinkers" of society tell me to. Aren't you proud of my ability to think? My college professor tells me that I too might one day be a great "philosophizer" (pronounced facetiously of course) All I have to do is keep my little brain reacting to the little food pellet bars they feed me, then one day, I too can be an intahmalectual.

[killthespyder]

Forysan brings up a great point about how the early Christians were persecuted by the "oh so openly minded Romans". But I'm sure we can find a way to blame that too on the Christians. "Too bad those aweful Christians got in the way! What were they thinking believing in a person named Jesus? I sure am glad they were butchered, burned, and massacred for their faith by their oh so open minded fellow Roman citizens. Besides, Christianity is to blame for all things.. everybody knows that"

[killthespyder]

@ aprox. 4:25, the video states, "but the Etruscans were brutal rulers, who reigned terror upon the other Roman people". I know it's 6 - 7 centuries before Christianity would arrive, but what the hell, let's also blame this on Christianity. Come everybody, blame all the worlds problems and history on Christianity, it's the cool thing to do, and all the "intellectuals" are doing it. What else can we attack the faith for? Gee I sure wish my hip college professor was here to tell me how to think.

[killthespyder]

I love how people are so quick to blame everything on religion. Yeah, religion has unfortunately had a hand in some aweful things. But so has everything, because the source of corruption is not religion, but man. Man will use anything to sway the masses for his own benefit. The new faith today is atheism. This is why like programs so many youth today react to everything of "religion" with an attitude to automatically demonize it, while thinking they know so much and their thoughts are their own

[Forysan]

@gooddarkjedi as you said, "in the time of the empire yes. Not in the time of the republic." So your view that Christianity screwed everything up isn't historically valid. Sidenote; Most of our views in western Christianity come from St. Augustine who prior to becoming a Christian dabbled in Gnosticism & abused his sexuality. So later, he assumed-based on Greco-Roman Gnosticism that sex & all else physical was bad, all spiritual was good-That's a teaching of Gnosticism not Judaism/Christianity.

[Forysan]

@gooddarkjedi assessing New Testament Christianity's view of women & sex by looking at Medieval Churchianity is like trying to get an accurate view of the Old West by watching Hollywood Westerns from 1930's-to 2010. Every now & then tid bits of historical reality pop up. However, by-in-large one is better off looking at the original eyewitness source material; In this case the Bible itself. They were there we weren't.

[gooddarkjedi]

@Forysan sexist values of today are manly from bible and and hebrew infulences. romans where much more tolerant and kind hearted towards thier women. especialy in the times of republic. befoere the dark ages, before the empire.

[gooddarkjedi]

@Forysan in a time of empire yes. not in the time of republic. in the time of republic there was freedome of religion and long after it bacame empire it was allso very tolrant about other views. that changed after the time of 3 great emperors. then came emperors like Nero. read little whuld you kindly.

[gooddarkjedi]

@Forysan hehehe. not actualy. lot of sexism comes from hebrew culture of that time. thou i have to agree, romans where sexist. but compared ot hebrews and christians of middle agest, they where feminists. read little more about history and learn. there where fenisits in rome and greece at that time too. there where philosophers that expresed idea about sexual eacuality. in comparison to thier nebougrs and to victcorians there where feminists. so tists or gtfo.

[Forysan]

@gooddarkjedi oh did I mention today's sexist attitudes & those about our ideas of sexuality originate from the Greeks & Romans who saw women as second class citizens who were oversexed & needed to be controlled, & from the mystery religions/Gnosticism's idea that everything physical (including sex) is evil.

[Forysan]

@gooddarkjedi Re;"Romans had freedom of religion."

Yeah, feeding people to lions, tigers, & bears(Oh My LOL), using them as torches, & acusing them of atheism, incest, & canibalism because they don't follow the state religion (emporer worship) sounds a lot like religious freedom.

[gooddarkjedi]

romans had freedome of religion freedome of art  and civil liberties.... and then christians fucked it all up. and mongols.

[HolyVegeta]

And don't forget about Caligula!