Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. ROME?.. Everything they offered for low low taxes.. It was like two weeks wages a year for law and order, trade and roads.. No, people chose tribalism and nationalism over the best deal ever..

   I don’t have a lot of faith in out chances..

   1. I imagine slavery and conquest of new lands had something to do with it.

      1. The Roman Empire never conquered much of anything. It was merely trying to consolidate what the Republic had conquered. Arguably it succeeded in that task for approximately 1500 years.

2. WOW
   That suicide statue, pushing a sword down through his heart and chest.
   I guess like the statue it would c a u s e my penis to draw up like a caterpillar, and you wouldn’t be able to drive a straight pin through my buttocks hole with a sledgehammer.
   THE PAIN !!!

3. “Roman road system, outstanding transportation network of the ancient Mediterranean world, extending from Britain to the Tigris-Euphrates river system and from the Danube River to Spain and northern Africa. In all, the Romans built 50,000 miles (80,000 km) of hard-surfaced highway, primarily for military reasons.”
   https://www.britannica.com/technology/Roman-road-system

   By contrast the European Union motorway length is 46,190 miles.

   “The arches of the Colosseum are made out of cement, a remarkably strong building material the Romans made with what they had at hand: volcanic ash and volcanic rock. Modern scientists believe that the use of this ash is the reason that structures like the Colosseum still stand today. Roman underwater structures proved to be even sturdier. Seawater reacting with the volcanic ash created crystals that filled in the cracks in the concrete. To make a concrete this durable, modern builders must reinforce it with steel. So today, scientists study Roman concrete, hoping to match the success of the ancient master builders.”
   https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/traces-ancient-rome-modern-world/

   Some sayings relating to Rome:
   1. “Rome was not built in a day”. (Had Chairman Mao understood this the Great Leap Backward would not have happened.)
   2. “When in Rome do as the Romans do.”
   3. “All roads lead to Rome.” (so vast was their transportation network at that time)
   4. And no, Nero did not fiddle while Rome burnt.
   5. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 B.C. (Eisenhower stopped at the Elbe in 1945.)

4. This one didn’t get a look in?

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpeian_Rock