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> it is badly overstating things to claim, as the author does, that the Roman empire was not a "dim backwater by comparison" I think you mean "it is overstatin
by tome 10y ago
> it is badly overstating things to claim, as the author does, that the Roman empire was not a "dim backwater by comparison"
I think you mean "it is overstating to claim Rome was a dim backwater".
- GunboatDiplomat 10y agoEspecially given that Rome was the largest city in the world from maybe 100 BCE to in the neighborhood of 400 CE.