Idk... Lots of conquests were hard, but time did them. Then they put down rebellions as necessary. I think the difference was that there was no way for time t

Idk... Lots of conquests were hard, but time did them. Then they put down rebellions as necessary. I think the difference was that there was no way for time to "win" as they we used to. No palace to install governors in. No temple to place Roman statues in. How do twin? What do you win when you win? Rome wasn't after a tax base or plantations for cash crops. They were after a tax base. Most of their empire consisted of territories that had all these things for yonks. They had been conquered by many empires and knew the drill. Britannia and Germania did not.