decentomyous

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by decentomyous 3y ago
"I don't think he could've chosen that at all considering the political situation in the Roman empire at the time." You're mixing up the timeline. He chose Gaul when him and two dudes controlled the entire Roman emp
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by decentomyous 3y ago
"Ok, I don't know why do I have to specify this but I meant the slave labor if hundreds of thousands..." Because they didn't do anything substantively different in this regard? Pointing out that the Romans had slaves as
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by decentomyous 3y ago
> The Roman empire was almost entirely built on slave labor and exhortation of the territories they subjugated. This is a description of virtually every ancient society in this region. The Romans were simply the most dominant. And as a r
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by decentomyous 3y ago
Well, maybe. We just don't know how things would have played out. The safest assumption seems to be that people like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak very significantly accelerated progress. But because of the way acceleration seems to kic
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by decentomyous 3y ago
As we've seen, genocide has become a recent term for almost any kind of warfare. It used to have a much more narrowly defined usage that was accordingly more meaningful. Caesar's goal in Gaul was certainly not the extermination of
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by decentomyous 3y ago
"There’s also that part where they just cut off the hands of any fighting age males they came across for a while." IIRC that was done in a single instance in order to try to pacify Gaul while Caesar was about to be away invading B