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Brave Roman legionaries are liberating a Germanic village from terrorists. Germanic insurgents are depicted resisting arrest (punishable by death), resisting sexual advances and wearing provocative clothing (punishable by rape) and violating housing regulations (punishable by arson). In the foreground, a social services worker is depicted liberating a child, who will be given a better future, a trade, and life time job security somewhere in the Roman Empire.
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... and for living in their own homeland.
... and having a culture of their own, so intolerant - why didn't they just became Roman the second the Romans knocked on the door?
History repeats itself.
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The Romans could at times be brutal towards defeated enemies, especially towards those who didn't surrender. However, it would be unfair to single them out because pretty much every society in the Ancient World waged war in this manner. The Germanics were no pacifists, after all.Β
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Great artwork! Really shows the brutality of war and conquest in Antiquity.
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Also holy shit the comments here.
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Philosophical definition beneath rape itself?
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You're right those Romans were wrong to let the barbarians liberate their people of their crops and their lives as they liberate people on altars or as the kids call them "sacrifices"
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And that is how a true Roman should think, how dare those barbarians not be thankful for being taught civilization!
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Love it: you're taking the piss out of historians who try to overemphasise how "moderate" or "humane" Roman rule supposedly was. When I think of Rome I think of a proto-Medieval version of North Korea that's much more militarily successful, has a pragmatic legal code, and better PR.Β
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That is so wrong in so many levels...
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I laughed harder than i should have at the description.
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Very up to date. Antifas wet dream also. ;]
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Wait lol... crime: resist rape. Punishment: rape?
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filthy terrorists thats for blowing up the forum romanum.....
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Looks great, though aren't roundhouses a more characteristic feature of the Celts(Most notably the Britons)? I always thought the Germanic tribes prefered pit houses and their famous longhouses.Β
Other than that, really nice composition! (Nice as in, amazingly well made, it probably wasn't nearly as nice to the tribe being slaughtered haha! xD)
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To be fair, the Romans were the only state of their time to grant mercy to the nations they conquered. This is how they grew to be so powerful. Other nations would slaughter all the men, and throw the rest into slavery. Rome usually did NOT do this. The exception was if that state gave them so reason to be vengeful, such fighting a prolonged war or participating in a rebellion.Β
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The point is: Rome was generally eager to incorporate subjects into their state. That allowed them to recruit far more soldiers, and kept rebellions to a minimum. All free Roman subjects, even without citizenship, had rights under Roman law. They could also earn Roman citizenship through military service, which extended to their family as well.
Rome's incorporation of other cities and states was what saved them from Hannibal. Hannibal counted on turning Rome's allies against them, but virtually none did. So by the time he got to Rome, he didn't have enough men to take the city.
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I'm dumb and you mentioned the Holy Roman Empire and the British who aren't not even of the same time period.
Ok cool.
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