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2016-07-08 01:04:58 Post No. 1385069
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2016-07-08 01:04:58
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What exactly led to the Roman civilization's extraordinary durability, even discounting the Byzantine portion?
They weren't an Ancient people, by the standard of the time or in possession of a wealth of natural resources; they were surrounded on both sides by much superior peoples; and anything they had, they appropriated from someone who had it longer.
By all counts, they should have fallen with the litany of other Italic tribesmen before them to the Greek, Etruscan, or Phonetician powers, yet they put all of them under the yoke and lasted as a civilization for over 1000 years, despite numerous bad rulers, political upheavals, and horrific invasions.
