Wherever they went, they built aqueducts, roads, towns, cities, and bridges. They introduced law and order, and trade flourished in every corner of territory that they controlled. They internationalized the Mediterranean - Arab, African, and European legionairres fought side by side as brothers.
However, in order for the Romans to succeed in that, they had to brutally conquer territory, slaughtering entire villages, enslaving towns, forcing the populations to speak Latin and act Roman. Hundreds of thousands died defending their homelands from the Roman Empire.
So were the Romans a force of good in ancient society, or did the high body count and loss of tribal European culture make them more bad than good?
2007-05-13
12:55:12
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Daniel M.
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