What are some similarities between the United States and Rome? Will they end up with the same fate?

Question

Once agian, please no wikipedia copies!

Answer 1

Rome exploited the poor countries for their wheat and food to make it cheaper for the Roman people to keep them sedated and calm. We are doing the same thing with oil. We exploit and steal the poor countrys oil to give the addicted masses cheap oil to sedate them and keep them happy. Unfortunatel it is all going to unravel soon like the Rome did when the cheap wheat stopped coming in.

Answer 2

As a pupil of Roman historic previous and an American, it is my diagnosis. regardless of any glaring parallels, the evaluation disintegrates once you consider that: a million. The Romans were using their armies for enlargement a minimum of from the 4th century B.C. until eventually third or 4th century A.D. Why might want to the empire in difficulty-free words "fall" in 476, at the same time as the Roman economic gadget were operating without conquest for roughly 2 hundred years? 2. there is no "fall" of the Roman Empire. there replaced right into a drastic decline in a number of of sectors of Roman society, yet Rome by technique of no ability got here to an end. It basically replaced and ultimately Roman societal norms were now no longer recognizable. The empire persisted in the east until eventually 1453. 3. u . s . a . of america and Rome stay below very diverse historic situations. The evaluation can no longer carry authentic pondering how diverse our societies are.

Answer 3

This is an excerpt on the cycle of democratic nations:

"About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence (on governement)
8. From dependence back into bondage "

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

1. Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;
2. Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000;
3. States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29 (yet Gore almost won the Presidency)
4. Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2, Bush 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements living off government welfare." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency & apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. Thats right, living totally off the governments checks.
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The apathy of the American populace will lead to the fall of the US as we know it. That is not to say that America is doomed (there is still an Italy). The western and southwestern US will probably be engulfed by the Mexican hordes and you will have the same chaotic nation that Mexico is today there. The military battle will probably be in Texas, because Texans are not going to go down without a fight, California will be an easy conquest because the wealthy liberal elite will simply leave the state and leave the poor and lower middle class to fend for themselves (so much for the caring Democrat ideology), a majority of those classes are Mexican immigrents anyway so it should be pretty easy. S Central LA will be a battleground, cuz the brothers won't go easy either. There will be an influx of people migrating from the west but there is plenty of room for them all and industry will simple migrate with them so jobs should not be an issue. We will be smaller but will be reformed and will probably call for a fascist government.

Answer 4

We have learned from experience not to put the power into one hand; which is one of the main differences. The United States is not yet an empire; declared or implied. Aside from the writings of Chomsky, Vidal and others.

Answer 5

We use the eagle as our symbol so did Rome. Church and State was basically one and we trying to get that accomplished now. We have latin markings on our money as well. Their financial money was run by about the same type organizations of people as the US is now, they were called publicans back then and republicans now. LOL

Answer 6

One thing of which we can be certain is change. All great powers have had their day and disappeared. Take China, Greece, Rome, Britain, Austro-hungarian Empire, the Turks. All rise, all fall. As I see it, America is on the decline.

Answer 7

Through history, empires fell down after a while.I could see the same for us. The governments are the down fall. We don't have a single politician, of any party, who could bring hope. And we get the government that we deserve, according the way we vote. Or don't vote.

Answer 8

One thing that no one else has mentioned is the fact that both the United States and Rome debased their currency, which led to inflation, which led to disaster.

Answer 9

Last time I looked at my Atlas I didn't see an American Empire. { unless you count Guam.}

Rome conquered, pillaged and raped it's way around Europe. Things have changed in these modern times, George Bush hypnotized Blair when he wasn't paying attention and convinced him it was a good idea to join the US in attacking a country the intelligence services claimed had weapons of mass destruction. With two such stupid leaders running things it's inevitable that the US will follow Rome and the British Empire into oblivion.

Answer 10

Rome lasted a thousand years! We are but a burp in time.