No, 👎. Lol

That's correct, but I suspect they either don't know that, or are the type that wouldn't see that as approval for a good fight, but would see it as the denial of their "righteous kill."

No. No. They were really decended from gods and raised by wolves. /S

Honestly the best explanations for Greek and thus Roman myth is a mix of patrical worship (story from dad, become from grandpa, from great grandpa, from ancestor, from the ancient, from myth, mixed with ruling caste families becomes our mythos).

That mixed with stories about concepts war, beauty, death, getting personified for story sake but then with enough personality now the afterlife is married and has a dog because his wife is on business trips all the time.

I don't disagree with you on the evilness that is involved with pretty much all conquering imperial powers (whether it's an empire or republic backing it), but Rome didn't invent that. They made some advancements in military tactics, strategies, and logistics. But conquest was done before them.

Alexander the great had an empire that rivaled Rome's side when he died (and there are other example in recorded history of it being done earlier, like in Egypt, Gilgamesh, and many others). And even the whole "you can keep your culture as long as you join the empire" was done by Persia before Rome did it.

You have a very Euro-centric view of the world.

Don't say that in front of the Shahansha

I wish I knew how to do that. I abandoned reddit just so many others as soon as they started their API nonsense, so I'm really just here for the memes. And yes, he would enjoy it greatly.

No. He's a history nerd regularly posting history nerd shit for our own enjoyment.

No, the other part

What they said.

They were a great people but they were great because their excess was built on the subjugation of nations and enslaving entire people in order to get what they wanted.

Not only on that though, they were great at adopting what was working the best in those subjugated nations, and whatever trade bought to them; not only practical things, but cultural and religious things as well. Just subjugating people doesn't do much unless you use whatever they have and actually somehow include them in your empire instead - you just can't hold an empire of that size together by simply trying to genocide all the different people.

Even slavery back then wasn't necessarily a forever thing, it was more of a circumstance. People regularly freed their well-served slaves, and those freed slaves could attain citizenship and all that. This doesn't make slavery good mind you, it's just that it was unlike the slavery in USA which deemed you and your future children all slaves forever, which is the type of slavery people these days think of when talking about the subject.

Now notice how much all this goes against what nazis and magas seem to want; adapting other cultures and their inventions, allowing citizenship to people from different places, freeing slaves and including them too into your nation... These racist, white-supremacist idiots know jackshit about history and understand nothing about why Rome was able to stay in power for so long.