The Gladiator

[Dreamer128]

http://www.roman-empire.net/ is a great site when you're looking for info on the Roman Empire.

[johnny]

Originally posted by Dreamer128: http://www.roman-empire.net/ is a great site when you're looking for info on the Roman Empire.

I bookmarked that site a long time ago, it's an interresting read. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Dreamer128]

Yeah, it is. [img]smile.gif[/img] They have loads of information about each of the emperors. Few of them seem to have died from natural causes.

[Beaumanoir]

Originally posted by Link: It's a bit more than just "the nomad tribes did it".

I don't know why but that really made me laugh. I just had a mental image of Caesar coming home one day to find rome on fire, and his head general just says "Erm... the Nomads Did it..."

[Lucern]

Any empire can fall. Give it enough time. From Britain to Assyria, they all fall down [img]smile.gif[/img]

And Hiero, of course they have a tremendous legacy, and it seems that their fall left Europe in the lurch for several hundred years (such was their influence). English is a Germanic language, not a Romance one, though we get some words from it and other Romance languages.

Oh, and I'm eating a potato, New World vegetable lol

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by Lucern: English is a Germanic language, not a Romance one, though we get some words from it and other Romance languages.

English certainly has deep Germanic roots, but it is also heavily influenced by the both the vocabulary and syntax of Latin. We wouldn't speak 'English' as we know it if not for Roman expansion.

[Lucern]

Agreed...too bad it's not more like it was circa 1500 [img]smile.gif[/img]

Strewth!