[–] 25226522? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
These lands were now being worked by slaves, the captives, of whom the Romans had taken great numbers in their wars. Such captives of war were usually sold into slavery. Pirates now in control of the eastern Mediterranean also brought in multitudes of captives, whom they sold as slaves to wealthy buyers. As a result great hosts of such slaves were working the lands of Italy, and a single large landholder might possess thousands of them. The farmer is unable to compete with slave labor (Common problem used throughout history pushed by bankers and slavers); he falls into debt, loses his scanty lands, and goes up to the city. On the way thither he finds all Italy stripped of its hardy farmers by the wars, and their lands in the possession of (((Roman capitalists))), who have equipped them with foreign slaves. He finds the city filled with a great multitude of former citizens, now penniless like himself, who have lost their citizenship with their property. All Italy is thus seething with discontent. What matters it to the landless peasant who has fought the battles of Rome and won her dominion over the whole civilized world---what matters it to him that the city is now being adorned with splendid public buildings, such as have never been seen in the West before, outside of the Greek cities? He sees the gardens and villas of the rich filled with sculpture from the cities of Hellas and Asia; he sees a network of new military roads spreading in all directions from the city; he finds the houses of the (((Roman nobles))) in the city filled with foreign slaves; he hears his old commanders speaking Greek and sees them reading Greek books; he knows that they send their sons to Athens to receive a Greek education. He knows, moreover, that while these (((Roman lords))) are drinking thus deeply at the fountains of Greek life, they are likewise appropriating the wealth of all this great world, where Greek culture is everywhere. This wealth and the leadership of the vast dominions that contribute it, have made the Roman Senate powerful beyond the uttermost dreams of the fathers of old, and in this new power and wealth the Roman multitude have no share. What is worse they have lost their own property at home. To be sure many of them have no higher desire than the opportunity of plundering the provinces themselves, but the landless condition of Rome’s citizen-soldiers is destroying the very foundation of Roman power(This is one common way to seize power from a group) . Two men of the noble class, Tiberius Gracchus and his brother Gaius, patriots with the welfare of the State in view, now (133—122 B.c.) endeavored to better the situation by laws which would redistribute the lands among the citizens and weaken the power of the selfish aristocrats in the Senate. Both men lost their lives in the struggle. (((The proud and powerful Senate was no longer willing to make concessions to the people as of old))). A revolution began, with intermittent civil war which lasted for a century (ending 31 B.C.) (p. 273). As it went on, and the legions were turned against each other, some of the greatest battles in the history of the ancient world were fought between Roman armies. At the same time multitudes of slaves seized arms and terrorized southern Italy and Sicily for years. As we watch the further course of this century of civil war, we see that the statesman in the Senate more than once found himself confronted by the general from the 5eld backed by Roman legions. Such a commander with a loyal army behind him could force Rome to elect him dictator. He might not abolish the institutions and the outward forms of the republic, but he controlled the State like an absolute monarch. He crushed his enemies, he appropriated their property, and the streets of the city were stained with the blood of her own citizens. Military power was undermining Roman institutions. Such were the methods of Marius and Sulla--- Marius on behalf of the people and redistribution of lands; Sulla in defense of the Senate and the wealthy of Rome (8 1—79 n.c.). Sulla and the Senate triumphed, though Rome was compelled to grant citizenship to the rebellious Italian cities. At Sulla’s death the struggle broke out anew. More than one man plotted for the complete overthrow of the Republic, and the gifted orator and literary man Cicero, elected consul in 63 B.C., saved the State
(((Almost sounds like what is going on around the world today?)))
[–] 25226538? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This unexpected march through southern France, over the Alps and into Italy, at once threw Rome on the defensive. The army, which (((they))) had hurriedly gotten together to meet Hannibal(The Scapegoat) beyond the Alps, had been cleverly evaded by that general, and the Roman force went on into Spain. Then this young commander of twenty-eight, showing himself a master of military science (like Napoleon, who at about the same age won his first Italian victories in this very region), at once advanced with his Spanish veterans and many Gauls and defeated one Roman army after another. Pushing far southward into the old territory of the Greek early victories .cities of Italy, Hannibal succeeded in detaching many of the southern cities from their alliance with Rome, and finally all Sicily went over to his cause. But the nucleus of the states in central Italy, which Rome had gathered about her and linked to herself by bonds of citizenship, could not be detached. They stood fast. Meantime (((Carthage))) was unable to send reinforcements to its army in Italy, for the Romans commanded the sea with their fleet. After the first defeats the Senate was more careful in picking its commanders, and these new men were more successful. Among them it was now especially Fabius, who made himself famous by a policy of defensive waiting and avoiding battle with the clever Hannibal, foreseeing that the Carthaginian forces, if not reinforced from home, must slowly melt away. Hannibal sent to Macedonia urging alliance and seeking aid, and there was a futile effort to respond. Had the descendants of the Macedonian rulers who divided Alexander’s empire in the East now discerned the character of this battle of giants which was going on in Italy, they might have changed the history of the world. For this struggle of the Romans with Hannibal was the decisive turning point in the history of the ancient world. Roman victory in this contest meant the supremacy of Rome not only in the western Mediterranean but in the whole Mediterranean world. Meantime the Roman forces besieged and slowly recovered the unfaithful cities one by one, until Sicily was in their hands again. Hannibal’s brother endeavors to push in with reinforcements from Spain, where he has been obliged to leave the Romans in possession. But he is intercepted, defeated, and slain.(Finally, when Hannibal has been thirteen years in Italy,
That’s right (((the Senate))) organizes an expedition against (((Carthage))). working both sides.
(((the Senate))) organizes an expedition against (((Carthage))) itself. Not even the recall of Hannibal to (((Carthage))) can now stay the victorious Romans, and in 202 b.c. the (((merchant princes of Carthage))) are “compelled” to accept an ignominious peace. Their power is forever broken, and they are never again a source of anxiety to the Roman Senate(LOL)(Hand Rubbing Intensifies). Rome thus becomes mistress of the western Mediterranean, and her power so far exceeds that of all other states that the rivalry between nations, which makes up so large a part of the career of the ancient world, is soon to cease, because there is no one who dares to challenge the power of Rome. For over fifty years more the merchants of (((Carthage))) were permitted to traffic in the western Mediterranean, and then the iron hand of Rome was laid upon the doomed city for the last time. After everyone of importance escaped. It was completely destroyed, and the only formidable rival of Rome in the West disappeared (146 B.c.).(According to the Jews)2
The third century a.d., which gave to Rome the naval and military supremacy in the Mediterranean, nevertheless saw Rome herself conquered by Greek civilization. Greek slaves and captives of war from the Greek cities in Italy and Sicily, now ruled by Rome, begin to be common in Roman households.
1 The Egyptian navy of the Ptolomies , after a century of supremacy in the Mediterranean, was at this tithe on the decline. The armies of the Hellenistic kings also were declining. They were no match for those of Rome. 2 As the result of a three years’ war, commonly called the (Jew Wars) “Third Punic War.” the Semitic left wing was thus annihilated by the western end of the IndoEuropean line, and Europe again triumphed over Asia.
[–] 2Smedleys_butler [S] ago
Thanks for the rich info/ kinda-parallel, but that doesn't get to the point of modern American media though.
I'll bite the side venture though. Have a good old book, the jews in the Roman world, by Michael green (I believe, not handy atm), where you see a pretty tumultuous history of jews getting alternate periods of privilege and persecution by Roman's, but I don't have sources of jews controlling their government.
Your phoenician descended carthaginians (long allies of ancient israel), certainly effected rome even after being laid to waste, salted earth and all, but wouldn't call them jews, but certainly had an influence be it negative or positive on multiple parties (even had phoenician descended emperors like elagabalus/severus dynasty)
[–] capnflummox 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
You capitalized "jewish".
Found the kike...
[–] 2Smedleys_butler [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Oh my! Auto cap you homosexual negro Hebrew. I capitalized citizen kane though cause I dig orson Welles.
Please bring something constructive to the table instead of sniveling.
[–] Orthalyx 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Can't even type faggot nigger jew.
[–] capnflummox 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Only kikes use 'autocorrect'. It's a kike invention...
Fucking kike.