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[–] alphazebra 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

People forgot their history and are now doomed to repeat it. Romans forgot how hard they fought to become a power and the people NEVER thought Vandals and Visigoths could beat them...well? People don’t take the crusade centuries seriously and while that was a colossal bust and waste of life, it did prove to beat back the Saracen invader to allow for the renaissance to later kick in. But that’s complacency for you. Always comes at the end of a civilization; time after time after time...