(January 5, 2020 at 1:53 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:(January 5, 2020 at 12:51 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: I don't think you know much about history. The Roman Republic was an oligarchy and the Empire was a dysfunctional dynasty. Neither had anything approaching fair elections. Try Athens instead. They're a few streets over and a couple of centuries ahead of the Romans in terms of governance. The Roman "multicultural world" included such high-minded advances as the destruction of the Second Temple period in Israel and the Sack of Carthage, just to name a few of the more prominent ones. They are the culture that coined the term decimation. Their "respect for law" amounted to imposing it at sword point and then ignoring it when it became inconvenient.
Go read a history book so you can make some arguments that don't sound utterly ignorant.
Rome had a senate. I'm not discussing other cultures; but discussing the Roman culture that had a senate and carried out "voting".
Rome's Senate was made of rich Senators elected by rich Senators. It was never a democracy.
And you still haven't told us when the Romans fulfilled this prophecy. Their empire is dust.
