RE: Lighter Skin = Better?
July 12, 2013 at 5:54 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2013 at 6:10 pm by Anomalocaris.)
English is lingua franca much more because of the United States than because of Britain.
Rome was never unchallenged, but for 450 years her core was independently secure from being threatened by any remaining challenger. If you think Alexander's conquest made later Roman conquest easier rather than harder, think again. Without Alexander, Rome would have been confronted by a collection of small city states and a declining Persian Empire that would have decayed for another 200 years.
Hardly is "stopped in its tracks by a thin little man" a credit to an empire, and is a downright insult to those whom it mangled on its way to imperial hegemony. Fortunately for British reputation she wasn't stopped by Gandhi. The real reason for British departure from India was her declining strength compared to other powers has made India more a liability to security and prosperity of Britian herself than an asset. If Britain wasn't tacitly looking for a way out of India anyway, Gandhi would have disappeared down the dungeons of some British satraps in India.
Rome's treatment of Vercingetorix was rather kinder than par for the course for the era. Persians, and the potentates of the Hellenistic kingdoms, would have devised some ingeniously grusome way to showcase how one could suffer for opposing them. Romans simply garroted him in a standardized way without particular malice or maltreatment.
Rome was never unchallenged, but for 450 years her core was independently secure from being threatened by any remaining challenger. If you think Alexander's conquest made later Roman conquest easier rather than harder, think again. Without Alexander, Rome would have been confronted by a collection of small city states and a declining Persian Empire that would have decayed for another 200 years.
Hardly is "stopped in its tracks by a thin little man" a credit to an empire, and is a downright insult to those whom it mangled on its way to imperial hegemony. Fortunately for British reputation she wasn't stopped by Gandhi. The real reason for British departure from India was her declining strength compared to other powers has made India more a liability to security and prosperity of Britian herself than an asset. If Britain wasn't tacitly looking for a way out of India anyway, Gandhi would have disappeared down the dungeons of some British satraps in India.
Rome's treatment of Vercingetorix was rather kinder than par for the course for the era. Persians, and the potentates of the Hellenistic kingdoms, would have devised some ingeniously grusome way to showcase how one could suffer for opposing them. Romans simply garroted him in a standardized way without particular malice or maltreatment.