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Quote by: Magnus  This is pretty backwards, rome conquered wherever it went and maintained it through continous violence. It was one continous war. who do you think the barbarians were that eventually beat back rome were? they were the people the romans were eyeing to attack and subjugate next. and they got help from forces within rome. |
No crap its backwards, superior force requires war or at least the threat of it to maintain peace. But the point is that whereas before the mediteranean was in constant war on a massive scale, after Roman dominance was acheived there was little real warfare excepting a few rebellions among the more unaccepting peoples (see,Palestine) which were easily crushed and a few crucifixions, which were insignificant spats compared to Alexander, the Selucids, the Punic Wars, and Rome's own civil wars. Rome never really intended to subjugate Germany, they would have moved into the middle east, most likely, for the trade routes. The Barbarians attacks were, by and large, instigated by migrations from asia like the Huns who displaced them.