BF2S Forums Do you really appreciate what the Romans did for us?

SenorToenails wrote:

ATG wrote:

Greek, tbh.

The Greeks did a lot and that cannot be denied, but the Romans did more.  But, there is a reason that the 'classicists' of history study the Greek and Roman times.

If I had to make a comparison, I would be inclined to say that the Greeks were scientists and the Romans were engineers.

ATG wrote:

The aqueducts first appeared between 690- 1000 B.C. commissioned by King Sennacherib of Assyria to supply Nineveh, actually.

Many of the Roman aqueducts are still around to look at today.  How many of these others can say they stood the test of time?

Well the romans did their share of science aswell, though their culture was heavily copied from the greeks imo. They just improved it alot.

Romans were militaristic geniuses and indeed, very good engineers. Why they did more is also because they spread and gained knowledge through their military activity.

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No. The Romans got raped by fucking Jews/Christians and converted. Same goes for Europeans (and other people that beleive in their non-native Middle Eastern religions), not so strong now are we. I know that's a Nazi view but I agree with them on that, you should go back to your own religions instead of believing the nonsense from the Semitic peoples in the Middle East... No offence to any Christians/Muslims/Jews around here but, you fail.

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Mek-Stizzle wrote:

No. The Romans got raped by fucking Jews/Christians and converted. Same goes for Europeans (and other people that beleive in their non-native Middle Eastern religions), not so strong now are we. I know that's a Nazi view but I agree with them on that, you should go back to your own religions instead of believing the nonsense from the Semitic peoples in the Middle East... No offence to any Christians/Muslims/Jews around here but, you fail.

It split the empire in two, literally.

Was it the Romans who architechural designed the arch. Without, the arch, my beloved McDonalds would not have the golden arches.

Superior Mind wrote:

loubot wrote:

Was it the Romans who architechural designed the arch. Without, the arch, my beloved McDonalds would not have the golden arches.

Isn't the M in McDonalds just a yellow M? The arch structure has more than likely been around for thousands of years before the Romans. The Romans just used it extensively and well.

What a coincidence - just got back from McD's I guess the original McDonald restaurants design were a pair of arches, one on each end of the building. wiki

HAIL CAESAR!!!

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Russel ponders over this "keystone" and wonders whether he can become a woman using it.

Last edited by naightknifar (2008-04-18 03:05:46)

this will be long and I don't care ... it's funny as hell and goddamn relevant.

FRANCIS: We're gettin' in through the underground heating system here, up through into the main audience chamber here, and Pilate's wife's bedroom is here. Having grabbed his wife, we inform Pilate that she is in our custody and forthwith issue our demands. Any questions?

COMMANDO XERXES: What exactly are the demands?

REG: We're giving Pilate two days to dismantle the entire apparatus of the Roman Imperialist State, and if he doesn't agree immediately, we execute her.

MATTHIAS: Cut her head off?

FRANCIS: Cut all her bits off. Send 'em back on the hour every hour. Show them we're not to be trifled with.

REG: Also, we're demanding a ten foot mahogany statue of the Emperor Julius Caesar with his dock hangin' out.

P.F.J.: laughing

LORETTA: What? They'll never agree to that, Reg.

REG: That's just a bar-- a bargaining counter. And of course, we point out that they bear full responsibility when we chop her up, and that we shall not submit to blackmail!

COMMANDOS: No blackmail!

REG: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.

LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG: Yeah.

LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.

REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!

XERXES: The aqueduct?

REG: What?

XERXES: The aqueduct.

REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.

COMMANDO #3: And the sanitation.

LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?

REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.

MATTHIAS: And the roads.

REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--

COMMANDO: Irrigation.

XERXES: Medicine.

COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh...

COMMANDO #2: Education.

COMMANDOS: Ohh...

REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.

COMMANDO #1: And the wine.

COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...

FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.

COMMANDO: Public baths.

LORETTA: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.

FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.

COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.

REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

XERXES: Brought peace.

REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!

SenorToenails wrote:

PuckMercury wrote:

Long Post

Monty Python?

but WHICH ONE I ask you ... WHICH ONE?!

So close ... so close ... Wait 'til Bigus Dickus hears of this ... and his wife, Incontinentia Buttocks.

Judge says, "You cheated". 

+1 for eff- outta karma?  Sonofa ... well anyway, at least you not only picked up on the Python but had the wherewithall to properly execute your own freaking search.  Well met, sir ... well met.

i figured this would be a good place to post this little bit of useless information:

today, in 753 BC, Romulus and Remus founded Rome........or so they say.....i guess you would have to buy into the whole "suckling she wolf" deal, but there you go.