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Sean wrote this stupid crap:
I guess it takes someone already on Jackman's level to fully understand him. I thank you, Ruvyen, for hurling yourself in front of that bullet.

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You're we-- Hey, waitaminute...

what the heck is your problem??!!

This thread needs more Bloodsage and Ja'Deth, probably. It also needs naked women, and machisimo.

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Fazum'Zen Fastfist painfully thought these words up:
but what's even stupider is a bunch of fat nerds in a plain discussion discounting it because of the person who put it forth.

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No, not me at least. Because of how he brought it into play; retardedly and entirely without effort.

In this vein, how were the Roman armies ranked and organized? That is, what was the rank from general to commander to centurian, etc? Beyond that, how were they all organized?

From what I understand of the organization, it went something like (from greatest to least):

Legion -> A bunch of Cohorts -> ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_military_structure

If Wikipedia is to be trusted, as it usually is, it goes legion, cohort, maniple, centuria, contubernium. I don't know if there would be many ranks, but there are probably just commanding titles for each of these organizations.

Fazum'Zen Fastfist fucked around with this message on 11-07-2005 at 12:59 AM.

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Fazum'Zen Fastfist got a whole lot of nerve:
(Or are you just being silly, you funny lad!?!)

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Tarquinn stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Gawd, Ruvyen. GAWD!

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Listen, you hun, nobody's talking to your Germanic tribes!

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Mr. Parcelan thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Listen, you hun, nobody's talking to your Germanic tribes!

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But you should. My tribe has a rich history and the spirits of our ancients talk to us. Just yesterday morning the ghost of Friedrich the Great appeared in my toilet and told me to drink less.

Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 11-07-2005 at 02:23 AM.

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Tarquinn had this to say about Robocop:
But you should. My tribe has a rich history and the spirits of our ancients talk to us. Just yesterday morning the ghost of Friedrich the Great appeared in my toilet and told me to drink less.

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You saucy Europeans.

Tell me, are you close to rioting in Germany, like France? I'd think not because you're all always so sleepy and drunk.

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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Fazum'Zen Fastfist said:
It's also possible that Rome itself lost interest in its assets. Like Machiavelli said in The Prince, it's kind of hard to hold on to a territory when you don't occupy it socially. Most of the Romans were, obviously, located around Rome. While they had the military might to forcefully hold on to their territories, the empire was bound to expire.

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All in all, that's a fair comparison. Rome was very uppity about who it let be actual citizens of the Empire. And if you weren't a citizen, nothing in your life was secure.

Add that to the internal conflict bred of no real enemies being left to fight, and the shift in religion, and you have enough chaos to bring the big sucker down.

It wasn't that there was, to clarify, anything inherently disruptive in Christianity. It was just the shifting point of view of what was acceptable, etc. Christianity was overthrown again by one emperor who brought back Polytheism, but he died abroad in an avalanche. Rome was re-stabilizing under the auspices of Polytheism (which everyone understood how things worked under), but when he died, Christianity re-asserted itself. Historians have often wondered if things would have been different if Rome had had a chance to re-stabilize itself.