I come from Siberia and Ukraine where my ancestors were cossacks. Most of them were generals that you're able to find on the net. I'm proud.
Interesting! I wish there was more easily available information on some of my ancestors (though thinking about it, the fact that I apparently have a number of ancestors who were Polish lancers--though I know almost nothing about them beyond that, unfortunately--means that there's some likelihood that at some point our ancestors fought each other).
Elected actually the senate made him Principate or 'first citizen'
I was about to say that, but I decided to keep it simple. Whilst he was installed as "rinceps senatus" which implied he was merely first in the Senate or something, he had actually taken power more like a monarch.
power plays and political alliances my friend
Yeah, Kyouzou. Didn't mean he was dictator all the time. Unlike Alexander, he didn't spend his 20's and 30's on a conquering rampage.
Unlike Alexander, he didn't spend his 20's and 30's on a conquering rampage.
How unfortunate, Rome could've conquered the entire world, we could've been living in a utopia, or a fractured world that had been destroyed by hundreds of years of war and rebellion.
How unfortunate, Rome could've conquered the entire world, we could've been living in a utopia, or a fractured world that had been destroyed by hundreds of years of war and rebellion.
Depends on who would be running Rome. Which depends on a lot of things. I can safely say that Caesar would have a better chance at conquering Parthia than his successors, as he was a brilliant commander. Conquer Parthia, you'd open up the route to the east. India, China yeah, all that stuff.
Asia is gargantuan. I am aware some people immediately think of East Asians when they hear the word Asian, but the term defines a wide variety of peoples.
I'm still elated over the fact that there was an empire by my name And I found out last year...
Caesar was quite the general, but I mean overall the success of the legions was overwhelming, then destroyed armies twice their size. i.e. Boudica.
Yeah, training and equipment always pays off. Though later on, the Romans really failed to break the Parthians, and later the Sassanid Persians. Excatly why Caesar would of had a better chance to conquer the Parthians, though he was assassinated.
"If we kill Caesar, everyone will hail us as heroes!"
*one year later*
"Oh no!" *stabs self*
They failed to see that Caesar was still wildly popular and that another bloody civil war would eventually follow. Surprise Octavian suddenly emerged. I think if Caesar lived, things would of gone differently.
I think if Caesar lived, Rome would have had a very good chance of conquering the entire world. It's not like their armies weren't good enough. And the spread of science and culture would have prevented the Dark Ages, and I'm hoping the early rise of technology. So follow a chain of events and we could have had a unified world and colonies on Saturn by now.
Really depends. A lot of what we have today arises out of the fall of antiquity, the rise of Christianity and "West vs East". If Rome never fell and went on to conquer the world....
Well, it's probably difficult to figure out.. Though if Caesar did conquer Parthia, I'm guessing he'd go east like Alexander. If the Romans managed to subdue the Germans, well....
