romans

As an aside - decimation refers to a punitive act in which the Romans would kill every tenth man.

Although, their economy should have/would have collapsed like the Romans when the pickins became slim.

Interestingly, there's a passage in the book of Romans about this sort of thing.

I think the Romans could sell their family members into slavery to pay off debts, etc.

The Romans were a bunch of uncivilized Barbarians compared to the Greek.

Weren't those who invented the humanities (the romans) (ur)fascists too?

Had the Kepler 452-b-ians been observing Earthians but a few hundred years prior, they'd have seen the Romans doing much the same to expand their own empire.

The Romans were pretty good at making a wilderness and calling it peace, but they were not more warlike than the Greeks, just more successful at war.

Apparently some Romans idealized eating once per day.

The Romans were obviously great engineers, etc.

I was also under the impression that the only difference between the Greeks and Romans when it came to warmongering was that the Romans fought fewer internal wars (an advantage of not being composed of local fiefdoms and direct democracies, perhaps?) and had greater superiority over the surrounding nations...

This is pointless: If you let me define the terms, I can 'prove' that the Ancient Romans invented radio, computers, and whatever else, and nothing of note has been created since 500 CE.

The parent comment already mentions Romans, so you can't count the various Roman tribes collectively known as Germania under "Germany".

Bottom line: they say "in rome act like romans" - well when you join a community you should follow the community rules.

"just not believe" One popular meme you'll see is the pre-christian greco-romans didn't saw religion and belief as somewhat orthogonal.

I don't have a source right now but I think people have written about it since the ancient Romans!

For the Romans, an often cited reason for the comparatively low rate of advance in manufacturing (and farming) techniques was the abundance of slave labor.

There's plenty of Roman history (for example) that maps beautifully onto modern America, even though we are very different from the Romans.