Romans were the original colonizers.

[Grand Conde]

What are you talking about? In the UK, we learn about this stuff in primary school (age 4-11).

I was speaking to an American last week about their history books. Dude said they didn't learn about Rosa Parks and barely learned anything about WW1 or Vietnam. Said they learned nothing about the motivations behind these events.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Damn.



Boudica the Warrior Queen - Aeon - Pocket

This shyt sounds just like the European colonization of Africa.

They did a good job keeping this history out of the mainstream.

This is actually common knowledge, pick up a book some time.

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

Kinda surprised to see Aeon Coli-approved

 

[Kilgore Trout]

You were taught that white folks saw other white folks as intellectually inferior and barbaric?

I had to find that out on my own... young boy was out here thinking they were all united and shyt in school. The picture they paint for us is really far from reality

the word barbarian came from the Greeks. They thought all the Germanic languages sounded like “bar bar bar”

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Any good books you reccomend on ancient rome?

The storm before the storm by mike Duncan or Dan Carlin’s 5 episode podcast special on the fall of the Roman Empire.

 

[Matriarchy Refugee]

US kids learned that Romans went around conquering people. They don't go into details on how and why they went about the conquering.

Speak for yourself, bruh

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Speak for yourself, bruh

They told you this, this detailed, in US primary school, breh?

In spreading their empire, the Romans also aimed to transform those perceived as barbarians into complacent subjects. Tacitus outlines this process in his biography of his father-in-law, Agricola, who served as governor of Britain from 77-84 CE. Agricola urged the Britons to build temples, public spaces and homes, thereby making a people formerly ‘scattered and barbarous and therefore inclined to war’ accustomed ‘to rest and repose through the charms of luxury’. The Britons also learned to desire the eloquence of Latin, to wear the toga, and to receive Roman citizenship, but were drawn to the vices of the bath and fine dining. Tacitus concludes that this acculturation was part of their servitude.

Or even in secondary?

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Greeks and Phoenicians were doing it even before the Romans were.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Kinda surprised to see Aeon Coli-approved

SIDENOTE: Aeon is a quality site. It's how I found this gem. Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant | Aeon Essays

 

[Matriarchy Refugee]

They told you this, this detailed, in US primary school, breh?


Or even in secondary?

Yes I was taught that the Romans colonized the British isles and the techniques they used.

That's typically how empires work, and the Romans were not the first to do it

 

[chuckifubuck]

Greeks and Phoenicians were doing it even before the Romans were.

And the akaemenid persians and the assyrians and prolly a whole bunch of peoples going back to the stone age

I dont think there was a single people in human history up to modern times that werent going out there conquering everything they could once they got big enough. The Assyrians were famous for just how nasty they were when they conquered people or squashed rebellions

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

The Bible is real

 

[Dave24]

The Bible is real

What does that have to do with the roman empire?

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

What does that have to do with the roman empire?

The book spoke about Rome

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

The Bible is real.