Of cource it did, why wouldn't it? Both the Romans and the Greeks thought they were the "superior people" so not being them ment you were less than them in every way.
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Of cource it did, why wouldn't it? Both the Romans and the Greeks thought they were the "superior people" so not being them ment you were less than them in every way.
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Not just the Romans and Greeks though. What well-developed ancient culture did not think themselves much "better" than their neighbors or outsiders? Or at least all not like them as worse.
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The Persians? (Cyrus)Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
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The Persians definatly thought they were better than just about everyone else (except maybe the Medes, who they were culturally similiar too). Of course they did conquer pretty much the known world in a couple of generations, that seems to give most peoples a big head.
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But at the same time they didn't go around imposing their own culture on the citizens of their empire. In fact a lot of the persian culture was influenced by the cultures who had been made subject to the empire. Their conquests seem to be mostly pragmatic in nature rather than ideological - except for their hatred of the hellenes of course, those wars were a big mistake.
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I don't think they even had an "Ideological" hatred of the Greeks, not until the Greeks conquered them, anyway. The Greeks seem to go the same way, they were fine with the near East until it tried to go West.
Although, as I understand it, the Sassanids were more totalitarian.
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Yeh, I probably should have mentioned - its all about the achaemenids, baby!
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"The Greeks, a people brave in words rather than deeds."
And I'll be damned if the sentiment wasn't returned in some form.
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Who was it that said/wrote that? Just curious...
RTW, 167 BC: Rome expels Greek philosophers after the Lex Fannia law is passed. This bans the effete and nasty Greek practice of 'philosophy' in favour of more manly, properly Roman pursuits that don't involve quite so much thinking.
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Don't remember, some Roman. Or at least the name under that loading-screen citation seemed pretty Latin to me anyway.
"Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. --- Proof of the existence of the FSM, if needed, can be found in the recent uptick of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Apparently His Pastaness is to be worshipped in full pirate regalia. The decline in worldwide pirate population over the past 200 years directly corresponds with the increase in global temperature. Here is a graph to illustrate the point."
-Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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I`ll bet my mother-in-law that was a roman.
EDIT: arg, you beat me
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Hey! I didn't know we could do that.
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Not that many people would accept that kind of bet...
errrrrr... well, it depends...
...like, ahm, the kind of mother in law....
...and...
...like... its daughther...
It`s pretty subjective, but rest assured that with mine you`re like 20:1...
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...so whether or not you're planning on winning or losing the bet?
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