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Sir, your facts appear to be gravely mistaken. Q. Labienus ‘Parthicus imperator’ was himself of Optimate sympathies and had served as a tribune in the staff of the Liberatores C. Cassius Longinus and M. Iunius Brutus, before his dispatch prior to the battle of Philippi as the Liberator...

Regardless, you claimed that Chinese mining and metallurgy was far superior to the Roman, and that "comparing the two at this time is unfair to Rome". This claim is entirely specious and fallacious, even moreso when considering the Roman Empire vis-a-vis the Qin dynasty, as the evidence given...

Actually, most scholarly research agrees that the Roman output of industrial metallurgical production was far, far, greater in almost all fields then that of Han China. In fact, the Roman mining output in Spain alone produced at least as much silver as the entire Han Empire, and similarly for...

Cæsar’s name is properly and rightly rendered in the Classical Latin of his day as GAIVS IVLIVS CÆSAR (i.e. the late form j is not used, both because of its late appearance in the 16th century and because it is not pronounced differently from the i and y in Latin, while the differentiation...

According to the British economist and economic historian Angus Maddison in The World Economy: A Millenial Perspective and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, in regards to material prosperity, Europe reached a nadir around the year 1000 A.D., (when European GDP per capita was actually...

As I have pointed out previously, and will do so again, the notion of Teutoberger Wald as the dramatic battle that halted the progress of Roman imperialism into Germania and ultimately resulted in the collapse of the Roman imperial structure in the west is largely erroneous -- the product of the...

Why is it that people always tend forget that all of the Balkan states will, in all probability, have become members of the European Union by 2017. Croatia is scheduled to join in 2011/2012, Macedonia by 2016, and Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina by 2017, long before Norway...

Excellent! It's great to see this great timeline is back up and running, and with the same attention to accuracy, detail and realism. That being said, might it not be interesting to devote some attentions to examine the neighbors of the Argead Empire? A survey of Rome's activities in the...

Pro Sulla That Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix was traditionalist conservative Optimate, that his proscriptions were devastating to the plutocracy of the order equester and the men of Marian party, and that his ‘march on Rome’ and subsequent occupation of urbs Roma were of dubious constitutional...

Imperator Gaius Julius Cæsar Octavianus Augustus: surely the greatest Roman of any age, he brought about the end of the era of civil wars, and his inauguration of the imperial Principate, the Augustan peace and the pax Romana established the structure of the Roman state for the next three...

Exactly, although the process would take centuries, and would quite possibly not unify to the extent that Hinduism ended up doing. It is still a major if, but it's a great possibility. Secondly, I am working on (and planning to someday post here), a time-line in which the Emperor Caracalla is...

It is gravely mistaken to identify the distinction between the patricians and plebeians as the defining social divide between the élite clique of the aristocracy on the one hand and the masses of the poor on the other. In reality, the distinction was only particularly relevant during the first...

As I have stated previously, and will do so again, what exactly mandates the emergence of Christianity or any other particular pagan sect as the official imperial state religion in the early fourth century? What dictates that a statistically insignificant monotheistic eastern cult -- be it...

Indeed. This is a point that is quite often overlooked: Spartacus’ so-called “army” was more of a massive, disorganized, rioting mob then a proper military formation. There is also that fact that there was a substantial element of Italian, and more specifically, Samnite, rebels and insurgents in...

It is important to distinguish between a “Roman” meaning an inhabitant of urbs Roma herself, a “Roman” as in the case of a Roman citizen or cives Romani, and a “Roman” as an inhabitant of the imperio populi Romani -- the empire of the Roman people -- but not a citizen of Rome itself. In claiming...