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>>2749882
Depopulation through plagues and being cut off from food supplying provinces.

The crisis of the third century showed how poorly placed Rome was from a strategic standpoint, and the constant raids meant the Emperors had to be near the borders a lot more

>>2749891
I believe alot of that was after it had already lost a degree of importance.
>>2749892
This really nails it on the head. The Emporers became more militeristic and they had to stay nearer to the Armies. Rome was to far from the frontiers to serve as a good base of operations. It was not very defensible and having to treck all the way up the Italy and then across the alps was a difficult task.
Making Milan the effective capital was an offensive move by the Emporers. It was better suited for operations and it was good for taking the war to the frontier tribes. Ravena was the perfect defensive capital. You could survive wave upon was of invaders in your swamp city.

>>2749828
There was never really a strong Roman presence in Britain nor was there a united British nation at the time. It was also constantly under revolt and there's circumstantial evidence the Romans may have lost an entire legion there Teutoburg style.

There were a decent amount of Latinate words in early English, but the fighting between the Celts and the Germans meant that other languages won out

>>2749828
Britain did speak Latin to some degree during the Roman time. But this area was really a poor backwater and the Roman state was never as strong here as in other places. There is a reason that the western empire abondened Britain first. Also, the British wound up being assimilated instead of assimilating their conquerors like what happened to the other barbarian states did.

>>2749814
>britain is to blame for world war two

>>2749814
>Blaming Britain for WWII

>>2749814
The war wasn't about freeing Poland at any and all costs, it was about drawing a line that a revanchist Germany wouldn't cross. Otherwise they would've never permitted the annexation of Czechoslovakia to begin with.

Anglo of course. They trump Germans by a large margin. That's not saying much tho.

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>>2749753
Anglos are Germanics and they have been destroying a better Europe for the last 500 years. Napoleon was /ourguy/.

>>2749750
Germany has a period of autistic screeching followed by flailing its arms at people nearby by till someone punches it into obedience

>>2749667
On all levels except physical I am a steppes horseman
*raids*

Reminder that the toga is the maximum amount of freedom and comfort a man can wear while still being classy as possible while pants are G*rmanic savage tier.

>dominus
>while wearing a purple robe

> Why were the jews always scapegoated
Because they refuse to integrate and that made them into an easy scapegoat.

stormfags are jealous of jewish people.

>>2749659
Why don't they just stop having kids? Problem solved. I can't and never would.

>I've heard many people say that battleships were useless

Dumb people, maybe. Battleships were extremely effective, it's just that their role was more limited than in previous wars.

>but WHY were they useless?

The improvement in plane technology made them increasingly vulnerable to air attack. There are only so many AA guns you can stick on a ship, and given how many planes you can build for the cost of one battleship it's just not cost effective.

>>2749507

They weren't useless. They just got overshadowed by aircraft and submarines. In WW1, fleets were centered around battleships. In WW2, fleets were centered around aircraft carriers, and battleships got relegated to escort roles. On top of that, there weren't many battleship vs. battleship fights during WW2 or WW1. Despite the fact that battleship vs. battleship was at the heart of naval doctrine for the time, nations were rarely willing to risk their prized battleship armadas unless absolutely necessary.

>>2749507
They weren't completely useless, but they weren't that great either.

You had two main forms of naval combat in WW2, commerce raiding, often by submarines or smaller ships, in which BB were too big, slow, expensive, and valuable to waste on long term raids like that, and major, major fleet confrontation, where naval air turned out to be the primary striking arm, not the big guns of battleships.

That being said, it was a VERY rare occurrence, especially in the Pacific, for carriers to stray too far from the protective guns of their BB escorts.

>>2749428
>Be severely constipated.
>Spend a lot of time on the toilet because constipated.
>Have lots of random thoughts while on the pot.
>Whatever is going through your head when you squeeze a sizeable mass of shit out becomes doctrine.
>Throw out any books of the bible that disagree with your constipation induced belief.

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>>2749434
Really? is that how it went down?

>>2749428
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augsburg_Confession#The_28_articles

Conservative churches like the LCMS still subscribe to the Augsburg confession in its entirety, but I am not sure what liberal churches do.

All I see is butthurt people who got outsmarted.

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>>2749418
>le Jews have the high IQ meme

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>>2749373

>>2749373
That Roman consul that got stabbed 23 times

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>>2749344

No way! It was his unusual genitalia!

>>2749344
no

>>2749389
Such an unusual thing! Wow!

Seen worse reasons to make a country

Then why was bangladesh named east pakistan?

>>2749480
They are traitor bich unworthy of punjab cock

>>2749280
No, it was constipation.

>>2749280
Have you ever considered that the Catholic Church at the time really was corrupt and that people had a big problem with the doctrine on indulgences?

>>2749288
Kraut peasants spending their hard earned shekels on building St.Peters basilica instead of on more beer is about the best way they could have spent them.

Nero

>>2749249
DAE Bernie XD

>>2749230
Probably Diocletian.

Hadrian

>>2749211
Economically, or socially?

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Feminists aren't even neo-liberals.

>>2749211
Antifa