ITT: we make our pitch for Consul of the Roman Senate

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>>1638642
We're going to have YUGE legions, folks! Let me tell you, we've got the best legions, powerful legions. And they're going to make Rome great again.

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>>1638649
> we´ll build a wall and the picts will pay for it

>>1638672

Im gonna bump this thread because i have to know

Why the fuck did Rome build a wall all the way over there but didn't do the same for the more difficult borders? Or at least to close off Italy?

>>1638642
>that pic
But Jesus was a pretty child dude. It's his father the one who's a choleric asshole.

>>1639882
IIRC the point of Hadrian's wall was not to keep the Picts out (as evidenced by how comically low it is) but to remind the Romans that there wasn't much of a point in expanding beyond it.

>>1640397

Nah, it was bigger back in the day, but huge portions of it had collapsed long after the Romans packed up and left.

Still though, it wasn't a massive military fortification, it was primarly there as a kind of border control, mostly to prevent movement of livestock over easily.

>>1639882
>but didn't do the same for the more difficult borders?

Weren't the rest of Rome's "border defences" geographical (i.e. the Rhine, Africa's deserts, mountains in Dacia, etc)?

>>1639882
there´s Trajan wall in Romania and Moldova