Were it not for this man and the battle at Teutoberg Forest, would even be speaking English right now? Would Germanics have been a backwater Scandinavian curiosity (like the Celts and Britannia)?
>>2295238
Well English is a shit language so fuck that guy.
>>2295268
English only became shit because of Romance influence, so actually fuck you
>>2295292
Good point. Danish or Norwegian sound much better than nigger tier English.
>>2295301
If I had a magic wand, my first change would be to purify English.
http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_leaf
it was a minor event in the larger scale of things, the spread of technology to the Germanic would continue, the migrations would still have happened, the climate would have started to dry in the 3rd century onwards, populations would decline while the burden of defending the frontier increased
>>2295238
The Romans came back for their eagles not long after and assraped the Germans.
>>2295345
A butthurt-fueled punitive expedition is a lot different than the actual subjugation of an area. After Teutoberg, the Roman Empire actually shrunk. They withdrew from Germania as an governing entity.
>>2295341
Places like Iberia and Gaul saw themselves as AS Rome, not as subjugated peoples after being so long under Roman rule, eventually abandoning their Celtic languages and ethnic identity entirely. Rome might have done the same to Germania given enough time.
>>2295418
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>>2295301
as a norwegian, nei
>>2295524
What did he mean by this?