What do you admire the most of the Roman Empire, /his/?

>>2641702
It's size and girth, how it was able to penetrate history to the hilt.

>>2641702
Its multiracialism

Its diversity and plurality of views.

>>2641702
Its adaptiveness.

>>2641702
The stagnation of technology and innovation.

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That it was once a republic.

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Oh and btw, OP here. I don't wanted to make a regular romeaboo thread, just that I started to read the meditations by Marcus Aurelius and I was impressed by the amount of wisdom that the book contains, so I thought on discussing what were /his/ favorite things about the Roman Empire. Having said this just to clarify, keep nicely opinating, gentlemen.

>>2641742
>there were literally only Caucasians in it

???

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>>2641778
>Syrians
>Berbers
>Egyptians
>Libyans
>Armenians
>Jews
>Arabs

>Caucasians

>>2641702
Throughout five centuries of the Roman Republic, roughly 65 dictators were nominated and given temporarily full control over the state of the Republic. The only significant instance in which such a dictator refused to cede his power was Caesar's coup.

>>2641814
Dictatorship during the Republic was something very different from modern dictatorships.

>>2641835
It's still a very unobstructed position of significant power. For no one to exploit that for so long is surprising.

The Dominate era

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Nuthin' *spits on the ground*

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>>2641848

>>2641778
>/pol/ history
kek

>>2641850
wtf

>>2641807
Are you memeing? They're all Caucasians

>>2641850
Fucking Pullo

this
>>2641876

no mexicans.

>>2641886
Pullo = Marc Anthony
Vorenus = Caesar

>>2641852
That's literally the opposite of what /pol/ usually does. They're the ones who split hairs and look for more division.
>white=scandinavian blonds, levantine = sandnigger/shitskins memes
It's rare to find someone who admits Jews or North Africans are Caucasians.

>>2641702
Hearing and accepting the Good News

The fact they committed genocide against North Africans, kek. We need more of that from modern Europeans.

What I admire most about the British Empire, its engineers, bureaucrats, and legal system.

>>2641702
How goddamn big it was. It amazes me that they were able to administrate all of that with so little technology.

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>>2641807
All Caucasians with light skin color besides Egyptians and Arabs (the latter was a very small insignificant minority, because the Nabataean Kingdom was a mix of Arab immigrants and the native pop of the area).

Also, Armenians are literally from the Caucasus, you shithead.

>>2641702
How it managed to integrate its peoples (except Germans) and how flexible it was. Moving the capital to Constantinople is a good example of both. They were almost China-tier in how they could change with the times to survive and get everyone to LARP as them.

>>2642456
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olqPODTcRHI

>>2642456
>with light skin color

Do you mean they had light brown skin on average (with phenotypes being variable and some being pale, as today) or are we going to be dipping into the /pol/ "modern Lebanese are not Phoenician, modern Syrians are not Syrian, etc." bullshit again?

>>2641702
It's admirable last stand against the marauding Jihadist Turks.

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>>2642602
But as you can see, some people like the Druze don't have much of it, and they don't look dark on average.

>>2641702
Autistic obsession with functionality and efficiency.

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>>2641702

Any Roman History buffs know why the Romans never decided to conquer the Emerald Isle?

>>2641702
not a god damn thing

>>2642843
full of cannibals and their experience in Britain was less than exemplary. Britain was utterly impoverished and Hibernia even more so, conquering them was pointless same for the Picts.

>>2642843
Probably by the same reasons they didn't conquer Scotland, too far away and no resources making the conquest worth it

>>2642879
Spotted the nordcuck

>>2642892
>>2642894
What they were really eyeing was Parthia, man they wanted to loot the absolute fuck out of that. They wanted ALL that Persian booty.

>>2642879
t. Goth
t. Byzantine
t. ViKANG

>>2642649
False as hell. Genetic studies show populations are largely the same as they were before.

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>>2642917
>dude, they're full of niggers genes but they're the same lmao

I need to remind you that coon genetics are very dominant, so it does have an effect on their phenotype.

>>2642949
>Theories from some studies propose to corroborate that the Lebanese trace genetic continuity with earlier inhabitants, regardless of their membership to any of Lebanon's different religious communities today. "The genetic marker which identifies descendants of the ancient Levantines is found among members of all of Lebanon's religious communities
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-phoenicians-dna-idUSL0559096520070910

>Wells identified the haplogroup of the Canaanites as haplogroup J2 which originated in northern Mesopotamia.[30] The National Geographic Genographic Project linked haplogroup J2 to the site of Jericho, Tel el-Sultan, ca. 8500 BCE and indicated that in modern populations, haplogroup J2 is found primarily in the Middle East, but also along the coasts of North Africa and Southern Europe, with especially high distribution among present-day Jewish populations (30%), Southern Italians (20%), and lower frequencies in Southern Spain (10%).[31
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeogenetics_of_the_Near_East

The Berber mitochondrial pool is characterized by an overall high frequency of Western Eurasian haplogroups, a somehow lower frequency of sub-Saharan L lineages, and a significant (but differential) presence of North African haplogroups U6 and M1.

>Until recently, some papers suggested that the distribution of the main L haplogroups in North Africa was mainly due to trans-Saharan slave trade.[21] However, in September 2010, a thorough study of Berber mtDNA by Frigi et al. concluded that most of L haplogroups were much older and introduced by an ancient African gene flow around 20,000 years ago.[22]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_North_Africa

How they never conquered my island!

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>>2641702

It’s a combination of admiration and annoyance, that the Romans could have been even greater but ultimately fucked it up.

"Damn the Romans!"
"I don't understand, Lord," Moneo ventured.
"That's true. You don't understand. The Romans broadcast the pharaonic disease like grain farmers scattering the seeds of next season's harvest -Caesars, kaisers, tsars, imperators, caseris... palatos... damned pharaohs!”

Their capacity to last a thousand years and not contribute anything to humanity

>>2643799
>not contribute anything to humanity
Edgy.

I think their longevity

The Roman state lasted in some form from the 8th century BC until the 15th century AD. Nobody else even comes close. Roughly about 2200 years. That's insane to think about.

>>2641876
>all caucasians
>Lists countries not in Europe

>>2641843
>hey my soldier buds, come fight against your own city!
>what do you mean you won't?
>what do you mean you're farmers who own a livelihood separate from me?

It would astound me if any dictator HAD tried to turn against the state before Marius's reforms.

Also you don't even know about based Sulla, spend a few more months on wikipedia before spewing your Rome Total War level knowledge here.

>>2641702
That they weren't afraid to take in 12yo waifus.

Imagine, prime Roman cunny.

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>>2643799
Pic related is the Pantheon, the largest dome constructed by humans until the 20th century. The Romans were able to build such a monumental building using an invention that was totally unique to the Romans: concrete, made using volcanic ash. The Romans added covered pots to the wet concrete so that when it hardened it would leave air bubbles and makes the dome light enough to support its own weight.

But Rome's most impressive contribution to civilization by far was the rule of law. Romans saw the law as an ideal which transcended ethnic boundaries and was far, far loftier than ties of blood.

This is what distinguished the city-state of Rome from any of the Hellenic city-states: Athenian democracy gave power to the people, resulting in a mobocracy which contradicted itself often and made schizophrenic strategic choices. The law wasn't an absolute, it was something that the people could change willy-nilly as their whims dictated. Plus the only way to make new Athenians was for two citizens, both of whose parents were citizens, to have a baby. For Romans, as long as you kept the peace and paid your taxes, immigration was tolerated and there was a pathway to citizenship for them (or at least their children) something no Greek city-state dared offer to a foreigner.

Most other places in the word were still despotisms, ruled by strongmen whose word was law and he could change it as he pleased. A few of them were oligarchies, where a moneyed elite decided policy.

Romans were the first to really establish the law as its own abstract to which all citizens, even the rulers and aristocrats, were held accountable too. Changing the law took procedures within a system which was not a Democracy, Oligarchy, or Despotism, but a combination of the three which used the strengths of one to offset the weaknesses of the other

>>2643921
while not illegal it was still frowned upon, and generally only done by aristocrats who saw marriage as an economic and political alliance

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>>2641778
>>2641807
>>2641876
>>2643877
Roman empire was indeed populated by caucasians

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>>2641702
The fact that ultimately Roman culture was a strong reading of classical Greek culture with a few creative twists of their own. It's like going to see a filmed adaptation of your favorite novel and being blown away by how good it was.

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The military.

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>>2641702
saracenic expulsion & subsequent portuguese succession of iberia, true state

>>2642843
Think of the richness of Ireland's natural resources.

>>2645380
I always liked the legion names.

>my name is Gaius Veterus of the First Italian Legion

>>2641702
The fact that the greeks thought that they were romans even if the true heirs of the empire are the italians and that they tried so hard to get the empire back that they almost bankrupted themselves

>>2641778
>culture is skin color

>>2645417
>they tried so hard to get the empire back that they almost bankrupted themselves
If you're talking about Justinian, Latin was still the language of the empire in his time.

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>>2645407
Yeah, they lived fairly well as well. The archeological site I mentioned is really revealing. There were water fountains, baths and latrines inside the legionnaires quarters. Several dedication stones with names, ranks and legions. There's some rather well founded speculation that is namely there that the Legion I Italica was formed

>>2641702
Influenced the whole world, even /his/ is some kind of roman forum

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>>2643877
You're aware Arabs are often very light skinned, just because you get a bunch of Pakistanis pretending to be Syrians doesn't mean they are white.

Pic related. The Arab King of the Arab Kingdom of Jordan.

>>2645816
*aren't white

>>2645427
He said multiracial you dense fuck, you're agreeing with him and don't even realise it.

>>2643877
You're taking the joke too far. I cannot accept that you think caucasians are only europeans.

>>2642917
Cite 10.

>>2641702

Roman history is by far the most exciting, interesting, dramatic, human and politically relevant among all other groups and civilizations.

Their society was nothing but a constant display of duality, contrasts and struggle, morally, economically, politically, of engineering, wisdom and superstition, and practically uninterrupted, ruthless warfare. They went as high and as low as possible, they built all roads and walked them all, and they changed the world forever.

>>2645945
eurocentric. triggered me

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>>2641702
Its size

it's just so fucking big