>Roman conquests

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>>3250756
>"barbarians"

yes, it is naive to think they could live in peace forever, even if you had 2 benevolent leaders who hammered out a peace, their successors couldn't be counted on to maintain it

the true heroes of this age were people like Hannibal who decided it is time for a showdown to settle the matter

Maybe it was done because it's just human nature to always want more, more land, gold, slaves, people, cities, etc. Without these conquests, rome wouldn't have lasted as much as it did.

It's just human nature to conquer. And thanks to this we are where we are.

>>3251443
'Barbarians' refers to any ethnic group that doesn't speak Greek (or Latin) and practises Greco-Roman cultural activities (symposium, philosophy, etc).

So the term is correct in this context, it was just bastardized by later users of the term.

>>3250756
It was a mixture of offence, defense, and diplomacy, at least at first. The Etruscan Wars were certainly defensive, with later ones being more questionable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zYpWcz1-E&t=144s

>>3250756
The Empire was an act of self-defense

>>3251472
Romans aren't Greeks.

>>3251566
No shit Einstein, but they adopted the term and a lot of Greek culture.

>>3250756
What's that white bit in the middle? Did they fear the Alpine warrior?

>>3251839
Inca enclave

>extermination
There would have been no point to the conquests if they were exterminating people. They wanted land and new slaves. Every conquest brought in a whole lot of both, which was great since it was the single fastest way for a wealthy Roman to quickly increase his wealth.

>>3251842
Hahaha Eurangatans btfo right? XDDDDD

>>3251703
The concept of barbarianism didn't stem from the Greeks either, you retard.

>>3251883
>The word barbarism was originally used by the Greeks for foreign terms used in their language. ("Barbarism" is related to the word "barbarian"; the ideophone "bar-bar-bar" was the ancient Greek equivalent of modern English "blah-blah-blah", meant to sound like gibberish — hence the negative connotation of both barbarian and barbarism).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarism_(linguistics)

Get the fuck out cunt

>>3252177
Are you retarded? The concept, not the etymology you half-wit.

>>3251464
>of this age

That's clearly the Roman Empire. Hannibal was some 200 years B.C, which was the Roman Republic.