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Yet you get all judgy at Islam for using the exact same "wartime practices" to expand the Caphilate after Mohammad's death. So pagans you like can get their conquest on but not rival monitheists that you don't like, huh.And the Caphilate broughr advances in metallurgy, agriculture, astronomy and mathematics as well as expanding the regions trade reach from the Norse lands to China. Pretty good case for a civilising influence on their part.
You mean like how the Europeans did when they took advantage of knowledge coming in after the Crusades to have the Renaissance? After the pillaging and looting was done.You should have "it's not bad when our side does it" tattooed on your forehead!
No matter what happens, no matter what my last words may end up being, I want everyone to claim that they were: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
Aww, you guys rock. I feel the love... and the pitchforks and torches. Tingly!
Reminder that the Romans didn't invent much, they just took ideas from other cultures they met and incorporated them into their own culture and nation.
Which is exactly what the medieval arabs did, and they invented algebra. Note it's an arabic word.Civilisations build on the advancements of previous civilisations because, why not? Shits useful, it gets used.
How were they "more barbaric," be specific? Are you referring to science, jurisprudence, standard of living, what?
You thin Lex Talinos couldn't be horrible? You weren't paying attention. How do you think it was for female slaves? The antebellum South in your country should offer a clue, as could modern day sex traffickers.
Quote from: Tolpuddle Martyr on June 01, 2018, 09:22:27 pmYou thin Lex Talinos couldn't be horrible? You weren't paying attention. How do you think it was for female slaves? The antebellum South in your country should offer a clue, as could modern day sex traffickers.Lex Talinos was punishment in proportion to the crime committed. And slavery in the Roman Empire was different from slavery in the South as it was how society functioned back them. And the sex with female slaves in the Roman Empire was mostly consensual.