Silence in the library! || FFXIV Heavensward #19

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3 thoughts on “Silence in the library! || FFXIV Heavensward #19”

  1. Skyen's takes on Rome are conflating some events that are very chronologically distinct, none of which really fit with his theory. During the fall of the republic, Rome hadn't yet run out of stuff to conquer. Caesar was famously successful in his conquest of Gaul, he gained plenty of land an plunder in his campaigns. The civil war was sparked because of pre-existing political factionalism in Rome, with Ceasar's enemies trying to arrange a politically motivated prosecution of him, not just slighting him with a small reward. It is always importat to remember that Ceaser had no shortage of support of rome's citizenry, and the faction he opposed had launched widespread political purges of their enemies when he had been younger-the republic was already falling apart. Then, hundreds of years later, there are the civil wars of the late empire, where provincial military commanders tried to overthrow the emperor. However, at this point all their troops had been Roman subjects for generation, the conquests of the late republic were hundreds of years ago, no one was expecting land in conquered territories, they were expecting wages to secure the borders. Lastly, there's the fall of the western empire, where mercenaries from germanic tribes allied to rome eventually ended the empire, but these tribes never really had been given a pathway to roman citizenship, and new conquests were still long out of the question, because of the more xenophobic culture of the late empire.

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