Republic or Empire?

[armbarchris]

Horscopes are for retards, so I guess thats one negetive effect of the Empire.
As for the roads, the Celtic raods didn't last. Whereas many roman roads are still being used today.

[Brooke ♥♥]

Horscopes are for retards, so I guess thats one negetive effect of the Empire.

I agree that it is kinda of a dumb way to live your life by reading these things and making assumptions about the future and peoples personalities.
But it is indeed still a important role in modern culture......

[Wildor]

I hereby pronounce this the first Mexican Jumping Thread! The damn thing is all over the place!!!!!

[jgarn21@eq.edu.eu]

well the empire was better

[KOOPS95]

well the empire was better

This post is made of win.

[BigBlugga]

I hereby pronounce this the first Mexican Jumping Thread! The damn thing is all over the place!!!!!

that does not make a whole lot of sense as this thread has only had 2 subjects, republic vs. empire and star wars.

[King Solomon]

The Empire contributed many things to the world, such as a calendar with leap years, the institutions of Christianity. The extensive system of roads that was constructed by the Roman Army lasts to this day. Because of this network of roads, the time necessary to travel between destinations in Europe did not decrease until the 19th century, when steam power was invented. Even modern astrology comes to us directly from the Romans.

This is some of the main reasons the roman empire were more successful.
Roman empire still has a heavy effect on culture to this day.

Roman roads were mostly built over roads built by the Celts. The Celts had roads all over Europe into Russia and Eurasia. They were built of wood instead of stone, however there were far more of them leading from village to village and they were far more extensive. There has been only a few that lasted, England has one such road on display that was dug up from the moors.

Yes they were built over roads previosly built by the celts, Although the roman were credited with roads that cut the time it took to travel to differednt locations throughout europe considerably.


Yes astrology may not have as huge an impact on modern mankind as astronomy, But you must also take into factor that roman astrology also lead to horoscopes, a very popular method to tell personality and future plannings in modern day culture.

I wanted to have all the quotes up here so I could help Brooke. Yes the Celts made roads, but it was the way the romans made theirs that makes it more meaningful towards history. They use several layers of not only stone, but of this material used under the stone to make sure weeds wouldn't come up Then after this the brick was laid out so that it looked flat, but was sloped for drainage so water didn't pile up. I believe that this method is still being used today, or at least was used until we invented some new special way. I wanted to make that clear, the Roman roads were better which is why they get the credit. Though I believe it was during the waning years of the Republic that this was made, same with the Aqueducts still used, or at least seen today. The Republic lead the way for the Empire so in the end you would have to say what do you think makes something better. The Empire had 200 years of peace and prosperity, but that would never had happened had the Republic never fallen and Caesar never taken control. I can't remember what I said before, so let me leave it at this and hopefully this leaves the road thing behind, and helps Brooke.

[Boleslav]

Oh, so the emperors controlled the weather and all of the raiders that sacked Rome and things like that. Obviously.

From a review of Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World, key quotes: "The history of the assimilation of provinces is , in essence, the monopolisation of an existing grain production" and "The Gracchian reforms are discussed in the light of their truly revolutionary nature, both in the relationship of the implications regarding the physical mechanism of collection/dissemination of supplies and the deep seated Patrician opposition to the distribution of grain to the plebs." In other words, the seizure of grain was an institutional policy, and the distribution of grain was problematic. Agriculture was a type of power.

Additionally, this article is interesting because it suggests a number of causes and consequences of deforestation, even speculating that agricultural mismanagement was a cause of the decline of the Empire. However, it is from wikipedia, so normal caveats apply.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period

That said, I don't know that any of this advances us further towards a definitive answer to your opening post.

[Cable]

The Empire is better because they have the DeathStar.

[KOOPS95]

The Empire is better because they have the DeathStar.

*Continuously hits head on the keyboard continuously*

The ROMAN empire, not Star Wars!