>>533272455
Yes, actually. Retardation usually collapses empires.

>>533272455
The Romans ran on a slave economy. Around 200-400AD there were a bunch of plagues like the Black Death brought over by the Huns and pandemics like typhoid caused by unusually warm humid weather all over the med.
All their slaves got sick and died and they couldn’t sustain the empire anymore.

Pretty much, some people like to say it was the lead in the pipes lowering IQ and while that probably didn't help I don't think it was THE reason for decline.
>>533272561
If only they'd made the leap from forced manual labor to industrialization, there might be a Roman standard on the moon today.

rich parents have spoiled stupid children

we are the the benefactors of centuries, millennia of development. we are at the apex of civilization, tremendous wealth, systems of providence and peace. millions of spoiled, hedonistic children citizens

not everyone, but most

>>533272638
Thats a good point. At the same time, most ‘Roman’ inventions were actually Etruscan. They absorbed them into the populace and then didn’t know how to innovate on what they’d contributed.

>>533272455

One of the reasons why Roman Empire degraded is the invasion by foreigners. They conquered too much of a land populated with shitskins and germanic barbarians that slowly replaced native Roman people, the conquerors, who developed a great culture and brought it to the whole Europe. With their replacement, it was not Roman Empire anymore, because a country is not just a territory, but actually the people who lives there. Same shit happens now with Europe, Russia and Jewnited States

QRD: The fuck am I lookin' at here?

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>>533275144
Funny salad
>>533272948
A century or two from now primitivist tribes will look up at the Hoover Dam and Mt. Rushmore the way herdsmen would look up at crumbling aqueducts throughout Italy, wondering about those who erected such mighty works.

>>533273394

CANT BLAME THE PROVINCIALS FOR WONDERING HOW THE MAGIC IS MADE

>>533273394
When you conquer a territory, its citizens become part of your politics. The history of the white conquest of the world features white people recoiling in the 20th century as they realize they do not want to integrate with their overseas possessions. But then the global capitalists trying to maintain the structure erected during the age of empires try to facilitate the free flow of capital and peoples so that the world could be made safe for international corporations. Today they are trying to build a global governance structure where all of us whether we are American, German or Swahili are all under their control via huge international corporations. In order to maintain unity, the populations will have to be blended and homogenized.

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>>533272455
>these niggas

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>>533272455
>Is this how all empires end?
Yes. The strong men who could forge something new are dead, their immediate offspring are dead as well, and all that's left is the parasite class descends upon the carcass.

Read John Glubb's "The Fate of Empires."

Empires are living things, just like fruit flies and elephants. They all have their lifespans. And throughout history, the lifespan of empires has been...

250 years.

>>533277893
>literally brown

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>>533272455
empires end because of corruption, which capitalism perpetuates and accelerates

look at the list of roman assassinations