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To: SunkenCiv

Wrong! The peoples you talk about were all Latins speaking a variant of old Roman Latin. The non Latin speaking people were the Etruscan’s which Rome promptly set about conquering. The Roman was initially very exclusive-see Cato the Elder and the Greek ambassadors. Diversity is linked to the loss of Republican freedom with the rise of Imperial slavery and finally collapse.


13 posted on 02/16/2016 10:27:42 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Wrong! "Republican freedom" meant three dozen families ruling everyone else, 40 percent of the population in slavery (it was about 3:1 in Rome itself), and the decades conquests of neighboring groups led to the evolution of a permanent executive branch, non-Romans in the Senate (no more taxation without representation), and despite the best efforts of leaders as far back as Augustus, a serious decline in the inbred former aristocracy, with opportunity and upward mobility for citizens of the empire.

20 posted on 02/16/2016 11:08:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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