Posted on 12/05/2008 6:43:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I agree and should another plague of some kind occur, we may not be as able to contain it as we are the ever widening financial problems. Some things are just not containable.
Hey, the Romans needed water for their most civilizing achievements such as acqueducts, baths, fountains, indoor flushed plumbing and heated interiors via hot water pipes in their floors.
No sense in staying in god-forsaken deserts filled with barbarians and religious fanatics if you can’t take a dump, drink enough pure water, and get a relaxing bath.
Hey, at least in Judea they had no shortage of bath salts...
Yeah, they had bath salts in a world that preferred asses milk.
Byzantium after Basil the Second for about 50 years was prosperous, but they had demographic problems as well as typical Byzantine stupidity on the political side after that.
Would that be Basil the Bulgar Slayer?
The man hisself. If there was a strong heir European history would have been much different.
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