[Tax-chick]

Right. Not Germans or Moslems or anything. Climate change.

[Desdemona]

Not Germans or Moslems or anything.

Um, Muslims weren't for another couple hundred years. The Goths, upper Germanic tribes that the Romans considered subhuman and oppressed - that's another story.

[yankeedame]

Well, what about the Persian Empire? or the Frank, or the Ch'in? The Egyptian? The Hapsburg? Just the Roman Empire, huh? Pretty selective, I'll say. Kind of like those “severe droughts” that always seem to do a number on those communist/socialist countries.