Tag: Rome

Rise of Sulla – Ancient Roman History DOCUMENTARY

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Sulla lost an election when running based on his successes as a junior officer. Next election, he ran by telling the voters what they wanted to hear and bribing people, and won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbKMf3I0Vec

First They Came for the Samnites

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Sulla broke republican norms in an attempt to make Rome great again, paving the road for Julius and Augustus to later end the Roman Republic.

Sulla had purges, starting with the most vulnerable. People didn’t join together to stop Sulla until it was too late, hoping that Sulla would stop after Sulla was done persecuting other groups.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh4LLvpr-7g

Rome’s ‘Weak Hand’ Won a War—Can Ukraine Do the Same?

Posted on by Lone Candle

“France supported the fledgling continental army for about four years with supplies, weapons, advisors, men; you know, [the army got many of its words from the French]. Yeah, I don’t recall France ever telling the U.S. they should just surrender to England. You don’t bend the knee to Communists and dictators…you punch them in the face until they stop. If we bend the knee to Russia now, how long will it be until we beg the dragon that rises in the East to please eat us last?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-QXz9wotrU