Or perhaps by themselves.
https://deremilitari.org/2013/09/the...tical-failure/
Or perhaps by themselves.
https://deremilitari.org/2013/09/the...tical-failure/
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Peter1469 (11-19-2017)
The Seljuks. The Ottomans came much later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Empire
It was the Seljuk Empire that the First Crusade passed through. OTOH, it wasn't really an empire. It was actually as badly fragmented as Byzantine Anatolia had been.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
hanger4 (11-19-2017)
Peter1469 (11-20-2017)
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
That's just it though. It wasn't. There was relatively little in the way of Roman expansion after the reign of Augustus. Claudius annexed much of what is now Britain in the 40s and Trajan expanded the borders in east around 120 but the Roman frontiers were more or less set by the end of his reign.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Ethereal (11-23-2017)
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
Peter1469 (11-23-2017)
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
I'm not sure it was so much a matter of containment as it was a matter of conditions determined by imperial policy. Augustus reduced the army by over 50%. He inherited something like 60 legions after the civil wars. Imperial policy was much more oriented toward defense and consolidation by the time of Christ. The impulse to expand was, IMO, more often than not a personal one. Every Emperor needed some kind of military victory. It was politically important to be perceived as a martial ruler but I would suggest the Roman state had reached its limits by the end of Augustus' reign and his successors understood that.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Peter1469 (11-23-2017)
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams