Ancient Rome: The GREATEST city ever built by mankind?

There are endless comparisons between Ancient Rome and ‘Murika … especially as in Empires Falling.

Rome had shopping malls, apartment buildings, running water, a stadium with more capacity than the Superdome, and much more. Pretty awesome, eh? Of course, they had no quarter-mile high skyscrapers. But, that’s totally irrelevant. Comparisons ought to be made to technologies available at the time of construction.

Babylon, Carthage, Constantinople, Kaifeng, London in the early 1800s … great cities all.  But, Rome was the Greatest of them all.

Yet, they fell. ALL empires of man eventually fall. So, will America … and we may be actual witnesses thereof. We DO live in interesting times.

Rome Super City


Author: Stucky

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It’s showing up for me.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Stucky,

I can right click on the blank space where the picture should be and use “view image” and it will open the image so the information is there, it just isn’t activating for some reason.

Backtable
Backtable

Morris Berman, “The Twilight of American Culture” (2000) and “Why America Failed” (2011).

Francis Marion

Hi Stucky,

I use this for posting images all over the web.

http://postimage.org

Don’t know if it will help you but its always worked for me.

Backtable
Backtable

@Francis Marion

Will registering here then enable me to upload my own imagery files from the hard drive instead of pasting the web address?

Francis Marion

Yes. So simple even I can use it….

Francis Marion

@ Backtable – you upload to their site from your computer and then connect using the “copy direct link’ option and pasting that addy into the image box on this web site. Easy peasy.

Backtable
Backtable

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Francis Marion

Hoorah!

Just donate the value of the beer to Jim’s money meter…..

Backtable
Backtable

Apologies, (typos) I haven’t quite got the system down yet as postimage.org saves by list instead of imagery, but still something I’ll be using from here on out.

Very cool, indeed!

MathMan

Hello Burning Platform, this is the first time I’ve posted a comment, but check out this essay by Sir John Glubb. ” THE FATE OF EMPIRES and SEARCH FOR SURVIVAL”. However, do to the cleverness of the individuals that post here, I believe a lot of you will already be familiar with this.

http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

Billy
Billy

I notice that Rome had 1 million people by 1 A.D…..

But only 144 public toilets…

And only 11 public baths….

No way I’m getting in some funky, skank ass water that thousands of stinky mofo’s already been in…. and 144 toilets for a million people? Damn…

Yeah, they had cool shit like plumbing, etc, but you know why it’s called plumbing?

The word for “lead” is “Plumbum” in Latin. Roman water pipes were made of it. Which begets the name “plumbing”…. and lead contamination fucked up a lot of people… of course, those crazy fuckers used to use lead oxide (sugar of lead) to sweeten their wine… and then we wonder why they ended up with batshit crazy mofo’s like Caligula…

Course, we still use Roman designators to this day…

Ever wonder about the way nails are sorted? Look at a box of nails at the hardware store next time you’re in one. The label will say “d16” or whatever.

That little “d” stands for “denarius”, which was the silver coin of the Roman empire. One denarius would by X number of nails, depending on size. Thus, a “d16” nail would be how many nails of that size you would get for one denarius from the blacksmith who made them. Of course, blacksmiths rarely make nails – that’s the apprentice’s job. If you’re not sweeping up or some shit, you’re making nails – so to the blacksmith it’s basically his bread and butter. Everyone needs nails.

The system was started by the Romans. The English inherited it from them. We inherited the English system – since the English kept on using that designator for the last 2000 years, we inherited it from them…

Small world, huh?

Billah's wife
Billah's wife

Shitballs uh mercy Billy. Yer smart as a whip. Course yew n me n Billy Jr know what them Romans felt like, shittin in 5 gallon bucket and dumpin it out behind the trailer. Remember that first time we found Billy Jr sittin in the livin room with uh 5 gallon bucket uh shit dumped over his head? Any ways, I like romanesque architecture like uh sumbitch.

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