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Was the fall of the Roman Empire an apocalypse situation

The Romans, and some of the colonies such as England, had th...
startling trust fund abode
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(moron trying so hard to grasp something that he has no hope...
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dan carlin discussed this at length in his "Thor's Ange...
Emerald gaping
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are you watching the hockey game
contagious well-lubricated business firm
  04/25/12
of course. there are other games on tonight, too: ht...
Emerald gaping
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lolzy
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not really, apocalypse is sudden and the fall of even the we...
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Is that because of the high debt? The U.S. has been spendin...
startling trust fund abode
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(guy who hasn't watched Spartacus)
Bull headed nighttime hospital
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look around you. theres your answer, friend.
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Probably heard stories about losing areas on the fringe of t...
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, but enough about america
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(literal-minded retard who didn't get the point)
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Except in the case of Rome, the "barbarians" were ...
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Just a long shitty decline where people gave up or forgot ho...
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had no idea that honiara was doing his retard schtick as far...
honey-headed elite mother
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itt: dumbasses who forgot the fall of Rome meant the ascensi...
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*leans into mic*
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definitely no parallels between the fall of rome and the fal...
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did i say otherwise?
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Date: April 25th, 2012 7:58 PM
Author: startling trust fund abode

The Romans, and some of the colonies such as England, had things like running water and sewage systems that would not be duplicated in Europe for centuries. The order and security provided by the Roman government and legions, and civil institutions deteriorated and then disappeared. Trade and commerce, which depended on that order and security, stopped. The Germanic tribes who came in and took over were considered to be primitive barbarians by comparison. It's ironic that the Germanics eventually advanced and built the technological society we have now. Took a hell of a long time though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547395)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 7:59 PM
Author: learning disabled submissive boltzmann voyeur

(moron trying so hard to grasp something that he has no hope of understanding)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547401)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 8:04 PM
Author: Emerald gaping

dan carlin discussed this at length in his "Thor's Angels" podcast:

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php?page=hharchive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547457)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 8:06 PM
Author: contagious well-lubricated business firm

are you watching the hockey game

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547482)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 8:09 PM
Author: Emerald gaping

of course.

there are other games on tonight, too:

http://whl.ca/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547506)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 8:09 PM
Author: contagious well-lubricated business firm

lolzy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547513)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 8:25 PM
Author: charcoal crackhouse nibblets

not really, apocalypse is sudden and the fall of even the western empire took centuries during which everyone could see it happening in slow mo. Just read gibbon bro (supertroll)

the most exact equivalent in our lifetimes will not be the loss of American geopolitical empire, but rather the slow decline of the American dollar (and the concomitant decline in American living standards)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547631)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 8:50 PM
Author: startling trust fund abode

Is that because of the high debt? The U.S. has been spending beyond its means for many years, except for that stretch during Clinton's admin.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547805)



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Date: April 25th, 2012 8:52 PM
Author: Bull headed nighttime hospital

(guy who hasn't watched Spartacus)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#20547821)



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Date: May 26th, 2020 10:08 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

look around you. theres your answer, friend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40281924)



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Date: May 28th, 2020 7:06 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

look at minnesota

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40293782)



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Date: May 28th, 2020 7:37 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40293963)



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Date: June 5th, 2020 12:54 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40351533)



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Date: June 7th, 2020 9:04 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40373155)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 1:19 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40374832)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 1:27 AM
Author: judgmental domesticated field marketing idea

fuck, got us there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40374883)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 4:13 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40375247)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 5:55 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40378923)



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Date: June 9th, 2020 12:45 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40381513)



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Date: June 9th, 2020 10:46 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40388081)



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Date: June 15th, 2020 12:47 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40418908)



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Date: June 17th, 2020 8:44 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40439041)



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Date: June 17th, 2020 8:46 PM
Author: Irate light internal respiration



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Date: June 21st, 2020 10:31 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



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Date: June 24th, 2020 12:36 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40484265)



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Date: July 9th, 2020 9:19 PM
Author: nyuug (ITT: what the third world looks sounds and feels like)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40577150)



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Date: May 28th, 2020 9:16 PM
Author: Ungodly Chad Rehab

Probably heard stories about losing areas on the fringe of the empire like Dacia and thought it’s NBD, were still hanging in there w Persians. Egypt crop yields are up, plenty of people wanting to move here still.

Then after hordes took over w few areas maybe made some people nervous. Hordes were then incorporated into the Roman army, it’s all good. We’re at the top, just bring in some more cheap slaves and labor. Give them some land nobody wanted anyways.

Roman army led by hordes goes berzerk and loots everything and romans think “well we’ve always had civil wars.” This will blow over they’re still learning our language. Generation goes by and the next one is used to Roman army being slightly unreliable, mostly foreign, and constantly looting territory.

Generation goes by. Maybe you stop paying taxes, don’t care to pay taxes, see Roman army as more of a problem than help. None of your friends and relatives are going into it so why care what they do as long as they leave you alone.

Generation goes by. Now “Roman” army shows up and you’re so used to this that you just leave the city and move somewhere else. Who cares if the burn the city to the ground. The government is corrupt and ineffective and has no control over anything. When the Roman army leader appoints himself emperor, you say whatever. There’s always been two emperors, the one in Constantinople is still ok.

Generation goes by and nobody cares about emperor 2000 miles away. You’re used to barbarians being in charge, they’re not that bad. Buildings are crumbling and you’re taking dumps in the street, but you don’t even know any different. Grandpa keeps talking about Roman legions, but that’s more of a Greek thing now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40294419)



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Date: May 28th, 2020 9:17 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

, but enough about america

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40294425)



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Date: June 2nd, 2020 9:55 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40333954)



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Date: June 3rd, 2020 9:52 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40342829)



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Date: June 4th, 2020 2:04 AM
Author: honey-headed elite mother

(literal-minded retard who didn't get the point)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40344560)



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Date: June 4th, 2020 2:06 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

lollercausting HARD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40344566)



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Date: June 4th, 2020 2:08 AM
Author: Histrionic sooty locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40344572)



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Date: June 9th, 2020 10:49 PM
Author: marvelous dun multi-billionaire dilemma



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Date: May 28th, 2020 9:24 PM
Author: talented frisky affirmative action area



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Date: June 9th, 2020 10:49 PM
Author: Odious tanning salon halford



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Date: June 15th, 2020 1:15 AM
Author: cyan dragon love of her life

Except in the case of Rome, the "barbarians" were Germanics and were much more effective bureaucrats than the Latins.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40419006)



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Date: May 28th, 2020 9:39 PM
Author: Adulterous costumed home twinkling uncleanness

Just a long shitty decline where people gave up or forgot how to be civilized. Except if you were in a sacked city it probably was hard to notice. There was a good summary in some book about how in britannia people just abandoned houses with plumbing and heating and shit because they couldnt figure out how to maintain them and ended up in shitty huts in the woods and shit. Families would bury their silver cache clearly imagining they'd come back for it and never did until it got dug up by some archaeologist 1600 years later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40294508)



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Date: May 28th, 2020 9:55 PM
Author: Ungodly Chad Rehab

I mean if the guy who knew how to make clay/lead pipes moved away/was killed, you’re kind of out of luck. Doubt there was a book on how to make pipes when the only guy who knew how to do it died

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40294610)



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Date: June 15th, 2020 1:23 AM
Author: Fragrant travel guidebook people who are hurt

There probably was a book, but it was written on shitty materials that deteriorated quickly and in Latin or Greek. The church had a near monopoly on ability to store, reproduce and read written materials, and they devoted nearly 100% of their efforts to religious texts, which are largely uninformative about matters of public sanitation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40419031)



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Date: May 28th, 2020 9:57 PM
Author: honey-headed elite mother

had no idea that honiara was doing his retard schtick as far back as 2012.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40294622)



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Date: June 7th, 2020 9:16 PM
Author: chestnut wagecucks nowag

itt: dumbasses who forgot the fall of Rome meant the ascension of Christianity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40373224)



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Date: June 7th, 2020 9:17 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

*leans into mic*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40373229)



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Date: June 7th, 2020 9:29 PM
Author: Canary theater

Wow, so Bowlcut was a total fucking chode 8 years ago, just like now? Interesting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40373308)



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Date: June 9th, 2020 10:50 PM
Author: marvelous dun multi-billionaire dilemma



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40388106)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 1:21 AM
Author: Vibrant legal warrant

it was described as an apocalypse-type situation by many witnesses, yeah, or at least close to it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40374847)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 1:22 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

definitely no parallels between the fall of rome and the fall of america. not even a single one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40374852)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 1:22 AM
Author: Vibrant legal warrant

did i say otherwise?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40374855)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 1:26 AM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

friend i would be more than willing to let you ride out the endtimes here in korea where things are safe and calm. not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40374877)



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Date: June 8th, 2020 1:26 AM
Author: Vibrant legal warrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40374879)



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Date: June 9th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: beta lime heaven scourge upon the earth

ok bro but dont try and rape me gingham style

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40388174)



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Date: June 15th, 2020 9:46 PM
Author: racy sapphire quadroon cruise ship

big korean cock is REAL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40425092)



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Date: June 15th, 2020 12:48 AM
Author: marvelous dun multi-billionaire dilemma

nyuug really shit up this thread, didn’t he?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1933096&forum_id=2#40418913)