How things have changed

Good luck to them then, cause the Romans could not defeat our precious Germania!

 

Germania didn't exist as a nation, and was a collection of warring states that hated each other almost as much as the Romans. They were a marriage made in Heaven, with the Italians going on to invent both modern bureaucracy and the Mafia, to show their appreciation to the German barbarians. To add insult to injury, they invented the Spaghetti Western and all the spandex worn in science fiction. They were a marriage made in Heaven, and inseparable during WWII.

 

And that's why Romans sux cause they can't even beat a nation that warred with itself.

 

Claudius only became emperor, because his 31 other relatives on his uncle's will killed each other. The Roman empire lasted for four hundred years, while Germany never did manage to conquer any other parts of Europe for long. Too conservative. The idiots actually believed Hitler was a genius, because conservatives will believe whatever they want, while the Italians are the motherfuckers who invented the Mafia he imitated and empire he wanted to resurrect. Call the Italians whatever you want, but understated is not the right adjective.

 

Germany has always been about protecting the soil, not traditionally expanding its territory. You have to take a look at the surrounding nations though, which were founded on Germanic tribes, such as the Franks to name a popular one. Even Scandinavia, so while Germany remained a small country, our blood runs through the veins of many people.

 

Germany as we know it never existed before modern times. They constantly attempted to consolidate and expand from the center, no different from the Russians, who are still wide open to invasion from every direction. The Mongols swept through all of them like a hot knife through butter and almost made it to Japan even. The difference is western Europe's geography makes it too easy to break up everything into smaller countries. Geography and waterways used to determine how wars were fought while, since WWII, whoever commands the air, under the water, and space rules the world.

Currently, there are nuclear torpedoes capable of traveling at 350mph underwater and leaping out just in time to explode on the beach and the race to control the depths is just heating up in earnest, with the US putting 40,000 drones in the oceans. Orbit, is still weirdness, but they've gotten to the point where they can read every gum wrapper and piece of trash on Manhattan island from a single photograph. They also have a new portable terawatt fusion reactor capable of running a serious particle beam weapon, that uses a powerful laser just to punch a hole in the air, so the particles can hit your hypermissile or whatever after traveling through a vacuum. Think lightning with serious attitude, that could fry something in orbit. Being portable, they'll put them in every automated ship they have planned, along with all the EMP proof chips they developed. Hypermissiles move at maybe 8,000mph, escape velocity is several times the velocity of a bullet, but a particle beam weapon is around a third the speed of light, or twice around the earth per second.

 

You don't know your history very well.

 

I pay attention to the big shit, like the Mongols creating an empire that stretched from the atlantic to the pacific across all of Europe, Russia, and Asia. Eurotrash never interested me.

 

Its Football in England not Soccer

 

See this exactly my point.

 

when i was little you didn't have to be rich to be considerate.
of course you still don't.

it just seems like people, well maybe people will start realizing that's something that's been missing.

 

Then again somethings haven't changed....nod, nod, wink, wink.....

 

Yeah about the time they could go to the movies, get lollies and bus ride there and back for 5 cents. Haha. Boomer stories.

 

I think his point was it wasn't a nation at the time. The southern part of Germania was occupied by the romans btw. I think most of the region of present day Bavaria too. Germanic barbarians from occupied territory served in the roman empire.

 

I'm suprised they even had them back then. Here families with too many kids just stuffed one or two with the luggage on car trips, incl. vacations to southern France Common practice til in the 80s.

 

most people don't. and most historians refuse to tell us about times when people weren't killing each other, or even civilizations where were based on perceptions contrary to those of their own ancestors. the western hemisphere wasn't empty, even of cities, though perhaps cities not as we've been taught to think of them, when rome was rising and falling, and even greece. nor was europe alone in developing sociatal structures we think of modern and 'western'. everyone's had empires, though not all at the same times. even poland. even nepal.
and what we are taught are the big things are all in the eye of the cultural inheritance of those who are telling us which things they are.

 

You forget that you play football and drink tea.