How did the Romans conquer the world? Or did they?
Was it really the case that the world joined up with them for mutual protection? Colin Sanders has taken a break from working through Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire chapter by chapter to look at a book that puts forward a very different idea of the Romans from the one most of us have.
http://historybooksreview.blogspot.com/2011/01/tiber-and-potomac-how-did-rome-survive.html
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