It had to be very bad for people having to pay another tribute to another nation. That is why we had all those areas battling each other until forming empires.
It had to be very bad for people having to pay another tribute to another nation. That is why we had all those areas battling each other until forming empires.
Please specify which of the hundreds of conflicts with Rome which occurred over the 1200 years of Roman history you are referring to.
It was already a holy city to the ancient Jews, who supposed it to have been built by two forefathers of Abraham. When King David finally conquered it in around 1.000 BC, he made it his capital city.
They followed the policy of their predecessors the Assyrians of exchanging the ruling classes between areas so that the incoming class would be unsympathetic to their new realm, and suppress any unrest. The Israelites sent to Babylon were the ruling class, and took up duties there over local peoples.
They followed the successful example of their predecessors - Assyria and Babylon. By appointing provincial governors, they had a supervisory control to ensure that local government was run properly, and by having local government, the peoples were able to continue their traditional ways. And of course, it saved having massive bureaucracies which so plague the modern world, eg the European Union.
It had to be very bad for people having to pay another tribute to another nation. That is why we had all those areas battling each other until forming empires.
It had to be very bad for people having to pay another tribute to another nation. That is why we had all those areas battling each other until forming empires.
It had to be very bad for people having to pay another tribute to another nation. That is why we had all those areas battling each other until forming empires.
It had to be very bad for people having to pay another tribute to another nation. That is why we had all those areas battling each other until forming empires.
It had to be very bad for people having to pay another tribute to another nation. That is why we had all those areas battling each other until forming empires.
I believe the money called to pay to the conquering nation is called a tribute.
The Assyrians never conquered Kush though they claimed they did. They conquered Egypt which was being ruled by Kush at the time but they did not conquer Kush and there is no evidence that reached as far south as Meroe The Romans only claimed to have got as far as Napata when they fought with Kush centuries later The only civilization that might have reached as far south into Kush as Meroe was the Persians
Their life was not that simple. The Assyrians were feared for their military might and their cruelty. They mostly fought and created new weapons and war strategies.
The state and wealthy people sponsored gladiator games. A wealthy citizen might sponsor a gladiator game to celebrate or as a tribute to the deceased.
The Assyrians used iron to make shields, iron-tipped arrows, helmets, armour, etc. All of these helped them because it was new technology that no one else had which gave them an advantage.
One can find a visual tribute to the Batman comic book villainess Poison Ivy online. One can find a visual tribute to Poison Ivy on the websites YouTube.
vini viti vici ... latan , I came I saw I conquered. might not be spelled correctly. sorry vini viti vici ... latan , I came I saw I conquered. might not be spelled correctly. sorry