The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Christianity is what beat Rome. It made it soft. It replaced the Roman institutions with church institutions. The difference between Caesar gets assassinated and he doesn't is incalculably huge in my opinion. Instead of a Roman empire, you had a Roman Republic for the next five or 600 years.

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