[Phil17108]

I watched it both nights and found it good TV if not great. I did have a thought on one thing, and I can't imagine how it never occurred to me before, the Romans were the original Nazi's.

 

[VisionOn]

Except unlike the Nazis, regardless of whatever Christian-themed TV movie would have you believe, Rome was responsible for great advancements in art, culture, engineering, philosophy and the origins of many of the legal and democratic sytems in use today.

 

[barth2k]

Did the Romans also implement a genocidal regime to exterminate an entire people?

 

[jabbathespud]

Uh, ever hear of the sacrifices at the Coliseum?

 

[VisionOn]

Did the Romans also implement a genocidal regime to exterminate an entire people?

Well they were not fond of the Carthaginian resistance to their empire so they got wiped out strategic reasons from what I remember of history.

Empire building back in those times resulted in a lot of cities annihilated, but not usually because their psychotic leader didn't like them personally.

 

[barth2k]

Uh, ever hear of the sacrifices at the Coliseum?

That was just good theater!

 

[Phil17108]

That was just good theater!

The nazi's were the third reich. Who were the first 2?

 

[VisionOn]

The nazi's were the third reich. Who were the first 2?

The time during WW1 and the bit before WW2 if my fading grasp of history is correct.