/u/AustinioForza's posts
I just found out that Zenobia may be a descendant of Mark Antony and Cleopatra through Drusilla of Mauretania and her husband Sohaemus. This means that she was part Julii through Mark Antony. Was this ever remarked upon during her time? Any other fascinating connections like this in Antiquity?
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Listening to the History of England podcast, and a point has been made that London petitioned King Stephen to become a commune. Being a market town, would this have looked at all like the Merchant Republics of Italy?
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I’m an allied medic taken prisoner by the German army during WWII, will my treatment differ from that of other POW’s?
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Did the Roman Republic have government agencies/departments that had specific directors? Like a department of agriculture or trade? If so, who headed these departments?
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Did Roman Emperors ever organize marriages between Roman nobility and those of allied/conquered realms?
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Was there a way for city-states or realms to petition to be annexed into the Roman Republic/Empire peacefully? And if so, did this ever occur?
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Why did the Roman Pantheon require sacrifices? Did the Romans think that the gods required them to live, just out of respect and acknowledgement, or some other reason?
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Did the Roman's conquests & subsequent enslavement of people's have a significant effect on the genetic history/makeup of the territories constituting the former Roman Empire?
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