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  1. Yes, 25 was old enough in legal terms but for running a 60,000,000 people, 10,000,000 km2 empire ? I think not .

    I realy can't find any "good" emperor who came to that position young . Augustus is a unique case and was 36 in 27 . Alexander Severus was 14 in 222 but was he "good" emperor ? same for Gordianus III who was 13 in 238 .

    Constantinus, a "good" emperor, was 32 in 306 (not so young) but took the whole empire in 324 when he was 50 . And on .

  2. Physical strength of the "Palestinian Jews" (you meant Judaean Jews ;) ) is like saying "The beauty of the Macedonian Greeks" or "The wisdom of the Canadian French" . It's a generalization and one must be ware of that . Ben-Matithyahu was just useing rhetorica, he was good at that .

  3. Saw episode 6 or 7 in history channels' "the rise and..." and two things caught me :

    1. Aurelius moved in 168 to the German border in order to establish his position in Rome (as a military leader etc') . He needed to do that 7 years after his coronation ?

    2. Aurelius was not a good military leader or that he was good- or bad+ or something like that .

     

    Like to read your opinion

  4. "But it is not worth while to narrate in detail these wars which foreign nations waged with each other. The task before me is sufficiently and more than sufficiently heavy of describing the doings of the Romans." :thumbsup:

     

    I love this, he is human...Must have been a bad day for him

  5. For more than 60 years scholars have believed that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes, who lived in the 1st century in the mountains and recorded their religious observances on parchments.

     

    Now a new theory challenging the broadly accepted history is sending shockwaves through the archaeological community, even leading to the arrest of one prominent scrolls scholar

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