Heraclius: "Look again, this beautiful mountain and river, unfortunately she has fallen into the hands of the enemy"
In the city of Rome, when it was first established, although the power was weak and survived among the Latinum and Etruscans, every Roman citizen could see the city of Rome day and night. When the arrogant little Tarquin was expelled from the city of Rome, he found the leader of the Etruscan alliance—Polsena. Bolsena sent troops to Rome and defeated the Romans on the other side of the Tiber River. The consul Horatius guarded the bridge and broke it by himself. After the bridge was demolished, he swam back to Rome and was shot several arrows. He was stabbed in the waist with a javelin. But when he swam back to shore, none of the equipment he was carrying was left behind.
At this critical moment of life and death, the young Roman Muzius tried to assassinate Porcena and failed and was captured. When he was interrogated, he made a generous statement: "There are still hundreds of warriors like me in Rome, waiting to assassinate you. !"
Although the Romans at that time were weak, they fought back again and again in desperation, the Latin League, Etruscans, Samonites, Carthage, Teutons, Syracuse, Macedonia, Achaia Alliance, Sparta, Athens, Antigonian Dynasty, Ptolemaic Dynasty, Pyrrhus of Idyrus... Rome defeated one strong enemy after another and created a great empire spanning three continents.
But when the empire's merchant ships sailed to the Indian subcontinent, peacock feathers, gems, and spices were continuously delivered to the empire. What we see is indeed a rotten Rome, which later historians attribute to money, forgetting the great qualities of the Republic. It may be the rise and fall of an empire, but Rome did indeed fall.
To their east, is the revival of the Persian Empire—the Sassanid Dynasty, the Germans, the Alans, the Vandals, the Huns... poured into the land of the empire, a thousand-year-old empire that was constantly eroding into decline. Yes, in the years to come, countless countries will claim to be Rome's successors, but God's will does nothing, and Rome is no longer here.
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