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Therefore, more people joined Spartacus's team because they believed that Spartacus might be able to completely overthrow Rome's control. Of course, the people who joined Spartacus' team at this time were basically local people.
The slaves enslaved by the Romans were a group of talking tools, but there were too many such talking tools, which indirectly led to a sudden surge in Spartacus's army!
Then this made Spartacus more confident, and in order to prevent the Roman army from joining together, Spartacus decided to launch a decisive battle against Crassus' army first!
In the fierce battle in southern Apulia, although the Spartacus army was pitifully smaller in number than the Roman army, the people in the Spartacus army were a group of people who could not survive at all.
They would rather die on the battlefield for freedom, so they attacked like crazy! But the equipment of the Spartacus army was obviously not very good, but they were still very brave!
Spartacus took the lead, charging left and right on horseback, killing two Roman officers in an instant! From here we can also see that in fact, the combat effectiveness of Roman officers during this period dropped significantly. And Spartacus
After killing two Roman officers, he was determined to kill the Roman commander Crassus. However, Spartacus was seriously injured in his thigh and could only continue fighting with one leg bent on the ground. Under the crazy siege of the Roman legions, six soldiers
Thousands of rebel soldiers died on the spot! Spartak also died heroically. Anyway, the entire battlefield was a scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere, and rivers of blood. It seems that we humans have just been doing this over and over again.
It's just a matter of fact, that is, people kill people and it never stops. It's like we humans are born with the feeling that we are great and everyone else is rubbish.
After Spartacus and more than 60,000 of his own troops died heroically, they fulfilled their long-cherished wish to die fighting for freedom! In the end, Spartacus's remnant army fought another ten-year war with the Roman Empire.
, and finally the Roman Legion, composed of people bribed by the Roman nobles with money, won the final victory.
At this time, we can say that Spartacus's resistance has completely failed! He lost to poverty, not to justice! This is the best example of justice losing to the concept of money, but Spartacus's army is still heavy
It dealt a blow to the inhumane rule of the Romans, which had a very profound impact on Rome's politics, economy, military, etc. Its fighting spirit of not fearing power and pursuing liberation continued to compose the "Tools that Can't Talk"
The glorious poem of liberation.
We have already discovered that the Roman Empire began to decline indefinitely. The main reason for this is that the aristocrats began to dominate the absolute concept of money again, which caused the entire Roman Empire to lose its former glory, and even lost its combat effectiveness and cohesion. Perhaps this
Is it another drawback of money? Anyway, as long as money is unevenly distributed within an empire, it will always cause a lot of problems, and money is also an existence that can completely obliterate human nature. In front of the concept of money, it actually does not exist
Any so-called human nature, just like the example we compared before when we understood the concept of money, said that a mother is willing to sell her child for money and then feed another child, but we have no basis for this matter.
There is no flaw to be found, because if the child is not sold, the other child may not survive. Therefore, the economic development and even cooperative relationships caused by the concept of money are hugely beneficial to us humans. However, in terms of our human nature, it has caused
The damage is also devastating.
Now we continue to talk about Rome. Maybe many people think that Rome should have lost all its glory at this time and will perish? In fact, under the control of the concept of money, sometimes many things do not develop like what we call constant laws. Money
It is an existence that can destroy any concept of spiritual culture. The magic power of money is so great that we people today cannot even imagine it. If I say that the world we live in now is actually a world of money, some people may say that I am talking nonsense.
, but if everyone really understands my words deeply and thoroughly, I believe no one can find any flaws in this sentence.
So far, under the rule of the concept of money, the Colosseum in Rome is a holy place for dramatic performances. Of course, it is also often used as a place for gladiator performances. Some people have made this evaluation of the Colosseum in Rome:
As long as the Roman Colosseum is still standing, Rome will remain strong. Once the Colosseum collapses, Rome will fall. Once Rome collapses, the world will be over!
We can actually understand from this passage that although Rome was very corrupt politically at this time, it was still the center of the concept of money, as well as the center of brutality and civilization, so we came to the concept that once Rome collapsed, the world would be over.
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Then we continued to talk about Rome, because Rome is not over. The Roman Empire did make me fascinated, but the city of Rome that I was fascinated by was definitely not this kind of Rome. What I liked was the absolutely democratic Rome, that
Rome, where everyone is equal. Today in our world, everyone will say, or have heard others say: All roads lead to Rome! This sentence can show the meaning of how impressive the city of Rome is.
People are fascinated by it. The second meaning may be the desire of us men. Anyway, this is not a good thing, haha!
So we continue to talk about Rome, and we also use the existence of Rome to advance history. After all, the city of Rome is the most prominent history of this era. Now we will learn about the later period of Rome from a person.
At this time, on the Mediterranean sea, a Mediterranean pirate said very happily: Today's harvest is really not small, and I actually caught a valuable person who was so well-dressed.
In fact, it was this pirate who captured a group of people, and this group of pirates also understood that the very luxuriously dressed man they captured was the leader of this group of people, so they said to the other people captured by their pirates:
Go back quickly and get twenty talents, and use them to ransom your master.
The man who was called master by the pirates was very unhappy after hearing what the pirates said, but he said calmly: I should be worth fifty talents.
The pirates laughed, but after they got the money, they released the well-dressed guy. At this time, the well-dressed man said reluctantly: Listen to me, in the future
I will lead a fleet to destroy you!
The pirates laughed loudly after hearing this and didn't take it seriously at all. But a few years later, this group of pirates was defeated by a fleet. Before they died, the pirates recognized the man who ordered them to be crucified.
It was the well-dressed guy they had captured and asked for twenty talents, but in the end they got fifty talents. Although the pirates recognized him, it was no use, because they were eventually
Nailed on the cross.
In fact, the prisoner of this pirate was Caesar, the famous commander-in-chief and statesman of the Roman state during this period! In the history of our mankind, there are many people who can possess many talents in politics, military, literature, eloquence, etc., except Caesar.
Besides, I'm afraid I won't be able to find another person.
Caesar was also the most accomplished man in the history of Rome. Some people assert that if Caesar had not been assassinated when he was young, the history of Rome would have been rewritten, and his achievements might even have surpassed that of the famous Macedonian king Alexander the Great.
Caesar was studious by nature, and he was born in a noble family, so he had better conditions and resources. He didn't have to work in the fields or make talking tools. Therefore, Caesar received a very good education since he was a child. He followed
He learned Latin, Greek and rhetoric from a Gaulish teacher. This teacher also had an indelible influence on Caesar's character. As a young boy, Caesar had extraordinary ambitions and ambitions.
Caesar fantasized about power and honor, hoping to make contributions to the ever-changing Roman state.
When Caesar was thirteen years old, he was elected as the Roman national god Jupiter, the priest of Zeus. In 84 BC, Caesar married Cosistine at the order of his father. But Caesar's father died.
After that, Caesar divorced Cosistine and married Cornelina, the daughter of Jinla, the civilian leader of this period. In the Roman country at this time, Sulla, who had an authoritarian mindset, gained the power to rule.
Killed his own political enemy Jinla, Cornelina's father, Caesar's father-in-law!
What kind of person was Sulla? In fact, Sulla was a military strategist and politician during this period of the Roman state. In his early years, he was a Marius general and participated in the Jugurtha War and the Roman war against the Germans. In 88 BC
, Sulla was elected consul. After that, he and Marius turned against each other. In 87 AD, Sulla led his army to the east. Marius and Jinla took the opportunity to seize power. After Sulla won the victory on the battlefield, he returned to Italy.
, defeated the opposition. In 82 AD, Sulla occupied the city of Rome, completely exterminated the followers of Marius and Jinra, and forced the citizens' assembly to elect himself as an indefinite dictator, combining military and political power.
He converted the confiscated land into 120,000 pieces and distributed it to the veterans of Rome, thereby gaining the support of the army. Therefore, Sulla was ruling Rome with the violence of the army.
But now Sulla admired the young and promising Caesar very much, so he asked Caesar to divorce Cornelina, but Caesar refused directly! Sulla was very angry, so in a fit of anger, he confiscated Caesar's hereditary property
and his wife's dowry, and also wanted to execute Caesar. After Caesar found out about this, he immediately fled Rome and did not return to Rome until Sulla died in 78 BC.
Chapter completed!