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going back to the question, I think Rome would expand until it hit natural borders or some other big empire.
Maybe some other groups would copy the steam engine like China.
Augustus wanted to expand the Empire northwise, civilize the German barbarians, and leave the borders at Rhine and Danube.
But he failed, because that was too much of a task, even for him.
That's a weird question because there was no reason for Rome to use labor-saving devices like the steam engine, because they could just have tons of slaves. And it's not because of the institution of slavery that the steam engine could not be implemented; rather the institution of slavery existed because the technologies needed to use these devices in a productive manner did not exist. The steam engine was reinvented in 1700 AD, but it was not put into use until 100 or 150 or so years after that, at which point technology had advanced sufficiently.
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I think there were various societies that invented them but slavery was cheaper.
Due to the funny trinket thing they never came up with idea to build stuff like steam vehicles like steam ships or steam cars.
@everyone Daily Question đź”–
What ultimately lead to the Roman Empire’s downfall?
Ok
So
I’m well educated on this
Air conditioning
Everything
A big dude with a big army burnt the city to the ground
I’m REALLY well educated on this
Same as anything, corruption.
That's the main one
I’d say hedonism and laziness.
The empire was fine under Marcus Antoninus.
However, An emperor named Commodus pulled up
Rome fell due to degeneration of the people physically and spiritually, and then a series of restorative movements rose up attempting to stop this each failing to truly redeem the Roman people.
Who was unpopular
He was assassinated and the throne fell into chaos
In 193; there were 5 claimants for the throne and Septimius Severus ended up claiming it
All was gucci until 211 when he died and Geta took the throne.
His own brother killed him in his mom’s arms.
He was one cruel bastard ngl
So it was the 3rd Century Crisis?
Burned down Alexandria when they dissed him
@Florida Man yeah.
Big Barbarians
Not even barbarians
After Caracalla was assassinated a string of emperors came up
And also the murder of the greatest Roman emperor at the time
Resulting in 20 years of like 17 emperors
Oh yeah Caracalla
Isn’t he Severus’s son
It was ok from 263 when Gallienus was in power
“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.” --Horace 1st century BCE
The empire somehow recovered; but we’re not done here
Diocletian ended up making a tetrarchy by 284