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The British<span> government appointed consuls to some islands, but </span>their<span> powers to maintain order were limited and, except for the visits of warships, unenforceable.</span>
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<span>The
walls of the Colosseum were crumbling. The
once-magnificent stadium housed scores of filthy taverns. Thieves lurked in the ancient baths. On Capitoline
Hill, the old center of Roman government, vines grew over the benches of the senators. One
humanist lamented that the Roman Forum once the heart of
an empire, had turned into “a neglected desert here the home of pigs and wild deer, and there a vegetable garden.” </span>