I discovered that a key moment in Roman history was a very little-discussed raid by pirates on the Port of Rome at Ostia.
Rome was at that point the dominant world superpower, and there was no state in the world that would ever have dared to attack Rome. But the Romans were attacked by a group of stateless desperados who set fire to the Port. The flames may well have been visible in Rome itself. And this sent a shockwave through Rome, because if pirates could strike that close to the imperial capital, nowhere was safe.
And in this panicky atmosphere - an atmosphere of panic, I might say, which was deliberately whipped up by ambitious politicians - the Roman people took a series of fatal steps, surrendering some of their liberties and some of their control over their government. And in doing so, they sewed the seeds of the destruction of their own democracy.
And the more I looked at that event, the more it seemed familiar to me and the parallel with 9/11 - and in particular the response to it.
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In the 1600s Portugal posed a threat to Spains control of the borderlands
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The rapid and paramount political and cultural changes that were brought by the Renaissance and the Reformation would not have been possible without the Printing Press, because such political and cultural change required a more literate and cultured society, something that only became possible after the printing press was invented.
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My apologies if I didn't help Lad. I hope you're doing well, but here are the answers that I've researched personally.
2A) The Forum in Rome had fallen into misery, after the fall of the Roman Empire.
2B) The text states that, being a father in a typical Roman family was powerful because they took control of limitless actions. For example, the right to hold marriage and divorce.
2C) The factors, such as the change of laws over time contributed to women having more views than just having less limits than men.
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