• TheDankHold@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I mean given that there were Roman emperors that hailed from almost every territory in the empire I don’t think your understanding of Romans is very accurate.

    After 212AD if you were a free man and lived in the empire then you were a Roman citizen. There was also a surprising degree of religious freedom in the empire as well.

    Using modern political group labels for antiquity is silly.

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        11 months ago

        My point is that they were also the in group. It’s very much a flawed perspective, referring to the whole empire as conservative makes it clear.