Fall of Rome and America?

There are very definite similarities; ones we (Americans) should not be so quick to dismiss.

Down through the ages, every great civilization has had it's beginning, reached it's zenith and eventually fallen. The Babylonians, Persians, Aztecs and Mayans, Greeks and, of course, Rome. Of course, Rome didn't fall overnight. The decline began with the advent of the Caesars (just before the birth of Christ) and ended finally around 476 AD when a Roman general deposed the last sitting Roman emperor. Of course, the Eastern Roman Empire (aka the Byzantine Empire) went on until 1453 when the Ottoman Turks sacked Byzantium (Constantinople, which is today Istanbul, Turkey). It took a very long time for the world to shake off Roman rule.

I don't think our society in America has reached the depravity and corruption that plagued the Romans in the latter days, ...at least, not yet. But I do think we are on the same path. If you get the chance (and feel like doing some serious reading), read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon, Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Gian Battista Piranesi, and Daniel J. Boorstin. On the very last page is a passage that states "...no great nation can fall from without, until it has fallen from within." Words for us all to contemplate even in our modern age.

Yes, the USA is on the same path, but its probably going to be a fast fowarded version of the fall of Rome. I myself have heard of a grown American who couldn't point to China(a future superpower, economical power) on a map!

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