So is this the real reason the Roman Empire fell?
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Their numerical system was too confusing even for them to follow?
"Dear Caesar, I need MCMCLVI troops to fight off the enemy hordes, which have been counted as MIVXILOTSnLOTS--I don't know, but there are lots of them!"
Reply: "Dear Legion General, hungover from the orgy last night, sending you VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII troops. That's a lot, right? Hope it helps. Peace out."
There's a reason the Arabs ran all over most of the former Roman Empire. Just sayin'.
They just couldn't cope with the change to the old system.
Silverlode
Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known.
...I put it down *cough* to the disorientating effect of putting the clocks forward... or back... or was that sideways...
*Ducks back into the teapot and closes the lid.... For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood and every spring there is a different green. . .
So is this the real reason the Roman Empire fell?
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