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by gingabriska
2492 days ago
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Romans culturally ate less meat and frowned upon their Northern Germanic Tribes who almost always ate meat. They were more frugal in their way of life. The Germanic Tribes were also taller and were acknowledged by Romans as formidable warrior. Culturally tho, Romans were South Europeans and assimilated what we call South Italy and Greece now. They also captured parts of middle east but culturally they never became Romans. >3. ... And where the dominant religion is still the Roman state religion. Which was lorded over by the Roman state church for a thousand years before an angry German monk suggested that this was really weird and could we keep the book and get rid of the pope. There were other Pagan religions at the time and in middle east Jews didn't accept Roman state religion. But then again, people born in Roman Empire got Roman citizenship on Birth so it didn't matter what you were culturally or religiously or tribe/ethnicity. |
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That depends on when you're talking about. Until Caracalla made all free subjects citizens in 212 AD (supposedly so that he could tax them more heavily),[1] Roman citizenship was restricted and highly coveted.
> There were other Pagan religions at the time and in middle east Jews didn't accept Roman state religion.
From the late 300s onwards, pagans were persecuted in the Roman Empire. Nicene Christianity was the state religion. Also, Jews lived throughout the empire, not just in the Middle East. From about the 1st century AD onwards, there were more Jews living outside of the land of Israel than within it.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio_Antoniniana