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I heard a lot of people saying that Julius Nyerere created reforms that killed tribalism in Tanzania. The most cited are his linguistic reforms(he made Swahili the official language of Tanzania). I would like to know in details what did he do to kill tribalism and if his methods can be applied...

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Suppose you had Julius Caesar and his army, at their absolute best in a battle with an equal number of US Marines ARMED ONLY WITH .22 RIFLES AND .22 SHORT BULLETS, but plenty of them, with the Marines trained on the .22s, who would win? How about the best western European pre-gunpowder army...

This was another matchup that looked interesting. How do people see it going?

Julius Caesar is probably one of the Roman characters more studied in history. But the period that he was in the Iberian Peninsula as Questor, before his bigger days, is almost always forgotten, probably due the scarcity of sources. I would like to request the help of the Forum to gather...

At an auction, a coin was described as above. It said something like "DICTATOR PERPETUO". I guess all Roman coins for several years said that, and it probably angered republicans. How important were the coins?

I have been searching for the answer to a specific question concerning Castor and hope someone here might know where to point me. When Germanicus died, one story has Castor, along with Claudius, taking Agrippina's children down the Via Appia to meet Agrippina at Terracina as part of an envoy of...

Let's say that Caeser crosses into Gaul with his 60,000 strong veteran legionaries and auxiliary units during the same time of the Gallic war. After inflicting a huge defeat on the Gauls at Alesia there is a sudden Hun invasion. The horse lords have crossed the danube river with a large force of...

How to you find his style? I've read Byzantium: The Early Centuries and really enjoyed it

This seems to have been a rumor against Caesar, but is it valid? Or, was it just to make Caesar look bad?

This is another matchup that I thought looked good, how do people feel they compare in different areas-politically, militarily, etc? They lived in different time periods so never met face to face unfortunately.

Text books appraise Julius Caesar as a Great Military Commander, but was he? Yes he was ultimately successful in his Campaigns and Catalogued his victories while playing down his failures, but how would you rate him?

I think he was a man with the authority of a emperor but since the senate still had power, no. I would consider him as a quasi-emperor. your thoughts?

or other pope armors? Julius II was known as a warrior pope ( by the way was he known as the warrior pope already in his time or is it some later addiction? ) and lead himself many battles against other italian states, therefore i assume he must have used a full plate armor. Do we have any...

I've always thought that there's a bit more ambiguity in the question of who the first Roman emperor was than is commonly thought: after all, it wasn't as if Augustus went around saying "hello, I'm emperor, what do you do?"! And a recent read of Wikipedia suggests that some of the historians...

Both men had left a big legacy and had a significant impact upon the Roman world. While I believe Caesar is extremely important, my personal position is that Augustus is much more important for Roman history since he was the man who forged a new political system which proved very successful in...

What if Caesar wasn't assassinated and completes his plan of a Parthian invasion? NOTE: A had a poll error mistake and didn't put Parthian decisive victory. So if Parthian decisive victory(like Cahrae), vote last choice.

What reforms, military campaigns, etc. Did JC instigate or complete that would have affected the way we live today? How different would not only Europe, but the world be had he never been born? The Roman Empire is a very interesting subject to me, and I also love alt. history. Side question...

Hello, Why did Civilis' revolt collapse? Why wasn't he able to create his Gallic Empire and keep it? I'm new to this subject and I'd like to know more about it. Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I have hear that most of what we know about Julius Caesar campaign is from writing he did and sent back to Rome. This makes me wonder about two things. 1- If they are his writings are they basis and maybe he wasn't as good as he wanted others to believe? Or are they other soruces that confirm...