this forum is created for you by me on Thursday 23rd October 2007

I am looking for people that will help look after it for me and people who just want to join in.

don't just come on as a guest, sign in and join in. The more sign in, the bigger we get and the more friends you make.

All the best

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Well this explains why there aren't too many of us here yet, we are in the future.

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this forum is created for you by me on Thursday 23rd October 2007

Ok, spill Steve, is that a special date for you? ( j/k)

Steven, Why is this here? This is a section on history?

I think you put it in for me?

I love history. Which part of history shall we talk about first? Can we start with the Romans? I love Roman history. Before Zak was born I wanted to go to Rome to see the sights but my boss wouldnt let me have the time off cos she was going to China at the time I wanted to go to Rome:x

Not been yet, would still like to go, so get saving Holmesy!

I think it woul be good so start there as that is the time worlds collided when Jesus was born.

Catrin xx

Roman history bores me rigid. Little to recent for my tastes. I prefer something more exotic (Egyptian), much more exciting. All of those strange glyphs and stuff. much better than Latin (that's a school subject).

When did you ever learn latin?

If you had you'd be better at Spanish than you are!

I had read one theory about why the Roman Empire fell was b/c of Christianity. Thoughts?

No I disagree, I recently read a book called "the empire strikes out". It is a look at the rise and fall of empires. The roman empire is one of the longest, if not the longest running empires. I think that it need to last that long to allow the message of christianinty to spead through its empire using its infrastructure.

Their theory centered on the effects of Christianity on the general population. The examples I remember were the soldiers did not fight as violently as they had in the past and the people didn't really support conquering and ruling over other people. -

It was just this person's theory.

This is a good forum, I love ancient history. I just got a video on Pergumum and when I watch it, we can talk about it in this forum, I have a special interest of course because it was one of the seven churches John was told to write to.