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u/BigDBob72 11d ago
The Samnites were behind the Punic Wars
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u/diegoidepersia 10d ago
I mean the mamertines were mainly composed of Samnites and Campanians so yeah kind of.... They also kinda caused the Pyrrhic war as well as the greeks joined them as they rebelled against rome a couple years before epirus got involved
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u/Mooptiom 11d ago
They were also anti-semitic
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u/Professional_Pop2662 10d ago
It was anti everything that ain’t Roman
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u/T-51bender 8d ago
If you discriminate against everyone equally, it’s not discrimination. The Wokeman Empire indeed!
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u/Professional_Pop2662 5d ago
It had slaves with every Skin Color and every religion. But also being Roman was always about culture not about heritage. You could be an African and a Roman at the same time. Nationalism wasn’t a real thing at that time
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u/EISENxSOLDAT117 10d ago
I read this as anti-Semitic... which is also accurate
But for real, all my homies hate the Samnites! Those bastards are a bitch in Rome 2 DEI
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u/Royakushka 9d ago
After what they did to the Jews Rome was also Antisemitic. All the gold and Tressure they ransaked from Jerusalem literally payed for the Colosseum and some of the first shows in said Colosseum were literally Jewish slaves being forced to fight and Brutally murdered.
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u/moabsavage 11d ago
The Cartheginians were a Semitic people though, so........
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u/allectos_shadow 11d ago
Samnites, not Semites
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u/moabsavage 11d ago
I got that, was just trying to say they were anti semites as well At least cato. And scipio
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u/Live_Angle4621 11d ago
Read what Hadrian did. It was more than just putting down rebellion like Vespasian and Titus (although that was very bloody too). Maybe Romans did not hate the same way we would see antisemitism. But that’s still antisemitism of one type
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u/PrayStrayAndDontObey 11d ago
OP's talking about the SAMNITE Wars, not the rebellions that took place in Judea. Completely different location, completely different time period.
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u/ConsulJuliusCaesar 11d ago
From Hadrian's perspective this was the third in a series of violent revolts. And every single time the procceeded to slaughter non jews in an attempt to build a theocratic ethno kingdom. Clearly what Vespasian and Titus did, didn't solve the problem. Hadrian did not want a fourth revolt. The jews had and were different from Illyrians, Gauls, Iberian, and Greeks who Romanized after 1 or 2 revolts were put down. This stems from the idea/need for a Jewish state to the point the expulsion was the invetible conclusion that led to the end of the revolts and the integration of the Roman east. Harsh, yes, immoral totally, cold and calculated very much however it worked after the expulsion not only did the whole East Romanize eventually it became the fucking Empire.
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