During the Punic wars, Hannibal’s rampage + the neglect of land due to the service of farmers caused a consolidation of wealth among the Roman elite. This inequality of wealth directly lead to the fall of the republic to dictatorship, funded by Crassus the Rich.

Future historians are going to be so smug comparing Rome to the USA.

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It's funny because it's true and there is nothing to be done about it