Since I got some updoots here is some trivia:
The opening guitar that will get burned into brain is of unknown provenance. It's just called 'guitar solo #3' and came with the free sound editing software when he bought the audio card.
The USA is not falling like Rome. Rome lasted 800 years and the fall was imperceptable to them. Everything used as a marker for the fall happened more than once. The capital was moved away from Rome but came back several times. There were two Ceasars many times but they went back to one many times. Rome was sacked but recovered more than once. The eastern roman empire lasted arguably another thousand years.
The Romans had a rule that every man was instantly out of the army when coming back from war when they crossed a small stream near rome called the rubicon. To prevent what J. Ceaser did, keeping his army together and taking over.
Rome had about 400 really good years, 200 as a republic, J. Ceasar, then 200 years of the empire. Things didnt change all that much with the end of 'democracy' for a while.
J Christ was alive during emperor Tiberius, and is not mentioned in their records at all. No reason for it, he was unknown during his life and lived in an insignificant province at the very edge of the empire.
all from memory of course, YMMV.
