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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip
At this stage I would prefer to set aside the claims about individuals for the reason you outline. Looking again at the main patterns of history with broadly rounded numbers, we have
Discovery: (750-650BC = 1400-1500AD)
Establishment of Rome = European discovery of the Americas
Consolidation: 650-350BC = 1500-1800AD
Building institutions of Roman Republic and conquest of immediate region = same process for USA (with main results at end of phase for both)
Expansion 350-250BC = 1800-1900
Conquest of Italy = steady westward expansion of USA
Conflict: 250-200BC = 1900-1950AD
Defensive Wars against Carthage (for domination of known world) = Defensive World Wars against Germany
Cold War: 200-160BC = 1950-1990
Hostility to Carthage and Greece = Hostility to USSR
Attack: 160-142BC = 1990-2008
Destruction of Carthage and Corinth = Iraq War
Now I know that this schema is subject to nitpicking, but it is still broadly accurate, corroborating my thesis that precessional ages are real cosmic entities.
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I've read your timeline and there is something that seems odd to me.
If the U.S. is the modern equivalent of Rome, then what is the ancient equivalent of the U.K. ? That's a country that the U.S. interacted with a lot, and which influenced it's history so where's the Roman equivalent?