the initial suffering that roman's experienced. few were willing to conglomerate and work together, let alone sign their name to an empire. that quickly changed when the northerners saw the roman's as lessers, invaded, and killed numerous settlers and livestock and the southerners saw roman's as a more lucrative opportunity, being weaker than the feared northern hordes, stealing wealth and more. forced to adapt and overcome, these misfits and halfbreeds of blond and black admixture, hated by all but wanting acceptance, whose hair was mostly brown, did the most logical thing and collaborated. imperialism comes from the word "imperator". the very word could not be more roman if you stuck it with a gladius and rinsed it out with blood. everyone else just followed suit.
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