compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion
IS THERE NOT... that the undoubted success of the Roman Empire
was in some way established by the fact that its European Sector
included Britain but none of the other totally northern states of
Europe. This obviously had a lot to do with the fact that they
achieved, as a result of building the best warships and their
subsequent Punic Wars' defeat of Carthage ... complete control
of the Mediterranean and the western, Atlantic-facing shores of the
continent. As well as the fact that ALL that was Roman for as long
as their influence has existed, was based on what the Greeks had
established themselves over a considerable period of time.
Ease of access to resources also had a significant influence on this
territorial extent of the Roman Empire and particularly the minerals
that were available in Britain. A country which also provided a milder
climate to the extent that a terraced south-west facing vineyard was
soon established by the Romans, in the grounds of what is now
Blenheim Palace, only a stone's throw away from the churchyard
where Winston Churchill is buried in Bladon. It was, of course, he
who was one of the earliest promoters of the idea/concept of a
Union of European Nations, as opposed to the Benelux Coal and
Steel Model which the French decided to hi-jack from their
neighbours. I would venture to suggest that Churchill would be
somewhat dismayed by what has since resulted, because of the
creation of a Eurozone subset of the EU, using its own currency,
before the establishment of a European Political Union, which
should have been included from the outset.
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