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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 24894890, member: 134416&quot;]I have a few ideas:</p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know, that for many centuries, the city of Rome became a wrecked, depopulated, Walking Dead-esque city, and it wasn&#039;t because of the German tribes?</p><p><br /></p><p>There wasn&#039;t a fall of Rome, at least not in the way we think of it.&nbsp; The West did <i>not</i> end in 476 (and not in 486, when the last Roman-ruled holdouts fell).</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an excellent chance that there were one (or two) black emperors (no revisionist history involved). They weren&#039;t well-known, but they were there.&nbsp; Did you know that?</p><p><br /></p><p>History&#039;s not a dead, that was-so-long ago thing.&nbsp; Look at a modern map of Europe. Modern Italy is pretty much what Justinian I reconquered, and up to the 1850&#039;s, the different Italian states largely reflected the situation after Justinian&#039;s reconquests fell apart.</p><p><br /></p><p>With such figures with nicknames like, &quot;The White Death&quot; (his enemies went pale) and &quot;The Sword of Destiny&quot;, these people just always fascinated me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This initial post was more of a general, coins can be a great teaching tool, type of post.&nbsp; I&#039;d try to better present any idea, but do it in an easy-to-understand format.</p><p><br /></p><p>I barely glossed over Gallienus&#039; life, but I&#039;d say he did pretty well to last 15 years when Dad was (perhaps) made into a footstool (after his defeat by the Persians), the Empire had split into three parts, there were invasions on all fronts, and a horrible plague had killed one-third of the population. He even managed to spur an artistic renaissance in Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s partly why I was (and still am) interested in old time radio programs.&nbsp; Aside from being great entertainment, they were a window into attitudes of the time, historical documents, actuality recordings, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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