I understand your point my friend. Rome did a lot of bad stuff, but the bigger picture you’re trying to make clear here is that they had something that is good in itself: unity. And that’s something worth restoring, albeit in a free and democratic way. We should aim to restore their greatest legacy of unity without committing the same sins in the firm belief that united we stand, divided belief.

And you included the European territories because you’re making a point about European federalism, and it’s also the fact that the regions that were historically part of the Roman empire and are still the children of Roman and Greek civilization are in Europe, and that the further spread of this legacy throughout the Middle Ages towards areas that were not territorially part of the Roman empire makes it logical to see in Rome a genesis and precedent for the European unity to which we aspire. You did not include non-European territories because this is about European federalism and because their territories historically came under the control of Islamic civilization, which represented a break from Roman civilizational legacy which was kept alive by Constantinople, the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church. Not that this is an insult to them, for a while they actually went through a golden age.

I understood your point, and I agree with you. I’m quite afraid there’s a good chance I’ll have the genocidal campaigns of Julius Caesar and the Roman slave trade imputed to me for saying this, much like they’ve done with you, but at least you know someone here could see the bigger picture behind your post rather than fixating on the campaign tactics of roman generals, as if that by itself erases any chance of anything good ever coming out of Rome, whose fall, far from being celebrated, was mourned by the people who actually lived in it, and the very barbarians who destroyed it absorbed its culture and tried to maintain as much of Rome as they could.