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Originally Posted by Turn Prophet
He had no siege engines. Hannibal would have taken Rome if he could have, but he lost a good deal of his equipment and personnel in the risky march across the Alps, and the Carthaginian government failed to capitalize on Hannibal's northern advance the way he'd planned.
He had enough soldiers left to destroy the Roman army at Cannai, we are talking what? 30.000? I am thinking that he had bigger army than what was left in the city of Rome at that point in time, no?
Siege engines could've been made I think.
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How do you know? Maybe Christianity would have arisen anyway. And what is this "differentiated consciousness" business? That has little or nothing to do with European domination, which is a product of only the last few hundred years.
I think that if Rome is destroyed by Hannibal then the Roman empire that conquered Europe would not have existed. Europe would have remained free of Roman occupation and would have remained pagan.
But indeed, that would not have stopped Jezus from happening, except he wouldnt have died at the cross, because the Romans would not have been there as they where destroyed by Hannibal. So we could even ask if Herodes would have been king for that matter, who knows what would have happened?
The better or higher if you will differentiated consciousness business is about the result of the surpressing of the subconscious by the church the last 2000 years in the European/Western world. So it has everything to do with European domination as it basically is what caused it.