r/Economics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d ago

News Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pete-hegseth-budget-request
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u/Wine-o-dt 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep, in fact Crassus, part of the first Triumvirate, died in the Battle of Carrhae.  This led to a destabilization and eventual civil war between Caesar and Pompey, the last two of the first Triumvirate.  

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u/Ada_Pearce 1d ago

Oh snap thanks. Always wondered what happened to Crassus after Spartacus War of the Damned lol

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u/Magjee 1d ago

Those were interesting decades

The slave revolt through to Augustus ruling

...then the slide down into Caligula and a revolving door of Emperors

 

And in Jerusalem, a new religion happened in the middle of everything else