Why does everyone dislike the Romans?

I think my teacher just dislikes Italians. Like she always makes it sound like it's only the Romans that were cruel to people.

Rampaged around Europe?
You should beat youe history teacher to death, cause it is a total moron. The Celts attacked first, the Teutons attacked first.
Those barbarians RAMPAGED FIRST!

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They weren't much worse than anyone else, especially the Celts, who carved human beings up alive on altars as sacrifices to their pagan gods. It was a practice Rome abolished centuries before and outlawed in its subject lands. If you watch Italian "sword and sandal" pictures, you know they portray Roman soldiers as the good guys. Besides, the British more than got even in WWII when they mopped the floor with the Italian Army. Of course, everybody else did too.

As far as I'm concerned, Boudica's loss of the Second Battle of Mona (Battle of Watling Street if you're British), the slaughter of her army by Suetonius' much smaller Roman force, the suicides of her and her family, and Rome's continued rule of Britannia for almost 400 years more all made for a happy ending. How can I say it's a happy ending? Because when your ancestors all came from Italy, it's a happy ending - that's how.

Of course, if I were British it would be a tragic ending. But remember, to Germans, "Das Boot" has an unhappy ending. To British viewers, it's a happy ending. Sometimes, it all depends on your point of view.

To all Italians and people of Italian descent who want to act "enlightened" and side with Boudica and the Britons, I have two words: Siete traditori!

I don't think that everyone dislikes the Romans at all. I think people in Britain have a high opinion of the Romans as intelligent and in no way savages. I think we are in some ways grateful for the literacy and technologies that came with being part of the Empire. Briton's during the Roman times kept their culture and language, while having a centralised government and laws. I think if Briton's today resent anything about the Roman Empire it was the way in which they left after 400 years of rule, leaving the people in anarchy, with no protection and no economy that triggered the Dark Ages. I think it is this power vacuum, which allowed the Anglo's and Saxons to eradicate Brythonic culture and language from a huge portion of the island (what would become England) that people regret most about Romano-British rule. I say this as a Welshman, maybe an Englishman would feel differently?

frequency-2 You are correct the romans killed christians.Poor christians.What about christians burning and killing everyone who refuses to follow christianity in the Americas.
What about christians killing each other due to formal divergences.
The christians are so good,everyone noticed.

Vomitoriums are a myth. The word was used to describe the exits of the Colosseum because it vomited people out of it. There was no such room and there is no basis for thinking the Romans threw up so they could fit more in. Even if they did, would that have been as bad a thing as genocide or murder? It doesn't seem on the same scale to me.

They didn't invent any of that other stuff either. Crucifiction was used by the Carthaginians and forms of execution by exposure had been around since at least the Egyptians, burning people to death was a common enough punishment in extreme cases (although Nero using them to light his festival is almost certainly a myth), organized crime was around before the Romans and if their criminals were more organized then that's because they were more organized as a people, and slavery of course was not unique to the Romans. The only cruelty that can be laid solely at the Roman's feet was gladiatorial combat. Nobody did that before them (except possibly the Etruscans).

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"Apart from the aqueducts, the roads, sanitation, irrigation, medicine, public baths, education, wine, and public order, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

"Uh, brought peace . . ."

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Those numbers 10.000 men against 200.000 is such a piece of garbage.
The Celtics would have at best 20.000 and i'm being nice.
The numbers were told by a roman to make them look like gods.
Look at the Trojan war if you read the book literally (like so many are doing today with religious texts)that would lead you to the conclusion that Troy was a formidable huge force.
Wrong!Troy was a small kingdom.