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Huh, that somehow reminds me of Crassus from Rome [1] > The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome,
by scary-size 4mo ago
Huh, that somehow reminds me of Crassus from Rome [1]
> The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 4mo ago>Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. sigma
- usui 4mo agoNice establishment you got here—be a shame if something happened to it. I wonder if the incidence of fires increased during this time.
- jihadjihad 4mo agoOr a side hustle of exorbitant P&C insurance.
- Balgair 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carrhae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carrhae For the curious, above is how Crassus died. TLDR: Got over his skis and mad with power and money. Decides to invade Parthia. Gets wrecked by horse archers. That ends up being typical for Romans, but this was the first-ish time that happened. Some of those captured legionaries may have ended up in China, though it is unlikely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqian#Lost_Romans_myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqian#Lost_Romans_myth
- NooneAtAll3 4mo agoso instead of simply financing military operation and staying home, he went in himself? in some sense I even respect that decision
- joha4270 4mo agoNot going probably never even crossed his mind. Social status in Roman society was very strongly influenced by military success. He was a previously successful general. Historically (with all the accuracy you get when you summarize all of history) raising an army and not leading it was effectively telling everyone that you should be replaced by whoever did lead it.
- Laurel1234 4mo agoThe point was to win military glory since he resented being outdone in that respect by his fellow triumvirs.
- yareally 4mo ago> Gets wrecked by horse archers. That ends up being typical for Romans I don't think the Western Romans ever really learned from it did they? The Huns ended up wreaking them pretty hard. I know the Eastern Romans did learn at some point out of necessity by creating their own professional units and hiring mercs.
- red-iron-pine 4mo agomassed horse archers wrecked pretty much everyone constantly until the 1600s
- kridsdale1 4mo agoFighter Jets with missiles are the modern version of the same concept.
- themafia 4mo agoHistoria Civilis did a great video on this battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR7VDPUj5AE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR7VDPUj5AE