ITT we share stories about next to unknown reasons why you country got assblasted hard
>Be a Gaul
>Be Brennos
>Gaul don't allow torture
>Gaul don't ritual sacrifice
>Gaul don't do cannibalism
>Pray the old Gods
>Shit is fine and dandy, kick the ass of Germans and some weird dudes from the North
>Yearly meetings of chief of each house in Gaul to discuss politics, military, economy and settle some bullshit from peasants
>I, Brennos, a noname warrior drunk too much ale and claim me and my boys could raid and fuck the shit out of Rome
>Chiefs laughs and say "fuck off Brennos, you're drunk"
>"I will show them"
>18 of July 390 BC
>Time to raid
>Crush Roman army
>What's left of the Roman army btfo to Cerveteri and Veio
>Begin the sack of Rome
>"I like this place, i will stay for a while"
>After 2 months it's not fun anymore, ask a ransom to go be a raider somewhere else
>"Gimme 1000 golden shekels"
>"B-b-but that would barely be all we have"
>Put my sword on the balance, thus increasing the price they will have to pay
>Say out loud "Vae Victis" to the whimpy faggs
>They pay
>Go to north of Italy and settle here, rich of many shekels, foods and bitches
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>Chiefs of each house learn that and have a common solid kek
>Back to business
>Be 60 BC
>Be Julius Caesar
>Make one of the biggest selling point of my campain to be a Governor to use the 4 Legions given to the Governor role of this region to kick the Gaul's ass so bad they will serve as slave for the next 200 years
>Go as far a bribing Pompey himself
>"Ok Julius, you're in charge now"
>Payback.avi
>Not enough money anymore from bribing left and right, payback Gaul even harder and toss back "Vae Victis" to their "savage" faces at Alésia
Rest is history.
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