Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Slavery, BlackWashing, Roman Laws, Duels, Languages: Special Patreon Q\u0026A August" video.

  1. An Italian is likely to understand written French better than written Spanish, but spoken Spanish way better than spoken French. Because French words are more similar to Italian ones, but the pronunciation is completely different, while Italian and Spanish pronunciations are quite similar.
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  2. Not really Nubians (pretty rare in the Empire), but Numidians. Numidians were North-Africans. Teutons, Gauls, Brits and Balearic (and Numidians) were readily available, into the empire or at its border. Nubians were far away. It would have been a problem to have "units" of them.
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  3. Slavery had been a major cause, and probably the single major one. Lincoln didn't brought up until about halfway through the war simply because he thought that Northerners would not have gladly fought for it (and the North didn't need to provide a cause, since it had been the South to secede, and not the contrary).
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  4.  @nzrbroadcasting1421  For the North the cause was the secession. States had not the right to secede. The southerners were "rebels", and that's all. For the South, the main cause were the increased limitations on slavery. All the new territories west of Mississippi were free states and that put slave states in minority. By 1858, 17 free states, which included California (1850), and Minnesota (1858), outnumbered the 15 slave states. In mid-1861, with the addition of Oregon (1859) and Kansas (1861), the number of free states had grown to 19 while the number of slave states remained at 15. Washington D.C. formed with land from two slave states, abolished slavery in 1850. The path was quite evident. Lincoln (a known abolitionist) being elected President was the final straw. All the slave states that gave an explanation of the motives of secession, specifically mentioned the plight of the "slaveholding states" at the hands of Northern abolitionists.
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  5. In Chinese movies made for the Chinese market, the part of Europeans are often (almost exclusively) played by Chinese actors.
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  6.  @aggroalex5470  See this ancient Roman ambassador. https://youtu.be/W98aHvOC3j4?t=140
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  7. A contemporary of those characters would have considered the actors to be credible in the respective roles?
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