Was that a change from Rome's pre-Christian ways or nah?
Insert "He's right you know" meme here.
The bible isn't an instruction manual.
You can blame the bible for all the world's wrongs, but if it never existed mankind would have used something else to control others. It is simply the nature of mankind.
Exactly.
We're there no monarchs before Christendom?
Peaceful aborigines? You need to study mankind more.