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Suggestion Survey is Open through 4/10
🕑 Added 2020-04-08 18:02:46 +0000 UTCOur theme for March/April surveys is ROME: EMPERORS & EMPIRES.
For centuries, Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. In this series, we’ll take a closer look at one episode in this history—perhaps the life of Caesar, Spartacus’ rebellion, or that time Caligula tried to murder his mom with a booby-trapped party yacht. From the Colosseum to the Capitaline, we’ll explore the glory (and the gory) that was Rome.
Some notes about your suggestions:
- Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.
- If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a full series, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
- Anything that happened or started before 1929 is fair game to suggest. We typically don't cover more recent events, unless we're working with sponsors who can provide more documentation about that historical topic.
- We have a ratio of 2 suggestion surveys to every 1 voting poll. So if/when we ever do a theme for the survey, that theme will appear twice in a row. The results of both surveys are collected and added together when we determine patron suggestions to include in the next voting poll.
Comments
His Dustyness
That would be a unique one!
His Dustyness
I don't know if you've done this yet, but a series on Emperors Claudius and Nero would be cool...
Bel
I suggested Emperor Diocletian and the Tetrarchy. There are tons of interesting things about Diocletian's rule, but it is rare for us to hear about Roman emperors choosing to share power rather than retaining all for themselves.
Bright Ops
I confess I submitted 'The Worst Roman Emperor'. The idea being to have the Extra History staff compare Emperor's to figure out who's reign did the most harm to Rome as a whole. Yes, history isn't as simple as to blame an individual for all the problems, but Rome did have some... quote on quote 'Interesting' Emperors.
Dr.V
History of the Cossacks. They are an amazing people with some very interesting history and I think a series on them would be wonderfully interesting. Note, I plan on suggesting this topic at every chance I get :)
Lady Bug
How about the last Byzantium Emperor when the Ottoman Empire came crashing? Or is that one not good?
Nimrod
I suggest a series on the 3rd century crisis - an important, and very defining era for the roman empire.
Samuel D Tahami
Since the Punic Wars were covered in a fair bit of detail, it would be great if there could be another series based on Rome's fight with another major rival, Sassanian Persia. Some of it was covered with the fantastic series on Khosrau Anushirawan but some focus could be used on the earlier confrontations (Gordian and Valerian vs Ardashir and Shapur) and later ones (Heraclius vs Khosrau II) which left both empires vulnerable to the rise of the Muslim caliphates from Arabia.
Extra History
Sorry for the confusion! You can suggest once each survey, meaning that technically everyone has the chance to make two suggestions for one poll.
Joël Quenneville
I suggested the life of Cicero
Francis DiStefano
Do a series on the 5 good emperors
Emily Gosnell
Sorry if I'm the idiot who doesn't get it but it says 1 suggestion per person and 2 surveys for 1 poll. Can I give 1 suggestions in each survey, 2 suggestions for 1 poll, or am I only supposed to respond to 1 survey.
