And of course there's a huge difference between "guy who's ancestors were conquered by Julius Caesar" and "guy who's father crossed the Rhine a decade ago."
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The Aedui were the first Gauls to recieve citizenship but only to give them privileges over other Gauls.
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Until Caracalla Roman citizenship wasn't given to all inhabitants but only to those groups with a proven record of loyalty to Rome and her values.
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It's foolish to lay it on the feet of the citizenship edict but before Caracalla the empire weathered crises. After him crises nearly tore it apart.
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At that point it was merely symbolic but the basic pt is the same - demographic stock destroyed, dispersed, diluted
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