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To: SunkenCiv
...Check, hold the garum. How about some liquamen?...

Roughly the same. I will still pass.

Do you think the Romans conquered and held most of the then-known world because of, or in spite of, their diet?

56 posted on 03/08/2020 11:23:17 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave
After a century or so of trial and error, intermittent improvements by talented commanders, and ultimately a massively OCD organization initiated and/or reformed by Augustus, the Roman army *was* the Roman Empire. They kept a standing army that (after Augustus) rarely exceeded 280,000 (half of whom were auxiliaries) and yet Roman rule stretched the length of North Africa, and from lowland Scotland to the Persian Gulf during the reign of Trajan, and maintaining (and expanding) that with relatively few troops probably is some kind of record.

57 posted on 03/08/2020 11:39:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: CurlyDave

Reputedly the legions survived on corn meal {polenta}


99 posted on 03/09/2020 7:25:54 AM PDT by stuckincali
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