1 posted on
08/20/2011 8:10:59 AM PDT by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
08/20/2011 8:13:13 AM PDT by
Perdogg
(0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
To: SunkenCiv
Roamin’ ping.
This suggests much about widespread trade and the dispersal of knowledge.
3 posted on
08/20/2011 8:13:58 AM PDT by
decimon
To: decimon
Planned Towns is a universal concept...Brains doesn't have much to do with it..Just observe kids playing in the sand at the beach...
Myy granddaughter...maybe 4 or 5....she drew a Town on the driveway...Stores, houses, Lake, roads.
?Grandma (moi) said she was going swimming in the water...naked. Shocked, she added a jail to the Town and guess where grandma wound up.
To: zot
5 posted on
08/20/2011 8:25:03 AM PDT by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: decimon
8 posted on
08/20/2011 8:47:51 AM PDT by
ken21
(ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
To: decimon
Well, they knew that a lot of guests would be flying in to attend the royal weddng for William the Iron Man and his bride, Kate the Magnificent, so they had to get organized fast.
To: decimon
The Romans are often credited with bringing civilisation to Britain - including town planning. "Other than that, what did the Romans ever do for us?"
12 posted on
08/20/2011 10:46:03 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: decimon
The Brits don't start to get a handle on the barbarians in their midst, they'll get to see what life in pre-Roman towns is like, first hand.
Same goes for this side of the pond.
13 posted on
08/20/2011 10:51:43 AM PDT by
tomkat
(1860)
To: decimon
The grid city design is far superior to the subdivision design favored by developers. It prevents congestion, allows better walking opportunities, has better ingress and egress.
Modern city planners can learn from these pre Roman cities.
To: decimon
They were probably Roman in all but name by then. Just like the invading Goths like Alaric were already heavily Romanized down to fighting methods in 451 AD
18 posted on
08/22/2011 3:35:29 AM PDT by
Cronos
( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
To: decimon
In other words, the Romans took over an existing civilization.
“After the Roman invasion, the town was used by its military, and there is evidence that Roman buildings were very swiftly built on top of Iron Age structures.”
20 posted on
08/22/2011 11:13:56 AM PDT by
Beowulf9
To: decimon
I would have been shocked if the British tribes hadn't been building towns. IMHO, the main reason so few pre-Roman towns have been found is it would have made sense for those same towns to continue to be occupied after the Roman conquest.
German tribes were building towns on a grid and they were never (permanently) occupied by Rome.
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