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Women Warriors From Amazon Fought For Britain's Roman Army

Amazon.com was around back then? (c8

2 posted on 12/22/2004 10:30:52 AM PST by Poohbah (God must love fools. He makes so many of them...)
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Wow I almost missed this thread.

Where are the pictures???

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

32 posted on 12/22/2004 11:09:20 AM PST by expatguy ("Fallujah Delenda Est!")
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To: Poohbah

I'll bet if they dig deeper, they will find some Ebay-ers too. From Ebay-ria.


33 posted on 12/22/2004 11:09:35 AM PST by Adder (Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
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Given the region of orgin (the Danube basin) and time period (before the Huns), it is probable that these women were Sarmatians. The Sarmatians, like their Scythian relatives, had noble female warriors. Like Scythians they fought from horseback. A core of armored lancers surrounded by swarms of light horse archers like the later Parthians.


39 posted on 12/22/2004 11:41:57 AM PST by Sam the Sham
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