Roman Legion Founded Chinese City

Ansa ^ | 7-25-2005

[beaver fever]

I am Crassus.

No I am Sparticus, yeah that's the ticket.

[ValenB4]

Amazing. Thanks for the ping.

[Servant of the 9]

This is where the survivors founded the city of Liquian

OK, and where did they get the women from?

Same place Roman legions always got their women on distant posts, from among the local peasants.

So9

[SunkenCiv]

Character of Hannibal by Polybius
http://livinghistoryengineer.com/roman/eagle/05May_Eagle_files/May%20Eagle.pdf

[SunkenCiv]

Lou Zhuangzi:

Google

[SunkenCiv]

Must be Roman Empire Week here at GGG. ;')

[blam]

I didn't realize we'd covered this topic so thoroughly on the other thread.

Here's something I posted on the other thread:

"From the excellent book The Tarim Mummies, page #281: "...Narin Infers that they (Caucasians) had been there at least since the Qijia Culture of c. 2,000BC and probably even earlier in the Yangshao Culture of the Neolithic. This would render the Tocharians as virtually native to Gansu (and earlier than the putative spread of the Neolithic to Xinjaing) and Narin goes so far as to argue that the Indo-Europeans themselves originally dispensed from this area westwards."

[nopardons]

bttt

[inquest]

Your post just made something occur to me. The article said that Liquian was said to be a Chinese word for Roman. Perhaps it's in fact based on the Latin root of the word "legion". Just a thought.

[Snake65]

Seems like this would have led to TWO lost legions.

Heh. Well, it more or less did, but it was a novel (i.e. fiction). Still a good read.

[wildbill]

Actually I tried to find the book in my local Houston library catalogue without success. I love novels about antiquity.

[Sinner6]

Probally some combination of kidnapping and purchasing the local women. Remember that women very rarely had any input on marrage arrangements in any of the ancient worlds.

[CobaltBlue]

I tried to find the book in my local Houston library catalogue without success.

Ask them to get it via inter-library loan. You'd be amazed what they can get if you ask.

[CobaltBlue]

Camp-followers. Women just love men in uniforms. -g-

[afraidfortherepublic]

The article doesn't provide any evidence that goes beyond the speculative.

I don't know how the time frame fits with the buried clay soldiers of Xian, China's ancient Capitol, but the faces on some of those soldiers are clearly Caucasian. The emporor who buried the statues was said to have had them modeled on his own army, in lieu of burying his loyal soldiers alive upon his death, as had been the previous custom.

[zot]

Ah, those Roman Legions really did a lot of roaming.

Groan ... but yes, they were roaming at least as far north as Hadrian's wall.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

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