Posted on 07/31/2005 12:31:23 PM PDT by blam
I am Crassus.
No I am Sparticus, yeah that's the ticket.
Amazing. Thanks for the ping.
Same place Roman legions always got their women on distant posts, from among the local peasants.
So9
Character of Hannibal by Polybius
http://livinghistoryengineer.com/roman/eagle/05May_Eagle_files/May%20Eagle.pdf
Must be Roman Empire Week here at GGG. ;')
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."
bttt
Heh. Well, it more or less did, but it was a novel (i.e. fiction). Still a good read.
Actually I tried to find the book in my local Houston library catalogue without success. I love novels about antiquity.
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.
Ask them to get it via inter-library loan. You'd be amazed what they can get if you ask.
Camp-followers. Women just love men in uniforms. -g-
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.
Groan ... but yes, they were roaming at least as far north as Hadrian's wall.
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