Kosmo
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Thank you both so much for your help! It is very important that each region from Scotland to India, and Scandinavia to North Africa needs to be covered. It helps with the recruitment of troops and the enemies that face Rome.
I wish I could implement all of those tribes into the game, but the hardcoding limits limit the map to how many cities it can have.
It must be a moded map if it reaches/includes India.
RTW has a map of Italy for a short tutorial campaign that, I think, starts around 280 BC
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This is so bad is almost good.
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Can't touch that!
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Happy Birthday!!!
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Romans were a rational and sensible people, so, after the first stinging defeat of the legions, Augustus would have done the smart thing and surrendered. After successfully establishing a base in Rome the MEU would set up a corrupt and incompetent government who would force legislation and a socio-political system incompatible with the mind-set, culture and beliefs of the inhabitants of the Empire sparkling a series of rebellions in the provinces motivated by perceived threats to religion/identity. The MEU has to be divided and sent piecemeal to fight elusive guerrillas. The discipline brakes down and half of the marines decide to live an epicurean life
while the other half go to Judea to look for Jesus. They are eventually absorbed during the period of conflicts sparked by the Marines invasion, border wars, pretenders and rebellions. In the end peace is reestablished by a new emperor, a former roman general from the Rhine limes who showed talent and ruthlessness in his use of rifle legions and mortar auxila. -
Franks didn't lost their identity.
They were a german people located on both sides of the Rhine. They eventually controlled politically a much larger region but they didn't settled far from the Rhine. What we call France is just the western third of their state. The other two thirds became the Holy German Empire that existed for another 1000 years after France broke out of the frankish state. The core of the frankish state during Merovingians and Carolingians was always in the Rhine lands while western regions like Aquitania and Bretagne were independent and/or hostile. A similar hostile situation was in Southern France from the time the Goths of Septimania were caught between arabs and franks until the crusades against the cathars in the High Middle Ages. The western third was not the most important part of the frankish state despite France-centric historians.
Franks and medieval France are different things that don't overlap and despite modern French drive East the core Frankish region, that included Lotharingia, still has many german speakers that are maybe descendants of the franks.
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I thought Lucretia is dead, but it seems she is just mad. More mad then before I mean. "Crazy sex isn't always good sex" - Lucy Lawless made me laugh. Very glad the they kept her.
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"Nor is any thing done without such a signal; and in the morning the soldiery go every one to their centurions, and these centurions to their tribunes, to salute them." Josephus Wars of the Jews bk 5.2 'On the Roman army'.
This sounds a lot like the client/patron system and the morning visits that romans made to their social superiors, not like a form of greeting.
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There are very little literary sources about the Latin speakers north of Danube until the Romanians/Vlachs are mentioned in the 10th century. The area was controlled by various tribes like Goths, Huns, Slavs etc who probably dominated the romanized inhabitants. When Trajan established the roman province of Dacia large groups of Dacians East and North of the province remained independent. These Free Dacians kept raiding the Empire until they were absorbed by Goths and were not Latin speakers.
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True, but they were both rebuilt. Troy was a tourist city until the Late Empire while Tyre was famous in the empire for it's tall insulae.
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I believe that rather then aesthetics a contact would have brought new technologies like iron or the wheel.
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Wow 50! Nice!
Happy many returns!
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It is certain that vikings reached Newfoundland and maybe other civilizations crossed the Atlantic but as long as they did not established trade routes, colonies, cultural and biological exchanges etc it is pretty much irrelevant.
Phoenicians/Carthaginians were reputed seafarers at some point but even in Antiquity technology and knowledge improved constantly and spread to new areas so we see in military/naval aspects Greeks and Romans catching up and surpasing them.
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Both Belgian communities are mostly catholic. I think the biggest hurdle for flemish secession is deciding the fate of Bruxelles, a french speaking city located in the dutch speaking region.
The legacy of Mussolini is the founding of fascism by mixing marxist populism and focus on the state with large scale corruption, nationalism and militarism in a toxic demagogic cocktail. While there are no more openly fascist states contemporary dictatorships like that of Mubarak in Egypt or the so-called communist rule in China look very much like fascism.
He also played a decisive role in breaking any effectiveness for the League of Nation and the multilateral treaties that kept the order established after WW1 and so he played a vital role in preparing and later in extending WW2.
Maybe without his intervention Spain would have become a communist pro-soviet state.
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Did Romans had magic books? Some practices regarded by Romans as sorcery were forbidden and punished while others that we may consider magic were part of the state cults like divination in entrails or bird flight. Also Ancient medicine was something that we will regard as mostly magic rather then science. Modern distinctions between religion, magic and science were non existent for Romans.
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During the fighting in Libya there was concern over the fate of the country's historical treasures.
Most seem to have survived in tact including the jewel in the crown, Leptis Magna, the ancient roman city on the Mediterranean.
The BBC went to visit and was shown around by tour guide Khalifa Ali Hweta, who has lived there his whole life.
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I must precise that I don't have any driving licence and must thus travel using public transports (and I don't like organized tours...).
That's not a problem, Turkey has an amazing network of private buses that go in all directions.
If you want a chance at sunny weather go on the south coast - Marmaris or Antalya
Clearly the biggest historical destination in Turkey is Istanbul
Can't wait to see your pictures
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The only thing I know is that the writer was getting nothing of those money because romans did not had copyright laws.
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Many happy returns!
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Byzantine Empire is a very wrong and derogatory name, but is well known. The only correct name is Roman Empire and it looks like slowly it is winning some ground. Eastern Roman Empire makes sense only for the 5th Century but it can be used for later periods. The roman german empire is usually named in English as the Holy Empire. Greek Roman Empire is weird especially because the greeks within the empire did not spoke of themselves as greeks but as romans.
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Three historic monuments have been attacked by vandals in the Italian capital, Rome.
In the first attack, a man was caught on security cameras chipping two pieces off a marble statue on a fountain in the Piazza Navona.
Hours later tourists watched as a man threw a rock at the famous Trevi Fountain in the centre of the city.
Police then said they caught an American student scaling a wall of the Colosseum to chip off pieces of marble...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14782948
Interesting choice of title given that vandals actually attacked and looted Rome.
Italy In 280 B.C.
in Res Publica
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If you use the BI engine you could have an Eastern Celtic horde in the Balkans/Anatolia because this is when celts raided Macedonia and killed it's king and when they established Galatia and the Tylis kingdom