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well how aboutthis old chaps! did alexander the great ever fight the romans???

here are some thing i just found in a search for my towns history... Native American and Pioneer History Native Americans lived in the Charleston area for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. With the great tallgrass prairie to the west, beech-maple forests to the east, and the Embarras and Wabash Rivers between, the Charleston area provided semi-nomadic Native Americans access to a variety of resources. Indians may have deliberately set the "wildfires" which maintained the local mosaic of prairie and oak-hickory forest. Streams with names like Indian Creek and Kickapoo Creek mark the sites of former Native settlements. One village is said to have been located south of Fox Ridge State Park near a deposit of flint. The early history of European settlement in the area was marked by uneasy co-existence between Native Americans and European settlers. Some settlers lived peacefully with the natives. But in the 1810s and 1820s, after Native Americans allegedly harrassed surveying crews, an escalating series of poorly-documented skirmishes occurred between Native Americans, settlers, and militias known as the Illinois Rangers. Two pitched battles (complete with cannon on one side) occurred just south of Charleston along "the hills of the Embarras," near the entrance to modern Lake Charleston park. These conflicts did not slow European settlement. Native American history in Coles County effectively ended when all natives were expelled by law from Illinois after the 1832 Black Hawk War. With the grudging exception of Indian wives, the last natives were driven out by the 1840s. [edit] Post-Settlement History Charleston was named after city founder name Charles Morton and was a combination of both of his names. The city was established in 1831, but not incorporated until 1865. When Abraham Lincoln's father moved to a farm on Goosenest Prairie south of Charleston in 1831, Abe helped him move, then left to start his own homestead at New Salem in Sangamon County. Abe was a frequent visitor to the Charleston area, though he likely spent more time at the Coles County courthouse than at the home of his father and stepmother. One of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates was held in Charleston. Lincoln's last visit was in 1859, when the President-elect visited his stepmother and his father's grave before setting out for Washington D.C. Although Illinois was a solidly pro-Union, anti-slavery state, Coles County was settled by many Southerners with pro-slavery sentiments. In 1847, the county was divided when prominent local citizens offered refuge to a family of escaped slaves brought from Kentucky by Gen. Robert Matson. Abe Lincoln himself appeared in the Coles County courthouse to argue for the return of the escaped slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act in a case known as Matson v. Ashmore (http://www.eiu.edu/~localite/coles/cclhp/crime/ashmore_v._matson.htm). As in the rest of the nation, this long-simmering debate finally broke out into violence during the American Civil War. On March 28, 1864 a riot- or perhaps a small battle- erupted in downtown Charleston when armed Confederate sympathizers known as Copperheads arrived in town to attacked half-drunk Union soldiers preparing to return to their regiment. Newspaper accounts (http://www.eiu.edu/~localite/coles/copperhead.htm) at the time said the Copperheads stated intention was to burn the town and "cut out the hearts of the 'd---ed abolistionists.'" Even the county sherriff is alleged to have fired on the soldiers. By the time the

the only thing i think is worth mentioning about my towns past is a snow storm that hit it about 100 years ago. it was so bad and hit so sudden people were frozen to death as they were running to their homes. least thats what im told, never really felt like seeing if it was true or not

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hmm well from those descriptions id have to go with alesia... but i will for sure learn about all of these and maybe my opinion will change. thanks for describing them for me!

to be honest with you, im not familliar with any of those names. can you give maybe a brief synopsis of each? or what were the key things in it that maybe i would know about?

hey, i dont really feel like making a new thread for this... but has anyone played the Alexander the Great game that came out? made from the movie? it said its got the largest scale battles in it then any other game using over 800 on screen units to represent over like 60,000 i think it said. i saw it a while ago and thought id ask...? id like to get it if my komp was better, i cant even play RTW anymore

i ment iran

its my understanding, and i dont wuite remember where i heard this, that the mentally challanged, of all sorts, were generally held in high esteem and treated well and cared for as they would any normal person. i think i learned this in my psycology class... and i believe that in some cases they were put on somewhat of a peditole (sp?) saying that they might be connected to gods and other such things... this is just what i remember from my psyco class... i could be wrong on it all...

^werd, werent the ones chosen to be decimated crusified? or were they just killed? i know the ones envolved in the whole sparticus ordeal were crusified werent they?

what do you guys think of the roman military using Decimation as a form of punishment?

hmm, well i guess id have to say the punic wars would be my favorite roman time in history. im more of a person who loves the wars and battles and tactics and all of that about ancient times, and the punic wars were imo legendary.

sparticus, the only actual battle i know much about with alexander was the great battle with the persians, and how he used his cavalry to punchthrough. do you kow of any other of his tactics that he used in other battles?

ok ok.. what i was trying to do with terrain was keep this from turning into another han vs rome kinda thing... but yes you are right. using terrain is part of being tactical...

taking ONLY tactics and use of strategies into account, no terrain, no army size, no equipment, etc., who in your opinion is the greatest commander of the anceint world? and please explain why it can be roman, barbian, greek, chinese, whatever... just tell me who and why

how is it that julius cuased a civil war? i dont know much at all about roman politics...

here is something that you may find more.. uh, reliable information if you will, then herodotus. its about the women warriors of the sarmatians but it explains things about the society as a whole in a much different light then herodotus does... http://www.silk-road.com/artl/sarmatian.shtml

hey guys, the sarmatians (for those who havent heard of it) would be in the greek and roman maps listed in the region known as saurmatai... like i said in another post, the sarmatians are of Amazon and Scythian ancestory. legend (ie, history) says that a group of amazon women were captured by i belive ionians and took them to thei home on ships at sea. while at sea its belived that the amazons killed all of the men on the boats, and knowing nothing about sailing, simply drifted. t hen ended up landin on the eastern shores of the Red sea. then known as the exuine (sp?). there they proceeded to raid the scythians that lived there untill eventually, a group of scythians grew close to them by living near them. they began to marry and instead of taking the amazons back to the main scythain villages, they decided to move to a new land (Saurmatai) they were allied with the scythains... but were quite different really. all of that information is taken from Herodotus's The Histories, book four. the sarmatian "knights" were, as i belive was once stated here on this very board, were mercenaries hired by the romans and generally deployed in the north western regions of the empire. (ie. britania) as for the sarmatian troops, they were structured the same as the scythians. they werent really an "army" they were the men and women of the tribes (since they were amazon and scythian.. the women faught wtih the men...) they had no established place of residence, they romaded there land as nomads. so they were never stationed anywhere... when they needed to fight they gatherd together and fought. dont get me wrong though, the sarmatians and the scythians were extremely clever warriors as the persians found out when they came to attack the scythians... hope that helped ya out a bit.

hey about ho wmuch is a denarii worth in today society? american dollars if you will??

saddles were taken from the celts???? i didnt know celts had saddles before rome did... wasnt it the eastern culturs that brought them into roman military? heck, the scythians had stirrups and saddles before the romans did... but they were in the east.

i responded with all i know about sarmatians (in a nutshell) in your other thread russian. as for us being studying buffs... i despise studying. but i love to learn about ancient history. mostly through getting bored and looking up stuff, not really studying.

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the sarmatians were decendants of the scythian race, and legend says of the amazon women too. basically there were a race of people who migrated up from present day iraq and settled in the steps of northern/eastern europe. they derived alot of their battle tactics from the scythians inthat, bows were their main attack, but they also developed another method (in attempt to fight the current scythians) which is that of long spears that they would cahrge with after a massive arrow attack. thats pretty much all i know really...

zeke wants tto be a mod! dont let him pilus! lol j/k mods here are pretty kool, im on several forums and bad mods do suck but the ones here are very helpful

so...when did the romans really make a significant contact with the greeks for the first time? was it just with trade? was it a battle?