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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:I asked this a few months ago in the Military History thread, but figured yall might be able to answer it better. Following the (second) Dacian War, Just wondering, why was there so much gold and silver in Dacia? Not exactly a rich place, I would think.
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Why did Britian (and the Germanic tribes which invaded it) not Romanize, when the rest of the WRE did?
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I always hear in thread about how Sulla both saved the republic and doomed it by being the first governor to march on Rome with his army, but apart from that I'm not sure what he actually did. Can someone do a long post on what Sulla did and why he was important?
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Aug 1, 2013 23:11
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BurningStone posted:I strongly suspect, though it can't be proven, that our vision of Ceaser is mostly a creation of Octavian/Agustus. His rise to power was based on nothing but being Ceaser's heir and adopted son, and he built a powerful propaganda machine. Look how it still colors popular perceptions of Cleopatra even today. On that point, where would of Shakespeare got the historical information to write his historical plays in the first place? I cant that kind of information being easily available in Elizabethan England.
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Aug 16, 2013 17:22
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euphronius posted:Latin didn't disappear as a common language at all and modern English is heavily influenced by it and even moreso influenced by French which is of course a romance language (with Germanic influence!). Most of the Latin influence came from the use of Latin as a scholarly language through the medieval period. The Latin influence on pre-1066 English is negligible, but only afterwards becomes more prominent.
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Sep 17, 2013 22:40
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Arglebargle III posted:Civil War: 190-208 AD Thanks again for doing these, I now somewhat understand what was going on in Dynasty Warriors now!
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Captain Postal posted:Serious question: How is this different to China? Much of their good poo poo has been destroyed, but the stuff that survived often did it by being sold on the black market over 500 years, and now that China is economically very powerful and needs to spend all that money on something, they're buying it back, or philanthropists are buying it and donating it back. Sure, the artefacts survive, which is better than them being destroyed: but losing the context of the artefacts means we lose much historical detail you can learn from them.
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Mar 1, 2015 01:21
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Pornographic Memory posted:What the gently caress? I don't want to derail this thread too much, but I hadn't heard about this...is there anywhere to read a summary of this? The last few pages of this thread here are most of the recent revelations.
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Mar 29, 2015 18:14
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On the topic, how were Alexander The Great's logistics organised? By his success in the field they must have been good, especially as they were mostly travelling among hostile or formally hostile land aganist a enemy with naval superiority.
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May 28, 2015 14:36
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Friendly Tumour posted:Well considering that literacy became the sole purview of priests after the fall of Rome, yeah you could say that medical knowledge among everything else deteriorated. Not metallurgy! If I remember correctly from the last time this conversation happened, progress was made around europe in metallurgy quite consistently throughout the 400-1400 AD period, and nowhere did it regress.
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Jun 23, 2015 23:20
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Besides, the British museum is probably one of the safest place for artifacts to be, from both natural and mad-made disasters.
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Nov 15, 2015 22:21
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There was trade routes running up to Cornwall from the Med in roman times, iirc, so they must have had good enough sailors to cross the bay of biscay/english channel fine and regularly enough to trade with it, or they took along the french coast their galleys all the way easy to Calais before sailing back to Cornwall. I don't know which one it is, but you can get some rough seas on the atlantic coastline which romans should have been used to sailing (not that that is the same as crossing the atlantic)
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Dec 18, 2015 16:46
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LingcodKilla posted:Yeah you can literally see across that lane of water at certain points in that region. It was not exactly sailing into the unknown. Sailing from Italy to Africa is more treacherous. Due to shallow seabed the Med can be extremely treacherous. It's no joke and it's why just making a run for shore and beaching is a common practice. Sure: you can take the safe route, hug the Spainish/French coast till you get to a point in the English channel thin enough you can make a short hop across open sea. But thats alot longer than crossing the bay of Biscay itself, or hopping over the wider bits of the channel (still quite close to shore, mind you, just not in sight). If that was a trade route the romans sailed (instead of hauling stuff overland) then merchants probably would have had incentives to shorten the route by taking faster routes.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:03
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Come to think of it decimation was treated the same way. When Crassus revived it apparently most people were like "really? what the gently caress?" Same for the other smattering of times generals used it post 100 BC. Then the WW1 Italian army comes along and does it for real.
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Jul 11, 2016 23:01
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HEY GAL posted:here is the deets. So, like actual 17th century brits?
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Aug 26, 2016 00:16
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't know what researchers actually conducted the study, but more to the point, I don't think that Rome actually "collapsed" in the same sense of the word that NASA is using to predict a worldwide collapse of industrial civilization. I'm sure that many areas suffered a steep decline in safety, distant trade, education, and public services that citizens under Trajan's rule could take for granted, but people weren't scrabbling for weapons or tools or other consumer goods that nobody knew how to manufacture anymore. Trade networks collapsed across the Mediterranean, which meant complex economic networks built up around export of consumer goods also collapsed: no-one would buy your stuff anymore, and you couldn't buy other cities stuff. Metalworking, as something done everywhere, wasn't hit as hard but alot of consumer goods did disappear.
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Sep 8, 2016 22:30
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I can't remember the details of the paper, but it came from DNA analysis of different maize crops. The conclusion was that for the first 1000 years or so of maize being grown by humans, the corns would still be too small to be able to eat or get much nutrition out of. However, you would be able to mash up the micro-corns and use it to make weak alcohol. So the authors theorised that maize was grown for a long period before it was worth growing for food soles for the purpose of making alcohol, and only after than was going on for awhile did we breed maize crops it was worth farming for the food alone.
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Dec 12, 2016 02:14
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VanSandman posted:The Romans, being the original trolls, gave that particular Antony the honorific 'Creticus,' which can mean both '(Conqueror) of Crete' or 'Man of Chalk.' Any link to the noun "cretin" or just sound similar?
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Jan 2, 2017 17:49
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I'm looking to go to Rome this summer, so what Roman stuff or cool museums is there in Rome which are not immediately obvious? I'm not much for art/paintings, and want to get all the ancient ruins/medieval poo poo I can in the few days I'm there.
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May 17, 2017 22:08
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Since it's coming up: sorry future historians for some many tweets(14 character messages often used for quick communication with the world by groups & inderviduals) , photos and archives which aren't archived with posts. If you do see a quote with an article link it sometimes and sometimes isn't the whole thing, and LP is screenshots of people playing games usually showing only the game itself, sorry they all gone.
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Jun 14, 2017 02:31
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Isn't this mostly just because the greeks/Romans were into statues and later Europeans weren't to the same extent? Like, we have a poo poo load of Roman statues and busts, but if they painted anything on canvass, paper etc it's lost. The art might just be of a style that dissappears easily.
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Jul 17, 2017 09:32
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The church didn't start making images of the Crucifixion till around 400 AD, so it wasn't the early church favouring crosses over statues.
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At the very least, Justinian could have actually secured Italy up to the Alps, although how much that would change when the Lombards come knocking is a different question.
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Aug 13, 2017 11:50
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Grand Fromage posted:Bunch of neologisms for current times. I think Information Age may survive, I believe computers/internet mark a significant break from what has come before. This just made me realize that in 200 years, if you're right there will be(hopefully) historians arguing about when the information age started, and some people saying directly after WW2, some people putting it In the 1970s with early Internet, 90s with growth if home computing, 2007 with the first smartphones. 20XX with (future tech here) etc Really wierd to think about how future historians will think of now. Historians. Historians never change.
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Sep 1, 2017 15:41
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Yea, until the late industrial revolution crop yield is the big factor in stability and wellbeing. Gotta eat to live. Until we get industrial fertilisers and mechanised labour, crop yields will still plummet in down years: Potatoes are probably the best choice for that reason, even if expanding the food supply just means population grows bigger before they all die next famine.
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Dec 12, 2017 20:53
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How much electricity could you generate from a water-wheel anyways, instead of a dedicated hydroelectic plant?
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So from the sounds of it they had a written census record that they knew matched some of the khipu so the guy managed to figure out at least a partial translation of it? Neat: hopefully this will lead to more breakthroughs in understanding the Inca more thoughtly.
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They've long been exporting lumber - Norwegian pine for the Royal Navy was a thing for a long time, and lesser lumber exports aswell. They've obviously always had fishing, and iron mines in the far north. It's more Norway never really had the population density or urbanization for much industry, so they've mostly been a resource extraction economy which isn't how you become super-rich before oil.
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Sep 3, 2018 14:00
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Why did he wany to march through Korea, anyways, instead of landing straight on the Chinese coast at Shandong or something?
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Sep 15, 2018 08:36
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Jack2142 posted:It is, even if they went through the Sea-Walls not the Theodosian Walls. The Theodosian Walls are just ridiculously impressive, they were built in the early 400's and were never breached until an entirely new technology was invented millenia later. Do parts of them still stand? I guess the Ottomans kept them around for awhile but historical preservation often loses when it comes to city planning.
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Dalael posted:Apologies for flooding the thread but... I just saw these and they are way too cool to not repost: drat neat, another one on the list of ancient sites I really should see one day.
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Nov 16, 2018 13:48
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One way Romanesqe looking at it is that democracy allows for peaceful transfers of power between the elite/political class (see Roman patricians). You have a fair shot of winning an election if you want power, and losing is alot less painful. Of course, when power starts to be transferred to the socalists (or the Gracchi brothers) you throw a fuss, but if the institutions mediating your elite power struggles are powerful enough they overrule you and democracy still happens. Or they get couped, but after opening up the armed force box you can't go back to the same method of settling elite disputes.
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Yea, if you buy a Vatican ticket online you get to skip a huge queue abf head in. The Vatican also has s surprisingly large Egyptian collection, and the hall of maps which is amazing and everyone just walks through it. The Sistine Chapel is kinda poo poo though.
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Jan 31, 2019 00:44
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Most kf those are probably romantic or semi-sexual yea - these days only 45% of American under 24s report losing their virginity in high school (its dropped about 15% last 10 years - I blame the Internet)
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aphid_licker posted:It surprised me that there was no single dot in pink and blue with a number under it representing the people who did not report any contacts so maybe this only shows people who reported at least one contact, however contact was defined. Even if this tracks romantic nonsexual contacts there should be a couple people who reported nothing. http://www.soc.duke.edu/~jmoody77/chains.pdf Reverse image search is your friend. They picked a rural high school where the kids had nothing to do but get drunk with each other outside school, and paid them $20 to take part, so they got a 90% response rate. And yea, they say that only 60% students report being sexually active, and 25% reported no romantic or sexual contacts. Nothingtoseehere fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Apr 30, 2019 |
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What might have happened is population growth (or currency usaging growth) grew faster than bronze production did - If there's more demand for money but the production is flat, then you'll get inflation, and the price can inflate away from value as a tool. Does seem weird though.
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I am both amazed at how much we can discover from just archaeology and annoyed we dont know more. I can't think of any long run cannibalistic cultures, although I am sure others have examples.
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Aug 21, 2019 05:58
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You need money for any of these technologies anyways- stuff like glassware or precision metalwork has only got cheaper over time. there's a reason distilling is always suggested as the first invention to make money, although where you'd get equipment to set up a still is another matter.
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HEY GUNS posted:in paris i am p sure you'd be crammed into a lovely apartment though? i don't know about altdorf (wallenstein's alma mater, until he was kicked out) Probably. Oxford and Cambridge held a royal monopoly on university education in England till the 19th century, so they developed infrastructure of student residences in colleges since every rich son moved to Oxbridge and they had vague standards. Provincial universities popped up everywhere in Europe however, so local rich didn't move as far and such less explicit infrastructure existed to house students. You'd probably be a lodger in someone elses house/lovely apartment aswell.
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