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Did OPEC cut production? Interesting that there was no raise in prices even though the price of oil went up...

There are plenty of well known plebs that we know of however with the three names.

Fleeting perhaps with our current ways of living, but if we put our minds to destruction, we could annihilate the ecosystem, probably destory all life but bacteria and insects with just a portion of the still yet uncommissioned world nuclear arsonal. T-Rex aint got nothin on that!

Rome total realism is where it's at. I just wonder if a movement like that will ever be repeated for future expansions and games. I see nothing being done for Barbarian Invasion, and I wonder if it would happen for the new MTW. Just last night I was continuing to build my Roman empire. I had one last little Iberian battle in the mountains before all rebellion was quelled. Had a massive force to put down a small band of rebels. As I approached, I noted the vultures circling overhead, sure of death...now that kind of detail is pretty amazing eh?

I think is full name would be as his father: Marcus Antonius Creticus. We just commonly use Marcus Antonius, or Mark Antony probably since Shakespeare ingraned it in our heads heh.

Wildfires expose ancient artifacts DESCANSO, Calif. (AP) -- An oak tree was still burning nearby when Margaret Hangan made her way across a wildfire-scorched landscape and spotted to her delight a set of flat-topped granite boulders that served as kitchen counters in an ancient village 2,000 years ago. In the rocks were manmade oval depressions in which acorns were ground into flour. "This place was happening," said Hangan, a U.S. Forest Service archaeologist. "They had water, food, grass for baskets - everything they needed." For all the damage they do, wildfires can be a boon to archaeologists, laying bare the traces of long-gone civilizations. Associated Press

We're speaking of Lydia in Asia Minor correct? Isn't it speculated that the Etruscans are originally from that area? Wouldn't it be interesting to speculate further that the Etruscan haruspeces' inspection of entrails might have some cultural connection with the rites of this area? Sorry Pantagathus...

As already posted here. With UNRV progressing in years, we should be sure to do a search and consolidate our topics to avoid redundancy.

There is also an astounding amount of archaeological evidence that suggests that residents of Sardis (in Ancient Lydia), sacrificed puppies to a deity: various dog carcasses, dating from the time of the Seleucids, have been found in a mutilated state inside sacrificial urns dotted around the city walls. The deity they were sacrificed to was most probably Hermes. Though also the god of thieves, Hermes was hypocritically the god of theft protection. Sacrificing a dog may well symbolise a guard dog, or another a life form associated with household security. Puppies?! Those sick bastards!

It's hard to celebrate someone who directly led to the passive or active genocide of American Indians north to south. I know the man did not have those intentions, but I find quaint holidays like Thanksgiving and Columbus Day detract to the very real human travesty of so many Indian dead. It puts anything Julius Caesar did to shame! I hope I don't come off sounding like a tree huggin liberal or whatever, but take a moment to think about the sheer scale of it, anthropomorphically or numerically. Why not reward holidays to real heroes, like scientists for a change. I know of no Louis Pasteur day, I could not begin to count how many millions of lives his discoveries has saved to this day. Or Einstein day, who though also has led to the discovery of nuclear weapons technology, without whom the world future of energy production would be bleak indeed. In my opinion, there are many other people vastly more deserving of a holiday than someone who was not really even the first, nor had it right the first time. Columbus is just another notable footnote in history.

What a pointless holiday on so many levels.

I'll hijack this thread as a general joke thread. Thought this one was funny since I am part Polish myself: A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver's license. First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test. The optician showed him a card with the letters: 'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.' "Can you read this?" the optician asked. "Read it?" the Polish guy replied, "I know the guy!"

I would be honoured. Can you give me a link back to that site please? It's in here, but I don't think you can access it unless you have a forum account and are in the game maybe.

Great pictures Pertinax. I hope you don't mind: I'm going to link your photodump to the Roma Victor game based around Corstopitum.

Eh, I found it easy, but I learned it after I was already fluent in Spanish and Italian. But, like any other skill, language has easy moments and difficult ones; one must practice the skill all the time, in order to hone it and master it. Language is like any other skill. Really? I visited Brazil last year, and my friends went on and on about how many absurd tenses they had to deal with. In the end I cannot help but wonder if a language is capable of more beauty the more complex it is. Surely the Brazilian woman embodied that for me! Ok, here I have a question, one of the phrases I regularly use in conversation is... Depends on what exactly you mean honestly. Do you mean you don't want to be socially difficult, or do you mean you don't mean to be confusing on the topic of discussion? I admire bilingual or multilungual people. They have something I'll never have; I squandered my four years of language on Latin.

You know, I bet a number of these possible routes could be eliminated with some understanding of the status of climate during these ancient times. Was it colder than what we know of today, or warmer? I have a feeling it was colder from what little I know, and so that might eliminate some of the more challanging of the options.

By Gunther Hamm MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican archeologists have made the most significant Aztec find in decades, unearthing a 15th century altar and a huge stone slab at a ruined temple in the throbbing heart of Mexico City. The works were uncovered last weekend at the Aztec empire's main Templo Mayor temple, near the central Zocalo square, which was used for worship and human sacrifice. It was the most meaningful find since electricity workers stumbled upon an eight-tonne carving of an Aztec goddess at the same site in 1978. Reuters

What do you folks think of say 500-700 AD? Any specific event in between these years which could be used as a major landmark? The classic 476 AD fall of the western empire as the end never really quite satisfied me, because the century after times were basically the same.

'Has' is present possessive. He has the plague, she has the apple. 'As' is a totally different word, meaning 'like.' Her hair was flaxen blond just like the grain fields of Aquitania. Her hair is just as flaxen blond as the grain fields of Aquitania. English is tough. There is a lot of word usage which can only be properly used with a lot of experience. I hear Protugese is worse though.

It is admirable to use fact and resource in all things Cato, I totally agree with you on this. In fact I doubt that we are of different opinion here on this, just maybe misunderstand each other in what we are saying. You yourself just now say that we cannot take the ancients for face value. If we cannot then what are we doing in its place? Forming conjectures, rationalizing, applying common sense to our doubts of Livy's estimates of total numbers of enemy dead, or the number of times the temple of Jupiter was struck by lightning. Doing so is the necessary glue which binds the few facts we have of the ancient world togeather in order to form an understanding of what went on in those days.

It's kind of amusing really, to have that view, considering how unreliable most of the ancients were anyway. Do you believe for face value everything Livy tells us? If we were to proceed like that then our conclusions would be rather gullible.

It's important to site sources Cato when you can, but I think it's possible to go overboard on the need to do so since so much of ancient history requires intuitive thought and common sense, and so much is unknown. Just because it is unknown does not mean that it is academically incorrect to conjecture plausible scenarios or construct pictures based on related knowns. Science itself would get no where if it were not capable of doing just this.

Roman Religion: A Sourcebook by Valerie M. Warrior Over the years I

Thanks all glad you liked the review. I hope the book is for you as good a read as it was for me!

Whats wrong with that? pays bound to be good. the screams might get to you a bit though... Unlike the modern days, doctors back then probably did not have quite as good a living unless you served the very rich and powerful, and if you did that your own life was probably at risk if you failed in your administrations! Add to that constant exposure to sickness, and you have a rather unappealing line of work in my opinion.