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 Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:21 pm
This is where you can discuss/talk/debate about all the history that you want. All that I ask is that you do not "discuss" the history in the RP threads as that disturbs the flow. Also its not very respectful of the other RPers :/
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:23 pm
We needed a thread like this.
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:26 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:36 pm
I would like it to be know that Celts are not Gauls.
Gauls and Celts are 2 different peoples.
Celts(Scots,Picts,Manx,Welsh,) Franks/Gauls(French) Goths(German) , Norse(Scandinavia(and other northern places))
yes the Celtic Empire once made up of what is now all of great Britain,France,Spain,Germany,Austria,and all the way to Turkey. on tell the blood,power hungry, no good pigs of roman decided to invade.
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:39 pm
No, they're not different.
All Gauls are Celts. The Celts are a large group of people who have extended all the way across Asia. And it was never an Empire. The Celts kept fighting amongst themselves too much.
The Norse are descended from Germanic Peoples. Not Celts.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:23 am
I think the Wife Beating joke Cale and I use when refering to Romans (and to a lesser extent Greeks) needs to be explained.
See, in all the known world at this time, the most severe restrictions on women seem to be in Rome, Athens, and further east. The Celtic Tribes, the Egyptians, and the Phoenicians had more progressive attitudes on women. Egyptian and Carthaginian women could own buisnesses and Celtic women were allowed to fight with the men. But Greece and Rome were firm patriarchies and made Women little better than slaves and accessories to men. While Spartan Women Generally had a better time of things, they were the exception. Even in Persia, women were roughly the equals of men.
And so, as free Carthaginians, we reference the lack of women's rights in Greece and Rome by calling the lot of them Wife Beaters, an act that would get the attacker in serious trouble with local law elsewhere in the world but, from an outsider's perspective, is completely permissible in polite Roman and Athenian society.
To put it bluntly, its a stereotype used by "Barbarians" to refer to the Uncouth manners of "Civilized" beings.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:38 pm
Sayla-girl No, they're not different. All Gauls are Celts. The Celts are a large group of people who have extended all the way across Asia. And it was never an Empire. The Celts kept fighting amongst themselves too much. The Norse are descended from Germanic Peoples. Not Celts. for 1. the Celts where never in Asia. there empire only when as far as turkey. 2.yes it was a empire. they had a whole government,money system ect. 3.i never said the norse where.I know the Norse are not Celts or Gaulish there Northmen. there from Scandinavia.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 10:00 pm
Turkey IS Asia and if they had an Empire, who was their Emperor?
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:39 am
Sayla just drop it I know freedom you wont win this argument.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:20 am
Sayla-girl Turkey IS Asia and if they had an Empire, who was their Emperor? Turkey is in the middle-east not Asia. And even tho it was a empire. the government was set up different from what your thinking is a empire.
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:55 pm
FreedomFighter0105 Sayla-girl Turkey IS Asia and if they had an Empire, who was their Emperor? Turkey is in the middle-east not Asia. And even tho it was a empire. the government was set up different from what your thinking is a empire. Tis Asia minor is it not?
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:58 pm
THERE WAS NO GOVERNMENT!
And Yes, it has been historically called Asia Minor.
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:00 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:53 pm
Hey Jack: Quote: Even the army resorted to taking auspices. They carried with them cages with sacred chicken. When cake was crumbled onto the floor before them, would they eat or not ? Depending on that, the omens were either good or bad. At the sea battle of Drepanum in 249 BC, the consul Claudius Pulcher is said to have thrown the sacred chicken overboard, once they refused to eat their cake. He commented, that if they did not eat, they could at least drink. It was clear that his subsequent catastrophic defeat in battle by the Carthaginians was blamed on his having ignored the auspices
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:18 pm
Turkey is part of what used to be refered to as asia minor and today is part of the middle east which is part of Asia.
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