Ancient History

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  1. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    Ah yes, we should discuss Alexander the Great one of these days.
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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    Prince of Macedon
    Toast, Dec 16, 2011
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  3. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    Yes, you make a great point Toast.
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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    Buddhism originated from ancient India...
    battleearl, Dec 16, 2011
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    Hinduism, Buddhism. Both are interesting religions to say the least.
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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  6. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    How about the Indo-Greek kingdom?
    battleearl, Dec 16, 2011
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  7. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    Before that, there was Greco-Bactria.
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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    Baktria was awesome, until they got eaten by nomads.
    yuri2045, Dec 16, 2011
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  9. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    Ah, nomads destroying vast and great civilizations...
    battleearl, Dec 16, 2011
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  10. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    Huns, Mongols, and Tartars.
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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  11. Toast Well-Known Member

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    It was more of the Scythians ripping up north of the boundaries of the Seleucid Empire to the Crimea. Steppe nomads were to be feared.
    Toast, Dec 16, 2011
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    Indeed, they were fearsome people to say the least.
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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  13. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    Hit-and-run tactics... Although they were considered barbarians, they surely knew how fight off standing armies...
    battleearl, Dec 16, 2011
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  14. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    Still, how Rome can emerge from a destroyed city-state to a huge intercontinental empire is amazing.
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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    I am inclined to agree. Cannae was just absolutely amazing. There is no way an army of 40-50 thousand troops should be able to encircle and slaughter an army nearly twice its size. Yet Hannibal did it because...well...because he is Hannibal.
    slydessertfox, Dec 16, 2011
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    Patton liked Hannibal, Freud like Hannibal. Scipio like Hannibal. So why not like Hannibal?
    Viking Socrates, Dec 16, 2011
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    Well, he did have a rather debilitating career after the Second Punic. He really didn't know what to do after he won battles and how to exploit a victory. Other than that, one of the greatest military minds in history.
    Toast, Dec 16, 2011
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    I assume you mean Troy? That's a myth, as far as I know. And while interesting, I don't know if there's any evidence supporting it.
    UnitRico, Dec 17, 2011
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    As fas as I know they've only proven the existence of Troy, but not the story with the horse...
    battleearl, Dec 17, 2011
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    Troy has been built and destroyed multiple times, the giant horse might've been built, historians think the walls collapsed during an earthquake, allowing the Greeks to stream in and capture the city. Then, they built the horse as a gift to Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes.

    The rest of the myth describes Aeneas travelling around the Mediterranean (and visiting Carthago, falling in love with its queen Dido, and leaving her because the gods, his mother Venus being one of them, tell him to leave. This myth explains the rivalry between Rome and Carthage), eventually reaching Italy, going into the Underworld, building or taking a city (not sure which it was again), and a few generations later the story of Romulus and Remus begins, which I could probably talk about for a while as well.
    UnitRico, Dec 17, 2011
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