SC - Americans and corn (was: Food guessing game)

[JVButlerJr at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/8/00 7:57:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
baronsig at peganet.com writes:

> And after Pompeius Magnus (aka Pompey the Lucky) basically wiped out
>  piracy (thus avenging Caesar, BTW), the only thing left for the Roman navy
>  to do was river patrol, and their Mediterranean & Black Sea fleets rapidly
>  became a joke. A shame they never chose to explore up the major tributaries
>  of the Black Sea, things could have been so much more interesting . . .

    One of my favorite what if games is "What if Hadrian continued the 
expansion started by Dacian."  Three hundred miles east of the easternmost 
border of the empire was the westernmost border of the Chinese Empire.  I 
always wondered what would have happened had the two met.

    Suleyman