ST - Imperial Roman Chariot and Solid Rocet Booster Specification

[j'lynn yeates]

a friend sent me a copy of the orgional of this thread knowing how i love such 
connections ....

On 1 Nov 99, at 21:54, forvalaka at juno.com wrote:

 
> ... So who built those old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in
> Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads
> have been used ever since. And the ruts? Roman war chariots first made the
> initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their
> wagon wheels and wagons. Since the chariots were made for, or by Imperial
> Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing 

goes even farther back ... many recent scholors support the contention that the 
keltoi were the ones that cut the majority of these roadways through the great 
european forests.  and that the later romans, being a exceptionally practical 
people, especially in things military, adopted and improved them as military 
roads (and until recently were assumed to be the builders) ... so celtic 
chariots and the trade wagons that supported a far-flung trading system were 
plying them long before the romans broke out of italia and adopted them for 
their needs.

many of the things attributed to the romans are in actuality things they 
learned / inherited / improved upon from their enemies (particularly the 
greeks, etruscans, keltoi, carthogenians, and germans ...) that they lived in 
close proximity to and/or were involved in military conflict with ... they were 
not great innovators but exceptional adopters, improvers, and deployers ... the 
japanese of their time.

i so love connections ...

'wolf


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- warren zevon
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