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^Damn those African rodents! The legions will crush these barbarian hordes of furry creatures!! :P

Seriously though, I agree that the plague was a very important factor, but there is a problem...

This thread was having almost the exact same discussion whether Byzantine = Greek: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?754978-Age-of-Empires

To quote from what I said there: People...

Been looking through your renders, I like that your style is pretty unique. :) But why don't you render on a higher resolution so that we can see more detail?

I don't understand this point of view, what does "Roman" even mean to you? Is Roman culture, 753 BC., the same thing as Roman culture in the time of Julius Caesar? And is that the same "Roman"...

Ward-Perkins' Fall of Rome is a very good read. Overall, I disagree with some of his conclusions though. His view is overall too bleak for me, in the sense of: economic decline = catastrophe. But no...

Not the issue of art or science, but a related issue: I'm wondering if we could blame the Byzantines/ERE, specifically emperor Justinian, for causing the "Dark Ages". In Procopius, we can read that...

Great units!

Gameplay question though: why do the Massylli have a faction trait damaging relations to Rome. As also stated in OP, they were on very friendly terms with Rome untill the Jugurtha...

They succesfully completed the kickstarters, they now launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise even more funds for more content.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ancient-cities-extended-pc#/
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So, giant protests going on in Skopje today.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32771233

Starts to feel like it's a crisis there.

Maybe you can have a look over at Invasio Barbarorum's soundmod for inspiration and help? (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?648653-SoundMod-Released!)

Also, I think it'd be good if...

Gee, I stopped playing the Byzantines in Crusader Kings II because I just got tired of dealing with that same half-arsed campaigning-system every time again and again :D I guess Total War and Paradox...

I suppose that for a lot of people it started to make more and more sense to act locally rather than rely on a distant imperial court who didn't care much about you, I agree. Which is why we see...

Theoderic would never have suggested an imperial status for himself, no no no! But his most loyal subjects, on the other hand... Consider this inscription found at the Via Appia, for example, talking...

And then there are renowned historians like Walter Goffart telling us we ought to throw away the "big arrow map" altogether (or keep it for antiquarian purposes only). That map does a large unjustice...

For Greek and Latin, are you going for late antique or for regular classical pronuncation? There's of course stuff like Greek beta changing to "veeta" and more like that. Just curious :)

I just read some fascinating stuff about Syrian people risking their lives to preserve or document their heritage. Also, Greco-Roman material is apparently easier to sell for looters, because it is...

But you can also argue contrarywise, that Islam has helped preserve a lot of ancient history and monuments.
Besides, it's not like other people are innocent. Consider the iconoclasts of early...

So the next crazies can pull it down? Let's wait a few years, maybe...

Let's hope it's been mostly the reconstructions - At many ancient sites, it's actually the reconstructions that are the most spectacular (Delphi, for example).

That said, the worst damage has...

NO!!!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31779484

:crying: There are just no words for this.



I wouldn't ask of anybody to kill and be killed over ancient stones... But the IS should...

What a tragedy! ...Again. This makes me cry on the inside.

It'd actually be better if all those priceless historical sites in the mid-east were buried under a few meters of thick sand, to be...

Well, I'm glad you agree with me. :) It's certainly not a controversial statement, but realising this fact has significant consequences for this thread's question. Namely, it raises the issue if...

I'm curious of what the original text says. I wonder whether you are meant to take it literally. Seeing swords are aristocratic weapons (only the very rich could afford swords rather than spears), it...

What about the theory that they don't *have* a (single) origin, and that it's just a complicated mix of numerous ethnic groups? The rulers don't have to originate from the Xiongnu in order to have...

The question of where the Huns came from is made more complicated by the question: What actually is Hunnic identity?

Even if the Huns originally were the Xiongnu and therefore originally came from...

When I read this in the papers this morning I almost cried. :crying:

They have also burned many books and manuscripts. This destruction of all this historical evidence is a loss for science (and...

Ah, modernity! I suppose that real-estate developers and warring presidents win from a bunch of odd antiquarians such as ourselves. :P It's a tragedy when you think how many beautiful old buildings...

"What is left" of the Byzantine era is an interesting, but complicated question. First of all, what actually *was there* to be left behind? For example, a vast brick Roman city will leave more traces...

Sheer "bad luck", I suppose. The last centuries were quite hard for the Byzantines. I think I read somewhere that once the Ottomans conquered it in 1453, there were only a few ten thousand people...

Okay, banning it might be anti-capitalist, but I don't think anti-capitalism is per definition authoritarian. Sure, banning (certain kinds of) advertising might be a restriction for companies, but...

Two problems with your argument:

1. You seem to equate the formulation of a government policy on the use of advertisements (in public space) as something neccesarily equated with an authoritarian...

Clearly not, because you are assuming the kind of advertisements I describe to be the illegal sort. - Also, I don't think it is quite respectful to call us ignorant.

Anyway, I looked up the...

I don't have time for an elaborate response either, but briefly:

Nowhere did I say anything about subliminal influencing. (Though granted, the example of the coke bottle comes close). I was...

OP, I too have wondered the same thing, finding advertisements in many ways immoral. Later I became more aware of that one important, good aspect of advertisement, also raised by people above: it...

In accordance with most other critics here I have to say that what's foremost wrong with your theory is that it cannot be falsified. A theory is simply not adequate nor useful when it's so broadly...

There's a difference between regicide and death on the battlefield though, I think you should make a clear distinction there. Then there's also the distinction in regicide by the people (Charles II...

I interpreted him to mean that sciences which do not use mathematics and/or law-models for their deductions are inferior to those which do (e.g. most philosophical disciplines, literature, history,...

What a positivist nonsense. Humanities have their own scientific methods. That something needs to be based on maths and hard laws has simply been proven to be false the last century. What makes a...

I was referring to the Empire, not the Republic.

Secondly, the "born into the purple"-one-son restriction seems kind of unfair; that way you're masking the amount of succesions that did go rather...

Any civilisation is doomed to fall one day.



1500 years


Well it worked, more or less. Succesion didn't always work out because a. there were a lack of eligible heirs or b. Other powerful...