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Etrusia - Roman History - The Amphora Trade - Overview
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Etrusia - Roman History :. The Romano-British Amphora Trade to A.D. 43: An Overview. James McKeown, January 1999. Ancient Europe was a place quite different from that which is familiar to modern Europeans. The European hinterland - Gaul (roughly modern France), the British Isles, and the vast stretches of what is now Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, etc.- was peopled by groups of tribes of varying origin which can nevertheless be grouped according to a rough ethnic label:. Amphora trade p1.php.
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Etrusia - Roman History - An Introduction to the Roman Army
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Etrusia - Roman History :. The Roman Army After Marius' Reforms. Author: T Wake, 28 Feb 06. This article will give a very brief overview of the Roman army as most people think of it - post Marius' reforms. Future articles will study the Roman military machine in greater depth. Prior to the Celtic invasion, and from about 500 B.C. the Roman army consisted of around 6000 soldiers. These were made up from a levy (Latin. First reform - Early Republic. Light Infantry - Velites. Heavy Infantry - Hastati. The f...
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Etrusia - Roman History - Domestic Politics in the Late Republic
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Etrusia - Roman History :. Roman Domestic Politics in the Late Republic - 100-44 B.C. This in turn caused the further disintegration of the traditional citizen farming structure. The attempt to address this situation by Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in 133 and his brother Gaius ten years later led to political violence on a previosly unprecedented scale, where vested interests of some of the richer landowners in the senate ensured their deaths. Laquo; Introduction - Page 1. Raquo; « The Civil War.
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Etrusia - Roman History - Roman Articles
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Etrusia - Roman History :. The following articles, produced by Etrusia.co.uk are currently online. If you have any ideas or suggestions for future articles, or would like to submit some of your own then please email heather@etrusia.co.uk. And let us know. Read more - Hadrians Wall. Pompeii - The Buried City. Read more - Pompeii - The Buried City. Why Claudius invaded Britain. Despite the famous claim that he had come, seen and conquered Britain ("Veni, Vidi, Vici"), in 55BC, Julius Caesar's attempted inv...
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Etrusia - Celts - The Cattle Raid of Cooley
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Etrusia - The Celts. Modified: 30 Jul 06. The Cattle Raid of Cooley. A goddess had cursed the Red Branch Champions of Ulster, putting them under a geas which means the warriors are weak for some days every year. Believing the Red Branch Champions are too weak to resist, Queen Maeve of Connaught gathered an army to attack Ulster to capture the famous Brown Bull of Cooley. However, a prophet warned Maeve that she had seen all Maeve's warriors coloured with blood. Even after he was beheaded in an accident n...
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Celts - Hallstatt and La Tene cultures
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Etrusia - The Celts. Modified: 30 Jul 06. Celtic Cultures - Hallstatt and La Tene. Timespan: 1200 BC - 475 BC. Hallstatt culture is characterised in 4 stages, according to James(2005: 21): A and B late Bronze Age, from. 1200 to 700 BC; C Early Iron Age, from. 700-600 BC; D from. 600 to 475 BC. The La Tene era was the time of Celtic expansion and migration and the time of formation of the myths. The La Tene culture is named after the site in Switzerland where it was first discovered. The La Tene p...
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Etrusia - Celts - Celtic Articles
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Etrusia - The Celts. Modified: 30 Jul 06. The Celtic Web Site. Read the Celtic Articles produced by Etrusia.co.uk. If you have an article you would like to see published on this site please get in touch. And let us know. Celtic Cultures - Hallstatt and La Tene. Read more - Celtic Cultures - Hallstatt and La Tene. Celtic Castles - Maiden Castle. Read more - Celtic Castles - Maiden Castle. Julius Caesars Campaigns Against the British. Read more - Julius Caesars Campaigns Against the British. A tale from th...
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Celts - Who Were The Celts?
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Etrusia - The Celts. Modified: 30 Jul 06. At the turn of the first millennium BC, there was a proto-Celt society in Europe now known as the Urnfield People. These bronze age warriors had spread from the Scythian mountains in the east, to eastern France by c. 800 BC and can truly be described as the forefathers of what is now called the Celts. The La Tene culture lasted from 500 BC to 15 BC. This was the central era for celtic expansion and migration and the time when the celtic myths were formed. The yea...
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Etrusia - Celts - Celtic Myths - Page 1
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Etrusia - The Celts. Modified: 30 Jul 06. The Celtic Web Site. The Celts seem to have shared a body of religious belief - or at least uniformity of religious idiom that enables historians to speak of a Celtic religion. ( http:/ www.eliki.com/ancient/myth/celts/. Despite their widespread geographical dispersal. In the absence of written Celtic sources, information on the details of these beliefs have to be derived from survivals of oral traditions rarely transcribed before the middle ages. The basic compo...