"The Roman Empire and Dacia " Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Jun 2015 3:48 p.m. PST |
"The history of Rome and Dacia is another example of friction at the edge of the Empire causing a confrontation with people who refused to be subjugated. It took the Romans nearly twenty years to defeat Dacia once hostilities broke into the open.
With the eastern European frontier the Romans employed, as elsewhere, the same strategy. First, they required that the frontier facilitate traffic flowing between the various parts of the Empire. Second they rejected areas that were difficult to settle. Third they specified that the frontier include lands that could provide food and natural resources for the Romans settled there.
The tribe of Dacians was located north of the Danube River in southeastern Europe in what is today Romania and Moldova. At various times in their history, The Dacians, called Getae by the Greeks, expanded south of the Danube to the edge of the Balkan Mountains in what is now modern Bulgaria. The Dacians had a propensity for centralization which was rare for the peoples of the region and this trait made them a dangerous adversary for any power operating in the vicinity of the Danube…"
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| Jcfrog | 22 Jun 2015 10:54 a.m. PST |
The Romans did not like cheap cars. |
| Cerdic | 22 Jun 2015 12:02 p.m. PST |
I've driven a Duster. It was a lot better than I was expecting! |
| Tango01 | 22 Jun 2015 11:41 p.m. PST |
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| Maxshadow | 26 Jun 2015 6:29 p.m. PST |
Good introductory article thanks Tango. |
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