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Brits are "badass women" presumably for Celts like Boudica, but at the same time, Denmark/Scandiwegia is labeled as "blonde wigs"?
I don't know of any practices of using wigs in the first millenium Scandinavia?
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Oh no right now I get it.
You're basically saying the blonde hair for Roman wigs comes from Scandinavia.
Yeah that's probably true.
I actually realised that midway writing this so I'm gonna leave the revelation there
God gave everything to Albanians, but Albanians were so good they gave everything to Turks and now we are all Turks
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Cyrenaica was the location of an herb known as silphium. Its primary purpose was medicinal, and it was sometimes burned and the smoke from it inhaled.
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Slingers?
The Baeleric Islands were known for providing high-quality slingers as military forces to the Roman Empire.
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I feel like these names arent all from the same period, tho they make for a humerus map (iirc the maps of the day were just road schematics).
Yes, oh my, I've known abut this one!
What I always think of as "a Roman map" was like the Tabula Peutingeriana, a sort of 1.5D representation of how far things are from Rome.
I enjoy the hic sunt leones xD iirc, that ought to be here be lions, right?
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Ah yes, everyone's favourite poison addict, Mithridates
Is there any info on how far into the Sahara the Romans conquered, exactly? I know there was the one exploratory expedition where they reached the other side. (Or was that Carthage?)
Is there any info on how far into the Sahara the Romans conquered, exactly?
Bit of a funny question, and depends on what you count as conquered. The Garamantians were subdued at one point by Septimius Severus, which is a good chunk inland.
I know there was the one exploratory expedition where they reached the other side. (Or was that Carthage?)
I mean, yes. I should probably specify I mean a regular tribute relation - to my definition, a one time gift to impress the goofy pale people doesn't count, but it doesn't have to be a proper colonia or to have actually lost a war, either. Although it's an interesting question what the most southern colonia was - probably along the Nile, right? It doesn't look like they founded anything outside of oases, but the status was given to existing settlements too.
Yes, I actually think I read that one, and was thinking of Festus. I wouldn't say most of these "reached the other side".
Near the Sahara, at least, none south of the Atlas Mountains it would seem, which makes sense. I'm actually not sure if there were any literal coloniae in Egypt due to its... unique provincial position as a personal holding of the Emperor. I know Aswan was major and pretty far south though.
I turned up that they did some serious construction in Farafra. Would that have been considered Libya, or Egypt?
Egypt, looks like! Roman Egypt roughly had the same borders as modern Egypt, with Cyrenaica being on the border with Libya, and modern-day Libya being, well, Libya, and Africa Proconsularis.