Bridge Building too late?

[Panag]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Tiberius, Panag - many thanks for this background info. That's a splendid collection of links, Panag.

hi ,

no problem , any time

well just dont forget to cut , copy and paste it somewhere , .......


btw , is this helping you forward now , do you need more , .....


have a nice day

[Arrian]

Bear in mind that the Romans were the exception, at least in their part of the world, and following the fall of the Empire, a lot of knowledge was temporarily lost (dark ages). I don't think it's a stretch to say that the Romans, in CivIII terms, had actually hit the early middle ages (engineering, monotheism) prior to their decline.

-Arrian

[Wittlich]

You make a valid point Arrian.

[Falconius]

Re: Bridge Building too late?

Originally posted by Cort Haus
I'd say that 2000 years ago is generally considered the ancient era. If was, after all, Rome's day.

Historians break down History into four major eras: Ancient, Classical, Medieval, and Modern. The Ancient era ends and the Classical era begins with the Golden Age of Greece (500 BC), shortly before the rise of Rome.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Arrian
Bear in mind that the Romans were the exception, at least in their part of the world, and following the fall of the Empire, a lot of knowledge was temporarily lost (dark ages). I don't think it's a stretch to say that the Romans, in CivIII terms, had actually hit the early middle ages (engineering, monotheism) prior to their decline.

-Arrian

hi ,

true 100 % , unfortunatly this cant be reflected very well in the game , ......

have a nice day

[Jamski]

BTW, on the subject of the Romanians, modern Romanian is unusual in the languages of the region as being the only one closely based on Latin. If you can read Italian, you'll understand Romanian too. Maybe more Roman than you might think, eh? The other countries surrounding have Slavic or Cyrillic languages.

-Jam

[Tiberius]

So? Nobody said romanian wouldn't be a latin based language (yet it is a fact that there are more slavic based words in romanian than latin based ones) or that the romanians have nothing to do with the romans. The question was wether the romanians have anything to do with the dacians, who used to live in modern day Romania.
It is a not a big surprise that a nation coming from south of the Danube speaks a latin based language.

Btw, accidentally I speak romanian perfectly and I don't understand italian; maybe a few words. But yes, once you know one of them it's easy to learn the other one.

[joncnunn]

Well, Yankees sometimes have trouble understanding Southerners, and Romaina is seperated from Italy by hundreds of miles, so it's not surprizing that it might be difficult to understand each other speaking.

On Romania having it's name, remember that after the split of the Roman Empire, what's refered to as historians as the Eastern Roman Empire and Brazianum[sp] Empire was refered to by the inhabiants as the Roman Empire, and the citizens considered themselves to be Roman. This empire lasted until the Turks conquered them several centuries later.

Back to the topic, The Roman Empire clearly had the tech for Engenering no later than 100 AD (and may have been the first to do so) so it's no surprize that they built bridges.

Catherdrials though weren't built until several centuries after Monotheism.