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I'll chuck up a poll tomorrow. That should give plenty of chance for more favourites to emerge. Personally speaking, I'd like to do a Viking one, but the public will do the deciding.
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The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland -
archaeology, phoenician tablets etcOriginally posted by lord of the mark
It as easy as ABC.
If we can accept the bible as a source (and Im not sure how reliable this particular section of Kings is considered) we've got Jezebel.
If you can't accept the book of Kings as a source, you get rid of a lot of your narrative material on early Phoenicia. A few Egpyptian mentions, and then Herodutus, I guess.
What other sources on early Phoenicia are there?"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - SenecaComment
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I'm happy to do Ghana/Mali/Songhai, any of the various Moroccan civs (the Almohads, Almoravids, Saadians) or one of the Persian/Iranian Civs, who still haven't had their proper respect from Civilization...
... or the Hussites.
LazdagimpLordy Bob. I'd struggle to come up with entertaining stuff about Phoenicians.
Responsible for the spread of the black cat around the Mediterranean, gave an alphabetic script to the Greeks, set up trading outposts from Cyprus to Malta to Libya to Morocco to southern Spain, traded with Celtic Cornwall, the Greeks and the Egyptians, manufactured a highly valuable purple dye, fought with the Achaemenids at Salamis...Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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We could also argue about the meaning of "entertaining"Originally posted by molly bloom
Lazdagimp
Responsible for the spread of the black cat around the Mediterranean, gave an alphabetic script to the Greeks, set up trading outposts from Cyprus to Malta to Libya to Morocco to southern Spain, traded with Celtic Cornwall, the Greeks and the Egyptians, manufactured a highly valuable purple dye, fought with the Achaemenids at Salamis...
Not that I dont love detailed trade data, myself.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Hrm. I seem to have picked a dud. Maybe that's why I don't know much about them...
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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The Phoenicians. Aren't they the guys that survived the destruction of Atlantis?Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
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