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Okay, thanks for the clarification Nobody1. I hadn't heard of that quote from Strabo-- nice find.

I have to give them a credit for finding niche where they could benefit the most. By nature they were robbers of unsuspected populations using quick...

Well than we 100% agree with eachother, i thought this would be some Hollywood nonsense of the savage Germanics and than along came the gallant...

Yikes. You're completely missing my point. Let's stay focused on our conversation and avoid all the glitter (ie. 49 minute videos). The Norse...

Doubtful; --- As for Britannia check out Saxon Shore, The Saxons raided Roman Britain for a good 100-150 years before their total Invasion and...

makes sense to me sparkey.great reply

Well, i dont think the Romans had muskets back than; or traded useless glass pearls with Germanic chieftains either; Let alone sell them alcohol and...

Let's go with this line of thinking for a tad... The Native American Indians were defeated by the white man and his culture. Europeans brought...

It seems that the Elamites where the ancestors of all Persians, so judging on haplogroup T's low but relatively higher frequency in that region, hg T...

I would question Arminius connection to Rome. Rome was known to make up stories to justify a defeat. The Arminius story could be an attempt to ...

OnceI really don't remember in which thread I mention the antikythera mecanism. The first mecanical computer of the world was probably made in...

I think the i1 branch that is non Germanic(i1p,i1as4 etc)may moved west away from indo europeans

l22 is a branch off of cts6364 as well

Just out of curiousity, do any of you know who may have brought T2B into Iberia? like what tribe/group of people may have done so?

i would double check that, Hermann der Cherusker was educated in Rome, so at least he would have known; and of course not to be forgotten, the...

Sure, it was the clash of cultures. It is pretty much typical thing that we like most what we grew up with and tend to hate everything that's...

I think trade routes are an important aspect, in all of this; Egypt and Mesopotamia were the first high civs. (excluding China and whatever went...

This was true with all non-Roman subjects. You typically don't adopt a new culture, you are subjugated by it becoming Romanticized against your own...

Im not sure how much contact the Norse had with Roman Civ. (prob. close to none) .......... but its always the same old question........what have the...

I1 varies from less than 10% to 25-30% depending on where you go.

I think the Norse felt the way of life under Roman civilization was stifling and dishonorable. I'm guessing they avoided it for as long as possible....

When I am saying middleastern I refer to their geography not phenotype. EU is already a big mix of races and phenotypes. But geographicaly they are...