not true. a Women can becom a bachelor too if she just studies hard enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wonderland
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not true. a Women can becom a bachelor too if she just studies hard enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wonderland
A bachelor is by definition an unmarried man, i'd like to see a woman try and become that.
Hmm, were there actually camels in the Sahara in the EB timeframe? I think I read somewhere that the Arabs introduced them, when they invaded.Quote:
Should be one vast desert region imo with its settlement in the bottom left corner, too far for the AI to consider attacking. Just a shame you couldn't have an irregular map and just cover the whole area with a nice picture of some sand dunes and a camel.
They were certinly in use before the Arab conquests. In Egypt by the Early Dynastic Period the Dromedary is already attested but they don't seem to have been common until contact between the Assyrians and Egyptians was well established. The Bactrian camel seems to have become common after the Persian conquest but by the Ptolemaic period they were certinly widespread as well. In the interior of the Sahara they don't seem to have become common until later, late 2nd/early 3rd century AD.
Ah, thanks Qwerty, I think what I read was referring to the interior. Saying something like, trade with sub-Saharan africa only really occured after the Arab invasion, because they introduced camels which could be used in trade caravans across the desert. :book: But I guess the vanilla Numidian camel riders weren't quite as implausible as I thought...
Even in the interior the camel was around in substanial numbers at least 300 years before the Arab invasions, trans-saharan trade didn't really pick up until people in the Med world figured out they could get gold from West Africa though.
https://img81.imageshack.us/img81/41...20camel8kd.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by nikolai1962
Divinus, you are very immature. You should be ashamed of yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
Heh heh... rectum. :jester:
Exactly the kind of historical image i was thinking of :laugh4:
I wouldn't count on it. I remember seeing some discussion about this a while ago and it seemed the general EB consensus was not to go with it. I'm hoping I'm wrong, but that is as I recall it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Decimvs Sicinivs Aqvila
Hey guys, its me Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom the Magnificent Bastard, and I was the one who started this post. I havent been on in a while, so I can see the topic has changed but just to bring it back to specs...........so, whats the final verdict on this new race to be added to EB in place of the Yuezhi, I argue all the way for a small weak african culture like my idea, or better yet a rentrance of a realisticly weak Numidia, in which one must fight terribly hard to unite the government, so that one can stand a small, proabably doomed, chance of fighting the Carthges, and the Ptolms. Ive heard they were very disorganized so why not make them EXTREMELY dificlut so that those crazy players can have a'go. Would this not atleast slow down the Carthaginians, and the Ptolemies. Anyway, the only other race I would want for the game would be maybe a new Germanic race, to make the "germanic" experience more interesting. :2thumbsup:
Anyway other then that Iell give a big fat Kudos to anyone that can figure out where my name came from. Peace out!
I think that they've already selected a new faction to replace the Yuezhi. In the new preview they showed a picture of a new faction symbol. I've got no idea what it is though. It looks sort of like a combination of a moose, dragon, cat, and maybe a horse.