Lack of advancement for 'Barbarian' factions.

Potentially, they might try to kill you for knowing too much... :wiseguy:

Or they might all commit sepukku in shame.

I like blacksnail's sig. 'Baseless Conjecturer' indeed. :D

It is my gift; it is my curse. :2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Jolt

Very nice piece of information you got there, but not entirely correct, at least the part I quoted. As far as Herodotus states, Necho's Canals was initiated by the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II, with the intention of allowing the large Red Sea fleet he built to operate in the Mediterrenean as well. He just gave up mid-way after over 100,000 workers had died. Darius merely completed what Necho had started. I suppose that canal is what we see in EB, linking the Red Sea.

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I am aware of the previous canal-works by a number of Pharaohs, including the distinguished Necho II known for his gargantuan undertaking, and indeed, Darius' canal may only be the completing key to a series of projects in the area, but then again, the delta encourages any ruler, whether Egyptian, or not, to see the colossal benefits in seeing through the project; In such a case, the Suez canal is famous. Darius' canal is more than often overlooked, and previous works just as overlooked; Virtually no one knows of Ptolemy's restoration project.

So, what I said was obviously an abstraction, to be used as an argument against the unfair projection of non-Roman civilizations as back-water tribal societies with no sense of infrastructure. With the Pârnî (The Arsacids and their allied clans) settling into Parthia proper, inside of the Greater Iran, we literally see pastoralists abandoning their steppen roots, ushering themselves towards highly impressive fortification works, architecture and innovations in commerce and commercial infrastructure. They grew filthy rich and they knew precisely what earned them so much wealth in the first place.

They brought much innovation to statemanship, architecture and trade to a very politically fragmented area, consisting of variously Hellenized subjects of many ethnicities. They prevailed close to four centuries as a unified political entity. It must certainly merit for something?

Right, right. I myself was unaware of Ptolemy's restorations to the canal. But people who know nothing of it's history might have just assumed the whole friggin' thing was built by Darius upon his predecessor's conquest of Egypt. I merely stepped in to inform that Darius task was that of a completing and not building it from scratch. Indeed in such I topic, I'd love to see in what state was the canal when the Persians conquered it.