313 A.D. under emperor Constantine the Great.Originally Posted by J.Alco
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313 A.D. under emperor Constantine the Great.
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wrong, 391 under Thedosius I. Constantine only allowed freedom of worship for all religions, including christianity.
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The second pick is almost certainly meant to be a legionary of Constantine date, so 330 or so. The top pic would nominally be Claudian but in reality quite a few of the details are wrong and the guy on the right doesn't have his armour on properly.
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Yeah, I was thinking that if segentata was really like that, it couldn't have been much use.
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Dam look at those legionaires from their heyday. I would NOT want to fight them...
in fact I would run the other way before I'm another victim of Romes gladius...
Gotta be some warrior to fight them, props to all those who did (except horse archers, so easy in fact it should be cheating)
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...except, of course, the steppe-pattern horse-archery method of combat is a very difficult art in and by itself...
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are you sure its not confined to:...except, of course, the steppe-pattern horse-archery method of combat is a very difficult art in and by itself...
-knoweledge of the use of bow
-knoweledge of horseback riding
-knoweledge of not falling off and controlling the horse while in combat and galloping
-groups and order (such as stick to your group leader or banner and follow)
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actually it was in 380 with the edict cunctos populos,
CUNCTOS populos, quos clementiae nostrae regit temperamentum, in tali volumus religione versari, quam divinum petrum apostolum tradidisse romanis
religio usque ad nunc ab ipso insinuata declarat
thereby raising "the religion of St. Peter" to the status of State Religion
in 391 paganism was outlawed, thus ending freedom of worship, one of the factors that granted Rome the absence of religious wars except the ones against "The Judean People's Front". Or was it "The People's Front of Judea"?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man
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I think it was the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea". The "Judean People's Front" is that guy over there
Last edited by CirdanDharix; 12-09-2007 at 16:48.
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Popular misconception...even RTW: BI get's it wrong lol.
Yup
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