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Board: Etruria
Topic: The Glory Days 
Topic Editor: Nesnut Hatshepsut
Topic Description: The height of Etruscan powe...

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Author: - Tuscus Sempronius 
Date: Jan 22, 1999 17:23
      Thank you for the maps.  Given the shifts and tides of Rasna power, I 
      wonder what it was like to live in a city on the borders of empire which 
      later retracted. 
      Does anyone know anything in detail about Spina, Italy, where the Rasna, 
      the Greeks, the Celts, and who know who else all mingled and traded? 
      Apparently from what I've found out, the remains of the city is now mostly 
      underwater, but it sounds like it resembled a rough, ancient 
      Venice--canals opening onto the sea, blocks of houses, lively comings and 
      goings, a major trade route for Greek merchants and goods into and out of 
      northern Italy. Most of the books seem to be in Italian and not available 
      in the U.S. But the clues are tantalizing. I'm curious what the social and 
      ethnic balance was--whether it was a Rasna colony, or Greek, or just a 
      sort of rough sea trading post without much government--an uneasy frontier 
      station with merchants and their private mercenaries to keep order.  When 
      the merchants leave, the next most powerful group or opportunist war 
      leader moves in with his band.  If the Greeks were involved in any sort of 
      regular trading, you'd think they'd want to garrison the area.








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