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To: Pan_Yan
...Roman accounts that the Garamantes consisted of barbaric nomads and troublemakers...

Spin, the third oldest profession.

Thank you for posting this--very interesting.

3 posted on 11/08/2011 5:53:13 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: skr; colorado tanker
Thank you for posting this--very interesting.

You're very welcome.

6 posted on 11/08/2011 6:06:35 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: skr

Nomads and troublemakers? Ancestors of the Occupy crowd.


8 posted on 11/08/2011 6:08:44 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: skr
It's ironic that the Romans referred to many others as "barbarians" when they themselves fed Christians to the lions or crucified them on crosses, but I guess they must have thought of themselves as most civilized.
10 posted on 11/08/2011 6:27:32 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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