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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 01/25/2007 3:26:39 PM PST by blam
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It is a really beautiful area, but it must have seemed very cold and lonely in winter to the Romans.

I can't buy the idea of a customs barrier. No need for such an impressive stonework and so many troops to do that and I'm not aware of any area of the Empire where there was a comparable barrier for customs purposes, not even in areas that would have seen much more cross-border commerce such as Syria and Armenia.

8 posted on 01/25/2007 4:22:35 PM PST by colorado tanker
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