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Pretty much everywhere was a brothel in that place. When I was there it seemed just about every 4th or 5th street was one. Not surprising since it was the Roman version of Las Vegas, and they were less shy about such things that we are today (Americans anyway).
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IIRC there were signs in Pompeii in the shape of phalluses pointing to the brothels.
Perfectly fit? Have you ever ridden a horse for more than an hour? My balls still ache from the memory. But I'll tell you how it was: the men of ancient times wanted to travel without walking, so they started to search for things that move and can be sat on. First they tried with a dog, but it collapsed. Then they sat on a cow. It didn't collapse, but didn't want to leave the pastures either. After that they sat on a crocodile and it was a disaster. So there they were, those sad, chewed up cavemen, walking on their blistering, tormented feet, when they saw some horses. They thought it is big enough to not collapse, agile enough to go far, and coward enough so it won't chew people up. A few thousand years later they managed to catch one, and under a few more thousand years they managed to tame them. They just needed a few thosand years more to shape them through selective breeding so they could be bizarrely fit for mankind.
Because women on the whole can't do as much hard physical work. They couldn't fight, couldn't do heavy industry.djogloc02 said:
They could handle the home, manage stuff, and do less straining chores that took a long time yet needed to be done.
But for a long time, most everyone agreed that might was right. Women didn't have any might, so they had no rights.
Jesus ****ing Christ on a pogo-stick, RalliX, don't just spout ignorant bull**** like it's the Divine Truth or something. Very few societies have operated strictly on a might-makes-right-basis!Rallix said:
djogloc02, to really understand that, you first need to understand that owning land/property is one of the oldest tenets of a society and inheritance was most often handled from father to son. Before reliable contraceptives (condoms and the pill) emerged during the 20th century, the only method for men to ensure that the sons inheriting their property were actually THEIR sons, was to control the uterus of his wife.
Then you can add the Abrahamic religions, that are extremely misogynist, into the mix which made the situation worse in many places.
Some societies placed high emphasis on individual martial prowess, and in those societies women were discriminated against on the "might-makes-right"-basis that RalliX brought up. In most societies women worked alongside men in nearly every profession - and worked equally hard.
Very few armies accepted women as soldiers before firearms evened the battlefield - Chinese did use women armed with spears/pikes. This stemmed mainly from two reasons: (1) a tribe/clan/society that loses 90% of its fighting-age men can still survive if it has sufficient breeding-age women and (2) women are generally physically weaker than men and fighting was mostly dependent on the individual prowess of the combatants. It's difficult to become a leader of warriors/soldiers if you cannot be one yourself.
But as you stated yourself, there were exceptions.
But as you stated yourself, there were exceptions.
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What are you asking?
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In 1204 Constantinople was conquered by the Crusaders and they formed the "Latin Empire" it lasted for a few years and collapsed and the Byzantines retook Constantinople.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire
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Imperial Eagle said:
http://****-k.narod.ru/Historical_Arts/Byzantine_Armies_2/Byzantine_Armies_2_4.jpg
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Umm.... They owned all of Greece and most of Sicily and southern Italy at one point, as well as all of Turkey and Anatolia. They even conquered north Africa in the 600's.
