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Babies.
More Rule Britannia art which is 100% self indulgent 🙈
Five is looking at Sam like 'YOU'RE the one with the monster teeth!'
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What we know about Quintus and Samnium:
- Quintus is an auxiliary. Meaning that they are not Roman, but still part of its army. Auxiliaries usually are recruited by the army - either by choice or occasionally by force - with the promise of becoming a roman citizen at the end of their service. Quin apparently ‘joined the auxiliary’ willingly.
- Quin and Sam ‘played on the beaches in dalmatia’ when they were kids, meaning they’ve been friends for a very long time. Sam calls them ‘Quintus’ and ‘Quinque’ meaning that one of them is going to be an affectionate nickname <3
- Sam seems ‘Roman’. He talks about how his dad is whilst in charge of the slaves. Maeve and others refer to him as a Roman. Quin could very easily be Croatian, but at the same time, the Romans moved around Europe A LOT.
- Combine all that with the fact that I REALLY wanted to draw Five with celtic paint and we have Celtic/Pictish Five sort of backstory 😅 my idea was basically they were 'rescued' by a Roman soldier and raised as a boy for the own protection. By the time they join the auxiliary, they've probably forgotten most of their heritage - their original name and their clan 😢 because I can't not include angst apparently.
“The weaker form of disjunction [of the recalcitrance of the terrain to control by the primitive instruments of communication at the disposal of the archaic state] was found throughout the empire, especially in mountainous highlands where geographic isolation was compounded by the presence of a well-developed economy of transhumant pastoralism as, for example, in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. In this context Hobsbawm is surely correct to claim that it is the very fixity of peasant farmers which makes them so eminently exploitable. His corollary that any type of movement is in and of itself provokes an element of freedom congenial to banditry is more than adequately attested in antiquity. It is this movement that is critically important in regions of diminished Roman control. In addition to pastoral nomads, highland shepherds represented a social group that was integrated socially and economically into the wider imperial system and yet which, because of it economic organization, was freed from most political constraints. Hence the equation "shepherd equals bandit" comes close one that is true for all antiquity. Indeed, the very type of organization that characterized highland shepherd communities enabled them to constitute the driving force behind the three Sicilian uprisings, the largest slave uprisings documented in all ancient history.
The crime most frequently attributed to shepherd-bandits is that of rustling (abigeatus). It was so inextricably associated with bandits that it was not regarded as common theft (furtum) but a much more aggravated type of crime. Rustling therefore incurred the most severe penalties. The emperor Hadrian decreed to the provincial council of Baetica (southern Spain, where the problem was endemic) condemnation to the mines or execution was the normal penalty. But there were problems with such an absolute system of penalties since the bandits obviously had wide links with parts of society that were considered legitimate. Such links bound them to the powerful and wealthy in whose employment they were found. Consequently the law was compelled to recognize this wider power networks that encompassed bandit-shepherds, landowners and receivers in a regional market in animals and private protection. An exception then had to be made in the case of those receivers who were none other than members of the landowning elite. If culpable middlemen were of higher social status (honestiores) they were only to be relegated (a lesser form of exile) or suffer loss of their status and/or property.
But attempts to control highland brigandage by these and other means brought no final long-term solution. By the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. the central government was driven to desperate measures in Italy itself in an attempt to control shepherd bandits in the southern regions of the peninsula: Lucania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia and Calabria. It struck at the central natural advantage of the shepherds - their freedom of movement. Specifically the government sought to deny the use of horses to them. All persons "except senators and high-ranking imperial officials, administrators of provinces, veterans, decurions and others performing imperial service under arms" were denied the use or ownership of horses. Collaboration with landowners is explicitly recognized as part of this system of highland banditry since the domini are specifically warned against providing horses to potential bandits, in this case their own shepherds. Finally, in recognition of an almost congenital disposition to banditry in these highland zones, the state warned all persons, including the wealthy, against sloughing off unwanted children on shepherds, in the certainty that they too would be raised as future bandits.” - Brent D. Shaw, “Bandits in the Roman Empire.” Past & Present. No. 105 (Nov., 1984), p. 29-30.
Just got back from a run (where the mosquitos swarmed me😭), and I gave into my temptation and did the first episode of Rule Britiannia and WOW that hit hard. (Spoilers past the break)
The idea that Samnium and Quintus were childhood friends just made my heart melt. Will I incorporate that heavily in the Rule Britannia fanfic? Yes. Will it be angsty? Probably.
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Сегодня Россию причисляют к списку самных держав
http://civilization-history.ru/post/96973457011
Сегодня Россию причисляют к списку самых могущественных нефтяных держав. Однако такое положение дел было далеко не всегда. Борьба за нефть стала частью геополитики. Черная кровь давалась России непросто.
Всё меняетсяПереломный момент произошел в 1872 году, когда власти страны осуществили глобальную реформу и отменили систему откупа на всех отечественных нефтепромыслах. Вместо этого правительство предложило приватизировать нефтеносные участки. Механизм осуществлялся путем открытых торгов за единовременную плату.
В результате на всех незанятых казенных землях Кавказа открыли беспрепятственный поиск нефти не только для российских подданных, но и для иностранных инвесторов. Нефтеносные участки попали в руки первых российских предпринимателей Василия Кокорева и Петра Губонина, которые создали серьезную конкуренцию Рокфеллеру благодаря созданию Бакинского нефтяного общества. Объединенная структура специализировалась на добыче, переработке, транспортировке и реализации нефти. Таким образом, умелые действия компаньонов привели к тому, что к 1877 году компания добывала около трети всей российской нефти. Небывалый успех стимулировал остальных игроков внутреннего нефтяного рынка на создание собственных предприятий.
A Samnite warrior on horseback, depicted on a funerary painting c. 330 BCE, at the time of the Samnite Wars. The Samnites inhabited southern Italy, and were originally conquered by the Romans with the end of the Samnite Wars in 290 BCE. They supplied auxiliary forces to the Roman army at times, but also rebelled at times, allying with Pyrrhus and later coming to the aid of Hannibal when he swept through Italy. Although they were again contributing troops to Rome by the time of the 3rd Punic War, they remained a thorn in Rome's side, and were eventually eradicated in the Social Wars of the early 1st Century BCE.