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Nick: beren_boy (Registered User)
Date/Time: Sun, 8/1/2004 at 17:31 EDT (Sun, 8/1/2004 at 21:31 GMT)
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In Reply To: what about Ceasar's Gallic Wars? or was that  <hatster>  [8/1/2004 @ 11:35]  (2/10)
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Ceasar was ready to use his written history to gloyrify Rome's war and drum up support by making the tribes of ancient Britain for the most part look like savages (ignoring the fact Rome had been trading with Iron Age Britain before either Roman invasions of the island). The problem of the written record, especially one so old, is that no one can check, we know writers at the time were hardly the model of objectivity (if such as thing exists) and would twists the facts to gain support for whatever they were doing. In this case what they were doing was the same thing the English did several thousand years later to indigenous tribes across the world, yet no one now would accept they we should take an 18th century anthropoligsts view of native American tribes as the absolute truth, or even as a basis for describing those cultures.

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