Rome vs Japan

[Proximus]

I have a question to ask (maybe this verbal joust will be usefull, after all !)

16 The romans would also be bigger than the samurai

Size means nothing. I bet you underestimate Yoda too.

Do we have any thread talking about sizes of the ancient men and women ? I did a research and found nothing.

Vegetius talk about size of ancient romans but I don't trust him about that.

The words of vegetius talk about "big men of 1,65 meter to 1,72 meters" and said they where prefered to smaller guys, but the tougher, even smaler, could enter in the legion.

So if a 1,65 man is tall in ancient rome, maybe japaneses are not sa small, after all !


Oh, yes, and one more thing :

17 The gladius is horrific cutting tool

Cant' argue with that, but so is the Katana, Tachi, No-dachi, Nagamaki, Naginata and Tanto. In fact, Katana were often used in test cutting called tameshigiri sometimes on the corpses of criminals. The more intricate the cut (some went from shoulder, diagonally across and came out the lower ribs) the more prestige was given to a smith's blades.

Gladius is a good cutting tool but I thing it is a horrific thrusting tool behind a shield. Thrusting is almost always deadly, more than cutting. (especialy for a man with an armor)

Voilà ! Hope you don't mind if y interupt you like that !

Oh, yes, and swords does not weight forty pounds.