04-18-2010, 01:48 PM
A fact, what i means about "Brain against muscle" is not in terms of "the wise and skinny guy against the muscle moron" THe germans and Illyrians and Celtics and Thracians ...were a very high developed cultures ..the germans survive because were a very versatile and a very smart people who understand, learn and improve the roman technology and tactics, the germans develop Steel before any others on Europe, the germans were a very inteligent folk, there is not doubts...the roman armies were a complex formations with a lot of "barbarian" blood so is hard to say "the roman somato-type" there is celtics, illyrians, trhacians, germans, italics, Iberians....and many others peoples and not as auxiliar troops as the beginin...on the early times roman army were a "roman army" with citizens but the same formation of roman are a complex mixzture between etruscans, italics and many other ethnic groups...
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