05-07-2010, 12:33 PM
Going directly to the point, i give the answer to this question, were the germans physically superior?
1.- Yes they were tallest and Stronger even today, but no so far as a giant against a midget, above some one mention they were not so strong, well we need to see the bones of some indivuduals of these period we can see aspre bones with very strong tendons insertions, a high level of nitrogen on the bones, today nordic and slavic peoples are stronger than other europeans, just remember the power lifting contest, on this contests the american and europeans champions are form nordic extraction (german, scandinavian etc) slavs are ery strong and tall too but less homogeneous and always are the over the world top..is genetic (i practice power lifting and even here nordic extraction folks are the strongest, and here we can see people of all around the world)
2.-This NOT mean about a Superioroty of a "race" against another, there is only a race Homo sapiens sapiens there is only a few somatological differences, so we need to be careful when we talk about "superior" or "inferior"
3.-The germans could be stronger but were not invencible, this peoples had a very low life expectation, there is a lot of ilness, a hard way of life where only stringest survive and eve so no too confortable, against romans said on their chronicles barbarians were no so numerous, the original germanic armies were just a few warriors if you compare with the mediterranean armies with 10 000 warriors marching side by side for an example
4.-Life on cities were harder in terms of diet, those romans from Rome eat bread an vegetables rather than meat, many live under poverty by state assistence begin for a bread to survive, but their life expectance were better than those germanic from north, because a city life were almost more safe on many ways, but again, on those times life were a hell on every place
5.-Roman army were VERY heterogenus, were formed for many other "barbarians" even germanics, on republic times perhaps were italians but during the empire times many brabarians join the army first as auxuliar troops but then as regualr troopers, on late empire times there is a huge barbarian extraction soldiers on roman army, the collapse of Rome were fought by germans against germans on some places, there is a lot of celtic, illyrians, thracians, scythians, iberians ...a large etc....
6.- About th off topic Illyrian issue, Tito use every tool to keep the former Jugoslavija united, even their iron fist or ideological issues as the croatian illyrian claims, Today are the albanians who are still building their identity with the illyrians as basis, a polemic issue too, Illyrians were a so heterogeneus, the pannonias were so different on may aspects of those southern illyrians bt keeps some regular things on common...th poor illyrians were relegated by history and politics, if they were a venetians or a illyrian no body knows but Lausitz or Hallstatt were not celtic as many scholars claims and are close to illyrians or Venetics or as you prefer to call them ...prehaps they use a very different term to called themselves ...
7.-When nordic peoples enter into Europe these territories were not a desert place, continental germans are a mixture of peoples too, perhaps physically there is not too many differences, goths from Wielbark, Poland were different from those goths who remains on Sweden (yes another polemic issue but evidence suggest that, Wielbark were a scandinavian origin culture over local Oksywie culture who also sow scandinavian influence) and for the mixture with local peoples from those places where they came to live, many territoies were occupied on peace rather on a War basis, but war were always present...they mixed each other and began new cultural manifestations under a egular and traditional germanic basis ...well there is a lot of issue to talk......thats is what i love about these topics..... :twisted:
1.- Yes they were tallest and Stronger even today, but no so far as a giant against a midget, above some one mention they were not so strong, well we need to see the bones of some indivuduals of these period we can see aspre bones with very strong tendons insertions, a high level of nitrogen on the bones, today nordic and slavic peoples are stronger than other europeans, just remember the power lifting contest, on this contests the american and europeans champions are form nordic extraction (german, scandinavian etc) slavs are ery strong and tall too but less homogeneous and always are the over the world top..is genetic (i practice power lifting and even here nordic extraction folks are the strongest, and here we can see people of all around the world)
2.-This NOT mean about a Superioroty of a "race" against another, there is only a race Homo sapiens sapiens there is only a few somatological differences, so we need to be careful when we talk about "superior" or "inferior"
3.-The germans could be stronger but were not invencible, this peoples had a very low life expectation, there is a lot of ilness, a hard way of life where only stringest survive and eve so no too confortable, against romans said on their chronicles barbarians were no so numerous, the original germanic armies were just a few warriors if you compare with the mediterranean armies with 10 000 warriors marching side by side for an example
4.-Life on cities were harder in terms of diet, those romans from Rome eat bread an vegetables rather than meat, many live under poverty by state assistence begin for a bread to survive, but their life expectance were better than those germanic from north, because a city life were almost more safe on many ways, but again, on those times life were a hell on every place
5.-Roman army were VERY heterogenus, were formed for many other "barbarians" even germanics, on republic times perhaps were italians but during the empire times many brabarians join the army first as auxuliar troops but then as regualr troopers, on late empire times there is a huge barbarian extraction soldiers on roman army, the collapse of Rome were fought by germans against germans on some places, there is a lot of celtic, illyrians, thracians, scythians, iberians ...a large etc....
6.- About th off topic Illyrian issue, Tito use every tool to keep the former Jugoslavija united, even their iron fist or ideological issues as the croatian illyrian claims, Today are the albanians who are still building their identity with the illyrians as basis, a polemic issue too, Illyrians were a so heterogeneus, the pannonias were so different on may aspects of those southern illyrians bt keeps some regular things on common...th poor illyrians were relegated by history and politics, if they were a venetians or a illyrian no body knows but Lausitz or Hallstatt were not celtic as many scholars claims and are close to illyrians or Venetics or as you prefer to call them ...prehaps they use a very different term to called themselves ...
7.-When nordic peoples enter into Europe these territories were not a desert place, continental germans are a mixture of peoples too, perhaps physically there is not too many differences, goths from Wielbark, Poland were different from those goths who remains on Sweden (yes another polemic issue but evidence suggest that, Wielbark were a scandinavian origin culture over local Oksywie culture who also sow scandinavian influence) and for the mixture with local peoples from those places where they came to live, many territoies were occupied on peace rather on a War basis, but war were always present...they mixed each other and began new cultural manifestations under a egular and traditional germanic basis ...well there is a lot of issue to talk......thats is what i love about these topics..... :twisted:
Järnvarg - José L. Díaz - Archaeologist[color=#0000FF]
