Roman limes

[Aldarion]

Roman Limes

Limes means road – originally, it really was a road connecting border fortifications with each other. Over time, it began denoting a geographically shaped or fortified border. It is incorrect to us…

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Limes means road – originally, it really was a road connecting border fortifications with each other. Over time, it began denoting a geographically shaped or fortified border. It is incorrect to use limes as a term for all borders of the Roman Empire, though the world will sometimes be used in such a manner as well. System of border fortifications fulfilled its functions generally from 1st until 4th century AD, though in places it continued to function until 5th century AD.

In most places, not much has survived of Roman border fortifications. Hadrian's Wall is by far the best known of them, and even it does not approach the preservation of the Great Wall of China. Limes in Germany is for the most part little more than some stretches of slightly raised ground. But when it was in function, stone wall was three meters tall and stretched for hundreds of kilometers, guarded strictly by watchtowers. Wall itself was plastered and whitewashed. Roman engineering was incredibly precise: a 50 kilometre long segment of the wall curves only 92 centimeters away from straight line (curvature of 0,00184%).

Roman borders were guarded by a network of walls, rivers, fortresses and watchtowers. Soldiers had to guard border stretching from Irish Sea to the Red Sea, from Caucasus to the Red Sea, and from the Red Sea to the African Atlantic coast. Best known part of this border is Hadrian's Wall in England, declared by UNESCO in 1987 to be a part of world heritage. In 2005 UNESCO founded a mixed conservatory encompassing 550 kilometers of the German border. But question remains: why were the walls built?

 

[ATP]

Roman Limes

Limes means road – originally, it really was a road connecting border fortifications with each other. Over time, it began denoting a geographically shaped or fortified border. It is incorrect to us…

warfantasy.wordpress.com

Limes means road – originally, it really was a road connecting border fortifications with each other. Over time, it began denoting a geographically shaped or fortified border. It is incorrect to use limes as a term for all borders of the Roman Empire, though the world will sometimes be used in such a manner as well. System of border fortifications fulfilled its functions generally from 1st until 4th century AD, though in places it continued to function until 5th century AD.

In most places, not much has survived of Roman border fortifications. Hadrian's Wall is by far the best known of them, and even it does not approach the preservation of the Great Wall of China. Limes in Germany is for the most part little more than some stretches of slightly raised ground. But when it was in function, stone wall was three meters tall and stretched for hundreds of kilometers, guarded strictly by watchtowers. Wall itself was plastered and whitewashed. Roman engineering was incredibly precise: a 50 kilometre long segment of the wall curves only 92 centimeters away from straight line (curvature of 0,00184%).

Roman borders were guarded by a network of walls, rivers, fortresses and watchtowers. Soldiers had to guard border stretching from Irish Sea to the Red Sea, from Caucasus to the Red Sea, and from the Red Sea to the African Atlantic coast. Best known part of this border is Hadrian's Wall in England, declared by UNESCO in 1987 to be a part of world heritage. In 2005 UNESCO founded a mixed conservatory encompassing 550 kilometers of the German border. But question remains: why were the walls built?

They wonted romans vote for Trump?

 

[Scottty]

But question remains: why were the walls built?

Heinlein would tell you that asking for rational reasons for government policies is often mistaken.

Obviously in some cases they needed to keep out hostile forces. Or maybe they need to keep their subjected peoples in - like a Communist country.

But I wonder if they really had a fortified border along where the inhabitable parts of North Africa met the desert?

 

[Aldarion]

Heinlein would tell you that asking for rational reasons for government policies is often mistaken.

Obviously in some cases they needed to keep out hostile forces. Or maybe they need to keep their subjected peoples in - like a Communist country.

But I wonder if they really had a fortified border along where the inhabitable parts of North Africa met the desert?

Governments typically do have rational reasons for their policies. Fact that these reasons are typically either stupid, evil, or both, is a different pair of shoes. Socipaths after all have very shallow emotions.

And desert tribes were a massive problem. Diocletian fought multiple battles with raiders from the desert (Nabateians, Numidians and such).