Xen said:now thats just silly. they should be around the are of the ukrain/romania
Mongoloid Cow said:No that would be the Ostrogothsor more specifically the Taurasian Ostrogoths. The Visigoths were the ones who ruled Spain for several centuries and later became the Christian Spanish.
bombshoo said:Thats the Ostrogoths. The Visigoths were never really more then raiders while they were there..In Spain they actually had something closer to CIV III civilization standards.
Xen said:both groups of Goths (Visi, and ostro) before thie rmigrations into Roman held territory showed ample signs of centrlizaiton intoa indipendent states, based looslly on a combination of the Roman model of monarchy, and traditional tribal rule (eg; they were forming into a tentative feudalistic society)
in Spain, they were 'Goths" in name only; thier culture was roman, and so was the vast moajorit yof the populaiton, and even the majority of the people in government, as th eGoths, liek mos tof the other barbarian tribes, didnt have the need adminstaiton skills to runa full state, so they enlisted the local Romans/Romanized populace to fill the important positions that needed filling in thie rnew little governments.
Mobilize said:Well, is there a Golden Chariot out there because I would hate to recognize every Central Asian civilization with the stereotype of being entirely horse archers?
bombshoo said:Not too much, yes they adopted Roman Culture, but a huge part of the population was Gothic or mixed in with them. (They were barbarians they raped anything that even remotley looked like a women.)
Mongoloid Cow said:Yes, but the Visigoths were in Ukraine and Romania for like what... a forgettable century or so when the Ostrogoths were fame for being there. On the other hand, they were in Spain for like three centuries where they experienced a golden age (which al-Andalus built on), and Visigothic refugees founded Asturias, which would later evolve into Spain and Portugal... take your pick.
Xen said:A)the ostrogoths were located aorund the crimean peninsula, not romania and th eukrian until the Visigoths left it, and even then the visigothic remiants are the ones who still held fame in the region, as the ostrogoths themselves were just passers by in the area
B)yes a goldne age mor eor less intiated by the goths dropping almost all of thier heritage, and tryign to mimic Roman culture and imperial civlization, but with the guise of a gemrmanic condfedercy, which would eventually fully metamophisize itself into fuedalism (note, this process began well before the goths as a whole even spilt)
those put together, twould eb better to put the visigoths in the ukrian and Romania; conmsidering that if rome had neve rcoem along, that is wher ethey woudl have stayed, and thier traditional golden age is built upon them essentiall becoming "ROmans" to the best of thier ability anyway
Xen said:A)the ostrogoths were located aorund the crimean peninsula, not romania and th eukrian until the Visigoths left it, and even then the visigothic remiants are the ones who still held fame in the region, as the ostrogoths themselves were just passers by in the area
B)yes a goldne age mor eor less intiated by the goths dropping almost all of thier heritage, and tryign to mimic Roman culture and imperial civlization, but with the guise of a gemrmanic condfedercy, which would eventually fully metamophisize itself into fuedalism (note, this process began well before the goths as a whole even spilt)
those put together, twould eb better to put the visigoths in the ukrian and Romania; conmsidering that if rome had neve rcoem along, that is wher ethey woudl have stayed, and thier traditional golden age is built upon them essentiall becoming "ROmans" to the best of thier ability anyway
Mongoloid Cow said:Xen, we have a leader with matching leaderhead, city list, great leader list and scientific great leader list for all civs. This thread is to discuss the last item of discussion - the UU.