03-31-2004, 05:51 PM
dear friends,<br>
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Interesting subject. Robert is right in saying that the change in climate was due to the rising of the sea and the flooding inland. The bogs behind the seadunes were infiltrated with salt water and the fresh water from the rivers could not flow to sea as easily as before. Therefore the western part of Holland became depopulated. The inhabitants either went away or had less decentants.<br>
One of you wrote that the first prove of sickness in the amry did not accur before the Antonine plague. This is not entirely through. I did some research on Roman military medicine and the classical literature is full of examples of mass sickness during campains and in forts from Republican times on. The Antonine plague did not only reach the Danubian border but also affected the troops in Bonn and other Rhine forts as is clearly to be seen in the gravestones. I presume that the troops in all the european continent were affected.<br>
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Arpvar<br>
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Interesting subject. Robert is right in saying that the change in climate was due to the rising of the sea and the flooding inland. The bogs behind the seadunes were infiltrated with salt water and the fresh water from the rivers could not flow to sea as easily as before. Therefore the western part of Holland became depopulated. The inhabitants either went away or had less decentants.<br>
One of you wrote that the first prove of sickness in the amry did not accur before the Antonine plague. This is not entirely through. I did some research on Roman military medicine and the classical literature is full of examples of mass sickness during campains and in forts from Republican times on. The Antonine plague did not only reach the Danubian border but also affected the troops in Bonn and other Rhine forts as is clearly to be seen in the gravestones. I presume that the troops in all the european continent were affected.<br>
<br>
Arpvar<br>
<br>
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