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From: "Arch Yeomans" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith builders
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:02:37 -0700
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That makes complete sense.

On 6/24/07, <> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/24/2007 11:44:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> The Romans asserted their political and military rule over much of Britain,
> but they certainly did not enslave the entire population. The Vikings
> likewise did not make slaves of the entire population of the areas in which
> they held sway.
>
>
> This may be historically naive, so consider this a request for information
> from those more knowledgeable about political/military history...
>
> It would seem to me that the most likely to "be enslaved" (by whatever
> definition) in these two political assertions would be those who were from the
> former ruling power and their supporters -- for the humiliation factor, for the
> control (prevention of reassertion of power), and as a reminder/warning to
> those other unsubjugated as yet rulers in nearby areas or would be resisters.
> Am I totally off base here?
>
> Anne
>
>
>
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