SM Scores 2006-2010

[Roman Candle]

This nigg3r's hawt 2

[Roman Candle]

Originally Posted by midare

If the tale of Romulus and Remus appears the more popular Roman founding tale today, then the tale of Aeneas, harking back to yet earlier times, was perhaps the more popular in the days of the Roman Empire. In fact through Virgil the Aeneid became the national epic of the Roman empire and the most famous poem of the Roman era.
Aeneas was to have been a hero fighting the Greeks in the Trojan wars. The son of Venus and a mortal father, he escaped as the great city of Troy was sacked. After quite an odyssey he landed in Latium through which the river Tiber flows. Aeneas married the daughter of King Latinus, only to aggrieve King Turnus of Rutuli who himself had his eye on her. As usual in ancient tales, there ensued a war for the princess between Turnus and Aeneas, who was by then supported by King Tarchon of the Etruscans.
Naturally Aeneas, son of Venus, was triumphant.

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Aeneas having his wounds dressed in the presence of Venus. From a wall painting in Pompeii.
Museo della Civilta, Rome
The sack of Troy is dated to around 1220 BC. To fill the years from Aeneas to Romulus the Romans therefore were required to produce a string of fictional Kings to make the tale work. This was done across all the generations with some ease from Ascanius, son of Aeneas to Numitor, grandfather of Romulus and Remus.

As such the Latins settled in the wider area of Rome around 1000 BC. Though those early settlements were not to be mistaken for anything like a city. They kept pigs, herded sheep, goats, cattle and lived in primitive, round huts.
So how could such archaic beginnings ever lead to a city of power which would rule the world? The rise of Rome was certainly not inevitable, but it had many advantages right from the start. Rome lies only a few miles from the sea with all its possibilities of trade. It lies central to the Italian peninsula, which in turn lies central to the entire Mediterranean Sea. Italy is guarded by the Alps to the North and by the sea all around.
Add to this the influence of the Greeks who were settling southern Italy, founding cities like Cumea and Tarentum, bringing advanced civilization to the country, and you have a place with lots of potential. From the Greeks the Romans learnt fundamental skills such as reading and writing, even their religion is almost entirely derived from Greek mythology. i.e. for Jupiter write Zeus, Mars is Ares, Venus is Aphrodite, etc... If the Greeks settled to the south of them, then the Roman had the Etruscans to the north. Etruria was predominantly an urban society, drawing its considerable wealth from seaborne trade. The extravagant Etruscans were generally seen by the more hardy Romans to be decadent and weak. While being distinctly unique in their own right, the Etruscans too owed much of their culture to the Greeks. At around 650 to 600 BC the Etruscans crossed the Tiber and occupied Latium. It is through this, so one believes, that the settlement on the Palatine Hill was brought together with the settlements on surrounding hills, either in an attempt to fend off the invaders, or, once conquered, by the Etruscan master who sought to rule their kingdom via a structure of city states. It is at this point that the first known, rather than mythical, kings emerge.

[midare]

see when i do it it's funny
ur just nerd raging

also im p sure that you're actually n0tme

[N0tme]

this is awsome, people care way more about people who they think are bs, than actual stepmania scores. (:

[midare]

no people care more about legit stepmania scores than fake ones

[N0tme]

sadly no...
but whatever, i'll continue posting my scores here like it or not (:

[gnr61]

Originally Posted by N0tme

this is awsome, people care way more about people who they think are bs, than actual stepmania scores. (:

get outta here ur bs

[gnr61]

and actually midare's right man theres basically 0 people causing drama now since its more or less common knowledge who cheats and who doesn't lol

[Roman Candle]

I'm so J7...

[Bluearrowll]

Hi guys I play J1




In all seriousness



lol

[abstractrevenge]

How is your MA on eyeopener that bad lol

[Bluearrowll]

It's not. That was a sightread and I wasn't warmed up either.

[abstractrevenge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQNpJ_1Dyxo

you're welcome midare.

[Gundam-Dude]

why would you even post that eyeopener lmao

[MinaciousGrace]

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[Vanilla Mnm]

Death Moon - Bad MA & everything, but I'm trying to AAA this. I didn't even see that Great, this is my second 1 Great score >.> I also had a 2 Great score. I'll get it AAAed sooner or later lol

[t-rogdor]

Originally Posted by abstractrevenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqnpj_1dyxo

you're welcome midare.

i love you

[TheNamesH]

ohmy....



Needs fix'n



Ouch.. Hurt my hands...



At least I beat my mirror score

[Roman Candle]

Gonna spice this thread up with a beardad a la midare

[eVILPeeR]

After seeing that manly man it's time to go beast on stepmania