Found in a new world history textbook I am inspecting for teaching use... comments?pic.twitter.com/Oq6fDL4o2r
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1) Rome mentioned in the 8th century? Any idea what's in mind there? 2) I'm willing to accept Etruscan influence on Roman military traditions, but at the same time I think it's probably a fairly broad set of shared aristocratic military traditions in central Italy. Fair?
Obviously the evidence is shaky but I find myself mostly convinced by arguments that pre-Roman Italy was a single zone of military competition where the tendency of convergence in a situation of interstate anarchy meant that aristocratic military traditions were broadly shared.
