Tribes, Roman

The collection and use of lac by Indian aboriginal tribes probably predates recorded history. Ancient Greek and Roman writers were aware of lac. By the late fifteenth century, European craftsmen were attracted to the use of lac as a finish for cabinets and other furniture because of its gloss and luster. 

One of the reasons the tribes of early history were nomadic was to move periodically away from the stench of the animal, vegetable, and human wastes they generated. When the tribesmen learned to use fire, they used it for millennia in a way that filled the air inside their living quarters with the products of incomplete combustion. Examples of this can still be seen today in some of fhe more primitive parts of the world. After its invention, the chimney removed the combustion products and cooking smells from the living quarters, but for centuries the open fire in the fireplace caused its emission to be smoky. In ad 61 the Roman philosopher Seneca reported thus on conditions in Rome ... 

Soaps A class of chemical substances which are metal salts of fatty acids. Pliny (first century a.d) records that the ancient Romans learned the preparation of soap from Nordic tribes, who used a pomade prepared from goat fat and the calcined ashes of beech-wood. Sapo, the Latin word for soap, is derived from the Nordic sepe. The chemistry of soaps was elucidated in the early nineteenth century by French... 

The discontinuance of use of psychedelics for most non-western societies seemed to coincide with the arrival of European "civilizing" influence, yet stubborn traces of psychedelic use persisted widely until modern times, as witnessed by recent studies of Central and South American Amerindian tribes, and of course the widely known use of peyote by members of the Native American church. The discontinuance of psychedelic use in western Civilization itself coincided with the rise of the Roman Church as the primary political power in the world. From the early centuries of the Christian epoch, the use of such substances became the occupation of heretics, outcasts, witches,... 

Soap was first known to be used in 2500 B.C. at Mesopotamia. It was also written by the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar that some tribes in ancient Egypt used soaps. 

Some respondents I queried suggested that the world would not be affected to a great extent by the removal of the Greek or the Italian peninsula. In other words, civilizations such as the Greeks and Romans would have been formed anyway, just in another location. The ancient Hellenic tribes (c. 1000 b.c.e.) would have moved into some other area, such as Asia Minor. Presumably, they could have had a similar historical effect. 

The French Merovingian Royalty maintained that it was of a royal Trojan lineage that antedated the Roman Catholic Church. They rejected Church sponsored coronation. They also claimed to derive from the tribe of Judah through Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. 

The Vetus Chronicon Holsatiae says the Saxons, Danes and Jutes are Jews of the tribe of Dan. " These other Scythian groups arrived after the Roman occupation. 

Earlier in this chapter, we saw that Herodotus noted the Persians called the Scythians by the name of Sacae or Saka from their ancient name for Israel. The Saxons also attributed their own origin to the territory in which the exiled lost ten tribes settled. Strabo confirms the tradition that Sukasuna was part of the Roman province of Armenia. 

Around the same time Germanic tribes were also cultivating hemp. The Celts had known hemp since the Hallstatt period (700-450 BC). In the 3rd century BC, the Gauls in the Rhone valley used hemp to manufacture ropes and clothing. Hiero II (308-215 BC), the tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, imported hemp from there for the production of marine ropes. In Roman literature, hemp is first mentioned by Gains LucUius (180-102 BC). 

I.e., by their representatives in the Comitia Centuriata or Assembly of the Centuries. Members of the Assembly represented the various Roman tribes and were wealthy enough to arm themselves for lighting in the front ranks or cavalry of the citizen phalanx or militia. 

LUCUMO (eighth century, if real). According to Cicero, an ally of Romulus after whom the Roman tribe Luceres was named his identity was a traditional antiquarian puzzle. Lucumo is also the original (Etruscan, not Greek as Cicero suggests) name of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. 

This entire correspondence between A., Volusianus and Marcellinus was composed between September 411 and the end of February 412, just a year following the sack of Rome and at a time when Roman provinces in Europe along with the western extreme of Roman Africa were experiencing intense military and civil strife in connection with the migrations of Gothic and Vandal tribes. 

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