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Karnaj
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posted 02-23-2007 01:35:34 PM
A fully-functional Greek Trireme

It's pretty impressive that one Greek city state was able to build these by the hundreds 2500 years ago, even if they did have the benefit of knowing exactly how to build and crew one.

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Lechium
With no one to ever know
posted 02-23-2007 02:12:49 PM
He does bring up a good point about the fresh water. Granted, Im sure most of the Greek Navy rowers back then consisted mostly of slaves. Still, you would lose an awful lot of slaves from dehydration if you had them working super hard constantly.
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Burori
Pancake
posted 02-23-2007 06:58:10 PM
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Lechium had this to say about the Spice Girls:
He does bring up a good point about the fresh water. Granted, Im sure most of the Greek Navy rowers back then consisted mostly of slaves. Still, you would lose an awful lot of slaves from dehydration if you had them working super hard constantly.

That's why the battle slaves were handy. Win a war and gain slaves.

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