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Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion Faction Feature
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-09-26 14:57:49 1034
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The Goths
By Creative Assembly, Courtesy of IGN
The Goths were an ancient Germanic people from the Baltic coast region who migrated towards Dacia in the 3rd century A.D., but before that they were reputed to have crossed the Baltic from their original homeland. They settled around the Vistula river and at some point the tribes divided into the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, or Western Goths. The Western Goths were the first barbarians to carry out a major incursion into Roman territory and, while the other barbarians were even more brutal in their warmaking, the Goths struck fear into the enemies. Their practice of sacrificing captives to their war god, Tyz, was particularly horrifying. This practice was been abandoned when the Goths adopted the Arian version of Christianity.
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