Geto-Dacians, part II

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Today I will present you the second part of the lesson about the Geto-Dacians. I am sorry about you don’t have the first part in english. You don’t miss much, but I’m sure you can you a traslation service like such as that provided by google.

So, let start!

The Gauls were organized into states and cities were called dava. Agricultural production: wheat, wine, honey, raised cattle and horses, and fishing. Clothing was made from sheep's wool and hemp. If the plain houses were made of wattle poles and built on the land, the hills and the mountains they were made of wood, using beams concluded. Leadership he had the king, nobles assisted by a counsel, and was advised by a priest. Dacians were involved in the extraction and processing of metals which made tools, weapons, religious objects or furniture, ornaments, vases and coins. Pottery was processed both by hand and with the potter's wheel and become an art. Religious services were held in sanctuaries that were rectangular or circular. Funeral ritual consists of burning the dead, and the ashes were placed in urns and buried in the ground. Dacia loved music. Ancient sources say they your singing, and the guitar. Dion Crysostomos I thought the Getae as wise as Greeks.

Dacians already obtained a high degree of civilization up to the first contact with the Romans. They believed in the immortality of the soul and regards dying as a change of country. The head priests had an important position as the representative of the supreme deity, Zamolxis on earth is also adviser of the king.

Crito (Doctor of Trajan) in Getica said "Kings Gets imposed through fear of the gods and harmony and magic skills, enjoying such a high status." Co-governance priest-king of Dacia (the king being ultimately more powerful) is similar to the relationship Enaree-king (the Scythians), druid-king (the Celts) and chakravartin-yogi (in India), thus following a common pattern in northern Eurasia of the time.

In addition Zamolxis, Dacians believed in other deities, Derzelas and Bendis, although their existence was confirmed by sources such as archaeological.

They were divided into two classes: the aristocracy, called Cells (pileati) or tarabostes and free farmers, comaţii (comati), a small number of historical sources mention the presence of slaves. First, they were entitled to have his head veiled and wearing a Cusma formed a privileged class. Others, who formed the bulk of the army, were peasants and craftsmen and wore long hair (capillati). One of their weapons was "sica".

The main occupations were agriculture (mainly cereals, fruit trees and grape vines), cattle and sheep and knew beekeeping, horses were used mainly as beasts of burden, but the Gauls were bred horses and fame to be great the war. They traded with the Greek cities, then, were near the Black Sea.

Also gold and silver extracted from the mines of Transylvania and had a flourishing trade with the outside world, finding and the large number of Greek and Roman coins discovered.

Geto-Dacian first appeared in the third century BC and imitate the Macedonian (issued by Philip II, Alexander the Great, Philip III). Beaten silver, as shown treasures discovered in Jiblea (Valcea county), Dumbrăveni (Vrancea) Geto-Dacian coins have ceased to exist by the end of II century BC and the first decades of the first century BC ., with penetration in the region of the Roman denarius (denarius). They will dominate the economy Dacian including the Second Century AD. The explanation lies in the discovery of a Roman coin mints in which Republican was forged in the settlement of Sarmizegetusa. The large number of Roman Republican coins found can be explained in this way, not only flourishing trade relations between the Dacian world and Greco-Roman.

The most important influence in metalworking and other crafts were those of the Celts and Greeks, so ornaments and precious metal objects found in archaeological excavations demonstrate much skill. However these cultural influences Geto-Dacian society shows age and extent of their country, who have made the contacts with the Celts and Greeks.

Geto-Dacian language is an Indo-European language belonging to the Thracians and Illyrians thus akin to language. She was surrounded satem conventional group, as such assignment, her kin the ancient inhabitants tongue Baltic and Slavic idioms, but more with Iranian-Persian language and the Iranian-Scythian, as well as Sanskrit.

Dromichetes, head Getae, Lysimachus defeated in about 300 BC Earlier, in 531 BC, Darius of Persia and subjected Getae with Traci. Oroles and led the Getae in the second century BC. Julius Caesar speaks Dacia De Bello Gallico lands. Conflicts with Bastarns and then the Romans (112 BC - 109 BC, 74 BC) Dacians power weakened, but Burebista contemporary Caesar, Gauls united into a powerful kingdom and reorganized army, defeating Bastarnians and Boi, the Greek cities on the western shore of the Black Sea, from Olbia Bug River, and up to Apollonia in Thrace recognizing its authority. Dacia development pose a threat to the Roman Empire after the conquest of Gaul, Caesar initiating a campaign plan against the Gauls, but the war delayed death. About the same time and in similar circumstances (a plot royal court), Burebista dies and his kingdom is divided into five kingdoms north of the Danube and three in Dobrogea, under different leaders.

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