101 Ancient Cultures fit for a Campaign...

Lalato

Adventurer

• Jul 18, 2003

• #1

Hi gang...
I would like to come up with a list of real world cultures that would work well as starting points or extra flavor for a campaign.

I'll start the list...

1. Khmer Empire of Cambodia

 

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Azure Trance

First Post

• Jul 18, 2003

• #2

SHARK? SHARK?

• Assyrian Empire

 

Blackwind

Explorer

• Jul 18, 2003

• #3

How about the ancient Himalayan region: Tibet, Nepal, and their interactions with cultures in India and China.

 

Desdichado

Hero

• Jul 18, 2003

• #4

The Tarim Basin region -- the part of Xinchiang China where they've found blond, tall mummies wearing plaid. The Tarim Basin Mummies by Victor Mair and J.P. Mallory is a great book on these guys -- as much as we know about them, anyway.

 

Lalato

Adventurer

• Jul 18, 2003

• #5

5. Iroquois Nation

 

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Lalato

Adventurer

• Jul 18, 2003

• #6

6. Sarmatians... it is generally believed that this culture, which included warrior women, is where the Amazon myth was derived.

 

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Felix

Explorer

• Jul 18, 2003

• #7

7. The pre-Roman britons

8. The Celts

9. The Rus (Northmen that took over what is now Russia. Rus, Russia, you know?)

10. American antebellum south

11. Spartan culture before and during the Peloponesian(sp?) Wars

I'll keep the ideas coming...

 

Azure Trance

First Post

• Jul 18, 2003

• #8

I really dig the massive zigguraut style cities. Babylon, Aztecs. Something ... primal about it.

 

Lalato

Adventurer

• Jul 18, 2003

• #9

13. Anasazi of the American Southwest
14. The Zulu Empire of Africa

 

Buttercup

Princess of Florin

• Jul 18, 2003

• #10

15. The ancient city of Mohenjo-daro or the
16. Indus Valley generally.

4500 years ago they had writing (which has not been deciphered), sewer systems and multiple trade routes with various vanished cultures.

 

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