According to the historian Polybius, considerable debate took place in Rome on the question of whether to accept the Mamertines ' appeal for help, and thus likely enter into a war with Carthage.

According to Polybius, this army was partly composed of Ligurians, Celts and Iberians.

According to Polybius he arrived in Italy accompanied by 20, 000 foot soldiers and 4, 000 horsemen, and only a few elephants.

According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant " civilian " ( ref Josephus Bell 2 178 ), " private citizen " ( ref sb 3924 9 25 ), " private soldier as opposed to officer ," ( Polybius 1. 69 ), " relatively unskilled, not clever ," ( Herodotus 2, 81 and 7 199 ).

According to Pausanias and the Greek historian Polybius, an inscribed pillar ( stele ) was erected near the altar of Zeus on Mt.

According to Polybius, Roman institutions were the backbone of the empire but Roman law is the medulla.

According to Polybius there had been several trade agreements between Rome and Carthage, even a mutual alliance against king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

According to Polybius:

According to Polybius and Livy, 5, 000 Macedonians had been killed.

According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government.

According to Polybius, this was the first time poison gas was used.

According to Polybius, Hannibal's cavalry boldly rode up to the edge of the Roman encampment, causing havoc and thoroughly disrupting the supply of water to the Roman camp.

According to Polybius, Mummius ' was unable to resist the pressure of those around him.

According to Polybius, Sempronius felt free to act on his own: " He was, it is true, at liberty to act as he thought best owing to the illness of Scipio.

According to the ancient Greek historian Polybius, an important factor in Philip's decision to take advantage of this opportunity was the influence of Demetrius of Pharos.

According to the contemporary historian Polybius, it was the people ( and thus the assemblies ) who had the final say regarding the election of magistrates, the enactment of new statutes, the carrying out of capital punishment, the declaration of war and peace, and the creation ( or dissolution ) of alliances.

According to Polybius, he asserted that " religion was a deliberate imposture devised by some cunning man for political ends.

According to Polybius, who has the most fully developed version of the cycle, it rotates through the three basic forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy and the three degenerate forms of each of these governments ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny.

According to Polybius, the Romans seized a shipwrecked Carthaginian quinquereme and used it as a blueprint for their own ships, but it is stated that the Roman copies were heavier than the Carthaginian vessels, which were better built.

According to Polybius, at the Battle of Ecnomus the Roman quinqueremes carried a total crew of 420, 300 of whom were rowers, and the rest marines.

According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises ( Hypomnemata ) on the subject.

According to Polybius, Ptolemy had 70, 000 infantry, 5, 000 cavalry, and 73 war elephants and Antiochus 62, 000 infantry, 6, 000 cavalry, and 102 elephants.

According to Polybius, the Syrians suffered a little under 10, 000 foot dead, about 300 horse and 5 elephants, 4, 000 men were taken prisoner.

According to some Roman historians, including Polybius ( Book 10 ), Laelius was a friend of Scipio from childhood ; however, his family background is obscure.

According to Duesberg, common diseases are easily misdiagnosed as AIDS in Africa because " the diagnosis of African AIDS is arbitrary " and does not include HIV testing.

According to the Recent African Ancestry theory, modern humans evolved in Africa possibly from Homo heidelbergensis and migrated out of the continent some 50, 000 to 100, 000 years ago, replacing local populations of Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.

According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1. 25 million Europeans were captured by North African pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.

According to Alex Dupuy, Chair of African American Studies and John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University the ability of Haiti to adequately manage the mining operations or to obtain and use funds obtained from the operations for the benefit of its people is untested and seriously questioned.

According to Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has " leveled off " as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans.

According to cryptozoologists Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, authors of the Field Guide to Lake Monsters, " African guides found large, unexplained tracks along the bank of a river and later in a swamp the team heard mysterious roars, which had no resemblance with any known animal ".

According to Abu-Jamal, ' Mumia ' means " Prince " and was the name of anti-colonial African nationalists conducting warfare against the British in Kenya at the time of its independence movement.

According to the 2010 Census, 68. 4 % of the population was White ( 40. 5 % non-Hispanic white ), 2. 1 % was Black or African American, 9. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 1. 4 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 3. 7 % from two or more races.

According to Memi: It is a song against racism, so I wanted to sing it with a North African who was born in France [...] Because of that and because of his talent, I chose K-Mel.

According to Burton ( 2007 ) Martin authorized a crusade against Africa in 1418 and this coupled with a later bull ( 1441 ) sanctioned the Portuguese trade in African slaves.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, Miltiades was African, although McBrien states he was probably Roman.

According to the African Union and Prime Minister Mohamed, with increasing troop strength the pace of territorial gains is expected to greatly accelerate.

According to the African Union and Prime Minister Mohamed, with increasing troop strength the pace of territorial gains is expected to greatly accelerate.

According to the Encyclopedia of African History, " It is estimated that by the 1890s the largest slave population of the world, about 2 million people, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate.

According to the age and location of the current evidence, the cradle of the genus is the East African Rift System, especially toward the north in Ethiopia, where it is bordered by grasslands.

According to most sources, about half of the population is of racially mixed origin ; Mestizos ( European / Amerindian ), Mulattos ( European / African ) and Zambos ( Amerindian / African ).

According to the Louisiana Historical Association, he named some African Americans to federal positions, such as Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, whom he named comptroller of customs.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were almost 96, 000 African refugees in Yemen in 2006, including more than 91, 000 Somalis.

According to this study, Western African lions are more closely related to Asian lions than to South or East African lions.

According to scientific studies, natural human skin colour diversity within populations is highest in Sub-Saharan African populations, with skin reflectance values ranging from 19 to 46 ( med.

According to A Brief History of the Caribbean ( Jan Rogozinski, Penguin Putnam, Inc September 2000 ), European and African diseases, malnutrition and slavery eventually destroyed the vast majority of the Caribbean's native population.

According to the 2011 census, it's estimated the county has a population of 871, 233, and it is the wealthiest African American-majority county in the United States.

According to John K. Thornton, Europeans usually bought enslaved people who were captured in endemic warfare between African states.