From what I've seen and heard general knowledge of US history starts with the Pilgrim Fathers. There wasn't anything before that. In any case those with a British ancestry aren't anywhere near the majority. The other big group of English speakers would be in India which is more likely to understand Bollywood references than Hollywood ones.
>>To me, Celts are people living in and around the Alps, not island
>>dwellers.
>Well, they occupied most of Europe originally, and invaded Delphi
>at one point. But the last bit to get conquered by the Romans was
>Gaul, then Britain, I believe?
Apart from the bits they never conquered - like Ireland and some parts of Eastern Europe. They didn't hold on to Dacia long either.
>> > Did any invasion of Sartar use elephants? If it doesn't yet, we
>> > really ought to write some in.
>
>> No elephants. Dinosaurs.
>
>Would they have been a strange new idea (and frightening because of
>their strangeness) to Sartarites? I'd have thought not.
I remember someone writing up a Lunar mammoth unit.
While some Sartarites would be familiar with dinosaurs, particularly those in the north near Wintertop to majority wouldn't. Remember in a largely rural tribal society anything from beyond the next valley can be strange and frightening.
>> So let's not use analogs, but state these facts frankly, and then
>> tell where the inspiration came from. Let's get productive, not
>> controversial.
>
>I think we're going to have to. If our audience don't know what
>we're refering to with ANY of this, the analogues are useless.
>Drat :( There's got to be some commmon cultural references
>somewhere, surely?
Only between members of the same cultural group. There's also the risk that a cultural reference can have totally different meanings in similar cultures.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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