# \[Roman\] Dodecahedrons **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 27, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-dodecahedrons/980459 "2023-02-27T21:46:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-dodecahedrons/980459/17 "2023-03-01T07:19:09Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > What the Romans called Asia and Africa were vassal states that rarely needed actual warfare to work out problems. But they were the frequent sites of [Roman _internal_ wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_civil_wars_and_revolts) during the Imperial era. If it was a specifically military tech, it should show up all over the Roman military world, the way patterns of armour and weapons also proliferated Empire-wide. After all, the legions themselves were mobile - [A legion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_II_Traiana_Fortis) might be raised for a war in Dacia, participate in suppressing Judean revolts, be stationed in Egypt, campaign in Syria, then off to fight in Germania and end up back in Egypt. Their supporting tech would be the same. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roman-dodecahedrons/980459)._