In order to get you started on this journey, I decided a catching up on ''Romanian'' history might do us all some good, so here we go... Chapter One...
Prehistory
The territory of Romania has been inhabited by different groups of people since prehistory. One of the fossils found—a male, adult jawbone—has been dated to be between 34,000 and 36,000 years old, which would make it one of the oldest fossils found to date of modern humans in Europe. A skull found in The Cave with Bones in 2004-5 bears features of both modern humans and Neanderthals..
Dacia
The territory of today's Romania was inhabited since at least 513 BC by the Getae or Dacians, a Tracian tribe. Under the leadership of Burebista. (82-44 BC), the Dacians became a powerful state which threatened even the regional interests of the Romans. Caesar even intended to start a campaign against the Dacians before he was assassinated A few months later, Burebista shared the same fate, assassinated by his own noblemen. His powerful state was divided in four and did not become unified again until 95, under the reign of the Dacian king Decebal.
The Dacian state sustained a series of conflicts with the expanding Roman Empire, and was finally conquered in 106 AD. Faced by successive invasions of the Goths and Carpi, the Roman administration withdrew in 271.
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