Ancient Rome and wine Gaul. The Romans established lucrative trading relations with local tribes of Gaul, despite their potential to produce wine of their own. The Gallic tribes paid high prices for Roman wine, with a single amphora worth the value of a slave. From the Mediterranean coast, the Romans pushed further up the Rhone Valley, to areas where olives and figs were unable to grow but where oak trees were still found. As a result of their experience in what is now northeastern Italy, the Romans knew that regions where "Quercus ilex" were found had climates sufficiently warm enough to allow the full
Southwestern snake-necked turtle Southwestern snake-necked turtle The southwestern snake-necked turtle, narrow-breasted snake-necked turtle or (based on the obsolete scientific name) oblong turtle ("Chelodina (Macrodiremys) colliei") is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae. It is endemic to the southwestern part of Western Australia. The species has been successfully bred in captivity in Cologne Zoological Garden. The specific name, "colliei", is in honor of Scottish physician and naturalist Alexander Collie. This species has a very complicated taxonomic history, involving many uses of the available names and a number of mistakes in that usage. In his original concept of the two species involved Gray