>everyone knows each other and is related to one another >people give their money and riches to monasterys and churches to support those who work for your God, spreading the good news and also supporting the underlying culture of your people >where monasteries exist in the first place and are places disillusioned young men can find purpose >having available jobs everywhere which you can start as a 10 year old Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>491624 This is rose-tinted goggles. The theocracies of the past were just as corrupted-if not a great deal more corrupt, than the corporations and secular governments of today.
Also things were far less safe back than. Traveling was very dangerous, you could easily be captured and sold as a slave. You did have more community but this came at an extreme cost the individual: for instance your marriage would have been arranged and you would most likely be born a peasant that would never learn to read. Being poor and uneducated... Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>491659 >The theocracies of the past were just as corrupted-if not a great deal more corrupt, than the corporations and secular governments of today. You are a stooge of the highest order.
German High command was too aggressive and confident that the Wehrmacht could achieve its goals before the weather got bad, Hence the didn't issue winter clothing and provisions. As a result, the Axis forces, frozen and starved, were beaten.
>>491499 The Soviet production capacity was WAYYYYY higher than Germany's. The Nazis banked on their super shitty military image after Japan, WWI, and The Winter War, and didn't take a sober logical look at what they would be invading.
>mfw when I'm reading Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España >mfw de Sahagún says that Quetzalcóatl is one of the highest Aztec deities >mfw he further continues that Quetzalcóatl has a bkack face and body
Is it possible that a bunch of African sailors, catched in some trans-Atlantic current, travelled all the way to Mexico and taught the Aztecs civilisation?
Who are the closest modern descendants of Ancient Egypt? I've been given to understand that Arab mass migrations has made its current population not at all similar to the Ancient one.
Pls no shitposting, I really want to know the answer
Genetic tests show that southern Egyptians are the most closely related to Ancient Egyptians. You have to remember that it's hard for an invading force to have much genetic impact on the native population. Now imagine such a native population being situated along the greatest river in the world, nurtured to great numbers by the extremely productive agriculture that river allows. With that in mind, it seems preposterous that the Ancient Egyptians were just absorbed by Arab invaders.
>>490916 Well, Egyptians do look distinct from other arabs. It's undeniable there was blanda upp, even pre-arab. Ancient Egypt was considered old even for the Greeks.
Copts don't really look distinct from Muslim Egyptians.
>>490867 Because they were written by different people in different times without any divine inspiration. I would have thought that was obvious senpai.
>>490631 you need to take into account even if the mongols had don't lose the motivation after each khan died the had to go back to Mongolia to bury the old khan and for the new khan to ascend to power so that gives the Europeans time to recover and rebuild a bit and come up with means to counter the Mongols and that's without taking into account rebellions that don't shatter the empire
-Recent DNA tests revealed the Irish are descendant from ancient middle easterners and people from Southern Russia,
-Scythian's pop up in Irish history and mythology for example a Scythian king Fenius Farsaid is said to have invented the Gaelic language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9nius_Farsaid
and Finally the Auraicept na n-Eces an Irish manuscript written by 7th century Irish scholars claims the Irish originated in Scythia.
So are with the new DNA revelations backing up the ancient claims of such a connections,
Could the Irish be... Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
being of all Irish decent I thought the Baltrogs of ancient Greece were the 1st inhabitants, name for toolbags that carried with them. but thanks for the update always beer more of an American history buff or overall world stuff.
Sparta is a weird state. I'm not just talking about the warrior culture that pervaded it; although you can't avoid that when talking about Lacedaemon.
It wasn't the first or the last political entity to be dominated by a warrior aristocracy, but as far as I know, it lasted in its form of governance by far the longest, and what's more, without handy external enemies to plunder to justify the existence of said warrior aristocracy.
How did this happen? And why didn't it implode? And how come we have virtually no mention of any strata of... Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Zoroastrianism was associated with the Sassanids. When they faltered and collapsed, Zoroastrianism declined with them. The Sunni faith was vibrant, new, and supported by a growing empire so it had a definite upper hand in terms of being able to spread.
Can we have a non-/pol/ conspiracy thread about the khazars?
Pretty interesting people 2bh
For people who don't know: >khaganate straddled between the Byzantines and the Umayyads in what we would now call the Caucasus and fringes of eastern europe >acted as a bulwark against islamic forays into Europe >gained extreme wealth in controlling trade along their expanse >in the 8th century, khazar royalty and some nobility definitely converted... Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>490350 Not the bulk of their population at least, because as you said, they were Nomads. They didn't genocide the Caucasians that were previously living there.
What calendar did the Japanese used to have before the Christian calendar? Why did they adopt a calendar that is based on religion they do not practice? Was there a problem with adopting it?
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