Mostly I picture the very very big beds and the exciting underwear and the spanking.
Posted on 01/13/2013 12:37:34 PM PST by EveningStar
When you think of the Middle Ages, chances are you picture gallant knights sitting astride brilliant destriers galloping through a sea of plagues, ignorance, and filth. And you can hardly be blamed for that, when everything from the movies you watch to your high school history teacher (who was mainly the football coach) has told you that ...
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The Krakatoa volcano erupted in 535ad and might have been responsible for the climate shifts at that time.
http://customers.hbci.com/~wenonah/history/535ad.htm
About 1000 AD the middle east suffered an enormous disaster ~ they were conquered by Mongols and Turks ~ for the next 900 years the Arabs were just a conquered people suitable only for tax payments.
Only when attached to swallows.
This is just about the longest war in human history actually undertaken for a purpose.
During that long war the strongest most powerful non-Moslem nation in Western or Northern Europe was a consortium of Brythonic Celtic speaking principalities located in what are now called Cornwal and Brittany. It was customary for 2, 3, 4, 5th sons of nobles to ship out to Spain to join in the Reconquista for the purpose of gaining glory, farmland, towns ~ and rank. Today an incredibly high percentage of Spanish noble names are actually Cornish or Breton sentences that relate to formal occupations or positions taken during cavalry line ups!
Too much credit is given to Charles Martel ~ he was a layabout who drank too much and had too many wives. The real knights who won Spain were from that other place!
A regular objective of the Christian knights was to find a library and seize it. Once done the Catholic Church and wealthy magnates would sendin scholars to review the books and send them North to be copied and distributed throughout Europe. Several such libraries over the centuries were sufficiently well stocked to allow Western Europeans in the Northern redoubts (Belgium) to initiate INDUSTRIALIZATION!
Spain itself had as close to an industrialized population as any nation up to the 1300s in Belgium ~ anywhere in the world ~ the people staffing it were called Jews. Medieval Sephardic names frequently reflect a Jewish industrial occupation ~ e.g. Schmidlap(spelled many ways) Is a ladino word meaning 'sheet maker/painter' ~ in effect, someone who made paper. And who can forget the famous Bookbinder family ~ and so forth. (That's only a sample ~ anyone who already studied latin or spanish can go learn ladino on the net and get into this ancient language ~ it explains so very much about Catholic and Jewish history in Spain)
Whatever else Europeans were doing to each other politically or economically, when it came to the war against the moors, they were all in it together. As Protestantism rose, both Catholic and Protestant soldiers went to fight the Turks in the Balkans, or along the Mediterranean shore ~ Captain John Smith was a veteran of those wars and understood Turkish. He was selected to head up the Virginia colony because it was believed Turkish was in widespread use already on the Eastern seaboard ~ which it was, in a way. The Spanish sent many of their POWs captured in Mediterranean battles to a POW camp in South Carolina!
From the grandest palace to the most humble mud and stick hovel, Europeans were, in fact, united against the Saracen in ways we can scarcely imagine for most of that 700 years.
This time no more RINOs
Watch out for the rabbits from that time
extremely vicious.
Please tell me what that has to do with a Monty Python reference?
Not all threads have to be serious.
That professor is a very impressive representative for Jordan.
Have you seen him in videos?
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That starts in the latter part of many people's middle ages.
The one I saw was a woman. I can’t find the link, however!
Exactly!
Well, I found something:
“Indeed, the total number of books translated into Arabic during the 1,000 years since the age of Caliph Al-Ma’moun [a ninth-century Arab ruler who was a patron of cultural interaction between Arab, Persian, and Greek scholars—WPR] to this day is less than those translated in Spain in one year. The report noted that Arab rulers stay in office all their lives and create dynasties that inherit power, and the peoples are unable to institute change.”
http://worldpress.org/Mideast/663.cfm
This is the woman in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima_Khalaf
***go to the toilet, likely prepare bread***
So THAT’S where brown bread got it’s start!
Sorry, just couldn’t resist.
I automatically take with a grain of salt any article written by a foul-mouthed lout purporting to set out facts about anything.
I can tell by the smarmy style in which it is written that it is all a load of crap. People were not often living into their 70s. I would not trust this source for any conclusions about anything
The recurring theme one hears from muslim apologists is that the Crusaders were the offenders. They somehow ignore the fact that within one hundred years of muhammad's death islamic armies were invading Spain and France - 4,000 miles from Saudi Arabia and 350 years before the First Crusade.
Mostly I picture the very very big beds and the exciting underwear and the spanking.
Well, it is from "Cracked" magazine - competitor of "Mad" magazine. Their target audience is probably about thirteen years old.
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