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Posted on 09/07/2021 3:29:52 AM PDT by pookie18
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A SOLID ONE ! BANG ZOOMER ! Thank you Pookster!
Yesterday I started a YouTube video about the crash of civilization in 1177. I decided it might be important so I’ll finish it later. It concerns the end of the Bronze age
I had just watched one about the Greek cities in Asia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan. Why?
Turns out, the Greeks went to Afghanistan for the tin necessary to make bronze. The man said tin was as valuable in the bronze age as oil is now. North Afghanistan was where the tin was and where the Greeks established colonies.
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Some say the interaction the Europeans had with Britannia over tin was the reason why centuries later the Celts living there became Christians. That may or may not be the reason. There was a Roman outpost there (London) anyway (and even that may be because tin was important to Rome). All we know is that by the time Pope Gregory sent St. Augustine of Canterbury there to Christianize England in the late 6th century, he found there were already Christians living there. Plus there's a hint of Christianity already being there centuries before by Emperor Constantine becoming Christian, perhaps influenced by his mother, who perhaps was Celtic (more probably was Greek).
People went a long way to obtain tin, it was a “strategic metal,” like Lithium is today, and both were and are found in Afghanistan.
Another source of tin was Cornwall in England, which gave that then-obscure island a critical trading item, putting them on the European economic map almost in prehistory.
Interesting. See #9. Having a critical trading item that people would make difficult journeys by land and sea to obtain meant a very early exchange of cultures and ideas.
It was no easy matter in the early centuries AD to travel from, say, the middle of Europe, by horse and oxcart, then by primitive sailing vessels to England, and then on to Lands End/Cornwall. Perhaps smelted tin ingots were for sale in London or Plymouth, this would be logical.
Traders typically set up outposts, leaving some of their own people to oversea the purchase, collection, safeguarding and shipping of the trade goods between ship visits. (They couldn’t just arrive on a sailing vessel and hope that smelted tin was ready to purchase.)
Many ideas could be exchanged between these traders and their outposts, and the local population. Intermarriage would be common, so it’s not a stretch to imagine Christianity being introduced very early.
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My father-in-law is in his 80’s, and for the last 8 years or so, we’ve all noticed a decline in his cognition. Unfortunately, he either has Alzheimer’s or dementia, but LOVES his westerns. Must be a thing about going back to ‘childhood’.
We seem to have gone from “We the people” to “Me, the president” in a scant 8 months.
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