Which in those times was 
Your point being?
Posted on 10/10/2011 3:46:14 PM PDT by EveningStar
Disease was doing the job all along and it's fairly easy to see that it had happened repeatedly in this part of the world.
It was probably the reason their technological advances were behind that of the rest of the world ~ even though their agriculture was ahead ~ I could write a case for small, isolated agricultural technologists being able to conduct long term breeding experiments denied to those living in centrally administered empires.
Today it wouldn’t ~ but for back then your typical militaristic Chinese Emperor probably had no idea he might have a chance of conquering Europe ~ he’d seen how the Mongols, who’d overwhelmed his part of the world, had been easily crushed by the far larger and even crazier white men on giant horses!
Thanks!
Right, not all tribes delighted in torture of captives after battle. Most did. Say 80% or so is my guess. No cable TV back then, you had to create your own entertainments
Plus it is a myth that Indian tribes battled over hunting grounds. This happened but the usual reason was a tribe went to war so the male braves could get more honor. Meaning more prestige and a higher leadership role plus another squaw or two in the tribe due to wartime bravery. Another reason was to capture more other tribes females to turn into your tribes wives and concubines to crank out more warriors and wives of warriors
It’s actually a myth that people still thought the Earth was flat back then. A myth that still gets published in school books unfortunately.
The ancients Greeks figured out the Earth was round.
The reason Columbus had trouble finding a sponsor for his voyage is that nobody wanted to pay for it.
Not that idiots who gripe about people that died of the flu 500 years ago care about facts.
“It’s actually a myth that people still thought the Earth was flat back then. A myth that still gets published in school books unfortunately.”
Absolutely.
People had known that the Earth is round since the time that they first were able to sail far enough from the shore to watch the shore disappear over the horizon. It wasn’t lost on them why you would see the high ground reappear first.
I don’t know about today but when was in grade school in the 90’s, the flat Earth BS was right there in the history book along with plenty of other inaccurate information. It’s a disgrace.
Another big myth people believe, I think some teacher told me blood was blue in your body, tons of idiots look at their veins and believe this. Funny, I never heard of blue blood cells.
Let me add the Fort Mims Massacre of 30 August 1813 to your list. Ancestors of mine were killed in that attack.
History has enough blood and blame for everyone. I hate history being used as propaganda. Cherokee owned slaves and fought for the South. People are people—Brits were enslaved by Rome, Irish by the English, etc... Native people killed my ancestors and mine killed theirs—Columbus didn’t kill anyone—he thought he discovered India for God’s Sake.
This would be a partial critique of your letter to the editor. The rest of a thorough one would address your short narrative of King Philip's War; the English were no passive sufferers of the Narragansetts' onslaught. The English did a lot to provoke that war, which many New Englanders actually wanted for a number of reasons.
Speaking of the Mongols, why is it that leftist historians never mention the fact that the Mongols invaded Europe and slaughtered thousands of Europeans leaving areas of eastern Europe practically depopulated? Or that the Turks and other violent, Islamic hordes conquered large parts of Europe? I guess we know the reasons for that.
For the most part the Mongols conquered territory for the purpose of taxing it or opening it up to trade. The local Mongol populations ended up being quite tiny. Eastern Europeans, as a whole, have no more Eastasian ancestry than Western Europeans and that's mostly from events during the Ice Age.
The big killings were done further South in the Islamic countries where, frankly, none of us care how many Moslems they killed nor what they did with the land.
Columbus' pitch to the French and Spanish royal courts was that the Earth was shaped kind of like a football! That meant that the distance from Europe to Asia was much shorter than they imagined and at the same time the measurement of the combined width of Africa and East Asia was just as wide as they believed.
The Spanish bought the story.
The only reason the Mongols didn’t slaughter more Europeans is because the big Mongol warlord, Ogedei or Ogotai, croaked during the campaign to invade Austria and they all returned to Mongolia.
Maybe. A substantial percentage of the Mongols were Nestorian Christians. Mongke, most likely a Christian, later on planned another invasion of Europe ~ no doubt to save the heretics from themselves eh!
Which in those times was
Your point being?
And all the world is football shape/It's just for me to kick in space
No wonder they were confused eh!
Try modern American football ~ that would describe the shape that Columbus had in mind.
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