I assume you’re talking about the Crusades? Or do you mean the CATHOLIC church? Because the crusades were actually a DEfensive reaction to middle eastern (turned out to be largely muslim) attacks against (largely Christian) travelers passing through the area. Knights, etc., who didn’t have much to do went over there to defend them.
What the Catholic church did, killing people who tried to spread the Bible into the hands of the public in order to retain its financial hold over the sould of its constituents, was unforgivable, but it was NOT representative of “Christianity” in general. That was basically a horribly corrupt governmental body acting horribly corrupt.
Or did you mean something else?
Why is it they have to go back a thousand years to try to dig up some sort of dirt on Christianity that’s comparable to Islam today (and then fail at that)? Like do they not realize that actually paints Islam in an even worse light?
The Great Fire of London, in September of 1666, is rightly remembered as a human catastrophe. By the time it was put out, after raging through the capital for four days, around 13,000 buildings were destroyed and 100,000 people were homeless. As the largest city in Europe this did not just affect England. International trade was disrupted, and people across the continent heard about the fire. In fact, prints of the Great Fire were still being sold one hundred years later across Europe.
The megalithic city of Nan Madol lies on the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia, and was the ritual and ceremonial center for the ruling chiefs of the Saudeleur dynasty. Consisting of a series of artificial islets linked by a network of canals, Nan Madol is often called the “Venice of the Pacific.”
Encompassing more than ninety islets, at its peak Nan Madol may have been home to a thousand people. Although many of the residents were chiefs, the majority were commoners. Nan Madol served, in part, as a means by which the ruling Saudeleur chiefs both organized and controlled potential rivals by requiring them to live in the city rather than in their home districts, where their activities were difficult to monitor. Within the city, social hierarchy was reflected in the size of the residences built within the compounds, the largest being the homes of the chiefly elite. The highly stratified social system at Nan Madol is the earliest known example of such centralized political power in the western Pacific.
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
He [Wilhelm II] returned to Europe [from his tour of the Holy Land] in autumn to find Britain on the point of war with France over a solitary little fort in the middle of nowhere in southern Sudan called Fashoda. Fashoda was the point where French plans to dominate Africa east to west, from Dakar to Djibouti, intersected with British plans to connect South Africa to Cairo.
A French troop occupied the fort; a British one sat outside it – very politely. The two commanders took tea together.
The quote is taken from George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda Carter.
In the 1000s BCE, rulers of the reigning kingdoms around the Mediterranean and in the Fertile Crescent did not usually meet each other. Travel times were much longer than they are today. So instead of ruler-to-ruler meetings, diplomacy was conducted through people referred to by the Akkadian term mar shipri. These civil servants acted both as messengers and as ambassadors. They often had royal or aristocratic blood, and spoke Akkadian which was the language of diplomacy. Mar shipri would bear expensive gifts for whatever ruler they were going to see, and would be received with pomp and ceremony.
On the morning of this day in history, September
2nd, in 31 B.C., the Battle of Actium was fought between the combined
forces of Cleopatra VII and her husband, Marc Antony, and those of
Octavian.
The Battle was a decisive victory for Octavian; many of Antony’s
ships were undermanned due to a malaria outbreak among his troops and
one of his generals had defected to the other side before the battle
began and told Octavian his battle strategy.
After their defeat, Antony and Cleopatra retreated to Alexandria with
what was left of their forces. Octavian pursued them there, and many
more of Antony’s men would desert him and join with the forces of Rome.
The couple were ultimately defeated the following year, and both would
then famously take their own lives.
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