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I cant stop re-listening this OST starting at 1:30, the soft forest sound with lead guitar and background violin

Apparently, the idea of Jewish monotheism is not that straight and forward if we recall the cleansing king Josiah had to undertake in order to get rid of all "old school" orthdoxy (see below the link to William-Brassey-Hole's painting) https://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_198885/William-Brassey-Hole/King-Josiah-cleansing-the-land-of-idols In fact, as we now know, Jewish Yaweh used to have a wife called Asherah whose images barely survived the age of cleansing too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah Jews are known to have been worhshing a golden calf, a brazen serpent, all that sort of things. So apparently the idea of monotheism had been through some ups and downs before it became totally embraced.

Well, frankly the whole premise is not mine. In fact, I strongly suspect that the premise has some antisemitic sentiments behind it. But the truth is that Moses emerged when monotheism had already thrived for some time in Egypt. For someone who watched the Mummy (1999) the destiny of Amenhotep IV may be reminiscent to Imhotep's (I mean the way his name tried to expunge from memories)

Sounds more like the British rather than Roman topic to me, when you say leveling the inequality. Although, as far as I remember, both levellers and diggers failed in the UK, their political agenda served to be a further inspiration for William Godwin and the popularization of anarchism in Europe. Of course, in the normal world where I live the silver-spoon kids ain't apt to be in the very front-lines getting hit by the charge of the enemy artillery. This once made a renowned Russian general even say "Give me a squad comprised of elite offsprings, and I will end any war within a week". Surely you may be living in a different imarinary world of Don Quijote and Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, where kings and nobility are fighting side by side with ordinary men. But the statistics must shed some light on their mortality rates from participation in such fights. To my best knowledge emperor Augustus encouraged his senators to take their sons with them to the senatorial meetings, so they could learn there the rules of the game. The military cursus honorum didn't seem to be life threatening either. The same applies to plagues because apparently the rich can pay to afford better care by best doctors. The only exception to that is when the overall level of advancements in medical sciences is at its bottom, in which case having a better doctor can hardly add up to increase the chances of survival. Btw I reckon malnutrition is no different from the plague, as far as the survival chances are concerned. I ain't so sure about the meaning of the state failure and transformative revolution, so I leave them with no comment.

Hi all, I suppose the discussion about the emergence of the monotheism must have been a popular topic on this forum. Many sources claim that Judaism is the first ever monotheistic religion on this planet. Other sources claim that Jewish borrowed the monotheistic ideas from Atenism of ancient Egypt, becauses Moses started to preach about the same time when Atenism emerged during the reign of Amenhotep IV (Amenhotep was condemned for his monotheism, any mentioning of his name was to be expunged after his death). Ancient Egyptians are also known to believe in life after death. So the question I have here to ask is if Jewish had borrowed the monotheism from Egyptians, then how come they hadn't also borrowed the idea of the life after death? 🙂 Thanks.

So can we assume that the reason why Arabs didn't succeed in subjugating the Byzantine was probably the same as why Persians failed to capture both Constantinople and Rome?

Well, Romans captured Ctesiphon many times too (5 times?), but we never regard this as the proper take-over and subjugation of the whole Sassanian empire. So why do we say then that the Arabs succeeded in where the Romans failed?

Thanks for the link. I do love books. Do you know why Arabs managed to take over the Sassanian state (and moved even further northwards to Central Asia), but failed to do the same with the Byzantine? What made the Byzantine so impenetrable compared to the Sassanian state?

Thanks, guy. So what do you think were the main factors for such a sudden rise of the Arabs from nowhere and such a quick defeat of 2 powerful world empires by them back then?

Sounds like getting off on the toasted bread landing on the buttered side 😂

Btw the English word "hazard" is essentially derived from Arabic "az-zahr" which translates as "the dice"

A few years? Both the battle of the Yarmuk and the battle of al-Qadisiyyah took place in the same year. Both the Byzantine army and the Sassanian empire were defeated by the Arab army within the period of a few months.

What seems to be the problem with the thread? Am I raising an unpleasant political issue in every other post that I share on this forum? How many provocative questions have I asked in 174 posts since the date of my registration ? Is there any commie agitprop stuff hidden in the music tracks that I share? Am I bringing up the issue of Ukraine when I share a video link with some population projections? Is this forum so incredibly popular that a few thousand protesters are gonna attack an embassy in London after reading my post on demography? caldrail, given your unexplainable negative attitudes in this thread, I've got an impression that you are fighting demons in your own head (or, as we say in Russian, fighting your cockroaches) 🙂

caldrail, I thought you were free not to participate in this thread if you didn't like it. I mean your position (given Brexit and your earlier comments in other threads, such as "I don't like the EU") seems a bit of exaggeration if not hypocrisy. There are only 3-4 active participants regularly posting on the whole forum, so the damage I am about to make by creating this thread is gonna be pivotal for the whole Europe because every European is gonna read the thread and be emotionally affected. I don't mind if the thread is shut or edited by moderators, although I personally have a very deep interest in studying the world demography and have pretty good knowledge of it too in order to support the discussion Surely we can move on to discuss videos of pussy cats, or underwear of ancient Romans if they better fit the agenda of "Historia in Universum", but I am afraid you won't find me in those threads because they are beyond my interests. Here is the link to the original post shared 2 days ago that inspired me to create the thread: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/global-population-300-years-by-country/ Perhaps caldrail should drop a note to James Eagle and let him know that he's been emotionally disturbed by his population projections

Perhaps you also mean Gregory Clark's agenda and James Eagle's agenda too (the last one is the author of the video). Because the discussion I've tried to raise has been lasting for at least the last 50 years, thus I am certainly not the one who started it since I ain't so advanced in my ages 😄 In fact, I am curious about the data behind the prophecy of James Eagle as much as anyone else. His video has been shared by VisualCapitalist, which is a popular infographics portal (barely linked with "another Russian making assumptions"), mostly attended by financial professionals. Out of 300 years covered by the video, 78 (a quarter) are yet to come, so the credibility of the prophecy in question is far from being overly accepted. Nonetheless I do understand that, given the current trends, we may expect inadequate responses from all parties involved.

Hi all, Below is an interesting video showing the world population history starting from 1800s with further projection till 2100. From the video it appears that the 1800s were rather an exceptional time for Europe, because 4 European countries (UK, Germany, France, Italy) would be listed among the world top 10 by population. Germany would be the last European country off the list in the beginning of 1980s (given that 77% of Russian territory lies in Asia, Russia is hardly to be counted as a fully European country). I like to recall this table (see next to the video) from Gregory Clark's book "Farewell to Alms" (the book itself is another complacency myth) that highlights some key world development indices. Back in 1800s Europe seemed inferior only to Asia, but since then the layout has clearly changed. The projection till 2100, on one hand, may seem a bit doubtful (noone really knows what awaits us out there in 10-20 years from now), but it shows 5 African countries will be in the top 10 by 2100. So I wonder, first, how plausible you find this projection? Second, how do you think Europe should respond to its diminishing role in the world, and what Europe can do for that? 🙂

I occasionally try to delve into the depths of this forum by reading old posts (btw there are many with Zero answers from participants with the total of 1-2 posts, which makes me believe that the forum was never particularly popular, even at its best times when the frequency of new posts and the number of participants were higher than today). So this is how I came across a discussion of the Harris's Cicero trilogy. Never heard of the books before, so I've googled and found that a Russian translation of the Imperium is available. A very good reading, I have to say, even for a stranger like me who is not even formally educated in history. The Imperium came out in 2006, and since then the author published 2 more volumes, the latter was published in 2015, so I assume the business of book writing must have been somewhat profitable for him. I still have to read 1/3 of the Imperium to finish it off, but already see that the author is really knowledgeable about the subject and makes it intriguing/ thrilling for a reader to follow. So it seems the study of the ancient Rome history can be turned into something both entertaining and lucrative for the author too. PS I've just read that Robert Harris was also behind the script for the Ghost writer movie by Polanski, which I quite liked watching.

I am sorry, I didn't mean to hurt or insult anyone. Just sharing my thoughts, which could be wrong sometimes. Yeah, sure.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJkaKAIl_Fc

I recall reading something about the non-elite class of ancient Rome from English sources. Here it is attached (sorry for bad quality)

A pointless waste of time if you ask me. Who are you gonna talk to? To dead folks? It's better to have spent the same time by learning a modern language, esp. if the language is widely spoken.

Gives good relaxing vibes when sitting at a half-empty bar at night