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Which ones were wrong in the Cracked article? I understand the Davis's theory probably misunderstands the Zuni language, but what about the others?
ONLY 45% of languages!!!! Just think, that is only 3% more than the second most common word order.and the word order is shared in tons of other unrelated languages.
WTF? Cracked is usually better than that. I especially like their articles debunking historical myths. Now they have to go and make one that gathers up several of them. I have encountered some awful history on Cracked before - the "Hitler liked to be peed on" story - but nothing this bad.
#5: Could be from looters or from other contamination (more likely given the absence of other evidence of contact)
#4: Geologist cited is considered a fraud; most consider this to be a forgery or at the very least unreliable.
#3: The head statue...don't have anything to say to that. Maybe others do. As for the pots, they were not discovered by an archaeologist but by a diver with no historical backing and apparently a history of falsification.
#2: Trading between Indian tribes is more likely the cause of this
#1: The linguistic "evidence" is so screwed up. First of all, none of the "Japanese" words listed are Japanese, anyway a few cognates does not mean linguistic relationship, and the word order is shared in tons of other unrelated languages.
In other words, all of these are bunk.
or this "book of Greek lies" from Slavic Macedonia (Macedonia rules, Greece sucks and has almost no real history)
I apologize for missing this; I sort of ignored this thread early on, since I find circle-jerks about "lol idiots dun know history" to be somewhat distasteful. I'm here to teach, learn, troll, and laugh.Double think aside, anyone know anything about Byzantine Finance?
So far, it is more like "lol not-that-idiotic people twist history for political benefit".since I find circle-jerks about "lol idiots dun know history" to be somewhat distasteful.
State finance. The author of this 'documentary' clearly regards individual finance as suspicious temptation of the Western financial oligarchy.I suppose the proper follow up question is: do you mean Byzantine state finance or individual finance?
Sure, but as I said, my comment was based on first impressions. And neither one of those things is really about the denizens of WH helping each other learn about history.So far, it is more like "lol not-that-idiotic people twist history for political benefit".
All right.Lone Wolf said:State finance. The author of this 'documentary' clearly regards individual finance as suspicious temptation of the Western financial oligarchy.
Now, this is obviously bonkers, but what I am interested in is: was there actually a crackpot historical theory about “endogenous psychosis of the I-III centuries”, or is this something the Archimandrite invented? Googling this phrase results in mirrors of the original text or in Macedonian nationalists using that quote to prove to Greeks that they don't really exist (The Little Book of Big Greek Lies is also useful here).This is how the ancient Hellenic people died out, amongst whom an inexplicable demographic crisis occurred during the first centuries A.D. People did not want to live; they did not want to continue their generation...Suicide became one of the main causes of death amongst the population. This conscious dying out of a population has been called by science “endogenous psychosis of the I-III centuries”—a mass pathology and loss of meaning for continued existence.
Most Serb nationalist history. An example: They say Alexander the Great is a Serb, which is so stupid and ignorant I wont even explain why.
The Norse coin is at least conceivable, since they apparently did go to North America for timber even after the failure of the Vinland colony, and trade between Indian tribes could explain the rest.
I am completely unaware of this, or anything like it, ever having been seriously posited.More from the Byzantine story:
Now, this is obviously bonkers, but what I am interested in is: was there actually a crackpot historical theory about endogenous psychosis of the I-III centuries, or is this something the Archimandrite invented? Googling this phrase results in mirrors of the original text or in Macedonian nationalists using that quote to prove to Greeks that they don't really exist (The Little Book of Big Greek Lies is also useful here).