History questions not worth their own thread V

[Plotinus]

All cities grow upwards, basically from all the rubbish that they put down. This is why the ancient cities of Sumeria are now big mounds in the desert, known as "tells". The mound is all that remains, built up over many centuries of people living on it.

 

[r16]

thanks . For ı was immediately puzzled by the documentary since ı had heard about the slow formation of soil . A science magazine ı bought yesterday also repeats that it takes 100 years for a centimeter .

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Are video games far too recent to have entered academic history discourse?

 

[Flying Pig]

Are video games far too recent to have entered academic history discourse?

It would seem not, although most of these articles tend to be on things which are only considered 'history' when applied to dead people.

 

[Ajidica]

Are video games far too recent to have entered academic history discourse?

I would say it depends. One of my profs mentioned a colleague was writing an essay on the topic of the 'devil worship scare' in America in the late 80's/early 90's among Evangelicals and cited as reference games like Doom.
Not sure if that counts as 'academic' though.

 

[Domen]

This is not worth its own thread, but in another thread Formaldehyde raised the issue / question of the myth of "Judeo-Communism" and cases of people who still believe it even in our times:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=514297&page=4

Formaldehyde,

As for your posts about "Judeo-Communism".

A normal person is not going to blame entire religious, national, ethnic or other group for what some individuals of this group do. So definitely the entire idea of "Judeo-Communist" conspiracy is rubbish. However, the existence of this phenomenon can be explained by fact that indeed people of Jewish or partially Jewish descent (I write "of Jewish descent" because I don't need to explain, that they were not believers of Judaism, but atheists) were indeed overrepresented in the Communist terror apparatus in the Soviet Union and later also in Poland. And this refers not only to pre-war times, but also to post-war times.

Moreover - most of these Communist criminals managed to avoid liability for their crimes. Those who are interested in this story among the Polish society, know this.

For example Salomon Morel (who escaped to Israel and never responded for his post-war crimes against Germans):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Morel

Stefan Michnik - a person of half-Polish, half-Jewish descent (his mother was Helena Michnik and his father was Samuel Rosenbusch - both his mother and his father were criminals within the Communist terror apparatus and he also followed this path, becoming a military judge during the period of the greatest Stalinist terror, before the "great thaw" of 1956):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Michnik

Stefan Michnik also avoided responsibility for his crimes (he sentenced to death several innocent people after trials based around fake evidence, without the right of self-defence) - he escaped to Sweden. Sweden refused extradition in 2010.

Another example of a Polish-Jewish Communist criminal who never suffered responsibility for her crimes, is Helena Wolińska-Brus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Wolińska-Brus

The existence of Communist criminals of Jewish or mixed Polish-Jewish ethnicity does not justify the existence of the myth of "Judeo-Communism", but it explains it.

And when you ask yourself why there are still many anti-Semites among the Polish society today, then one of reasons is that they are aware of existence of such criminals, who avoided their responsibility because they are Jewish (there are claims, that Sweden refused extradition of Stefan Michnik because they wanted to protect him from "Polish anti-Semitism"* - which is absurd, it is like claiming that punishing an ethnic German who was a Nazi criminal is "anti-German").

*Official reason claimed by Sweden when it refused extradition in 2010, was that prescribed statute of limitations of his crimes has allegedly lapsed.

 

[Traitorfish]

jesus christ

 

[Domen]

jesus christ

Yet one more person of Jewish descent.

 

[Heart Break Kid]

Are video games far too recent to have entered academic history discourse?

Video games are 40 years old, they're not all that recent.

 

[Dachs]

jesus christ

I, personally, prefer the Dönme conspiracy accusations.

 

[Tahuti]

I would say it depends. One of my profs mentioned a colleague was writing an essay on the topic of the 'devil worship scare' in America in the late 80's/early 90's among Evangelicals and cited as reference games like Doom.
Not sure if that counts as 'academic' though.

That's more in the realm of Media Studies than mainstream (art-)historical scholarship, even though that may change over a few decades.

Not that I would recommend going into media studies, given that the field has been largely hijacked by those that seek to make a political point rather than engage in active scholarship that may force us to change opinions in face of the facts.

 

[W|M]

jesus christ abraham

ftfy.

 

[Wrymouth3]

Yet one more person of Jewish descent.

My junior year of college, my roommate was an Evangelical Christian who kept trying to convince me that Jesus was actually a white man because all the pictures in his church in Central Virginia showed a white Jesus. Of course it was sometimes quite bizarre on days like Passover and Rosh Hashanah when Jewish me decided to make some Eastern European Jewish cuisine (Kugels, etc..). We got along great with each other, not to mention his sister was super beautiful .

 

[Arakhor]

Was he the sort of person who insisted that Jesus spoke Elizabethan English because that's the language of the AV/KJV?

 

[JohannaK]

jesus christ abraham adam

 

[Phrossack]

Reading about the "Highland charge" got me thinking: What were other tactics used by somewhat firearm-poor military forces intended to be used successfully against those with more firearms? I'm aware of the Zulus' numbers and "buffalo horns" formation, though that was never designed to be used specifically against firearm-equipped enemies, and of the sort-of diagonal riding and other tactics of certain horsemen from an unmentionable country (for God's sake please don't discuss them), but were there any other ways firearm-poor forces coped with firearm-equipped enemies?

 

[Antilogic]

You must definitely be referring to the Hungarians and their hussars, because they clearly invented the most superior form of light cavalry organization and tactics years before the unmentionable abomination did. Yep. No argument there, might as well drop it.

 

[Phrossack]

You must definitely be referring to the Hungarians and their hussars, because they clearly invented the most superior form of light cavalry organization and tactics years before the unmentionable abomination did. Yep. No argument there, might as well drop it.

Well, did the huszars use the same tactics as the Russo-German borderlanders? How did they deal with firearm-equipped enemies, if at all?

 

[GoodGame]

Was he the sort of person who insisted that Jesus spoke Elizabethan English because that's the language of the AV/KJV?

That's funny

 

[Arakhor]

That's funny

It would be if there weren't people (fringe people. admittedly) who believed just that sort of thing.