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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 43

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/11/history-matrix-part42/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 554 AD, during the spring, the Frankish and Gothic/Alamanni army led by Buccelin had marched north and due to starvation and the harsh weather, their numbers had been reduced to roughly 30,000 men. By October they were confronted by the Byzantine army with only 18,000 men at Casilinum (on the banks of the river Volturno.) The Byzantine general […]

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 34

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part33/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 392 AD, the Roman tactic of taking their enemies into service, letting them have a more active role in Roman affairs, slowly began to backfire as Emperor Valentinian II, age 21, was murdered while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast, leaving Theodosius I as the last sole Emperor to ever rule the whole Empire.With Valentinian out

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 33

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part32/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 371 AD, Augustine of Hippo, age 17, travelled to Carthage, to continue his education in rhetoric. His writings would later influence the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is still viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church from the Patristic Period.He was influenced by the Neoplatonism of Plotinus. In

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 28

In part 27 we continued to cover the decline of the Roman Empire, known as the Crisis of the Third Century, as it was threatened on several fronts while the Sassanid Persian Empire grew stronger.While there was a lot of infighting between Roman Emperors, the Sassanid Empire had a friend in Philip the Arab, who not only paid them 500,000 gold pieces for damages, but also ignored their expansion during his reign in Rome

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 26

In part 25, emperor Commodus was assassinated by one of his lovers and the Roman Empire was auctioned off to the highest bidder. Marcus Didius Julianus paid 300 million sesterces, only to be killed one and a half month later by Septimius Severus, who had the support of the military – and during his rule, he gave the Roman army a more dominant role. Severus also established ‘medical licenses’ to make sure physicians were

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