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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 54

By / / Fake History / 7 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/05/history-matrix-part53/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 697 AD, the city of Venice began its rise as a major power in the Mediterranean Sea. Built up from several fishing villages settled by fugitives from the Huns, the city of Venice occupied about 60 marshy islands. By this year, Paolo Lucio Anafesto was elected the first ‘Doge of Venice,’ the highest role of authority. In Britannia, […]

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 53

By / / Fake History / 7 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/04/history-matrix-part52/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 682 AD, King Erwig of the Visigoths escalated the oppression of the Jews in Spain. He made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites (brit milah,) and hard-pressed for the conversion or emigration of the remaining Jews. In Africa, the last Byzantine (Roman) bases of Tripoli and Carthage were overrun by Muslim forces led by Uqba ibn Nafi.

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 52

By / / Fake History / 7 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/03/history-matrix-part51/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In mid-668 AD, the Byzantine/Roman Emperor Constans II was killed in his bath during a mutiny at Syracuse. Likely, Constans was assassinated by his chamberlain on orders of the Byzantine general Mezezius who shortly after was proclaimed emperor by the army.After a 27-year reign, Constans was succeeded by his son Constantine IV (the “Bearded”,) alongside his brothers Heraclius and

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 51

By / / Fake History / 7 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/03/history-matrix-part50/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 656 AD, the Frankish King Sigebert III of Austrasia, age 25, died during mysterious circumstances. His 5-year-old son Dagobert II was kidnapped by the court chancellor, Grimoald the Elder, who instead made his own adopted son Childebert king, and then exiled young Dagobert to an Irish monastery. In Britannia, King Oswiu of Northumbria invaded Pengwern (present-day Wales) and

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 50

By / / Fake History / 8 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/02/history-matrix-part49/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 646 AD, only a year after the revolt in Alexandria, the city was recaptured by the Muslim Arabs after the Byzantine/Roman Empire failed to retake Egypt. The failure by the Byzantine ended a nearly 1,000 years of rule by the Greco-Roman states of Alexandria and Egypt.Due to the failed attempt, Gregory the Patrician, the Byzantine exarch of Africa,

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 49

By / / Fake History / 7 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/01/history-matrix-part48/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 637 AD, the Muslim Rashidun army of approximately 15,000 men, under Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas, besieged the Persian capital of Ctesiphon. After roughly two months, the Persian/Sasanian King Yazdegerd III managed to flee with the imperial treasure eastward into Media.After capturing Ctesiphon, the cities Tikrit and Mosul were also captured, completing the conquest of Mesopotamia. The region west

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 48

By / / Fake History / 7 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/12/history-matrix-part47/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In early 628 AD, Byzantine (Roman) Emperor Heraclius issued an ultimatum for peace to Sasanian (Persian) King Khosrow II or Iran, but he refused the generous terms. As a result, the war-weary Persians revolted against Khosrow’s regime at the capital of Ctesiphon and Khosrow’s son Kavadh II was installed as new king.Kavadh immediately killed his father and began negotiations

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 46

By / / Fake History, Secret Societies / The Cabal / 8 minutes of reading

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/12/history-matrix-part45/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 599 AD, as 12,000 Byzantine soldiers were taken prisoners by the Avars in the Balkan Peninsula, Emperor Maurice refused to pay ransom and all of the soldiers were executed. Maurice’s failure to buy back his soldiers made him very unpopular among the Byzantine troops. In 600 AD, after rapidly growing and expanding, the Germanic and Slavic people began

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