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

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

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 47

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/12/history-matrix-part46/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 615 AD, the Slavs continued to settle in the Balkans, in what is now Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia and parts of Greece. Meanwhile, the western territories of present-day Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Croatia and Dalmatia) suffered raids from the Avars, who also began settling in this region. In Britannia, the Anglo-Saxons, under King Æthelfrith of Northumbria, reached the Irish Sea

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 45

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/12/history-matrix-part44/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 590 AD, the Byzantine–Sassanid War continued as Emperor Maurice pushed back the Persian forces into Armenia. During March, Theodosius, the eldest son of Maurice, was proclaimed as co-emperor, thus he also became his father’s heir to the Byzantine throne. Around this time, Maurice also established two exarchates, as in ‘divisions’ of the Byzantine Empire ruled by an ‘exarch’

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 41

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/10/history-matrix-part40/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 530 AD, after a seven-year reign, King Hilderic of the Vandals was deposed by his cousin Gelimer. As his first act as the new king, Gelimer restored Arianism as the official religion of the Vandal Kingdom, putting any official supporters of Chalcedonianism Christianity in prison.Emperor Justinian I sent an embassy to Carthage to negotiate about the imprisonments, but

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 38

In this part we will cover the Battle of Cape Bon, which was considered to have been the last chance for survival for the Western Roman Empire. And also, the ultimately ‘Fall of Western Rome.’ The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part37/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 468 AD, in a effort to reconquer Africa, Emperor Leo I assembled a massive war fleet at Constantinople at the costs of more

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 35

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part34/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 410 AD, raiders from Ireland, primarily the Uí Liatháin and Laigin tribes, sacked the coasts of Wales, taking both slaves and plunder.Also, around this time, one of the first Anglo-Saxon settlements in Britain, Mucking, was said to have been established along the mouth of the Thames River. In August, Alaric I and his armies of Visigoths sacked Rome

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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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