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

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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Order of Malta – CNN Featured News on February 1st (and September 3, 2024)

On February 1st, 2024, CNN featured the Sovereign Military Order of Malta – also known as the Knights of Malta in their article covering the ‘rarest’ passport in the world. Of course, CNN tried their best to romanticize the masonic order by claiming it is a multi-million-dollar-budget humanitarian aid organization, with operations including refugee camps and disaster relief programs in some 120 countries around the world. What CNN failed to mention is, of course,

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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 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 42

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/11/history-matrix-part41/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 541 AD, the alleged “Plague of Justinian” was said to have ‘appeared suddenly’ in Egypt and then it “spread” to Alexandria. According to the manipulated historical records, it severely affected the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantinople with an estimated death toll of 15 to 100 million in total. However, we know that viruses and plagues

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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 39

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part38/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ By 480 AD, Emperor Zeno officially dissolved the east and west co-emperorship, ruling as the first sole emperor of Rome in 85 years. As we now have entered the middle-ages, the remaining Eastern Roman Empire, where Zeno was located, was now known and referred to as the Byzantine Empire, mainly because the seat of rulership was moved from Rome

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