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

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 44

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/11/history-matrix-part43/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 573 AD, after Emperor Justin II refused to pay the annual tribute to Persian King Khosrau I, the Byzantine–Sassanid War was reignited. After a six-month siege, King Khosrau I captured the Byzantine/Roman stronghold of Dara.Also, a smaller Persian army crossed the Euphrates River and ravaged Syria. The cities of Apamea and Antiochia were plundered. In Europe, the Frankish

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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 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 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 27

In part 26, an aunt of assassinated Caracalla declared her grandson Elagabalus, age 14, emperor of Rome. After defeating the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus, the new young emperor was initiated into the worship of the Phrygian/Anatolian goddess Cybele, which lead to several controversial marriages, especially when he married a Vestal Virgin, a priestess who had sworn thirty years of service and to maintain her chastity throughout. Elagabalus also claimed to be bisexual, and his open

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