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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 40

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part39/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 506 AD, Emperor Anastasius I accepted a peace agreement with the Sasanian Empire (Persia,) allegedly based on status quo. In Europe, King Alaric II issued the “Lex Romana Visigothorum,” also known as “Breviary of Alaric;” an abstract of Roman laws and imperial decrees, compiled by a commission appointed to provide a law code for Alaric’s Roman subjects. The

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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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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 30

Due to time restraints, there will be no recap of the last part. All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 301 AD, Emperor Diocletian issued a reform that revaluated the Roman currency. In 302 AD, Emperor Diocletian persecuted the Manichaeans, the new and most followed religion in Persia, accusing them of being a Persian fifth column (a group who undermine a larger group or a nation from within, usually in

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 29

In part 28, the power struggle for being emperor of the Roman Empire continued to escalate during the 300th century, all while the empire was attacked on several fronts by the Goths and the Palmyrene Empire.However, by 274 AD, emperor Aurelian managed to invade both the Palmyrene Empire of North Africa as well as Gaul and Britain in Western Europe, and reclaimed the old territories of the former Roman Empire.Aurelian also had the Temple

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 24

In part 23 we covered the first real organized Jewish revolt against the Roman rule in 66 AD, which led to a temporary Jewish government until the Romans quelled the rebellion in 70 AD. As a result, the Temple was once again destroyed, over a million Jews were killed, Rabbis (Rabbinic Judaism) took the role of the high priests, and the Torah became the most invaluable source of knowledge for the Jewish people.In the

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