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

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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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 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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