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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 52

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/03/history-matrix-part51/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In mid-668 AD, the Byzantine/Roman Emperor Constans II was killed in his bath during a mutiny at Syracuse. Likely, Constans was assassinated by his chamberlain on orders of the Byzantine general Mezezius who shortly after was proclaimed emperor by the army.After a 27-year reign, Constans was succeeded by his son Constantine IV (the “Bearded”,) alongside his brothers Heraclius and

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 51

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/03/history-matrix-part50/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 656 AD, the Frankish King Sigebert III of Austrasia, age 25, died during mysterious circumstances. His 5-year-old son Dagobert II was kidnapped by the court chancellor, Grimoald the Elder, who instead made his own adopted son Childebert king, and then exiled young Dagobert to an Irish monastery. In Britannia, King Oswiu of Northumbria invaded Pengwern (present-day Wales) and

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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 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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