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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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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 49

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2024/01/history-matrix-part48/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 637 AD, the Muslim Rashidun army of approximately 15,000 men, under Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas, besieged the Persian capital of Ctesiphon. After roughly two months, the Persian/Sasanian King Yazdegerd III managed to flee with the imperial treasure eastward into Media.After capturing Ctesiphon, the cities Tikrit and Mosul were also captured, completing the conquest of Mesopotamia. The region west

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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 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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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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