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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 32

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part31/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ By 340 AD, it was said that Constantinople, the capital of Emperor Constantius II, became the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Rome, the capital of his brother Constans.After infighting among the three brothers about territory, and by the influence of the Popes in Rome, who favored the new Roman version of Christianity over Arianism, Constantine […]

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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 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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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 26

In part 25, emperor Commodus was assassinated by one of his lovers and the Roman Empire was auctioned off to the highest bidder. Marcus Didius Julianus paid 300 million sesterces, only to be killed one and a half month later by Septimius Severus, who had the support of the military – and during his rule, he gave the Roman army a more dominant role. Severus also established ‘medical licenses’ to make sure physicians were

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World History, Humans and the Matrix Through the Lens of Legends – Part 25

In part 24, emperor Hadrian of the Roman Empire visited the remining ruins of Jerusalem, where he founded the new city of Aelia Capitolina and built a temple to honor Jupiter, as in Sumerian Enlil, Egypt Ammon and Osiris (Orion,) Babylonian Marduk, Greek Zeus, Hebrew YHVH, and Nordic Odin.This led to the third Jewish revolt led by Simon Bar Kokhba, in which ‘Israel’ became independent for 2,5 years before once again being crushed by

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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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