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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 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 35

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part34/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 410 AD, raiders from Ireland, primarily the Uí Liatháin and Laigin tribes, sacked the coasts of Wales, taking both slaves and plunder.Also, around this time, one of the first Anglo-Saxon settlements in Britain, Mucking, was said to have been established along the mouth of the Thames River. In August, Alaric I and his armies of Visigoths sacked 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 33

The previous part is here: https://bartoll.se/2023/09/history-matrix-part32/All parts of this series can be found here: https://bartoll.se/world-playbook-quickstart/ In 371 AD, Augustine of Hippo, age 17, travelled to Carthage, to continue his education in rhetoric. His writings would later influence the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is still viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church from the Patristic Period.He was influenced by the Neoplatonism of Plotinus. In

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