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The eastern part of the Roman Empire made it into the 1450's.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Because our wall worked pretty damn well, thank you. The message here is that Trump can't let any disgruntled American engineers sell American big-ass-cannon technology to Mexico.Comment
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The eastern part of the Roman Empire made it into the 1450's.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Generalissimo Dumpster still thinks Gen. Santa Anna is still alive causing problems along the border.Originally posted by Elok View PostFor there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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Well, about the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire... if someday Britain no longer exists as a political entity, will future historians say that Britain survived in Canada?Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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I don't know much at all about Canadian history, but it should be noted that Britain's "imperial" phase was late and short-lived. America and Australia, at least, were never really Britain in the same way that even the most obscure Roman holdings became authentically Roman. To the point where the eastern half remained culturally Latin for several centuries after losing touch with Rome itself. To the very end, the Byzantines continued to refer to themselves as "the Romans"; our name for them was invented centuries after they fell. Hence the first sizable Turkish holding in Anatolia proudly called itself the "Sultanate of Rum," that being the closest Turkish would allow to "Rome."Comment
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Yes but roman just meant christian greek and then orthodox greek.
Turks can't say they "inherited" byzantium since the entity was heavily based on religion and they had anotherComment
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Even thiugh even the turkish flag is a byzantine symbolComment
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the western part had collapsed so long ago, it was basically erased from memory, as an entity
like watching pompieeComment
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It's an astronomical symbol, used in some ways in byzantium (the crescent moon)Originally posted by Dinner View Post
if im not mistaken it was used as isignia of some battle order but I have to look for it to be sureComment
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it's from a coin
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It's not strange.
there is a dissipation of such symbols seeing as byzantium was the only "civilized" place for centuries.
one can see serbia and russia "getting" the two headed eagle (one head looking to the west (rome) and one to the east (constantinople) and two items, one cross (spiritual power) and one sphere (earthly/cosmical/material power). known as the power duality. Patriarch (to control the minds
Emperor (to control the bodies). this model has been accredited with "social stability" for the milenia byzantium stood.
but the symbol has travelled even in countries with muslim religion like albania where it is actually its flag (minus the items talked above)Last edited by Bereta_Eder; September 13, 2016, 05:14.Comment
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it was also used by the holy roman empire but as we all know that was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire
the symbol itself, the two haded eagle proper, is much older and was used even 20centuries ago by peoples like the hittetes (they're in the bible too)
greeks borrowed A LOT from eastern cultures.Last edited by Bereta_Eder; September 13, 2016, 05:05.Comment
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