History that I did not know before

squiggles2

squiggles2

mentally ill (schizophrenic)
I don't see a category for history, so I'm just putting it under Science and Technology.

First up on the list, Ancient Assyria - The first evil empire.

I'm going to spoiler the things that I learned.


Holy fucking shit.
Guess where all the other ancient cultures like Rome learned to be big old meanies from?
Oh my god.
The first eunuchs to prevent dynastic succession.
The first postal service.
The first complete destruction of a city and all of its inhabitants and the first bragging of doing so.
Much more. Watch. Interesting.
 
Middle Eastern niggas like the Assyrians will forever be interesting to me. For some odd reason there's a good few Afro-Asiatic (specifcally Semitic) cunts who appear in Irish folktales and it's inferred that either a) one of the Semite peoples intrebred to an extent with the Gaels or b) the Gaels are a Semitic race who left the Crescent/Middle East for Ireland and Scotland.

It's all weird to me.
 
GAELSTRYM said:
Middle Eastern niggas like the Assyrians will forever be interesting to me. For some odd reason there's a good few Afro-Asiatic (specifcally Semitic) cunts who appear in Irish folktales and it's inferred that either a) one of the Semite peoples intrebred to an extent with the Gaels or b) the Gaels are a Semitic race who left the Crescent/Middle East for Ireland and Scotland.

It's all weird to me.
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Yes, that same channel has a history of the Celts video that I watch that is also very interesting.

One thing I forgot about Assyria, the first forced relocation of entire populations to separate them from their lands and integrate them into the culture absorbing them.

Thanks for simultaneously ruining the world and promoting multiculturism.
 
And of course, to counteract the last one, and as we drift to the East, here is a very long one about Micronesia:

 
squiggles2 said:
My autism is almost complete:

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Nice, apparently I live above the Penokean orogeny which makes sense since there are hills and mini mountains in the area.

1.8 billion years ago there be mountain building and shit around these parts. That gave plenty of time for erosion to take effect. I wonder if any of those were ever even half the size of any mountains nowadays. Probably not since land was kind of more at a premium back then.

The Superior Craton is a 2.5 billion year old formation (craton being the proto building blocks of continents that would later form continents and supercontinents) and the massive rift at the edge of the continental divide would eventually become Lake Superior which is why it is so deep. I give an early salute to the November gales and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Orogeny is a slight sexual innuendo since it means "something rising". I'm a dork.

The Slave Craton in northern Canada may be the oldest Craton at about 4.0 billion years old.

Also, good thing or bad thing to be living in a "passive margin". I mean, it sounds bad, but it just means "we don't get earthquakes or volcanos ever in our history".
 
Pangea was super bad as a continent because it filled up the North to South of the earth and blocked ocean currents from doing their thing and going around the planet. Started out good with the Carboniferous Period but eventually led to the great dying about 270 million years ago and the largest desert the world has ever seen.

Not to be confused with the largest dessert the world has ever seen. Of course ... America fat.

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I like how this guy explains stuff a lot. Lots of cosmology and history that I did not know before and an elegant way of describing it.

However, coming to an ultimate conclusion at the end of the video is not how I go about things. I still believe that dark energy isn't a repulsive force of "matter not being there". I think the more likely explanation is that there is some other universe or "something" that bumped into our universe and gave it a sudden burst of energy some 4 billion years ago and there is no way to prove me or him correct in these hypotheses ... yet.
 
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