Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "Dan Davis History" channel.

  1.  @DanDavisHistory  Lets sacrifice somebody to apease them! Indeed I have already somebody in mind :)
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  2. I have read that after adopting the first wolves, humans have been unconciously selecting (over thousends of generations) the ones capable of mimic (to a certain degree) human emotions with their faces. Original wolves, suposedly, were not capable of moving their eyebrows, for example (nowadays there could be some, do to mix with dogs), and were less expresive. This "natural" selection allows dogs to mimic expresion that could provoke empathy and simpathy in a receptive human, therefore, not beeing eaten and been take care of........... The nice puppys, are more likely to survive.........
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  3. I would gladly give away one of my kidneys, just to know what really happened there, who this people were, where did they came from, why did they fight, who did win and what happened to the survivors after the battle.......... Hope that there is more evidence soon, and historians and archeologists can build up a sustainable theory........
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  4. If it was a dog guarding the path for afterlife I would have no problem. I like dogs more then people, and they percieve it. Never have I be harmed by one, and I haven´t yet met one I can not be friend with, even "difficult" or agresive dogs (althoug with some of them it took me some time).....perhaps something in my voice or my behaviour (or smell) that indicates them that there is nothing to fear......IDK
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  5. The history of the realtionships between this fortified setlements, was probably as thrilling as that from the ancient greek city-states.
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  6. Most of them did the same we are doing today. Worry about the future and about how we are gonna feed and protect or families and beloved ones, complain about a group that they deemed as "the others" and worry about the boy/girl their offspring had a crush with....... And from time to time they went on a st*pid war for a st*pid reason., and build large monuments for the same reasons we build cathedrals or football-stadiums.........
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  7. If enough people died from the plague (and if it was the pneumonic version it could have easely been 90%), and the people of the steps took over the "empty" lands, cornering or absorbing the few descendants of the initial survivors, the surviving of the femenine DNA-line (and the extintion of the masculine) could be explained through a combination of patriarchism and racism. In the conquest of america for example, few families would tolerate a "lower" indigenous men (or even half-blod men) to marry their daughters or sisters (even if this women were, themselves aready halfblodded), while, it was more common that indigenous woman were "allowed" (forced, sometimes) to breed with the proud and "superior" colonisators. The incorporation of indigenous DNA in the new "main-DNA-pool" would be, almost always, throug maternal line, so, that if the indigenous society and DNA pool ceases to exist, because they were efectively incorpored into that of the newcomming people, the paternal line of DNA would be doomed sooner or later.......
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  8. One can speculate about the colonisation process, looking at the colonisation of America. The hunters gatherers faced probably a wave of desease brought unknowningly by the farmers ( living close with animals created a whole new spectrum of deseases for humans). This made the islands seem probably more "empty" (the where already sparely ocuppied, compared to continental Europe) and ready for colonisation. The sheer numbers of colonisation, and the destruction of the enviroment necesary to sustain the hunter/gatherer style of live (they needed a LOT of space to feed the same number of people colonisators could sustain just with the production of one small field) made the rest. I mean, a particular tribe, or several could succed from time to time in repelling the colonisation in their territories, but over the centuries, they had to face one wave after another, and just loosing one time the strugle, was enough to get wiped out. The last of them, in the north of the island probably knew their fate, the same way the last free tribes in America knew it....
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  9.  @DanDavisHistory  I have absolut no faith in the capacity of humanity to NOT take advantage of another group if they are able to, so I supose, the genetic intermix, and posible cultural influence in the colonisation of Europe, had their origin in the normal procces of absorbing a conquered an subdued culture/population, that offered enough resitance to not get wiped out at the first contact.
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