Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "History Summarized: Medieval Spain u0026 Al-Andalus" video.

  1. More accutately: Western Rome: fallen Western Europe: "free real estate" Eastern Rome: "um, that's still ours" Western Europe: "over our dead bodies" Justinian: "that can be arranged" Black death: "you sure about that?" Eastern Rome: "hacks!"
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  2. Pluralism isn't a uniquely modern thing, though. Let the nationalists get their heckles up over history, as it's full of examples of cultures made stronger by not being closed-minded. The whole point of learning history is to be able to learn from it. Just because the risk of projecting our own veiws backwards onto others is ever present, doesn't mean we should look at history as just a list of names, events, and dates.
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  3.  @merrymachiavelli2041  how is trying to create a compelling personal narrative immune to any of your criticisms or in any way more useful than trying to make value judgements?
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  4. Usually power and riches. Most times when a place is conquered, assimilation happens the other way around and the locals are lucky to be able to keep their culture (which is good for the conqueror too, as it makes them less rebellious). It's not common that the conqueror assimilates into the conquered culture, and even rarer that a habbit is made of it.
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  5.  @temptemp4174  I have no idea what the real tax was, but that sounds very fake. Citation?
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