Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "UsefulCharts" channel.

The Praetorian Guard was disbanded by Constantine, so presumably whoever has the most legions and/or barbarian mercenaries.
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@craftyunicorn4291 It was holy in that it was instituted by the pope. Charlemagne was just king of the Franks until the pope decided to crown him emperor. And it was an empire in the sense that term was used in the Middle Ages, meaning the highest level of political authority, ranking above kingship, and having no authority above it.
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@tariq_al_fahim170 "Aryan" is also used in the Vedas to refer to the authors' people who were Indians. So not just Iranian.
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Not necessarily the same river, though. There's a river in South America called the Amazon, does that mean Amazons in Greek mythology came from South America? No, it means later people named the river that. Names change and are not always unique. There's a Red River in Texas and also in Vietnam.
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@darthvader7450 What do you think happened to all the people living there in the 6th century? There's no record of the Arabs slaughtering or exiling any significant number of them. For that matter, what do you think happened to the Philistines? Again, there's no record of them being wiped out, they were just assimilated and disappeared as a culture but the individual people still lived there. A lot of Israelis and Palestinians today probably have Philistine ancestors they have no idea about.
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Fun movie, TERRIBLE history.
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@KR-ff4tu "occupation does not make them legitimate owners" What does make someone a legitimate owner? Should England be given back to the Welsh? What makes any English person a legitimate owner of any part of Britain, if not 1500 years of occupation following a conquest? And that's double trouble for me, an Anglo living in New York - hmm, actually triple trouble, if you count the Dutch. I'll get kicked back to Virginia by the Dutch, then England by the Powhatan, then somewhere around... Frisia, I guess? by the Britons. I fear it's going to get awfully crowded in Frisia. I doubt that more than one person in 1000 on this planet is living on land their ancestors didn't steal from someone else at some point in the past, even if the details are long since lost to the mists of time.
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However, there's no record of Egypt having large numbers of Semitic slaves at all during the New Kingdom or any other time.
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@jlupus8804 What evidence?
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@jlupus8804 Semites entering and leaving, sure. Massive numbers of slaves, no. Unless you have something more. The Merneptah Stele is talking about a campaign in Canaan (as well as another in Libya), not an internal revolt.
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@iswaryajeyakumar3685 perhaps because it was transmitted orally for so long?
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@shkhamd "No Muslim can enter Vatican either" Where'd you get that idea? You can go to the Vatican any time you like. Of course there are parts that aren't open to the public at all, but that has nothing to do with religion, they are residences and administrative offices and such.
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@Freshbott2 They'd just find something else to kill each other over. Capitalists vs. Marxists, Stalinists vs. Trotskyites vs. Maoists, Fascists vs. everybody else including other Fascists, there's always some cause worth killing for. It's what we do.
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They never occupied Jerusalem.
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@fabbro8747 "Arabs existed long before Muhammad." Yes, but they were a tiny minority in the Levant until the Muslim conquest. Most of the people were of local ancestry and spoke Aramaic, so not Arab in any sense of the word.
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How can you have a state made of of two peoples who deny that the other even exists and want nothing more than to kill the other?
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@DIDCHOI The fact that the Bible calls Abraham a Chaldean in itself shows that it is completely worthless as a historical record, at least, the parts concerning the patriarchs. The Chaldeans didn't live anywhere near Ur at the time Abram is supposed to have lived there and didn't arrive until many centuries later. It's like talking about a Bulgarian who supposedly lived in Adrianople in 300 BC - an anachronism and a complete impossibility. Archaeological and linguistic evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the Israelites were an internal cultural development within Canaanite society in the early Iron Age.
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@greywolf7577 Peaceful atheists like Hitler and Stalin?
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@jafaral-badri8005 I don't think there's anyone left on the planet who practices that religion or even anything descended from it. "Pagan" isn't a religion, it's a very, very broad category of religions.
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There was human habitation at the site but there's no indication that anything like a city existed there before the Iron Age.
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Sorry, I prefer supreme executive power to be determined by strange women lying in ponds distributing swords.
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Really none of that should count for much, there's no evidence there was anything but an insignificant village on that site during the Bronze Age.
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I think you completely missed the point of the video.
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@whoops0 No, you also went on to make some factual assertions.
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Even if that's true, they weren't necessarily in control of Jerusalem.
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