Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "Metatron" channel.

You have shown a remarkable lack of knowledge. Clavel wrote the book Shogun decades ago which was made into a miniseries. 8t dealt with William Smith, if i remember correctly, an Englishman who was a navigator on a Dutch ship that wrecked in Japan. He was a real man. Tokugawa used him as an advisoor and made him a Hatomoto, again ? Sp.). This seems like Disney is doing a remake.
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@Le-Abdollen I'm not sure what you have shown, perhaps a lack of imagination. I am working from my memories of a book that I read decades ago and a miniseries from decades ag o as well. I heard no comment about the earlier sources or that Disney is so bankrupt of new material that it dragged up an old adventure story for a new series. I hope that it does a decent job on this but I worry considering the utter disasters of some of their recent work. By the way, some did use the correct name, Will Adams.
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Thr BCE/CE I s insane baecause the starting point is the same. You can pretend, the only reason supportable is that anti Christian.
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Well over simplified about both Romans and Japanese. The original Samurai were bowmen using a long unsymmetrical bow. The other weapons were used, in fact the bowmen were mounted bowmen; hence the asymmetrical bows. Originally the Romans troops were like the Greeks using a spear, shield, and short sword/long knives in a phalanx. Then they moved to the pilum (heavy javelin which could be used as a spear), however the troops in the 3rd rank continued to use the spear and were to cover the first two lines if they had to retreat or drop back to reorganize. This was because of the broken country much of the zitalian fighting involved. Then the third line became armed as the first two. This was the norm, until somewhere around 200-300 AD (I'm working from memory on the date) when spears began being used again and the formations used included the phalanx again due to increased likelihood of fighting mounted enemies. By somewhere between 400 and 500 AD spears were the most common with a sizeable missile (mostly bows) armed troops. What had changed was the increased fighting against cavalry because open formations were an invitation to disaster. As the use of cavalry increased on both sides of a conflict, the need to hold off the cavalry increased its missile arms used to break their formations, think like the early gunpowder formations using pikemen and early firearms to take down cavalry. We won't go into legion size that started as a single legion (not enough population for two) of approximately 3,000 men; to one of between 4,000 and 5,000 back down to mobile legions of around 1,000 men by the end of Rome. Also the changing enemies over more than 500 years affected arms and weapons as well; another long discussion.
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Sparta and another state's elite band have homosexuality as a fact; but in the case of Sparta, it was used as a military factor. In Sparta, despite the idea of homosexuality, all men were expected to marry and have children; not doing this was considered wrong. The relationship in Sparta was a pairing to strengthen their willingness to fight to the end. Neither was would abandon the other on the battlefield. So, in Sparta at least it little to do with a normality of this belief.
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The best image that I have seen of Christ was a short dark haired bearded man of Mediterranean appearance. The face was the soft almost feminine appearance we are used to; the face was strong man who looked like someone who had done physical labor. Much in line with this video.
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