Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The Historian's Craft" channel.

  1. It's unfair to call Herodotus a liar since he simply used the sources available. You will note he excised the more legendary elements about what pre-Dorian Greece was like. You are simply using the word "lie" incorrectly.
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  2. Maybe the Medo-Persian Empire was like Yugoslavia. For most of its history it was dominated by Serbia, but for a brief time when it was a German satellite state it was dominated by Croatia.
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  3. The Fall of Rome is one of those ancient era that somehow perfectly parallels and predicts 50 of the last 3 catastrophic global events.
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  4.  @BkennyP  Which is also bullshit, it just sounds grand
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  5. There was at least one fossil found before the official discovery of dinosaurs. It was the broken off chunk of an upper thigh and its owner called it the latin term for testicles and used it as a paperweight
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  6. There was a stone Mesoamerican town at the corner where Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico meet. When the Spaniards found it the town was mostly abandoned as the locals mostly hunted the buffalo who drifted farther north over the decades.
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  7. Assuming Homer's works fall into anything remotely resembling real world chronology, it occurred BEFORE the Dorians. And I don't recall the Acheaens looking for bread like the Dorians.
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  8. Tokyo still exists despite most of the houses being burned in WWII but is now an even larger city now than it was then, it is simply now subordinate to America rather than the center of its own empire.
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  9. Herodotus never wrote of Thule
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  10. Don't tell me. Let me guess. The Egyptians found a spot where bedrock was near the surface and decided to build foundations there?
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  11. Halloween was All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day which was a completely unrelated holiday.
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  12. My mother introduced me to the idea Christmas got its date from Saturnalia because there simply is no scriptural basis for having the holiday during the winter solstice. I'm honestly unsure, there are so many holidays tied to the equinox/solstices that the overlap may be coincidences and/or random stuff mixed together simply because both holidays existed in the same place at the same time (like Hanukah and Christmas).
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  13. It became the gift giving holiday in the industrial revolution when people had more discretionary money. Christmas trees were just something weird in select parts of Germany until a German princess became the English queen.
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  14. No one cares
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  15.  @enderman_666  The Nazi puppet state of Yugoslavia was Croat dominated because the Croats happened to be the Serbs' internal rival. Although the details get complicated with collaborators, autonomous states, and guerrillas.
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  16. The theory is a Corinthian saw a fossil and assumed it was the same type of monster from the myth
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  17. No, he heard it years ago from someone who got it from someone else and he had scattered writings now lost to us
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  18. Hardly. A lot of holdiays are on the winter solstice to the point it is likely coincident
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  19. You'd have to grease a lot of palms in the ministry of antiquities
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  20.  @GenghisVern  It's exactly as tendious as it sounds. American pioneers spoke of Indians carving out the inside of a tree trunk to make a canoe using sea shells from the river and/or fire embers to carefully burn away the inside and were impressed what could be done without metal tools. However, that process took days and the Indians very quickly took to trading furs for metal tools as soon as they met Americans.
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  21. I wouldn't be so sure about what the parts of the idol, or even that it is an idol.
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  22. @LiterallyWho1917  no, it gave discretionary money to common people
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  23. The passage by pseudo-Aristotle also implies Hercules was a Dorian
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  24.  @diebesgrab  Not invented in the victorian era, and it's not a claim that has no evidence
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  25. Doesn't explicitly say, the dates come from how to line up with Jewish holidays in order to give the holiday prophet aspects, not the other way around
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  26. Who the frick is Ben Shapiro?
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  27. @Rynewulf  all of that could be explained by how both holidays occur around the same time and both were celebrated in the same towns
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  28. Minor correction: Akkad was likely abandoned during the Gutian Wars along with all other cities and due to the shifting rivers Babylon was built and Akkadians started calling themselves Assyrians.
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  29. I wouldn't call these bloody wars as most of the battles show signs of being fiat wars including soldiers working for whoever was paying, extended standoffs, and cities switching hands without a fight.
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  30. @lococomrade3488  no one said otherwise. And that is unknowable
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  31. keep in mind what sources writers are actuallu using including in this video
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  32. How?
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  33. @Rynewulf  with easter the date is simply the date used in Rome because if anyone knew the Pope would. Of course, the problem was they were using the Julian calendar and Passover goes off the Hebrew calendar
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  34. Insulting everyone is usually a sign of lack of competency
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  35. In Cyrenica, then part of Egypt, some of the sea peoples were from islands named in sources that we simply do not know.
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  36. I was introduced to the idea by my mother but it was just given as a factor in the fall of Rome
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  37. What makes you think the rise of Emperors entailed any real change to Roman life?
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  38. Use of stone in Siberia is noteworthy, as this implies this fort predate the iconic taiga forests seen today. No one uses stone in a place where wood is so cheap even in bulk, although in this case there was probably some wood to use along the river.
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  39. Hanukah is 8 days long
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  40. How so?
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  41. @lococomrade3488 lying about archeology does nothing for no one. There's a range of neolithic finds in Africa but all the dates are tentative
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  42. "Siberia before aggriculture" is an oxymoron since even today most oblasts grow very little.
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  43. Simply not so. Easter is from Passover, they just got the date wrong. Although it is thought so random pagan spring holidays got mixed in.
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  44. @craigkdillon  how did the pine tree become a Christian thing? Because a German princess became an English queen and make weird German things popular. IDK about the word Easter, but there's more than a little true randomness involved
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  45. You will never find those bones. It was ancient history when Noah's Flood swept away the whole land mass.
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  46. You literally can just take farmers/workers and common weapons and win a war. That's how most wars throughout all history have been fought. There's no special class of person predisposed to blow away the competition like a CoD character.
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  47. *academia
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  48. Vhut?
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  49.  @myhandlehasbeenmishandled  Exactly. Such distinctions would not show up in the archeology but a historian might say that Tito's Serbs defeated the Croats creating the illusion that a completely different empire existed at one point. Imagine if all we had on the Balkans was a brief history written by Winston Churchill
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  50.  @richardvlasek2445  That kind of bullshit is exactly what I'm talking about because an American historian mentioning the rise of Tito in passing might give the impression that the Croats were a totally different nation from Yugoslavia. And please lose the insults and lies about dead assholes
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