Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The Empire History Lied About (it's not Tartaria!)" video.

  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.  @BkennyP  Which is also bullshit, it just sounds grand
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  4. Herodotus never wrote of Thule
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  5. No one cares
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  6.  @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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  7. 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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  8. keep in mind what sources writers are actuallu using including in this video
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  9.  @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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  10.  @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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  11.  @aaabbb6704  Do I friggin look Serb to you? Technically Yugoslavia exists, it just changed its name to Serbia because that is all that is left. Yugoslavia was formed by the expansion of Serbia after WWI, they were ruled from Belgrade, most Federal offices were held by Serbs (although this was mostly due to family connections), and smaller more remote states were given greater degrees of internal autonomy.
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  12. No, it mentions Medes and Persians always together as if it was a hyphenated state. Mede-Persia. Yes, later it is just called Persia but that is likely a linguistic change
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  13. Name five.
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  14. Not necessarily everything. The legendary stuff Homer wrote down did not appear in Herodotus' description of pre-Dorian days
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  15.  @wankawanka3053  Yes, and lost written sources that he had access to. The most accurate historian is often the one closest to the event in either time or space. I've actually seen cases where the Wiki written by a professor and the history program done by librarians flatly conflict with each other, and it's the amateurs that get proven right
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  16.  @MatthewsPersonal  Local historians are generally superior to professionals with regards to their localities. And don't rule out Herodotus had an earlier lost history that he doesn't mention
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  17. @simban00  given that many of his sources were verbal that's not totally unfair, but the average journalist is trash
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