Comments by "Baneofbanes" (@baneofbanes) on "Premodernist" channel.

  1. Art and architecture has nothing to do with technological advancement.
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  2. And yet we only find evidence for hunter gatherers.
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  3. Tbf that’s generally because it’s easier to change the word through violence than through peaceful means.
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  4.  @victormapereira we really don’t though. We don’t call the Seleucids Persians. We don’t even call the Parthians Persians. We don’t call the Seljuks Persians.
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  5.  @alwaysright3943 only cope here is your comment.
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  6. This is the dumbest comment I’ve read today.
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  7. There’s nothing to challenge. Russia sold Alaska to the US. They cashed in the check almost immediately as well. We still have the receipts. On top of that Russia can’t even beat Ukraine. They’d get their asses kicked hard by the US
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  8. In the 1860’s the French supported the CSA.
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  9.  @eastvandb in the context of the 1800’s that’s not really true for Canada. But yes yes america bad, I get it.
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  10. Yes because the Canadians are famously native to Canada.
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  11. The US economy was actually doing fairly well at the time. Also Americans were still full swing in their land grabbing at the time.
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  12. It’s the internet, a lot of racists on here.
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  13. All nations evolve over time. The France of today is not the same state as it was in the early Middle Ages. Doesn’t make it any less France. The Byzantine empire was the Roman Empire. The people considered themselves Roman’s, they used Roman laws and the government was directly descended from the Roman Empire of Augustus. That is very different from the examples like the Chinese and Persian empires you gave.
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  14. Modern agriculture has ensured that the western world hasn’t suffered famine in over a century. It’s low scale rudimentary agriculture that is most vulnerable to famine on a societal scale.
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  15. It’s nowhere near false at all. Industrial farming is what feeds billions of people. Those small scale farms may provide more produce when scaled for comparison, but those small farm are only ever able to support basically the people that grows the food. That and industrial fishing. For industrial agriculture to truly be a waste of calories as you say it is human society would’ve collapse back in the 1800’s.
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  16. Except in 476 Rome was not the capital.
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  17. No they didn’t.
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  18. What racist ideas are those?
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  19. You’re about as Roman as the states of Europe are.
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  20. Wrong in both counts there
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  21. And Southern Africa was the part of Africa with the least amount of killer diseases Europeans were vulnerable to.
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  22.  @EyeSeeThruYou  except they didn’t. Europeans colonized Southern Africa because the diseases that killed Europeans in droves in central Africa weren’t existent there due to the cooler and drier climate.
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  23. Lol what?
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  24.  @rogerpatterson3422  you really think they’re only looking for fossils in Africa?
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  25.  @eastvandb  one cannot exist without the other.
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  26. Lol
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  27. Population centers like Tenochitlan or Cahokia were often bigger than most major European cities.
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  28. After 476 it was the Roman Empire. And the Roman’s never referred to two separate empires. The east-west division was purely about governance. Youre just a hypocrite.
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  29.  @andrelegeant88  and that really doesn’t change the fact that the Roman Empire did fall in the west.
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  30. Except the Kings explicitly weren’t governors, they were de facto independent rulers. Roman administration did collapse in the west.
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  31. What
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  32. No one forced you to watch the video.
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  33. They do. There’s plenty of videos out there on just that.
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  34.  @rogerpatterson3422  except they aren’t. They’ve found prehistoric different species of human fossils in Asia and Europe as well. They’re looking for human fossils all over the globe. It’s just that the oldest Homo sapiens , our species, fossils are found in Africa.
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  35. Troll
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  36.  @jamescarsten6023  in some parts sure, but the Europeans also heavily settled the Americas. They did not do the same in Asia or Africa. And they never penetrated Africa as deeply as they did the Americas until the 1800’s due to disease. Thank you for proving that you’ve never actually read up on the subject.
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  37. Alaska was very hard for the Russians to govern.
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  38. Tbf at least in the European parts of the realm the Turks didn’t replace the population or religion for the most part. But I do agree that the Ottomans are not a continuation of the Romans.
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  39. The Europeans weren’t op enough to overwhelm the Asian states at this time like they were in the 19th century. That’s why their colonies in the region were mostly outposts and forts.
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  40.  @tizza963 that’s becuase Graham grancock uses a lot of racist works from the 19 century as sources.
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  41. Your grade school taught you wrong then.
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  42.  @-haclong2366 at the time the US and France weren’t on the friendliest of terms.
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  43.  @premodernist_history so the 19th century equivalent of memes, got it.
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  44. I mean yah that’s how it worked back then for imperial powers. You think the Europeans cares what the Africans thoughts when they carved up Africa? You think the Americans or Mexicans cared about the Natives in the west?
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  45. And yet most Canadians are not Métis.
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  46. Because that would require a war with Great Britain. Also the St. Lawerence isn’t a border, it’s the center of civilization in Quebec.
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  47. Yes it is. You’ve just described anywhere that isn’t a city.
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  48. As compared to the Russians and what they do with countries who disagree with them, like Ukraine or Armenia?
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  49.  @AngelaRodhas  really doesn’t change my point dude does it? Seems like you’re the one that needs to get informed. Russia isn’t a victim here.
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  50. Eh unlikely.
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  51. Then you heard misinformation. Russia sold Alaska to America wholesale.
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  52.  @rexdenemo5235  yes I have. It was a sale, totally control of Alaska was handed over to the US forever. Russia has no claim to Alaska.
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  53. During the time of the purchase France and America were on extremely bad terms, with the French government having been pretty pro-CSA. The Russians on the other hand were one of the few European nations to support the Union.
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  54. “Allegedly” Aka you’re making shit up, or just plain out don’t know what you’re talking about. Look we’re talking about two imperial powers trading territory. This shit happened all the time back then. That Russia never colonized the interior didn’t change the fact that back then they were still seen as having the legal claim to all of Alaska, and hence when they sold it that legal claim to all of Alaska went to America.
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  55. No
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  56. Good. Already have enough people.
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  57. Then the HRE should be considered Roman as well.
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  58. The split was for administration. No one ever saw it as the empire itself splitting.
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  59. Except Rome wasn’t the capital for the western empire by that time and hadn’t been for a long time. The west was generally governed from either Ravenna or Milan.
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  60. Then I guess Romania is the true heir to the empire.
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  61. Deposing the emperor and declaring yourself king of Italy sounds pretty noteworthy to me.
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  62.  @tzeentchvonsheo9868  except Romulus was the emperor, like it or not. Odoacer’s actions ended the empire in the west.
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  63. The Byzantines were still the strongest and richest state in Europe for a long time faster the fall of the west.
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  64.  @MietoK except the Roman’s did adopt pants. By the end of the empire pants were standard issue for their soldiers.
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  65. Lol
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  66. No
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  67.  @marijntaal1531  pointing out how you’re ignorant and hypocritical isn’t rudeness. The citizens of the empire never saw it being divided. On top of that Roman as a concept extended far beyond the city of Rome, and by the end of the empire rome hasn’t been the capital of the empire for centuries.
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  68. Except that 476 saw the entire region of Italy fall out of Roman hands.
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  69. Why stop there? Why jot go with the abo foment of Dacia and Britannia?
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  70. The orthodox consider Byzantium to be the second Rome. If you’re going to spout this bullshit to say why Moscow is Rome at least get the idea behind it right.
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  71. Except they were the Roman Empire. And unlike the HRE they had a continuous line of descent of rulers and governmental traditions to prove it.
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  72.  @proild  that is honestly the dumbest thing I I’ve read today.
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  73. Except the Byzantines were the eastern Roman Empire. And if you remember east Germany didn collapse, it was reunited with west Germany. Two very different scenarios between east Germany and Byzantium. And that’s not even close to how the split between east and west Rome worked. Have you even actually read up on this
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  74. Yes it did fall in 1453. Claiming to be Roman doesn’t make you Roman.
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  75. Because that Greek city was the last center of the Roman government. Roman identity was not something limited by ethnicity. It’s like saying that Mexican Americans are not real Americans. The Roman Empire as not a nation state like modern day European states are.
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  76. Wrong. For a significant chunk of the empire rome wasn’t even the capital.
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  77. Except by 476 Rome wasn’t the center of the western empire either.
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  78. Because Roman was an identify they spread far outside of the city.
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  79. Because most people want to have kids.
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  80. Most estimates out the population say mixing at around 9 to 10 billion.
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  81. The single biggest link to low birth rates is access to education for women. Societies where women can get educated pretty much all have low birth rates as women choose to have careers and one or two children as opposed to regions where women can’t get an education and are married off and have like 13 kids.
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  82. I’m sure you have some sources to back that claim up.
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  83. The Russians can claim to be Roman’s all they want but marrying a Byzantine to be princess doesn’t make you Roman. Most European nobility intermarried into Byzantine nobility.
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  84. Yes there is a lot of evidence for a lot of people people dying of famine. Famine happened all the time before the advent of modern agriculture. But more than that the limits of agricultural technology limited how many people could be supported.
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  85.  @schmetterling4477 peak oil is when it requires burning more oil to produce the energy to run oil wells than you get oil out of the ground. If we had hit peak oil in 2004 we’d have known because the entire system whosoever either collapsed or switched over to nuclear.
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  86.  @schmetterling4477  that is literally what I just said dude. Peak oil is when it costs more energy than you get out of the oil to extract oil. However you are still wrong as peak oil has not yet been reached.
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  87.  @schmetterling4477  that doesn’t change a thing single thing I said. We haven’t reached peak oil yet, you’re just wrong.
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  88.  @schmetterling4477  and you’re still wrong. Peak oil hasn’t happened yet.
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  89.  @schmetterling4477  buddy that is not how peak oil is defined. Do you suffer from literal brain rot?
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  90. Except that’s not at all the case, as fertilizers where an extremely lucrative market in 1800’s to the point that countries went o war with each other over nitrate deposits. And fertilizers tog row the food you eat doesn’t sound unnecessary to me.
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  91. That’s because they aren’t the third Rome.
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  92. And rail allowed it to be shipped even more efficiently on land. Rail revolutionized logistics.
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  93.  @CSDragon  not really
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  94. Who cares
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  95. Yes turn all of Texas into a suburban hellscape. No thank you. Cities are bad enough. And overpopulation has nothing to dow out space, it has to do with resources.
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  96. The federalists got there name from being the main supporters of the constitution.
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  97. Lol nice joke
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