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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