Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Viewers Ply Me with Ancient History Questions" video.

  1. As far as I understand, man made climate change doesn't mean it wouldn't have changed on its own, but that because of human actions the changes are too big, sudden, and damaging, so men accelerate global warming and other side effects, and that's how we moved to record high heat waves which would be unrealistic a few years ago. This is how it works with environment: trees die all the time, and there are forest fires that happen without human action, but when people just wipe out an entire wood, multiple times, nature can't really adapt as fast and the whole ecosystem risks collapsing. For example, in my country, Ukraine, massively chopped woods in Carpathians during late 20th century led to rock hails that destroyed plants and crops, leading to a chain reaction that permanently damaged the surroundings. Similarly, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has a natural amount of fires that everything in nature adapted to, and recent ones are way beyond that and the biome is simply not ready for it... I also heard how badly fracking damaged Bangladesh long term for short term gains in other countries so am very skeptical about that method to get more fossil fuels. SO the arguments of man-made climate change deniers mostly take the form of "it would have happened anyway" ignoring how there's a huge difference between animals eventually dying and hunters wiping out their entire bloodline in a few generations. Similarly with CO2 emissions and whatever is outside right now no thanks to oil barons. Ecosystem is very fragile, look up the sparrows in China how removing a single tiny predator led to millions starving.
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  2. 15:36 Yeah, medicine basically required writing to read and write down recipes, so if you see someone described as a medic, it's likely they were literate, i.e. we know some women learned writing way back in Old Kingdom because there's an inscription inside the tomb of scribe Akhethetep (scribes were all male) that mentions Peseshet, a female physician and possibly his mother...
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  3.  @TheGahta  Egyptian medicine was written down and dependent on their writing. Kind of how agriculture was related to temples, it was priests who told people when, where, and what to sow and pick, this is how Ancient Egypt worked. You don't NEED temples for that but it was entirely centered around them. The point is that despite no female scribes, there were women medics, and women in other professions (bakers, mourners, singers), question was about literacy specifically and it's medicine where they needed it as we see tons of Egyptian recipes for potions and the like.
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  4.  @TheGahta  I was specifically talking about medicine in Old kingdom Egypt and that their professional medics could read and write, unlike modern doctors.
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  5.  @Michel-7.7.7  his real last name was Padavona tho... so that's more likely a JoJo reference... everything is.
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  6. 16:02 This isn't even specific for antiquity, most high ranking people were dictating and either scribes or, later, editors for printing, were writing it down, that's even if they composed the texts themselves, I mean you don't expect Biden to write his own press releases, right? A personal note from, say, Queen of Sweden, is rare even now!
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