Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Metatron" channel.

  1. Jesus had been, and still is, depicted as black, east Asian, or Polinesian for that matter. Why? Because, as a divine entity, he assumes the prevalent aspect of the people that pray to him.
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  2.  @Olfan  Metatron didn't cite the medieval paintings as a proof that Hannibal wasn't black, but as a proof that Hannibal not being black is not some sort of recent appropriation.
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  3. Actually there was a minumum height to join the Legion (170 cm), and Vikings were not that tall (the skeletons found are 172cm on average) . The average legionary was easily taller than the average Viking.
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  4. Alexander grew up in a culture where this definition wouldn't have made any sense. It's like finding words for those who like and don't like shellfish, and then basing your identity on that.
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  5. Mind that the first members of a tribe Caesar met were almost surely part of the warrior elite. Those were better fed than the average peasant since childhood, and so taller.
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  6. Actually north-Africans in classic times were a little paler than modern day ones.
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  7. No law in Italy prevent to buy and wear a bulletproof vest in any occasion. It's only banned for a civilian to use the specific models issued to the armed forces.
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  8. We have not historical accounts of Emperor Caligula written during his life. And he was an Emperor, not an obscure preacher in a backward angle of the Empire.
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  9.  @diablificaton666  I'm pretty sure word would gotten around if someone was Emperor. He would have said something, no?
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  10. And, actually, Columbus never called the Native Americans "Indians". When he reached the Caribbeans, he believed to have reached a group of islands east of Japan (because in his map there was no space for a continent at that latitude), so it would have been silly to call the inhabitants "indians". When, in his third voyage, he reached South America, he immediately recognised it was a continent (because the rivers were too big to came from an island) and a new one, (because at that latitude he couldn't still have reached east Asia), and called it "Paria". The name stood on European maps for decades, before being replaced by "America". Today it only indicates the Gulf of Paria, where he landed. So, had the Native Americans been called after Columbus, they would be called "Parians".
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  11. Battles can be long affairs. After a while, the simple ability to lift the shield beats training 10-0. Moreover, weapons and training are expensive items. You want to give them to the ones that are most likely to use them to the most effect. That's why, IE, there was a minimum height to join the Legion.
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  12. "fresh" bones are rather easy to cut with a cutting sword. https://youtu.be/uiQUUlOwWcY?t=92
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  13. Watch the video again. First than the chichen bones there were ribs, and after them there was a ham. Fresh bones are rather easy to cut with a cutting sword.
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  14. There are countless on the net. https://youtu.be/TbHjEK3Fc78?t=174
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  15.  @skp8748  "Those coins were made centuries later" according to? Those coins had been minted in Spain. Centuries later Spain was a Roman province. So Romans coined Carthaginian shekels with Hamilcar's, Hasdrubal's and Hannibal's heads on them?
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  16.  @skp8748  So, if middle easterns live for centuries on the shores of the Mediterranean, they becomes black Africans? Mediterranean WAS NOT A BARRIER, it was the main trade route for all the civilizations around it. That's why the Roman Empire was formed around the Mediterranean. The Carthaginians were not "away from Phoenicia". They were always trading with all the civilizations in the Mediterranean basin.
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  17. Some bacinet have a shape very similar to the arch shaped barbute (even if most samples have the typical pointed backward apex, while the barbute usually have the charateristic "crest"), but they are made to have an aventail permanently attached, the barbute doesnt.
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  18. They would see you as a tall man. Nothing more. Tall people always existed, even well above 186cm. IE Charles Albert, king of Piedmont and Sardinia from 1831 to 1848 (an age when the average Italian was not taller than the average ancient Roman) stood at 204cm, six-foot-seven, and the thing is barely remembered.
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  19. Italian cities started to forbid the use of rotelle and brocchieri (bucklers) into the city walls at the beginning of XVII century (in an effort to limit duels), so it was still in use in civilian context when it had already been abandoned in military one.
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  20. He obviously "can". The real question is "will the fans be OK with that?", and the answer is "no", because there is an estabilished iconography about the character. Is like Danny De Vito playing the part of Sherlock Holmes. Is a fictional character, but H. C. Doyle described him having completely different traits.
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  21.  @sunkings5972  Writing "decades later", at the time, meant writing VERY CLOSE to the facts. Polybius did born during the second punic war, so he talked with direct witnesses, and wrote about it when many of them were still alive. The closest source we have bout the Thermopylae was four when it had been fought.
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  22.  @sunkings5972  Second punic war lasted from 218 BC to al 202 BC. Polybius did born 206 BC. So he born DURING THE WAR. Is like someone born in 1941 writing a book about WWII in 1991. He had the possibility to talk with many veterans, and there were still plenty of them when he wrote.
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  23.  @sunkings5972  Not really. Ancient Egypt hieroglyphics, apart for the Pharaons of the XXV dinasty, that were Nubians, and depicted themselves as black, always depicts Egyptians as having very different color and traits than Nubians. Nubians are depicted with subsaharian traits. Other mediterranean civilizations are depicted like Egyptians with a different hat.
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  24. They are not made for you, or any real people. They are made for a bunch of cultists to virtue-signal exploiting a minority (and damaging the way it's publicly perceived in the process).
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  25. Yeah. Copper often contained arsenic, that strenghtened it (see arsenical bronze).
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  26. Actually Protestant Church denounced copernicanism (Copernicus was a Catholic canon) much before Catholic church. Catholic Church took a position on the matter only 60 years after the publication of the theory, and well past Copernicus' death.
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  27.  @alicelund147  They didn't care. They didn't think the matter was worth of a teological sanction. And infact Copernicus, a Catholic Canon, never thought to have written something against the doctrine. Catholic Church took a position only 60 years later. Mostly because it had been invested on the matter by Ptolemaic scientists, that didn't know any more how to respond to Galileo that, being, other than a great scientist, a skilled polemist, ridiculed them. Galileo had been condemned mostly because the "Dialogue" that he was advised to write presenting a balanced view of the two teories, was far from balanced, and the advocate of Ptolemaic system in the book, starting from the name ("Simplicio", "the simple one") made a fool of himself, and for having said that "Church should teach to the souls to reach the stars, not how the stars work". He was right of course, but the autority is not happy to be told what they could do or not. Had he been more careful, Galileo could have proposed the same theories, and much more, without problems.
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  28. Legionaries wore the swords on their right (much easier to draw them when in packed formations). Some think Centurions were allowed to wear them on the left, but that's not certain.
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  29. 1st century Egypt was full of Greeks. and Egyptians were north Africans, not black Africans, exactly as they are today.
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  30.  @LL-ur4rn  Israelites were not black, they were Semitic. Egyptians were not black, they were north Africans, so darker than south Europeans, and paler than Nilotics, that are paler than Bantu. The Bible is not scientific source.
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  31.  @LL-ur4rn  For adaptation and sexual preference. The Bible is not scientific source.
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  32.  @LL-ur4rn  Take a text on natural selection and read it. I'll wait. On sexual preference, and many other things, I advise Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies".
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  33. Romans used several times the anti cavalry "square" formation (it was round in their case) using the pila as spears. Regardless how armored their rider is, horses don't crush into dense packs of spears bristling infantry. Long pikes obviously were an advantage but, in medieval history, several times infantry formations, less disciplined than the Romans and without Swiss pikes, resisted to cavalry charges (IE at Legnano). Medieval knights had the advantage that usually they fought vs. very undisciplined militias, whose formations were very easy to disrupt. Mind too that most depended on the timing also. Had the Romans some hour to build even very simple fortifications, even only the stimuli and campus liliorum (the field traps they developed to cope with cavalry), the cavalry charge would have been complitely neutralized before the first knight reached a scutum. Late medieval armors were not impenetrable. A knight on foot was difficult to cope with, but for how long? For how many minutes a fully enclosed knight could keep his guard high and swing his weapon against the scuti? At Agincourt the French were killed by their own fatigue. Switching lines, legionaries could fight for hours.
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  34. 1st century legionaries simply were professional soldiers with standardized training perfectioned over centuries. Average early 15th century infantrymen mostly weren't. The Roman chain of command was miles ahead anything seen in europe until the 30 Years War. In late middle age (and that's still the case at Agincourt) armies were still led from the front. A situation were the commander can't see what happens more than few steps away, let alone reacts to unforeseen situations. The average Roman officer (not to say the commander) had a theoretical knowledge about tactical deployment, camp placement, fortification building and lines of supplies estabilishing far deeper than the average medieval army commander. IE the writings of Pyrrhus about strategy were well known in Roman times, but had been lost during the dark ages. The simple legionary was required to be able to read and write, since he had to be able to understand written orders, and write reports. The medieval army commader to be capable to read was not a given. The slaves' armies won vs the legions only when they had an exceptional numerical advantage. That would never be the case with medieval armies, that tended to be very small compared to what the Romans usually fielded.
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  35. Captain America's shield is technically a rotella.
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  36. Carthaginians were Phoenicians, so Semites from middle east. "Poenus" means Phoenician in Latin. Romans literally called those "the Phoenician wars". We don't know who the mother of Cleopatra was. It seems improbable her being a "Nubian" or even a native Egyptian woman for that matter, since their Macedon heritage was pretty important for the Ptolemies (see their own personal names). Surely contemporary depictions didn't feature Cleopatra with any African trait. Ancient Egyptians, apart for the XXV dinasty (who were Kushites, and purposedly depicted themselves as black), didn't consider themselves black. In their depictions, there's always a stark contrast between Egyptians and Nubians (who were depicted with black African traits), while the other Mediterranean civilizations are depicted like Egyptians with a different hat.
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  37. Actually shells provided the first wounds that couldn't really be treated. That led to the ban of explosive rifle bullets, because it was deemed that (contrary than with artillery) the tactical gain was too small compared to the suffering inflicted to the wounded soldiers.
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  38. So you are now a fishist.
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  39. John 1 (end of 1st century, early 2nd century at the latest) already clearly states the divinity of Christ.
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  40. Because documentaries are not about artistic licences and suspending someone's disbelief, so they should be as accurate as the means employed allow (so, IE, in a documentary about prehistoric Africa produced, with very limited resources, by a Japanese amateur production using voluntary cast, is acceptable to use Japanese actors) And, even in historical fiction, it seems quite ridicolus, to insert people for the sake of inclusivity, while at the same time telling to the pubblic "we all know there were only white males in this expedition. Just ignore the diverse ones, or pretend they are believable".
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  41. No. It's one of the safest countries in the world.
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  42. No. Actually there was a minumum height to join the Legion (170 cm), and Vikings were not that tall (the skeletons found are 172cm on average) . The average legionary was easily taller than the average Viking.
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  43. Actually that of Boudica had been a mass attack vs. a reduced Roman formation, that ended in disaster.
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  44. He never stated sources must be taken acritically. But you can't replace sources with fantasies because sources can be biased.
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  45. Don't know if the linothorax can be considered a padded armor.
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  46. It has to be said that the clavi caligares provided excellent traction on the field, but became extremely slippery on polished surfaces. There are accounts of multiple stumbling of legionaries, in places that had marble floors, caused by them.
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  47. No law in Italy prevent to buy and wear a bulletproof vest in any occasion. It's only banned for a civilian to use the specific models issued to the armed forces.
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  48.  @puxydow6650  "brigands" were originally the soldiers of small 25-30 men mercenary companies, often created and led by a minor noble. The "brigandine" was their signature armor. Obviously there were of MUCH diverse quality. Metatron ones is an example og an high-level one. Low level ones were made with pieces of old, outdated, armours riveted on common fabric.
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  49. Here's an idea, how about learning your own history before trying to infer that N.Africans were black (and Hannibal WAS NOT OF N.AFRICAN DESCENT, HE WAS A PHOENICIAN, SO A SEMITE FROM MIDDLE EAST) in Roman time? Not only the Carthaginians (that were middle eastern), but even the Numidians didn't depict themselves as black. This urge of some people of African descent to cancel other African cultures is pretty disturbing.
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  50.  @i.YouTuber1  You can start the campaign whenever you want.
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