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

  1. The Bible is not a scientific text.
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  2. The Roman Army had been the only European army that had minimum height and fitness standards until modern times.
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  3. The real shame is that the not white audience is not calling for them. It's not like Africa or Latin America are not able to conjure up a movie or a TV series. They made quite a lot of them actually, but it needed an Australian white guy to came up with Apocalypto, or a French to came up with Himalaya (that's still considered at least a Nepali production, but wrote, directed and produced by French).
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  4. Columbus was backed by many scholars. Among them the most renown cartographer of his time, Toscanelli, whose map placed Japan more or less where in reality is west Mexico. That's why Columbus thought to have reached a group of islands east of Japan, because, in his map there was no physycal place for a continent between those islands and Japan. The problem was not that much the circumference of the Earth, but the extension of Asia, that, at that time, everyone thought it was much more extended that it really is and, at the same time, everyone palced Japan more far from China that it really is (see, for example the orb of Behaim). That's also why, once reached the continent, in his third voyage, he immediately wrote instead it was a new continent (THAT HE CALLED "PARIA", NOT "WEST INDIES"). Because, on his map, at that latitude, there should have been no land mass capable to sustain the rivers he saw. Had been for him, Native Americans would have been called "Parians".
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  5. Err... Why? While the fairness of the skin, along with other physical traits, is easily recognizable, the "Caucasian" origin of those traits is a completely discredited theory. The term entred in use along with "negroid" and "mongoloid", that are now even considered offensive.
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  6. For a Roman the term "bisexual" would have meant nothing. Romans considered manly to bang a man, while to be penetrated was a no-no, and would have been the end of a political or military (that were deeply interconnected) career.
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  7. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."John 1:1 "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14 "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known." John 1:17-18
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  8.  @tadhgmccain7785  If you are monotheist, if someone is "a God" then is God.
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  9. There's worse. This is just a tiktoker. There are academics, not historians or archaeologists, but with academic degrees in other fields neverthless, that argue IE, that history begun in the 9th century, and all the "ancient history" happened in reality in few centuries during the middle age (Anatoly Fomenko, matematician). Or that nothing happened between 230AD and 930AD. The Roman Empire ended with the third century crisis, and the 700 years between those two dates had been invented (Gunnar Heinsohn, sociologist).
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  10. He said that in the clip, talking of lead and arsenical bronze (aluminium and nickel bronze are pretty modern, lead and arsenical bronze have a long history).
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  11. Is difficult to find datas for Gauls and Germanic people of Roman times, but Viking males, form skeletons found (usually we find burial of high-class people, so the average height is probably overestimated, since in ancient times they tended to eat better and so be taller than the average peasant) had an average height of 172cm. We already talked about legionaries but, from skeletons, the average male population of Pompeii and Herculaneum (and there are no class differencies there, since they all perished in a natural disaster) was of 168cm, so the Germanic people were probably on average taller than the Romans, but nothing so dramatic. Several Roman sources said of one or another Gaul or Germanic population, that they were tall, but often the Romans first seen members of the warrior elite. People that eat very well since childhood, and so were taller than the average.
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  12. The Almogavars routinely defeated French heavy knights, and their weapons were a pair of javelins and a fighting knife, but in their case the experience was reversed. They were specialised anti-cavalry troops, and the knights were often noblemen with scarce real fight experience.
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  13. The remains of an horse still wearing a military saddle had just been discovered at Pompeii. It was 150cm high, 15 hands. Not a giant, but surely not short.
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  14. Hate to burst your bubble, but all of her ancestors, maternal and paternal, up to Ptolemy I, founder of the dinasty, were not only Greek, but specifically Macedon.
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  15.  @knowthyselfinstitute  That's not the tomb of Princess Arsinoe. It's a VERY stretched interpretation since there are no inscriptions and, given the circumstances of her death, there was no reason for her to have a mausoleum at all. The age of the body at death does not correspond with that of Princess Arsinoe. There had been no "genetic work" on the remains. The DNA is not analyzable, the head is missing, and craniometry to determine race is a scam even when it's not based on old pictures.
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  16. The possibility to land a solid hit during a fight was so limited and precious that, having it, none would have vasted it to cut a string.
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  17. I've seen many olives, but I never known anyone with an "olive" skin colour.
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  18. It's a mith. Blue was obtained by woad, a common plant, and was so cheap that the robes of servants were normally of that color. The staples of European dyeing industry were woad (blue) weld (yellow) and madder (red). It was difficult however to obtain very deep and bright colours. Those were reserved to the more refined and expensive dyes only the rich and nobles could afford. Woad blue is like this: https://burgschneider.eu/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/960x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/f/r/freya-waidblau_2.jpg https://64.media.tumblr.com/136f54afd7cc88fd13b1720b7c2b07ba/tumblr_nnh8i66J0G1syvcrdo1_500.jpg The very expensive blue, that originated the mith, was the one used for frescoes because, to make them deep, bright and durable, was obtained by crushing lapislazuli.
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  19.  @sevenproxies4255  Dark or light depends on the quantity of dye used and the material of the fabric. https://64.media.tumblr.com/136f54afd7cc88fd13b1720b7c2b07ba/tumblr_nnh8i66J0G1syvcrdo1_500.jpg https://www.happydyes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Woad2.png The "shiny" effect is given by the velvet, especially a silk velvet like that one. This is a silk scarf (not velvet) dyed in woad, As you can see the color point is very similar. http://www.woad.org.uk/assets/images/db_images/db_woad2804_71.jpg In Europe woad had been replaced as a blue dye only by Indigo, in XVI century. Indigo gave a less "greenish" and more "reddish" blue, but overall was much easier to apply.
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  20. Where did you get the 1.5m height? Is difficult to find datas for Germanic people of Roman times, but Viking males, form skeletons found (usually we find burial of high-class people, so the average height is probably overestimated, since in ancient times they tended to eat better and so be taller than the average peasant) had an average height of 172cm. We already talked about legionaries but, from skeletons, the average male population of Pompeii and Herculaneum (and there are no class differencies there, since they all perished in a natural disaster) was of 168cm, so the Germanic people were probably on average taller than the Romans, but nothing so dramatic. Several Roman sources said of one or another Gaul or Germanic population, that they were very tall, but often the Romans first seen members of the warrior elite. People that eat very well since childhood, and so were taller than the average.
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  21. That seems like Bantu racism.
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  22.  @GasLei  so the other Greeks didn't know the horse?
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  23.  @GasLei  But none tried to revive the hoplites using more cavalry, even when it was possible, or when Alexander's tactics were well known. They had been replaced by a longer spear and a smaller shield.
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  24. They had great problems in Indochina and Korea, simply because there was no more grassland, and their tactics were no more useful there. The same for the two tumens (20.000 men) that pursued King Bela in Dalmatia and were defeated in a series of ambushes. In Europe grassland ends in Hungary (that's why all the steppe raiders, Huns, Hungars, Mongols, ended there). The Mongols previously took fortified cities and strategic fortresses, because they were worth the effort, but In western Europe there were tens of thousands of fortresses capable to stand a siege for weeks or months. It was a completely different warfare, and a very expensive one. Even having European engineers, to conquest even small fortresses could keep months. To try to speed things by dividing the army and attacking many of them at once, meant to loose the biggest advantage the Mongols had, their command chain, able to cohordinate tens of thousands men during a battle. It had already been noted in the first invasion that Europeans tended to win small scale engagements, when cohordination was much simpler. And infact, in the subsequent Mongol attempts of invasion, Hungarians and Poles exploited that, building more fortresses and dividing the campaign in multiple small scale engagements instead of seeking big pitched battles.
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  25. A Roman Citizen could only suffer two forms of corporal punishments, being beaten with a birch rod, or beheaded by an axe (that were infact the two components of the Fasces, that were the symbol of the judiciary power). Exceptions were very rarely made for offenses to gods (IE is reported a case were the lover of a Vestal priestess had been skinned).
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  26. Those stories don't match with actual archeological findings.
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  27. Not by much. The minimum stature to join the legion was 1.64m for legionaries and 1.72m for equites. The average stature of a Norseman of 9th to 11th century was 1.72cm. So they would have been only 2-4cm higher than the average legionary.
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  28. The actors and extras in "Scipione l'Africano" (1937) were all Italians, for the Romans, the Carthaginians and the Numidians. Hannibal had been played by Camillo Pilotto, and Massinissa by Fosco Giachetti. To be a movie shot in the '30s it was pretty well done, and Hannibal is seen in a positive light.
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  29.  @Uthandol  As you can see we were answering to someone (Alex Evans) that later deleted his comments.
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  30. There are presenved samples covered in leather and standard fabric.
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  31. I'm a lefty, and I recognize instantly a bigot when I see one. It's atavic. They are bigots.
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  32. English longbows were tipically made of yew. Already the Simlaun Man had a yew made longbow.
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  33. It should be seen what are the limits of the "Shakespeare drama". It's a theater piece? No problem. It's a remake movie made in another setting? (Di Caprio's Romeo and Juliet, 1995 Richard III...) no problem. You can set Hamlet in a pre-colombian kingdom and have it interpreted by native Americans. It only uses shakespeare's story, but not even its text, but it's set in the historically correct setting? Then the setting is prevalent. You are showing the real battle of Agincourt using Shakespeare's Henry V as a loose plot, and it's better to use historically correct actors, like is better to use historically correct armors.
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  34. Other "modern" things they had were taps, metallic water pipes and water pumps, both for ships and hydrants.
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  35. I too go with the knight, but it's a narrow one. Greathelm is protective, but it's not really made for foot fight. The field of vision is very narrow, and the knight will have an hard time in seeing what's happening below the shoulder of the enemy. More, the kinght had to end it quickly, otherwise the higher weight of the armor, the heat and the difficulty of breathing into the greathelm will take their toll.
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  36. Cleopatra was not a title, it was a personal name. Simply, in that family, all the males were named "Ptolemy" (like Ptolemy I, general of Alexander, the founder of the dinasty) and the females were named Cleopatra (like the wife of Ptolemy V) Berenice (like the wife of Ptolemy I) or Arsinoe (like the mother of Ptolemy I). Cleopatra VII reigned after her sister, Berenice IV, and had another older sister, Arsinoe IV, that died at young age.
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  37. Err... no. Already in the first invasion they experienced several setbacks (IE the two tumens, 20.000 cavalrymen, that pursued King Bela in Dalmatia, and were defeated in a series of ambushes) and the subsequent attempts, where the knights adapted their tactics, had been failures.
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  38.  @mysticonthehill  No. Castles existed in Europe well before the crusades (they were already well developed in X century), and the Crusader's castles were European innovation brought to middle east, where there were nothing similar before. Fortresses, yes, but not with that level of protection.
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  39. Are you sure about that? The actor for Scipio had not been announced yet.
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  40. It has to be noted that, in bronze, tin can be replaced by arsenic, that's much more common (and it's required in much lower percentage), and infact in the early and middle bronze age, when tin trade routes had not yet been estabilished, in the Mediterranean basin, arsenical bronze was much more common than tin bronze. It's ironic that, during the bronze-age final collapse, probably none in the "civilised" areas remembered that tin could have been easily replaced.
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  41. It has to be noted that, in bronze, tin can be replaced by arsenic, that's much more common (and it's required in much lower percentage), and infact in the early and middle bronze age, when tin trade routes had not yet been estabilished, in the Mediterranean basin, arsenical bronze was much more common than tin bronze. It's ironic that, during the bronze-age final collapse, probably none in the "civilised" areas remembered that tin could have been easily replaced.
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  42. Shakespeare is not an historical source on moorish people. He was a 16th century Brit that likely NEVER saw the Mediterranean. Otello's original story was written by Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio (in the " Ecatommiti", a collection of tales) that simply defined the main character as "moro", a term that was indifferently used for north Africans and middle easterns.
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  43. Unfortunately, one of the most difficult things is to faithfully represent ancient formation battles. Soldiers needed a lot of training (and they did already belong to a culture where formation battle was taken for granted) to learn to fight in formation. None has the money to train extras to fight that way. That's why ancient battles on screen always seem huge brawls fought with swords.
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  44. Actually only metric have ever got a man to Moon. NASA uses metric. And not only NASA. There's not a single industrial product designed in the US in the last 60 years that had been designed in "freedom units". All is designed in metric, and then "translated" for the general public, that doesn't understand metric.
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  45. So they produced and bought pigments, and made paintings, of a colour they couldn't see?
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  46.  @caos1925  Egyptian blue is the first syntetic pigment humanity created. So they should have spent time and efforts to create a new tecnology to obtain a pigment they couldn't discern from the ones they already had?
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  47.  @user-pj3ic6qw2p  A member of the "X was black" gang. They are quite sad. Since they don't think the real history of black people to be interesting enough, they prefer to hijack the one of others.
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  48. Consider that, writing of Christ's birth, Luke was writing of things happened before he was born. In the best case his gospel was written around 61AD. That means that there were probably no more direct witnesses of the 8BC census old enough to remember it, while there was still some witness of the 6AD one.
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  49. Stone age vs iron age. My bet is on the Celts.
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  50. "Yellow" had only started to be used to not call "white" people that were not European. East Asians' skin colour is no more yellow than Europeans' one.
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