It actually needs to be two spaces at the end of a line and return once for a new line, or two return strokes for a new paragraph in reddit markup. :)

Problem is they're working backwards. They know Zipfs law is a thing so they know their gibberish producing technique should follow it.

They're going to need to be able to produce known hoaxes from the time period of the Voynich manuscript that have gibberish following Zipfs law when it was unknown for their claim to have any shred of legitimacy.

This is a good analogy, but there"s one big mismatch with the history--the eastern half of Roman Empire had the majority of the people and wealth. So, exactly what you said, except the Eastern and Western US have the others' economies and population numbers.

1. I think there's an important thing to realize about much of history and even today; if you weren't a part of someones ethnicity/religious group/tribe/nation/etc, you were the enemy. To the Safavids, the Sunnis were ideological opposites as well as exploitable by the Ottoman Empire, and therefore had to be converted. But even this had limits, as both sides would exploit tribes of different religions to fight, or kill what they saw as "influence agents" of the others religion.

2. It wasn't as much as they didn't want to defend co-religionists as much as it was that the Ottomans couldn't secure the expanding lands, and religious war even against an opposing sect of the same religion was difficult. Ottomans waited until there was enough of a division within the Safavid Empire to exploit, and did do this multiple times over centuries. They were interested in a long-term squeeze approach and would atempt to exploit internal tensions with war to chip away at land, use proxy groups, etc. Following 1590 is an example of this, but the Safavids (then Afsharid, then Qajars) were good at reconstituting their forces and retaking that land, as present day Iran & Azerbaijan were already successfully converted and provided an easy launching point. It's not easy to fight a war, and you can't just throw bodies at a wall for centuries on end. Ottomans were successful in taking several important cities from the Safavids, but expanding all the way into the core of the Safavid Empire wouldn't be easy unless they made peace with every other empire they were bordered with.

3. As a general rule, I highly recommend never to load personal beliefs onto people who're centuries dead. All human beings are varied, naturally hypocritical, and we don't truly understand events unless we read them directly from their pens. But you're correct, in this case he was supportive of any and all suppression of a very strict, Safavid-supporting Twelve Shia Islam. He was the main organizer of a very brutal "persianizing" non-Persian Shias, then converting all Sunnis to the state religion.

I'm not an expert, but I hope this helps a little bit.

also the reason to polish all that dirty paint off those marble statues and also medieval armor.

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Was still a gift. Not looted so your point is moot

So you can:

Return it to it's original culture who have been oppressed for years

or

Profit

Which seems fair to you?

Even during the unified Roman Empire, the eastern half (i.e., the future "Byzantium") differed in language and culture from the western half. When Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Empire to Byzantium, and gave a speech about it, the audience (the Greeks) did not understand his speech.

And what about the term "Byzantium", I think it is appropriate to use it to refer to the Empire between 1261-1453, because at that time very little of Greece was really Roman, because what little was left of the Roman Empire was destroyed in 1204.

Where did the literary/folklore trend of spiritual empowerment being associated with disability originate?

Thank you. These sound promising.

Thank you. I will take a look on it. Though I am looking for something like you could watch in a history class.

A good answer might be Johannes Swammerdam.

Most obvious is Ken Burns documentaries ,he has wide collection of of documentaries most all for Public Broadcating Corporation (PBS).

They didn't.

Rather, the bow and arrow are thought to have been invented by prehistoric humans in Africa around 72,000 years ago. This was around the same period that significant numbers of humans began migrating out of Africa.

Impossible to say if these were looted or traded for surely?

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The works of Liutprand of Cremona (10th century Ottonian ambassador to the Byzantine court) are interesting in this regard. Describes a breakdown of diplomacy over the pope referring to the emperor as "Greek" in a letter.

Bread, same as it was in the rest of Europe and also the Middle East and North Africa.

The advantage of potatoes is that they are less vulnerable to heat and cold than grains, don't spoil as easily, take less land to cultivate, can grow larger without killing the rest of the plant, and don't have to be milled before they can be eaten.

God, this just reminds me of the Parthenon marbles. The English are the absolute worst when it comes to stolen culture.

Empress Irene in Byzantium nearly managed a marriage alliance with the Frankish emperor Charlemagne in the 780s. Otto III married a Byzantine princess in the 1000s-1100s which won the southern part of Italy and opened the possibility of mutual recognition of both the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires as "Roman" in a nod to a time in the late imperial era when Rome was split into eastern and western halves to better manage such crises as food shortages and incursions.

>There's lots of stories and media about the Night Witches.

The 588th Night Bomber Regiment/46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment was one of many tactical light bombing units of the Soviet Union, these units were intended for short range tactical and harassing attacks and thus would not bomb German cities, until the end of the war when the front was in Germany.

And that is excluding spending 6 paragraphs talking about factionalism between different Zionist groups.

Seems to me that a string of small fiefdoms has less options to maintain a balance of power between language areas, cultures, military alliances etc than a network of fiefdoms, and therefore is more likely to gravitate towards similarity. Lasting political unification on the other hand usually requires a shared enemy that is really perceived as the other, and that was absent most of the time. Japan was relatively isolated and hard to invade. Norway is a bit similar.

Who discovered queen bees?