You'd be surprised.

We do for example have records of what 'in theory' Napoleon was giving his troops in the early 19th century and it isn't far off the numbers I listed. This is the 'ideal' situation, not when they were marching home from Moscow:

24 oz of bread, 8 oz of meat, 2oz legumes.

My own numbers were more bread focused with less meat, but on that note you saw how pissy some folks got when I suggested half that quantity of meat upthread.

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That has no bearing on how many calories an individual needs though. Just on how capable an army would be at ensuring the soldier has access to those.

MBTI has been called astrology for people who do not believe in astrology. Why is astrology popular?

Ships, boats, waggons

Replace land transport whenever possible with watertransport, and use waggons instead of pack animals

Armies back in this time were barely professional

Soldiers would also need to eat far more calories to stay in fighting shape as they expend more energy than your average person.

Bret Devereaux wrote about it

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https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-i-the-problem/

>...burnt hundreds if not thousands of Mayan codices, in a tragedy for the study of history that's comparable to the fire at the libary of Alexanderia.

Some overstatement here? Was this Mayan language capable of informing on their way of life? Could it reference law, history, philosophy, important historical figures, as historical western languages could? Or did the destruction you speak of eradicate our ability to answer that Q?

>A source discussing a second way of Mayan communication:

>The Incas did not have a written language. Nonetheless, they adopted a unique system of recording information from their predecessors. This ancient “operating system,” called quipus, dates back to 2600 BCE. “They were like early computers, early counting machines,” says author and four-time Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker Kim MacQuarrie...

>A quipu, also spelled khipu, qipu or kipu, is an intricate system of knotted strings of various colors that store and convey information. Quipu literally translates to “knot” in Quechua. Many ancient Andean cultures used this knot system, including the Inca. Sometimes referred to as “talking knots,” they served as a writing system. This was crucial since there was no formal written language. Though just strings and knots, the arrangement was extremely precise and sophisticated, communicating everything from accounting to genealogy. Made from cotton or camelid fibers, quipus were portable making it easy to transfer information over distances and store over time.

Weren't quipu primarily used for accounting by taxation purposes by officials, and perhaps census information, and similarly could not convey information on law, history, customs....? Or is that wrong also?

The carbon dating!....That's all I kept think about! It would literally destroy every theory he has.

Also found out that his son is the Senior Manager of Unscripted Originals at Netflix.

I mean he says he's he's phd, but we have no evidence of this. Same as Hancock...... wait a second...

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This. He's like "and then they found a layer that was even older, going back to 24,000 years ago!"

<drone shot, another shot of him walking, moving to a new location>

Me: but you never explained how they arrived at 24,000 years! How? Carbon dating, or what?

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I wouldn't be so sure. Academic institutions have been commercialized and they're going to do what gets them money, not what maintains or increases intellectual rigour. The best STEM university in the region I live is slowly turning into a party school and the university administration is doing little to nothing about it because goddamnit those hooligans are paying customers. Universities, and therefore academia as it is, are complicit.

And you don't believe PhDs can't be wrong or disagreed with because...?

A PhD just told you you were wrong...

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If I knew how to give a Reddit award I would. Thanks for saying this I experienced this quite a bit.

Thought thag was a good show but after his third “mainstream”, im out. Reeks too much of QAnon bs.

Anybody who cares more about what a certain group of people thinks rather than simply presenting the facts isn’t worth listening to.

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I’m taking this show with a grain of salt, but I don’t see a rebuttal of the evidence presented in the show by this article.

Perhaps it wasn’t the articles purpose but the title implies it was.