Wat. Macedonian empire? Roman Republic? Ancient Greece?
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 hours agoIn fairness, Europe was the punching bag of its neighbors for the 1000 years prior.
But otherwise, I gotta say, I’ve been hearing a lot more about global geopolitics as a matter of public interest generally speaking. All the Latin American elections are big news, especially with Brazil being the latest pink-tide domino to fail. The Pacific Rim states regularly make headlines. Everyone who has even a casual eye towards global affairs is keyed up on the BJP anti-democratic turn on the eve of India’s general election. Americans are watching with bated breath on every election from the UK to Hungary, given how they threaten to shape the Ukraine/Russia war.
If anything, American politics hasn’t been getting as much coverage by comparison. It’s weird not to have the entire month of October be one Surprise after another, during an election year. Hell, we skated right through prime Silly Season in August and everyone was too fixated on diesel prices and AI stocks to notice political bullshit.
Y’all got off easy this time.
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CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 6 hours ago
Bitch, what.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
britannica.com/…/Timeline-of-the-Roman-Empire
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The Crusades were a catastrophe for Europe and mostly a nuisance for the late Byzantine Empire. The victory of the First Crusade was almost an accident and that was the only one that might be considered successful.
Meanwhile, the Moorish conquest of Southern Europe began in 711 AD and lasted until the Columbian Era - practically the year European Colonialism began.
And The Golden Horde dominated Eastern Europe for 200 years, starting in 1240, after wrecking their way into Poland and turning back when they ran out of anything worth conquering.
Because all the action was in the Eastern Empire. The West was functionally abandoned by the time it fell.
And that was after centuries of humiliation, all the way up through what would become France, England, and Spain.