I’m old enough to remember when this site was respectible. its starting to become no better than a cable news network’s website. Heck even the Vikings had a version of a compass that could be used after dark in a similar time period to the Chinese compass’ invention. I’m willing to bet at the least the Phoenicians did as well.
when transliterating a word, multiple spellings can be considered correct as typically they are done by replacing characters for similiar sounding ones in the other language. This is why we get Ketchup and Catsup for example. Tsai vs Cai is no different. The Ts and the C are frequently transposible in the PIE language group, think Caesar vs Tsar which can also be spelled Czar.
Don’t know if I agree with Napoleon being on your list. He lost the two biggest campaigns of his life – Russia and Waterloo. He couldn’t beat Russia’s three unbeatable Generals. General Rain, General Mud and General Winter. Russia was the worst planned campaign in history. NB lost more than half his army retreating in the snow, ice and sleet of a Russian winter.
He lost at Waterloo because he couldn’t organize his forces and manage them well enough to beat Wellington.
For some reason I can’t directly reply to Filio Scotia’s comment on Napoleon above.
Agree he seriously underestimated Russian weather, but organizing the forces for Waterloo was done in less than 100 days, an unprecedented logistical accomplishment to that point.
Napoleon’s system of organization and tactical maneuver techniques are still studied and used in today’s militaries, his use of artillery in conjunction with cavalry and infantry charges presaged blitzkrieg, and he is arguably the first to grasp and implement the total war concept. He was a revolutionary and transformational figure in military history.
I will go for the Rashidun general Khalid Ibn Al Walid for the first and foremost. I really admire the battle strategies he planned and applied in the battlefield that won him every single battles he fought. They were sort of tricky and clearly shows his use of his brain during the battle.
Other generals will be Alexander of course, general Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire or maybe the Parthian general Surena who led the Parthian army in the Battle of Carrhae. Surena’s tactics were superb. He didn’t even let the Romans fight and annhiliated them before they had even clashed.
Why would anyone believe that ‘anatomically modern humans’ had no language? If they were capable of producing sound, they certainly would have been capable of distinguishing between different ones, and that creates a basis for verbal communication – language, DUH! Jewelry, sure, and tatoos, different hairstyles? See, nothing’s really changed, we’re still people.
Which "Christians" do you refer to? Of course GOD is alien to humans, as it even states in the bible that "no man can look upon GOD and live." As a Christian, I also believe that we are not the only planet with advanced life created by GOD. However, we are the only planet with advanced life created in "His Image."
A very eye-opening article Jason and Sarah. Thank you! I know of and personally are in contact with amateur astronomers at youtube. They have captured no evidence of another planet in our solar system. If they can capture real-time images of Jupiter and Saturn, then surely they would have spotted "Nibiru."
And these bracelets are one of the reasons that Marie-Antoinette lost her head. She was obviously very materialistic and that trait did not go unnoticed by the peasants of her time.
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I’m old enough to remember when this site was respectible. its starting to become no better than a cable news network’s website. Heck even the Vikings had a version of a compass that could be used after dark in a similar time period to the Chinese compass’ invention. I’m willing to bet at the least the Phoenicians did as well.
when transliterating a word, multiple spellings can be considered correct as typically they are done by replacing characters for similiar sounding ones in the other language. This is why we get Ketchup and Catsup for example. Tsai vs Cai is no different. The Ts and the C are frequently transposible in the PIE language group, think Caesar vs Tsar which can also be spelled Czar.
If, as you say, Napoleon was a good organizer and manager, why did he lose at Waterloo?
Don’t know if I agree with Napoleon being on your list. He lost the two biggest campaigns of his life – Russia and Waterloo. He couldn’t beat Russia’s three unbeatable Generals. General Rain, General Mud and General Winter. Russia was the worst planned campaign in history. NB lost more than half his army retreating in the snow, ice and sleet of a Russian winter.
He lost at Waterloo because he couldn’t organize his forces and manage them well enough to beat Wellington.
There is potential to extend this work further. I would be interested in connecting further.
Is there a citation to refernence this work, beyond this website?
Great story. Thank you. I am wondering why this newest carbon-dating of ancient footprints was just announced?
For some reason I can’t directly reply to Filio Scotia’s comment on Napoleon above.
Agree he seriously underestimated Russian weather, but organizing the forces for Waterloo was done in less than 100 days, an unprecedented logistical accomplishment to that point.
Napoleon’s system of organization and tactical maneuver techniques are still studied and used in today’s militaries, his use of artillery in conjunction with cavalry and infantry charges presaged blitzkrieg, and he is arguably the first to grasp and implement the total war concept. He was a revolutionary and transformational figure in military history.
I added a comment yesterday but now i can’t find it
I will go for the Rashidun general Khalid Ibn Al Walid for the first and foremost. I really admire the battle strategies he planned and applied in the battlefield that won him every single battles he fought. They were sort of tricky and clearly shows his use of his brain during the battle.
Other generals will be Alexander of course, general Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire or maybe the Parthian general Surena who led the Parthian army in the Battle of Carrhae. Surena’s tactics were superb. He didn’t even let the Romans fight and annhiliated them before they had even clashed.
What do you think of Alexander the Great or Khalid Ibn Al Walid?
Asoka: he ended his empire by choice!
If I had to choose a conqueror definitely Ghengis Khan.
Love the story and the first photo, however Natives we’re riding horses when they first saw ships, horses came later.
Julius Caesar, without doubt.
Scipio the African
Annibal
Zhukov
General Giap
Why would anyone believe that ‘anatomically modern humans’ had no language? If they were capable of producing sound, they certainly would have been capable of distinguishing between different ones, and that creates a basis for verbal communication – language, DUH! Jewelry, sure, and tatoos, different hairstyles? See, nothing’s really changed, we’re still people.
Which "Christians" do you refer to? Of course GOD is alien to humans, as it even states in the bible that "no man can look upon GOD and live." As a Christian, I also believe that we are not the only planet with advanced life created by GOD. However, we are the only planet with advanced life created in "His Image."
A very eye-opening article Jason and Sarah. Thank you! I know of and personally are in contact with amateur astronomers at youtube. They have captured no evidence of another planet in our solar system. If they can capture real-time images of Jupiter and Saturn, then surely they would have spotted "Nibiru."
And these bracelets are one of the reasons that Marie-Antoinette lost her head. She was obviously very materialistic and that trait did not go unnoticed by the peasants of her time.
Ancient: Themistocles, Alexander, Hannibal
Medieval: Charles Martel
Modern: George Washington, Napoleon, George S. Patton
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