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2/5 Many ‘ancient’ empires (Rome, China, etc) are duplicates or reflections of one vast empire existing from ~1200s-1600s. The division of the world into distinct states and cultures emerged after the 1600s. The old world was politically, linguistically, and culturally unified.
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2/9 Like other European norms, it was accepted by the rest of the world during the period of European cultural domination. The Chinese, for example, had already compiled a long historical narrative, but it was Jesuit missionaries who reshaped it to fit in their BC-AD calendar.
2/9 They doctored the photo copies using scale models, negative splicing, multiple exposures, pencils, wax and clay figures (etc), and even an early version of Kubrick’s front screen projection technique.
2/ The depopulation rivaled that of the plagues of the 3rd and 6th centuries, and there is evidence of a significant outbreak peaking around 960 AD.
2/ What if the one thing we agree on is wrong? What if Ancient Egypt’s timeline is deeply flawed? What if Egypt’s timeline was based on some of the worst, most unscientific methodology imaginable? What would that mean for the timeline of everything else in history?
https://twitter.com/kronologist1/status/19027623459751695272/ If you want to control the world, you must first control history. The foundations of all we have come to know as our modern world has its origin in the mid to late 1800s, right at the time the great expositions were being built and destroyed.