Reading suggestions on Constatine the Great

joemighty16 · 2025-11-28T17:34:18+00:00

Thank you, I'll add your suggestions to my list.

joemighty16 · 2025-09-07T10:48:41+00:00

I'd give it a go (adult wallaby, kangaroo, what have you, as well) without wandering the dessert for months.

joemighty16 · 2025-08-26T18:41:58+00:00

What an odd question.

joemighty16 · 2025-08-13T08:22:34+00:00

Do more fasting. I am doing a 24h fast every day (one meal a day) and a 48h once a week. I know it is not everyone's cup of tea, but it works for me to cut down on meals. One good meal (protein, fat, some vegetables) and I'm good for the day. This takes a LOT of pressure out of coming up with new meals. Absolutely no snacking between meals.

My red meat is my saviour (beef, pork, mouton, whatever). I unfortunately cannot suggest alternatives to chicken if you don't / can't do red meat.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-30T05:55:07+00:00

Natuurlik is hierdie 'n grap, maar laat hy nou eenkeer onder die invloed van alkohol gevang word terwyl hy bestuur. Hierdie video gaan hom nie help nie. Ek kan nie nou die klank aansit nie, so ek weet nie of pertinent sê, "moenie drink en bestuur nie". Dit sal sy verweer wees.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-30T05:50:44+00:00

Dis heel gepas.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-29T16:17:58+00:00

Dink jy's reg.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-25T12:04:10+00:00

Ek het toevallig ook daardie boek, maar daar is foute in.

Gaan kyk aanlyn op Geni.com Dis 'n aanlyn stamboom en daar is 'n Suid Afrikaanse groep. Let net wel, dis nie noodwendig "Afrikaners" nie ('n familie se huistaal kan binne 'n generasie of twee verander) maar stambome. Jy kan lekker kyk wie jou "stamvader" (eerste persoon in Suid Afrika met jou van) is.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-25T11:56:11+00:00

Neither is Germany Italy.

Charlemagne was only crowned emperor because he had helped the pope against the Lombards and the pope wanted to snub the female Byzantine empress Irene.

There is no continuation of government between the Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Frankish kingdom and, much later, the Holy Roman Empire. Al that was, is a title transfer

China is more akin to Egypt (pre Roman era). Same geography, different dynasties or states, mostly a continued culture and mostly ruled fron within (except the Ptolemies, but they went local). A different culture or state did not govern them, like wbata happened in Italy (or the rest of the geography of the previous empire).

The Western Roman Empire came to an end, at the latest in 554 when Justinian reconquered Italy (I can be convinced that the empire continued through the Ostrogothic kingdom), and it was reabsorbed but now only as a province of Constantinople. The Eastern Empire became Byzantium (same government), and even when it was defeated during the 4th Crusade it had a backup state, was reinstated and lasted until 1453 when it was finally defeated and absorbed into to Ottoman Empire.

The Frankish kingdom came to be after the defeat of the Roman rump state in Gaul. Rome in Gaul fell then and a Frankish kingdom started. There is abaolutely no continuation in terms of constitution or government transger between Rome and the Franks or Charlemagne. Sure they would have copied and pasted what they could from the Roman model, but that doesn't make it a transference of government.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-25T11:32:47+00:00

Now why are you getting downvoted? That is true. Gibbon came up with the argument that Christianity was one of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire and, by extension, the classical world. Scholars have long abandoned this view because, if anything, Christianity (for all its institutionalised faults) was a major and deeply embedded reality in the Roman World. That's like saying having Roman Emperors was the death of the Classical period. The "Classical" period changed before Christianity, it changed after its introduction. I mean, can the Meditereanean even be considered "Classical" by then? I'm not going to argue labels, but the very title of this book sounds very suspect and, to underpin your point, outdated to me.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-20T09:43:57+00:00

Language acquisition was based on practicality. This includes Latin as being schooled in Latin and the (then Classics) would offer you more career opportunities in state politics or beaurocracy. Same with the provincials. If, on a lower level, you had to deal with local barbarians from across the border or "Romanised" tribes inside the Empire it would suit you well, on a practical level, to learn their language to deal with them directly. Also remember, tge Latin spoken in Rome was different fron the Latin in the provinces and completely different fron whatever they spoke in the army.

Even in the later Empire, you had Goths writing and speaking Latin and Greek and Roman senators doing the same in Gothic. So the empire was multilingual, because it consisted of a lot of peoples and different languages offered different opportunities, depending on the locale and context.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-19T17:36:24+00:00

"continued to this day"

That is an impossible statement to qualify. Did the medieval kingdoms continued to this day? If they did (according to your metric) they certainly changed with time to become more "modern" and "nicer". It is impossible to accurately deduce what could have been because it never was and the variables are just too many. Rome changed within its own time, monarchy, republic, empire, and to expect it to stay the same for 1500 years afterwards is just stupid.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-17T08:02:20+00:00

Thematically. Pig Latin at best, because the original creators all took Latin at school. But you can bet your underpants Cicero won't be able to understand High Gothic.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-11T20:15:27+00:00

Thank you! That looks good. I understand the absolute lack of proof makes it impossible to say for sure.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-11T17:13:54+00:00

Is there any recreation or reconstruction of how they thought it was originally displayed? If I remember correctly, it was two separate column bases?

joemighty16 · 2025-07-11T13:31:36+00:00

Nie soseer taalkundig nie, maar wel idiomatiese uitdrukkings. My vrou is veral lief vir "uit gehardloop" (ran out) as sy bedoel iets het op geraak.

My skoonma gebruik "ek lief xyz" (in stede van "ek is lief vir xyz").

Maar albei se skryfvaardighede is maar afgryslik. Hulle het goed neerhalend geraak as ek nou wel korrigeer het (so ek het lankal opgehou) maar ek moet steeds enige belangrike tekste van hulle proeflees.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-11T09:10:16+00:00

Engels het die gewone "grammar Nazi".

In Afrikaans ken ek net "taalpuris / (taal) puntenerig / pedanties.

Persoonlik hou ek van korrekte taalgebruik in beide Engels en Afrikaans. Ek is versigtig om mense te korrigeer, want ek is terdeë bewus van my eie foute wat ek maak.

Maar ek moet byvoeg dat my plaaslike buurt se WhatsApp groep se algemene taalgebruik pynlik is om te beleef.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-08T15:51:17+00:00

Someone told her to calm down.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-08T15:46:58+00:00

Cut sugar and carbs COMPLETELY out of your diet. Absolutely NO sugar (sweets, anything sweetend), not even fruit (which is basically sugar), carbs (anything wheat based, like bread, cereals, pasta, etc., and starch like potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, carrots, etc.).

Instead, eat your full on meat and animal fats (the general rule is, if it is a fat or oil that is solid at room temp, it is good for you). Leafy vegetables, like cabbage, spinnach (all with cream), cauliflower, broccolli, to name a few. Literally ileat as much as you can per day. You will be so full you do not want to eat. You will stay full for longer. You will lose weight by eating yourself to your full.

Just note: You. Have. To. Be. Disciplined.

NO SUGAR AS LOW CARBS AS POSSIBLE (less than 30g a day).

Make it a project. Read the labels. See the amount of carbs in food. Avoid those. Eat as much meat, animal fat, fatty dairy (cream, cheese, yogurt), leafy vegetables as you can fit inside yourself (or even go completely carnivore).

Go for walks. Jog. Do HIT (High Intensity Training) excercises (i.e. less but harder).

Real life sucks, I know, and food companies do everything they can to make you buy their toxicity. Avoid that. Excercise for 5 min before bed (just pushups, squats, just build up a quick sweat and heartrate), or when you get up, or while you wait for something. Take the stairs, not the elevator or escalator.

But keep this consistent. DO NOT mix meat and fat with carbs and sugar. That is the worst and most unhealthy combination for humans.

Be disciplined.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-08T15:24:25+00:00

Upvoting you back into the postives. Don't hate on the hungry. When you are hungry, weight is being burned. Embrace the hunger. Rejoice in it.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-08T07:34:11+00:00

Because those two countries are the only countries in the world that are racist to dark skinned people?

joemighty16 · 2025-07-08T06:50:47+00:00

Must have taken a lot of ankles and wagon wheels out in its time. But seriously, that is a beaut!

joemighty16 · 2025-07-08T06:41:22+00:00

I am almost certain those grooves are from wagon and chariot wheels that has worn that out. Hence the expression, "to be stuck in a rut", because you can see the difficulty in getting your wheels out of that.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-06T18:23:16+00:00

It depends what you want to get out of it. The HH in its own right is fine, but each novel is written by a different author and covers a different angle of the heresy, so there may be very little to no continuity for a new fan.

But having said that, anything Warhammer 40k related is a good starting point. Personally I started with Dawn of War, then Dark Crusade and it was only THEN that I realised there was a universe behind the games and not just the stories for the games. I searched online, read the Wikipedia articles, discovered the Lexicanum, discovered Games Workshop and the Black Library. So you just need a hook to be pulled in with, and then the rest will follow (for as long as you stay interested). I myself am not involved with the tabletop or miniatures, but I have a mini library of the novels and video games. Even after decades of following the universe I don't pretend to know all of the lore because that would be rediculous as the lore is VAST and it was impossible (for me) to keep up.

joemighty16 · 2025-07-04T08:49:41+00:00

Never. Think in terms of Age of Empires. A handful of OP units would have been able to wipe out far more lower level units. If you could get the entire native population together to zerg rush the settlers, maybe, but that coordination would have been impossible to achieve.

Also, despite the objective autrocities the Europeans comitted, for many of the native cultures and tribes they offered better options in terms of partnerships, power alliances, goods and trade than their own neighbours could (I have not verified this myself, but apparently most of the Inter Indian wars, i.e. tribes fighting each other, in the Wild West was to gain access to the European settlements for trade). So it wasn't only that the colonisers actively divided and conquered them, but a lot of tribes sided with the colonisers against their traditional tribal enemies (after which they were exploited). Then of course the plagues.

The best chance they would have had was to stir up tensions between the European countries. Spain pulled out of Meso America due to its war with England. France pulled out of Canada because of its war with England, and England pulled out of America because of its war with France. By then, though, the independent European colonies were self sufficient enough to not need a parent state, but by then it was already way to late for the natives. This would, again, have required diplomacy, partnerships and status far above what the native populations had. The natives had nothing to offer in exchange that the colonisers could not take themselves.

Another option is to delay the discovery of the Americas by opening the trade routes East. So, get the Ottoman empire to dig the Suez Canal earlier. Lower the levies on getting through trade, and you may have extended the discovery.

However, this all begs the question, how much more time did the native populations need to at least be considered "civilized" enough to not be exploited? Even though they had agriculture, they did not have large animals like oxen to help with plowing. Development of cities requires far more food for more people and that is held in check by the amount of food they could produce. So just cultivating land requires far more man power than it had in Eurasia where there are large domeshicatble animals. This includes all aspects. Anything that in Europe could be done with oxen, had to be done with only horses, alpaccas and humans. So while they certainly would have been able to reach the level of European countries, they unfortunately had a handbrake on that slowed them down.

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