A lot of you are gonna be shocked to hear this but Israel is an example of the land back movement all of you are so obsessed with. You all preach about it all day but the moment you see indigenous people gaining back control of their ancestral land you don’t like what you see. So keep on screaming land back but know that you are not taken seriously because land back already happened in Israel. You’re just too antisemitic to see it.
Might expand on this later with a bit more of the history about the land but had to get this out after seeing one too many land back fake activists for today.
Archaeological news of great significance:An ornate Iranian sword has recently been recovered during an excavation survey in the Black Sea Region,in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia. Tehrantimes.com give us the whole image in details.https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/477732/Ancient-Iranian-sword-unearthed-in-Russia
Dating back to the 4th to the 6th century CE, the sword, along with several relics, have been unearthed from a warrior burial, who was an inhabitant of the Taman Peninsula, Heritage Daily reported on Saturday.
The sword suggests a political and cultural connection with the Sassanian or Neo-Persian Empire from modern Iran and Iraq, likely given as a diplomatic gift or taken as a military trophy, the report added.
Also, the archaeological project yielded pieces of a harness, buckles, and belt tips, as well as high-status items such as glass jugs, wooden and metal utensils, and wooden boxes with decayed cloths.
There is no doubt that the cited warrior was a representative of the elite of Phanagoria and was a bearer of the military aristocratic culture of the Bosporan Kingdom in the Migration Period, said one of the members of the project.
The ancient city of Phanagoria was a Greek colony, first founded in the Taman peninsula by Teian colonists in the 6th century BC after a conflict with the Persian king Cyrus the Great. The city grew into a major trading center that, along with the associated necropolis, covers an area of over 2223 acres.
Image below:King Cyrus the Great. Source:https://heritage-history.com/index.php?c=resources&s=char-dir&f=cyrus1
In many ways, Iran under Sassanian rule witnessed tremendous achievements of Persian civilization. Experts say that the art and architecture of the nation experienced a general renaissance during Sassanid rule.
In that era, crafts such as metalwork and gem engraving grew highly sophisticated, as scholarship was encouraged by the state; many works from both the East and West were translated into Pahlavi, the official language of the Sassanians.
The legendary wealth of the Sassanian court is fully confirmed by the existence of more than one hundred examples of bowls or plates of precious metal known at present. One of the finest examples is the silver plate with partial gilding in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The dynasty was destroyed by Arab invaders during a span from 637 to 651.
I am saying this as a Muslim (so dont dare pulling Islamophobia card on me) Islamic Conquests were as painful and bloody as Christian ones... this religion didn't spread peacefully and destroyed cultures/religions in the same way some of you need to get that as well.
Are people genuinely brain dead or am i tripping💀💀💀
@fresh-cup-of-antimatter i didn't say that the arab identity is a colonial invention i said the arab identity IS a colonial identity are you ok💀💀💀
Acknowledging the arab colonialism and the arabization of WA and NA is not racism that's reality and life and you are racist for not accepting a form of colonialism just bc they are poc. Poc can colonize, read about the arabization of the middle east. Arabs came from arabia peninsula why tf you think Morocco speaks arabic💀
The fact that its supposedly "soft" colonization - by instead of massacring the natives and replacing them but making them replace their culture, language and identity- doesn't make it any less of a colonization
Denying arabic muslim colonization is racist towards SO many ethnic groups that i can't even list it out, and that includes MY people - the jewish people of judea
coptic orthodox contraceptive (today i learned that some married coptic couple abstain from sex during lent. i hope they mean the 55 days of great lent and NOT the 240 days of all total coptic fasting periods became damn!!! i don't even think the church said to do that 😭 why 😭)
combined orthodox church. combined with who? that's for the reader's imagination <3
In the seventh century the Arab conquests swept away the old boundary that had separated the Roman world from the Persian (Figure 7.7), setting off something of a boom in the Muslim core.
"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris
My favourite thing to do while learning armenian is to ask my parents about a particular word translation, and then checking it in the dictionary and seeing, that it doesn't correspond with whatever my parents told me. This starts the game of three of us googling if the word they know is:
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i seem to have fallen into some kind of a rabbit hole and losing me mind at a worrying pace. people call wearing henna a cultural appropriation? when at this point it's been spread to so many different countries, all with their different takes of its usage and meaning?? why and how??? because as far as am aware the indian and arab* sailors and traders back in the day were happy to share what they got on pretty much every port they found themselves in, including henna, because ... that's kinda the point. like, yeah, am sure there are groups to whom henna holds a significant cultural and/or religious meaning, or at the very least have specific patterns that are. and there's bound to be just as many groups to whom henna is just a decorative kinda thing, to be worn for festivities or for fun, for those afternoons you're kinda bored and got too much time on your hands.
at this point you can't even call wearing henna a form of CA just based off one or two regions due to their specific meanings alone; there's like, a whole continent and a half to consider, with even the latest import happening, like, during the single or at most double-digit century. that's fucking old. not as old as like, egypt or even india sure, but still old enough to have fully be ingrained in their own cultures.
*singling out indians and arabs bc they were the two actors most relevant to how my people got introduced to henna in the first place. idk about others, lol.
Mmmmm writing this story has just made me repeatedly run around the fact that there's no such thing as a pre-colonization way of writing about Copts even in fantasy
Arab Conquest on Sindh:
Reasons: In the first quarter of the eighth century, under the leadership of Muhammad bin Qasim, Arabs invaded and conquered Sindh and Multan.
1. Arab’s political and land grabbing approach: Basic reason of Arab’s invasion on Sindh and Multan
was their deep desire and craving to spread their victory to the Indian land. They had won Syria,
Palestine, Egypt and Iran. That’s…