Comments on: Andrew Marr’s Last Eight Minutes of the World http://lackofenvironment.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/more-on-andrew-marrs-history-of-the-world/ A blog on the politics and psychology underlying the denial of all our environmental problems Thu, 16 May 2013 16:49:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew Marr’s ‘Age of Plunder’ is now « Lack of Environment http://lackofenvironment.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/more-on-andrew-marrs-history-of-the-world/#comment-5104 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:04:56 +0000 http://lackofenvironment.wordpress.com/?p=4791#comment-5104 [...] who have not read them, I would recommend you first read my posts about episodes 1 and 2  and episodes 3 and 4.  However, because of its synchronicity with the current state of global business and politics, I [...]

]]> By: Patrice Ayme http://lackofenvironment.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/more-on-andrew-marrs-history-of-the-world/#comment-4928 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:00:10 +0000 http://lackofenvironment.wordpress.com/?p=4791#comment-4928 All too classical analysis from this TV guy. 400 BCE is more like the death of democracy, and the birth of Socrates-Plato-Aristotle (see sir Karl Popper). Islam and Christianity, two variants of Judaism, are of no importance. The major philosophical advance of the millennium was not half a dozen new major silly and murderous superstitions. It was instead the outlawing of slavery by the Franks which was the major progress of the millennium (coincident with desert savages making slavery into god). And what of Saul the Jew? What was his major advance? Well, he invented willful book burning.

Venice was the enemy of Constantinople. Taking out the “Christian” component from the Sultan’s army, Constantinople would not have fallen.
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