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[kavaris]

52 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Because I think both empires had still enough resources and manpower to beat muslims easily, on paper; even despite that one last long war that utterly drained them and devastated them both. They just got outskilled and beaten by desert dwellers lol, while often outnumbering them significantly. Khalid Ibn al-Wallid was a legendary muslim general from that time period and participated in most of the campaigns, and was literaly undefeated in like over a 100 battles

I just find the description odd, per the description of *badass, As on one hand people are so worried about the war over in Israel v pales., And on the other, we are saying how badass the wars of (...) are...

p.s. im not sure which historic wars we are speaking to... ... i mean i could create a list, Like... Late Antiquity — to 1900s theres just too many, even still, its just confusing me, the ratio of badassery v. the ratio of real worry about todays wars in the middle east. Everyones gotta make up their mind, whether their sentiment on war is overall passive, or if it IS a real worry, cause now im seein alot less overall worry.

Edited 3 hours ago by kavaris

[kavaris]

(cont.) There is like a real disconnection happening right now. Like, i cant follow everyone if you all keep changing-it-up on me, cause im here thinkin wars are B.A.D., like BÆD Bad ...  And then some else says "Badass". That's demonstrating staggeringly different attitudes towards the same subject matter.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

21 minutes ago, kavaris said:

I just find the description odd, per the description of *badass, As on one hand people are so worried about the war over in Israel v pales., And on the other, we are saying how badass the wars of (...) are...

p.s. im not sure which historic wars we are speaking to... ... i mean i could create a list, Like... Late Antiquity — to 1900s theres just too many, even still, its just confusing me, the ratio of badassery v. the ratio of real worry about todays wars in the middle east. Everyones gotta make up their mind, whether their sentiment on war is overall passive, or if it IS a real worry, cause now im seein alot less overall worry.

I meant earliest muslim invasions from aproximately 632 to 752 ad, I don't mean modern wars in any way, shape or form. I assumed everyone would be able to derive this from my post since we were mentioning Mohammed, and yeah obviously I am completely emotionally disconected from that era

[kavaris]

46 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

I meant earliest muslim invasions from aproximately 632 to 752 ad, I don't mean modern wars in any way, shape or form. I assumed everyone would be able to derive this from my post since we were mentioning Mohammed, and yeah obviously I am completely emotionally disconected from that era

That counts as late antiquity, atleast in Peter Brown's work. The details of what you were on about werent what i was interested in anyway, it was the larger sentiment on war (see also, other threadz, to understand it)

Edited 2 hours ago by kavaris

[Ash55]

On 8/13/2026 at 8:32 AM, TheEnigma said:

That's true ignorance is bliss!

"Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness." Jim Rohn

You guys are armchair speculating how happy people here in the Muslim world, some people are happy but most people are living a miserable life, poverty misery health issues,  some people in Egypt are living life more hellish than the hell description in the Islamic literature
the happy people are he one that has very stable family and very successful and stable marriages and a great health most people here are too foolish to have all of that at the same time lol
 

[kavaris]

@NewKidOnTheBlock

p.s. the name muhammed isnt unique to that bespoke late antiquity era, see also,

Muhmed II "the Conqueror" — led the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.
Muhmed IV — Ottoman sultan during the failed 1683 Siege of Vienna and the long Great Turkish War that followed.
Muhammad bin Tughluq — 14th-century Delhi Sultanate ruler, constant wars across India.
Muhammad Shah — Mughal emperor during Nadir Shah's invasion of India (1739) and the sack of Delhi.
Muhammad Ali of Egypt — 19th-century Ottoman-Egyptian wars, including campaigns in Arabia, Sudan, Greece, and Syria (1820s–40s).
Muhammad Ahmad ("the Mahdi") — led the Mahdist War against Anglo-Egyptian forces in Sudan (1881–99), including the famous Siege of Khartoum.
Askia Muhammad I — Songhai Empire wars of expansion in West Africa (late 1400s–early 1500s).

And thats just some from 1400 to 1900, theres even more.

Edited 2 hours ago by kavaris

[kavaris]

Just so we all know the names of the eras in that range of periods, it is, considered as, roughly speaking,

Late Antiquity — c. 3rd–7th/8th c. AD
Migration Period — c. 375–568 AD (overlaps Late Antiquity)
Early Medieval — c. 500/600–1000 AD
Merovingian (Early Medieval, Frankish) — c. 481–751 AD
Carolingian (Early Medieval) — c. 751–887 AD ... p.s. Carolingian minuscule was the standardized script developed under Charlemagne's reign (late 8th c.)
Ottonian (Early Medieval) — c. 919–1024 AD
High Medieval — c. 1000–1300 AD
Romanesque (High Medieval) — c. 1000–1150 AD
Gothic (High/Late Medieval) — c. 1150–1400 AD
Scholastic (High/Late Medieval) — c. 1100–1400 AD
Later or/Most-late Medieval — c. 1300–1500 AD
Trecento (Late Medieval, Italy) — 1300s
Renaissance — c. 1400–1600 AD
Quattrocento — 1400s
Cinquecento — 1500s
Northern Renaissance — c. 1450–1580 AD

.. et caetera.

Edited 2 hours ago by kavaris

[kavaris]

We often get confused cause its like, once we focus in on one particular era or time, we miss the cultures, wars or events happening around the rest of the world, or in the rest of the age of man, etc., cause, to begin, you have humanity developing in Africa (i think its agreed that most humans started in Africa, and slowly evolved / branched out north/westward...) especially given the flood / coastal regions changing their shape...

note: we're startin waaaay back now... and jumping ahead...

That then leads to humans progressively moving west, but some return east, and back and forth, such that you get this larger spiral shape, smaller when we go back far enough, and it progressively spreads, such that you have Proto-Celtic / Scandanavian people cork screwing in, in what they call a corded ware culture(s) (among other more specific names)

Which is just to say, i focus mostly on Ancient European places now, which is lesser known, compared to the middle east, which is well documented w/ artifacts for dating and such... I just like that mysterious Berber-Phoenician wave, and the subsequent A, B, C's Phone-a-bet, like the earliest mysteries of that .... Which i bring up to share something interesting that isnt "24-7 war..." And having to constantly think thats what its about.

That would be terrifying.

p.s., im also doin alot of language research, ive just taken a commercial break/hiatus, while... Although i feel its cool, its prolly not as important as communicating w/ real ppl to make sure that theres essential / real emotional content shared + passed down.

Edited 1 hour ago by kavaris

[Thought Art]

@LordFall I listened to an audiobook today which did not describe him as such and I looked it up during our previous conversation and found he wasn’t a warlord. I hear your opinion but it’s not being verified by other sources. 
 

Fighting some wars doesn’t make you a warlord…

Edited 1 hour ago by Thought Art