Sea People: what more do you want? We came, we saw, we fucked your bronze shit up.
Lothronion on
More like they went back to Greece and started butchering each other to the point their civilization collapsed, they were overrun by Dorians, and they forgot how to write down things, only remembering doing so 2-3 centuries later, recording only vague descriptions of the campaigns in the East (e.g. Menelaus’ sojourn in Egypt in “Helen” of Euripides, inspired by oral traditions).Â
Wheres-Patroclus on
History is written by the survivors.
Ok_Package38 on
So, learn to write, children!
XayahTheVastaya on
r/croppingishar
p_pio on
Because ultimately they lost, so we got some info e.g. from Egyptian records: about how they won
BagNo2988 on
Some of them were passed down word by mouth. Then again dead men tell no tales.
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maybe history is written by writers
Sea People: what more do you want? We came, we saw, we fucked your bronze shit up.
More like they went back to Greece and started butchering each other to the point their civilization collapsed, they were overrun by Dorians, and they forgot how to write down things, only remembering doing so 2-3 centuries later, recording only vague descriptions of the campaigns in the East (e.g. Menelaus’ sojourn in Egypt in “Helen” of Euripides, inspired by oral traditions).Â
History is written by the survivors.
So, learn to write, children!
r/croppingishar
Because ultimately they lost, so we got some info e.g. from Egyptian records: about how they won
Some of them were passed down word by mouth. Then again dead men tell no tales.