From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Mon 20 Jun 1994 - 11:11:46 EEST
> I find it rather bizarre that you ASSUME that I know nothing about
> ancient history.
I felt your comment on Sumerian thought didn't really admit of any other explanation. Besides, you have in the past protested that you're not the least bit interested in any of the historical, anthropological or cultural material on these lists (I can look up references, if you're going to pull a "Scholars? Moi?" again). Wilful ignorance seemed the easiest answer. <g>
> I think you will find a lot of people who will support my contention
> that, while yes, there are differences in the trappings of ancient vs
> modern life (of course) that the "human predicament, and the way humans
> react to their environment and condition has not changed all that much.
> After all, we study history (at least in part) in order to gain insight
> into our own lives.
I think you will find the people who support that contention are for the most part not historians, psychologists, or anthropologists. Though they may be Americans. <g>
> Hrm. We get a lot of these "the Carmanians invented it, because the
> Persians did" arguments these days, I note. Too many, I think, when one
> considers how brief a time Carmania was a distinct entity, in between
> leaving the West, then conquering/merging with Dara happa, and then
> getting squished by the Lunars. (A few hundred years, the exact dates
> escape me.)
Foundation: 729 ST.
Squishing: 1244 ST.
Or thereabouts.
Five hundred years is a *long* time in cultural development. The Roman Empire only lasted that long in the West, from Caesar through to Romulus Augustulus.
Besides, I think Pentans and not Carmanians introduced sabre/scimitars to the Moonies. Carmanians used straight-bladed cross-hilted swords, shaped like Death runes. But they had bigger, taller horses than those steppe ponies. Yanafal Tarnils "discovered" the new type of sword out East in Accursed Torang (like Columbus discovering America): just what he needed, a non-Humakti kind of sword.
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