The history of History

Hello my friends.

I made this news page so that you can post here as comments your answers about history so I can solve them. I am a bit expert at history and I like helping other people. History is a magnificent thing. history differs us from any other being. History makes us unique. So, I am here so I can help making history known to many of you.

History has its root at ancient ages. There, people like Greeks, Egyptians, Native Americans and Persians( alongside other uknown nations) started writting their history, the achievements and failures of their nation.

Ancient writers were saying that the most important history part is truth. They were saying that history without truth is like a living organism without eyes. They wanted to say, that when someone adopts the role of the history writer, he has to forget all about his nation, his king, his friends and his enemies, and just write what happened.

Then, we follow the traits of history truth the ages of Rome. Till then, many writers keep records of what was happening, but after the revelation of the Christianism, history continued walking, but invisible. We see clearly history again at the Crusade and the Renaisance period where writers make books and chapters about heroic knights and they paralel tell us the history of these years.

Then, we progress at the atomic age, when World Wars take place. In a such destroyed Europe, writting history is abandoned and all people try to find shelter from war. Only the higher nobles were able to do free acts, so we have famous writtings and poets from these men.

Today, peace rules everything. There may be some sort of confusions, but we are living in a calm climate where we study and write our thoughts on books or the net. So this is our chance to help some find out their history while we continue progressing ours.

So, in this news page, you can post comments about your historical questions and I will gladly answer them.
Note: I am well aware that there are many threads here on Newgrounds that have many subjects too. I do not compete these threads and if their subject has historical range, they are completely free to tell it at their members. I am here just for instant help.

(I expertise on Greek, Crusader(Templar e.t.c.) and Byzantine history)

The history of History

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TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-13 04:47:15

I am open and I am receiving questions :D

HeavyTank 2009-07-13 06:07:20

nice idea.
when l have a question l'll post it here.

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-13 06:07:20

Thank you!

Wrothgar-the-best 2009-07-14 03:37:56

I need to know what the fuck was wrong with alot of Greek myths?

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-14 03:37:56

Well. As everyone, greeks were making myths about the natural phenoms. Sometimes, they were overdoing it, saying that we have a bad season of farming because Dimitra( the godess of farming) was sad because she lost her daughter e.t.c.
But about history, the greeks made history a lesser godess, just to admire her and persuade young children that she is important.

Wrothgar-the-best 2009-07-14 05:39:15

Yeah I also have a question about Ragnarök. Has it happened or what?

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-14 05:39:15

This is not exact history, but we learn historical traits from this so I will tell you.
One time, when the chains of Fenrir break, all monsters and heroes will be revived for an epic fight.
With nice stories, we learn that after the destruction of the godess hell by a norse champion( who breaks the chains of fenrir) all these happen. Thor, Odin and all other gods fight and the monsters kill teh gods while the gods have half-killed them. And then, only 2 people survive the disaster(after the fight, the world is destroyed) a man and a woman( I do not remember their names) who rehape the world, they make childred(us) and they survive to see another day. So yes, ragnarok has "happened" and it symbolises the dawn of the age where humans rule and not gods(all these along the Norse mythology).
Historians though, describe the ragnarok as a season in which, the lords and priests fo Norse gods, were cruel and the gods "dmanded" more offerings. So Norse rebelled, they burned the temples and all these that were reminding Odin, Thor e.t.c. and counted at themselves to survive. This was the historical and mythological meaning of the ragnarok.

HeavyTank 2009-07-14 12:38:59

when did pirates dominate the seas and why were they talking like that (ARR, ya scurvy dog!)?
Also, did they retire when they had enough money or they sailed until their death?

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-14 12:38:59

Well. The ARRR has a big history. You know. The pirates were drunken bastards when not fighting. They were so blind from the alcohol that they were screming to tell something. They were shouting and spreading fear at their sailors with the characteristic ARRRRRRR.
And, they were not hunting money. They wanted to be famous, to be stories for bad children. And they were using their booty to prove their power. When they were very famous, they were retiring at seashore villages but some of them, blinded by fame were sailing till the end of their lives.

HeavyTank 2009-07-14 12:46:32

awesome, thanks!

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-14 12:46:32

Feels nice helping.

HeavyTank 2009-07-14 12:50:44

Who was Davy Jones and why was his locker so infamous?

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-14 12:50:44

YOU DO NOT KNOW IT?
Well, most of these are not historical questions but they make us understand the feelings of men these days so I will answer:
Davy Jones was a simple sailor. He was very kind, working and good man. He was not going to pay for... you know and he was drinking very little. One time, while he was sailing, he met a woman. A very attractive woman, that stole his heart and then abandoned him. He was so angry from the pain of his love that made a contract with the devil itself(or a pact? what is the difference anyway?).
The devil given to him immortality, with the term that he can walk in dry ground only 24 hours every 10 years(wow, a big bunch of time for our kind guy).
Now, that he had his immortality to ensure that he will never love again he TORN apart his chest and removed his heart which locked it in a treasure chest( wasn't he afraid of the heart to catch any virus at the dirty chest? someone tell him we have swine flu here).
After that, Davy Jones became a pirate. His story was told for a first time in an opera called the Flying Dutchman( Davy's ship).
The name Flying Dutchman refers to the same Davy Jones because as a half-ghost he was( he and his crew were lighter than any man) its ship was so quick it was flying a bit above the sea.

Now, the locker is a very strange story made by pirates. These veteran pirates wanted to make new pirates be afraid of what happens to those who do eh.. you know steal a ship from its captain.
Firstly, every pirate and sailor should have a locker due to old naval rules to fill it with his dirty objects so the ship's mate would take them from there and clean them.Davy Jone's locker, is a simple locker filled with his ones.
As I said before, Davy was a working man but he washed his clothes alone. The only thing he was storing in the locker were his socks. His socks were only for sleeping because he was walking with naked feet.
These socks were smelling horribly after a millenia of non usage(a ghost is a lways cold, it cannot warm itself), so alongside the myth Davy was using his locker as a prison for the souls of bad sailors. So, his locker with the killing socks is somehow, the hell of pirates.
From all these we understand that thieves and bad guys at Davy Jone's age(~1400) were very afraid of elements e.t.c., they were believing in acts that cause bad luck e.t.c.
I hope you are satisfied with my answer.

HeavyTank 2009-07-15 04:26:34

Aha, well, that is a COOL story...
I bet he didn't like becoming a vegetarian after Bob and Patrick came in...
The difference between a contract and a pact is that a contract needs a piece of paper to be official, the pact is just a...word contract.
Also, again about pirates, how were organised their lairs (you know, the sercet caves they hid in).

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-15 04:26:34

Simple.
THEY WERE NOT ORGANISED!
Every nice pirate needed a place to have its booty, away from competitors and towns. Also, he needed a place to store his ship and plan his next attack. A lair is the base of operations for any pirate. And through this we understand that the pirates were hunted from everywhere, so they needed a good place to hide.

HeavyTank 2009-07-20 08:45:52

if a captain lost a pirate, where could he find another pirate?

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-20 08:45:52

At cities where many bars and drinks exist.

HeavyTank 2009-07-21 05:06:34

Except for Flintock pistols (the ones that Skirmishers have), blunderbusses and cannons, did pirates use any other guns?

TiberiumCrystalKutu 2009-07-21 05:06:34

As far as I know, pirates created a device that throws hooks and then with 2 pedals, they could get past clifs but all is this because pirates needed swift weapons that can be shot while on the run.