> issac newton was the first person to challenge the historical timeline. he was just closer to where modern history ends, back in his time. the myth about 1000 years of timeless cartoonish medieval, which is so nice and dolled up today, in fact so nice that many people here unironically believe it was the best time in history, wasn't ready back then, there was just a gaping hole between his timeline and the knowledge of antiquity that they had. this is what word "dark ages" used to mean, not that everyone was dark and didn't wash. > claim that rome was an outpost for the byzantine empire is true it might be. it is important to understand that history of antiquity is extremely incomplete and blurred. there are too few sources, and some of them are deliberately fraudulent. it's like a reconstruction of the whole dinosaur by 15% of its skeleton that was unearthed.
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