#Ancient History Guy
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first day as a small-town sherif and you discover that some of the convicts you're transporting managed to escape in the night and since the penalty for letting prisoners escape is death, and the penalty for being late because you were looking for escaped prisoners is also death, you decide to free ALL of them and go hide out in the wilderness for a bit, except the convicts are super grateful so they make you their leader and it turns out they're decent guys who were exploited by a tyrannical government, so long story short you're crowd-sourcing for a peasant uprising and would anyone like to chip in?
3650th day and due to a series of unforeseen events you are now the emperor and founder of the han dynasty.
#ok this is the LAST time i exploit this format i swear#liu bang#Emperor Gaozu of Han#history meme#ancient china#second century failson -> sherif -> warlord -> emperor pipeline#epilogue: first year as the founder of the Han Dynasty.#you spend most of your time cussing people out and sleeping with your bf.#you are a huge improvement from the last guy so the country enters 400 years of peace and prosperity.#in case anyone was thinking “haha 2nd cent warlord is so wacky” chinese history is literally just Like That#second century warlord
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Sum more garsako doodles!!
#garmadon being a touch starved kind of guy > misako having psychical touch as her love language..#my trope for them..💜#garmadon is a touch starved man who hides it behind a grumpy and moody facade#they're doomed lovers too..#1000+ ancient year old man x archeologist lady who researches on ancient history 💜💜💜#ninjago#ninjago fandom#ninjago fanart#misako garmadon#misako ninjago#lord garmadon#Sensei garmadon#garmadon x misako#garsako#garmadon ninjago
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We’ve all heard that thing about how the first sign of civilization was a broken leg but I just need to go on about something real quick.
Can we take a moment to talk about the golden ibex from Akrotiri???
For background archaeologists found this golden ibex in the ruins of Akrotiri on modern Santorini:
And like it’s cool and all but the thing about this statue that makes me go mad is ibex aren’t native to Santorini. This has made archaeologists think that it was either used for religious reasons or it was a gift (I like to think the latter and so that’s what I’m gonna be talking about)
This statue was found hidden in a little box stored for safe keeping.
There are basically no human remains in Akrotiri. Wanna know why?
They all ran away. They all tried to escape. Why?
Because the island was about to experience one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the Ancient world so everyone took what they needed and left.
They all left and hoped that they’d come back.
And in my mind someone was given this ibex as a gift and maybe they treasured it. Then they had to leave so they placed it in a box where they thought it would be safe.
Then they left and never came back.
Someone tried so hard to keep this ibex safe maybe because they had to or maybe because they treasured it for whatever reason. Someone out there, someone lost to time, said goodbye and hoped they would see this statute again.
I like to think the golden ibex meant something to someone whether it’s because the thought restores my faith in humanity now or because it means that, at our cores, we’ve never truly changed. And frankly I just wish that whoever hid that ibex all those centuries ago would know that even though they themselves are forgotten they achieved their goal. They did it and the ibex that they might have loved is still loved by people today (aka me).
#This is like entirely my interpretation#I’m not an expert#But like he’s such a cute lil guy#Anyway#my faith in humanity really needs restoring lol#my ramblings#golden ibex#akrotiri#archaeology#ancient history#humanity#faith in humanity#so yeah
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Concept: the justice league finds out that Blaze and Satanus, the rulers of hell, are kids of their ‘even more of a boy scout than Superman’ coworker’s “boss” and think Shazam is the Christian God. They ask Billy really vague questions that lead Billy into confusing them even more and they become convinced that Marvel’s Wizard guy is God with a capital G and Marvel’s either an angel or the second coming of Jesus.
Meanwhile Shazam doesn’t even know what the Bible is and his knowledge about religion is so outdated he still thinks Solomon’s Judaism is new age and not worth his time to research such a ‘fad’ religion, but he knows humans will make a religion out of anything as well as bastardize existing ones and very well could have mixed up actual tales that involve him, his allies, and his children into some sort of melting pot of a religion.
So when someone finally asks Marvel outright if his “boss” is God, Billy goes ‘wait… old guy in white robes and sandals, with long white hair and a beard… lives in space… aka the “heavens”, whose a ghost(Holy Spirit), and knows everything(historama)??? I need to dig deeper into this hold on guys’ and goes off to ask the wizard.
So when Billy asks the Wizard he just tells Billy “well, my boy, if so many things match up, maybe it is so and the tales of myself and my champions grew so estranged from their origins or mixed in with other beliefs that it can explain the things that aren’t true to our reality.”
Then The Canonical Character To The DC Universe, Jesus of Nazareth, shows up.
#billy batson#shazam#dc captain marvel#dc comics#I really like religious history and folklore and that’s sort of what really got me into Shazam#Fawcett and DC’s interpretations are all so weird and conflicting just like actual religious history lol#I think comic books really capture the essence of the ancient myth very well#there’s so many different interpretations of a character with conflicting lore and so many writers across the decades#Batman: for the LAST FUCKING TIME our coworker is NOT Jesus#Guy Gardener: The man fights demons called The Seven Deadly Sins and follows orders from some guy he says lives in space also isn’t in spac#Guy: what the fuck else are we supposed to think?
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Dinovember day 3! Pikaia! One of the first animals to have a spine, which means yes, you might be looking at a distant relative >:3
We all came from slug
#art#digital art#sombertide art#paleoart#paleontology#natural history#paleo#cambrian#slug#pikaia#palaeoblr#palaeontology#palaeoart#sea life#ancient life#dinovember#chordate#chordata#what a funky little guy#this one took me the least time so far#getting better at this style
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kind of expected that the ability breakdown wouldnt get that much traction (especially on twitter bc if it doesnt do well in the first few hours it might as well be dead) but what i didnt need to wake up to was looking at my twitter notifications and thinking there was a long comment on it at first but then i read it and it turned out to be some guy having dug up one of my old totk tweets where i talked about how zelda was treated-
and if a quote retweet with a thread attached already starts with "this entitled brat didnt understand that zelda was being a history nerd by being in the past and getting to experience it herself" with two screenshots attached of the end of totk with zelda staring at the cam all uwu (which has ??? to do with their point??) i dont even want to know what else was in that thread
if thats how the majority of the fandom is then im even less surprised that nintendy doesnt even have to try to write anything good :I
ah yes, i am a game nerd, and by putting me in a game where i stand around doing puppy dog eyes while being shoved around by NPCs is me being a game nerd OBVIOSULY
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#sorta#like ok im not saying you cant like the game ffs#but acting like everything is perfect and anyone who dares speak something critical is a heathen and must be PUNISHED or PROVEN WRONG-#-is so godammn annoying#just went on their profile to block and of course it was all screenshots of totks ending with uwu zelda and shirtless cool guy link#also find it interesting that zelda has always been a history nerd now#didnt know interest in shiekah tech and ... frogs? counted as historian#and dont get me wrong it would fit her being interested in that too but the way it was done in totk felt so artificial#like doesnt she say she read in a book that the king who founded this hyrule was called rauru and all that?#like ........ how did that even happen#a book that mentions him BY NAME surviving for WAY OVER TEN THOUSAND YEARS just convenietnly materializing or what#how the hell did that survive when next to nothing did of the ancient shiekah#(granted you can make the argument that the -other- ancient king of hyrule that persecuted them destroyed most of their stuff-#-which would make sense and im rolling with that too but you get my point??)#but raurus shit was even older than shiekah stuff like ......... ok???? how convenient she now suddendly is interested in nothing but#-that and also read a book about it!!! somehow!!#also how does something like that exist but then the sonau where pretty much non existent and irrelevant at all in botw#and even what we had was ACTUALLY done ..by hylians as a tribute to rauru you seeeeeeee#and the botw sonau style was the hylians work .. even though the totk sonau style aligns more with hylian than botw sonau..#if the hylians were so grateful to rauru they built giant stone monuments as a tribute for him that didnt even fit their style-#-why was that the only stuff that survived on the surface ... wouldnt it make more sense that they would maintain the og sonau stuff instea#sure the temple ... castle .. whatever went up into the sky and whatver SOEMEHOW but not everythign did and it was everwhere#but then the stuff left on the surface crumbled away while everything left to rot in the underground and sky is just .. fine#what#also ... where did their castle go anyway#like ... we only see the -new cooler sonau- temple of time on the plateau but its interior doesnt match at all with the throne room#so where was all that#funny it wasnt in the same place as hyrule castle
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Ancient Empires — Episode 1: Alexander the Great
#alexander the great#history channel ancient empires#hephaestion#alexander x hephaestion#jamie bacon#tom york#mygifs*#ancientempires*#history: alexander the great#history: hephaestion#otp: for he too is alexander#idk guys i think dark haired guys are meant to play the best alexanders#in my most humblest opinion#this gifset could also be named: when your boyf wants you to become a quartet
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my redraw of this ancient roman gem with a grasshopper playing the lyre carved onto it
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#nero draws#ancient rome#ancient history#redraw#bugs tw#bug#grasshopper#I LOVE THIS LITTLE GUY HES SO ME#should i use anthro tags#anthro bugs#bug people#ok [thumbs up]#tagamemnon
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Ancient Greek Octopus Vases
Spotted at the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, and the museum of the Ancient Agora, all in Athens
Photos by me
#tagamemnon#Ancient Greece#octopi#history#archaeology#museums#academia#Minoans#Mycenaean#Minoan#I love these little guys so much what absolutely delightful creatures
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Fragment of Ravenna Relief showing a scene of the Julio-Claudian family. On the right, we can see Augustus as Mars accompanied by his wife Livia in the guise of Venus. The identity of the male figures on the left is uncertain but Germanicus and his father Drusus are the most common suggestions.
#ancient rome#roman empire#ancient history#ancient art#emperor augustus#ancient culture#livia drusilla#caesar augustus#empress livia#julio claudian dynasty#germanicus#drusus the elder#marble relief#i don't know what evidence there is that the guys are germanicus and drusus but every description of the relief says so
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Guys is this a safe space to say that Demosthenes and Philip II should have fucked nasty
#no this has nothing to do with the assassin's creed game I don't know shit about ac odyssey#what I do know shit about is my greek history college exam#old men yaoi I raise you ancient men yaoi#demosthenes they could never make me hate you#but I want too se you chocked like you SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUTTING PEBBLES IN YOUR MOUTH WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT BESTIE#bitches with linguistic impediments and hater reputations just get eachothers (me and demosthenes are the bitches)#I don't think that fucking the king of Macedon would have helped with Greece's political situation or would have somehow made#Greece's submission to Macedon have better conditions#I just think that if you write four callout posts about a guy maybe it's more productive to fuck him rather than considering writing a fifth#demosthenes#philip ii#philip ii of macedon#ancient history#ancient greece
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NOTE: entries in brackets are examples of languages within the category, some based on the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Edit: Cornish was reclassified from extinct to critically endangered in 2009 due to revival
#snailshit#the categories are ROUGH okay guys dont @ me#would like to get a broad audience because i think it'd be fun to see tunglr's thoughts !! (:#tumblr polls#polls#poll time#random polls#linguistics#language learning#language poll#fun polls#languages#bilingual#ancient history#ancient egypt#ancient greece
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3 major river valley civilizations in Asia. Namely: Mesopotamia (Modern day Iraq), Ancient Chinese Civilization and Indus Valley Civilization (Modern day Pakistan and parts of India). 𓆝𓆟 ꩜.ᐟ
Asia is home to three (3) of four (4) major river valley civilizations in the world.
*Mesopotamia - along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; lies in the fertile cresent.
*Ancient Chinese Civilization - along the Huang Ho (Yellow River) and Yangtze (Chiang Jiang) Rivers.
*Indus Valley Civilization - along the Indus River.
#DESIGN WIPS BTW#GUYS SORRY INFO DUMP!! I;VE HAD ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS EVER SINCE 6TH GRADE SORRY I;M INSANE#i wanted to make gjinkas of the ACTUAL civilizations#i;ll fix these#later#ancient civilizations#ancient history#mesopotamia#ancient china#indus river valley#gjinka#cradle of civilization#good night#art
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I swear that something absolutely radical is soon gonna be finished, but I keep getting sidetracked and art blocked.
So while fighting my lactose intolerance today and eating a whole can of corn, have medjed.
Thank you to @pricklypinefawn for that one idea in the top right corner.
#my fixation on ancient Egyptian history is coming back chat#medjed#the first ghost costume award goes to this guy#ancient egypt#egyptology#why does he look like that#genuine question#slash srs
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getting into classics as a kid because you read percy jackson <<< getting into classics as a kid bc you wanted to know why the FUCK the president of the capitol had such a weird name
#whole arguments kind of irrelevant for me tho bc i realised the ancient romans were funky little guys age 8 reading#horrible histories: julius caesar and his foul friends#and not a moment before#classics#the hunger games#percy jackson#horrible histories#coriolanus
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