@MichaelButtonX Recent archaeological investigations have challenged older theories that environmental disasters like deforestation or massive floods destroyed the city.
@pcDaiber@histories_arch@Dr_TheHistories Tree-ring evidence in Ireland shows that 18 years without a summer occurred near the end of the Bronze Age collapse; it was not the cause.
@baqoushi@historyinmemes Your "not piracy" is a matter of semantics. The Sultan used the state-sponsored corsair system (Barbary piracy) as a geopolitical tool. The U.S. knew that if it did not engage diplomatically, Morocco would unleash its corsairs to conduct actual piratical plunder against America.
@farman4x It is simple
x^2/4 = 36
=> X^2 = 4 x 36
=> X = +/- 2 x 6
=> x=+/- 12
Now I am blocking farmanX for wasting my time with this nonsense
@WTRandLane@visegrad24 No, but I am one. You’re right that modern labels obscure the medieval reality of a multi-ethnic, dynastic levy under the Gediminid banner. Ukraina and Belaya Rus' appear in Rus' chronicles from the 12th century.
So your argument is fair; your racial jab isn’t.
@baqoushi@historyinmemes I agree with your military history, but there is always a but, Moroccan piracy had not ended, as evidenced by the 1784 capture of the Betsey and ongoing Barbary conflicts.