Max Demian
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Maphusio said:My point being they have done less destruction and chaos to the world than many other civilizations. While people were being lynched in England for learning the legacy the Greeks left behind Islam was allowing all religions to practice under the same mosque cure disease give the gift of complex mathematics and allowing conquered lands to remain as they were before they came. They incorporated each land into their own with little bias or discrimination. Now it is true they have done the wrong thing now and then. How many times has the wrong thing been done to them?
Since everybody tends to go a little wayward with comments, I’ll allow my self the same luxury and say that the “little ones” always hate the bullying big ones, especially when they encroach their rightfully owned territory and resources. As far as Ottoman empire goes most of what you is true – they were reasonably “sophisticated” when viewed in the prism of medieval savagery. But that still doesn’t mean that my people feel indebted to them for making a battlefield out of our country for 400 years. It was precisely here that they exhausted all their military might in a terrible attrition war which cost Croatia dearly. If it weren’t for them we’d now have a population of 20 million, instead of just under 5 million.
That’s it for this month. I’m going away to Korcula, a medieval fortified renaissance island port, which btw, never fell to the Turkish invasion attempts .
As far as China goes, I really hope they keep putting more of those fancy warships into the seas, if nothing else but so that I can make plastic models of them.
Adieu