For me it's a tie between the BBC's Silk Road:
"The study of medicine, the ideas of Aristotle, or the fundamental principles of mathematics. These are just some of the things that we'll find that we owe entirely or in part to Samarkand and the Silk Road cities that lie beyond."
>Aristotle's writings reached Europe via the Silk Road.
"Without the ideas and inventions that arose along the Silk Road, well, we Westerners would still be counting on our fingers, writing on leather and thinking that the earth is flat."
>Ancient Europeans thought the Earth was flat
Especially unforgivable as the presenter is supposed to be an expert in maritime history, and ships going over the horizon is one well known ancient way to show that the Earth isn't flat.
And also Barbarians Rising from the History Channel.
The fact that they cast Hannibal as a black man was bad enough...I mean what can you expect these days, and from the History Channel...but hang on what the hell is he wearing on his head...?
>Hannibal
>Christian
>>3381126
I'm Italian and I don't know the English name of the program
It was in history channel I think, I saw it last time like a week ago
Anyway the show has just like 4 episodes, each like one hour long, it's called like the 4 ethnicities that created Europe
It's about the people who changed the world and contributed in creating Europe and Western civilization
The episodes are:
1)How the Greeks changed the world and created Europe
2)How the Romans changed the world and created Europe
3)How the Vikings changed the world and created Europe
4)How the Arabs changed the world and created Europe
Don't watch television. Shit died about 10-15 years ago.
>>3381126
>writing on leather
Strangely enough, we still do. All new British laws and Queens speeches are recorded on parchment because it lasts for hundreds of years.
>>3381153
But Arabs lived in various parts of Europe for many centuries? Including Italy...
>>3381156
>>3381126
How do Arabs feel about so much of their history being taken over by Americans and recasted as black?
>>3381159
>many parts
Only Sicily for a century and Spain for some centuries, that's like 5% of Europe's landmass
>>3381126
Ancient ayyliens in general, but especially some retarded reinterpretation of Norse myths about a god that had an iron gauntlet or a golden arm or something and they concluded it must have been an ET with a cybernetic limb.
>>3381171
Well they contributed at least as much as the vikings did to western culture
Just because you hate somebody it doesn't mean you can't learn anything from them. Romans learnt a lot from their enemies.
>>3381182
>Well they contributed at least as much as the vikings did to western culture
So almost nothing?
They could have included Franks, Etruscans, Phoenicians, British, Spanish but Vikings?
For fuck's sake
>>3381197
>. Greeks only occupied like 5% of Europe's landmass too
All of Greece, most of South Italy, South France, Crimea and parts of Bulgaria, North Eastern Spain, Albania, the Romanian coastline
>>3381210
>All of Greece
Muslims occupied that too
>>3381221
Muslims aren't necessarily Arab, retard.
>>3381126
>But the rifle did have one "deadly defect." When the last shot was rifled, the clip would be automatically ejected from the rifle, creating a distinctive "pinging" noise. Japanese soldiers would listen for this sound, and charge while the GI's were busy reloading. This flaw cost many American soldiers their lives during the Pacific War.
>>3381210
>All of Greece
Right.
>most of South Italy
Okay.
>South France
Just a few ports
>Crimea
I tend to forget that's in Europe
>and parts of Bulgaria, North Eastern Spain, Albania, the Romanian coastline
Dalmatia aside, it's literally nothing.
Look, they had a huge presence in the Mediterranean (though even less than the medieval Arabs) and the Black Sea, but their colonies only represented a minuscule fraction of the European landmass and were concentrated in the East. Al-Andalus was at least a fifth of the Western European landmass.
>>3381126
ANCIENT ALIENS
UFO HUNTERS
Anything on History desu
>>3381245
>(though even less than the medieval Arabs
No
>>3381356
Medieval Arabs controlled 2/3rds of the Mediterranean coastline or so.
Well, maybe more like half if you count every nook and cranny of the Adriatic and Aegean but that's not as important as the ports in opean sea.
>>3381242
Whoever dreamed this up seems to think that there was only ever 1 American or they all fired at exactly the same time and so ran out of ammo at the same time like some kind of Napoleonic volley. That's without factoring in all the guys nearby with other weapons who can keep shooting while the rifleman is reloading.
Chap on the Range did a great video about this.
>>3381374
>Medieval Arabs controlled 2/3rds of the Mediterranean coastline or so.
Let's see
Greeks literally conquered all of Persia, Anatolia, Egypt and the Levant with Alexander, and even before that they had colonies in:
Libya
West Anatolia
Cyprus
Greece and Crete
South Italy
Albania and the Balkan coastline
South France
East Spain
South Ukraine
North Anatolia and Georgia
the coastline of Bulgaria and Romania
They literally had all the Mediterranean except for Carthage's territories and Central/Northen Italy
>>3381404
Oh yeah greeks were also in Bactria that it's modern day Central Asia (Afghanistan, Yajikistan, and parts of Pakistan too I think)
>>3381404
Oh yeah Greeks were also in Bactria that it's modern day Central Asia (Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Pakistan too I think)
>>3381404
>except for Carthage's territories
Yeah who cares about the Levant, Iberia, Sardinia or "Africa" right
>>3381433
Carthage didn't have The Levavt and Alexander conquered it
>>3381126
>Aristotle's writings reached Europe via the Silk Road.
WTF
Where did they think Aristotle came from?
>>3381153
WTF^2
In a show about "those that created Europe", they include Vikings and Arabs, but not the Franks?
The Vikings were at most an annoyance. The Franks are important for the history of France, Germany and Italy.
>>3381126
You hear that, Goy? Better not question immigration.
>>3381153
>MENA never impacted Europe
>>3381153
Last one should have been "How the Jews changed the world and created Europe"
>>3381164
>Hannibal
>Arab
AYOO HOL UP
>>3381500
Except the Norse helped shape england and russia.
>>3381153
The greeks created the first east v. west divide
The romans brought civilization deep into europe
The vikings brought european civilization deep into russia via trade/colonization
The arabs defined the bounderies of europe by conquoring everything around it.
>>3381157
Papal bullshit is also still written on parchment
>>3381594
Yes that is totally what this poster is claiming. Good thing you called him out on it.
>>3381153
>How the Arabs created Europe
is this created for the future audience?
>>3381606
The Berbers and the Levantines were both Arabized linguistically.
>>3381245
lol