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Southern Europe: Nicola Curzio, a wealthy merchant of Albanian origin, rebuilds the Republic of Bari and is named its first Catapano (leader): he'll manage to establish a dynastic succession as Dauge (Dux), though under strict control by the corporations' assembly.
ca. 1250-1350
Northern Hesperia (*OTL America): The Norsemen of Greenland explore the Arctic archipelago during hunting and fishing expeditions and contact the local Inuit people, then the severe cooling of the climate forces them to abandon these routes.
Northern Europe: Norway formally renounces its self-asserted rights over Bjarmaland (*the area around the White Sea), which are ceded to the Novgorod republic.
British Isles: King Oswald the Hammer brings resurgent Northumbria to its heyday by routing the Alban-Scots at the battle of the Teviotdale: he recaptures Cumbria (*Cumberland) and conquers the Borders area.
Southern Europe: Pope-king Urban VI (*OTL Innocent IV) excommunicates Meinhard III of Gurizberg when he refuses to give back the former lands of the Aquileian Patriarchate to the new Patriarch, Gregorio da Montelongo. Meinhard however allows the Patriarch to reside in Zividal (*OTL Cividale), under close watch and limited to his spiritual duties. Genoa, helped by king Umberto IV of Lombardy, quells a rebellion at Savona. The Bosnian Bogomils get complete independence from Hungary under Matej II of the Ninoslavoviċ clan.
Central-Eastern Europe: Austria is made an appanage duchy for the heirs to the Bohemian crown. Berke Khan again plunges on Hungary as king Béla IV was building fortifications without the required permit to counter his rebel son, Stephen (*not OTL Stephen V: it's another person, though still in a fight with his royal father). This time the king is captured during his escape to Dalmatia, hauled up to Brasta/Berestye (*Brest-Litovsk) and executed: his son Stephen V gets the Hungarian throne, under close watch of his Cuman wife's relatives. Batu Khan comes from Mongolia with a huge army, but dies in Russia during a plague outbreak:cool: . The army, set up to march against the rebels in Lombardy and France, withdraws orderly to Karakorum for the solemn khuriltai to elect the next Great Khan. Berke Khan himself leaves his generals in charge and heads back to the Mongol capital.
Far East: The Khuriltai elects as the new Great Khan Sartaq, the Nestorian/Jacobite Christian son of Batu, after rejecting the name of Berke, unpopular as a new Muslim convert. Sartaq decides not to punish the rebellion of his fellow Christian subjects, granting western and southern Europe some respite. The Golden Horde throne in Sarai goes to Batu's older brother, Orda, already in charge of one of its main subdivision, the White Horde, in southern Siberia and the Central Asian steppe.
India: Jatavarman Sundara Pandyan brings the most ancient Pandya kingdom of southern Deccan to a new heyday, vassalizing its former overlords the Cholas and repeatedly defeating the Hoysalas; Pandya power briefly projects itself up to the Krishna river. Sundara Pandyana also manages to vassalize northern Ceylon/Sri Lanka, and establishes a precarious contact with Western tradesmen from Crusader Lower Egypt.
Northern Europe: Birger Jarl, regent of Sweden, founds Stockholm to counter the piratical raids of the Teutonic Order :D and the Hansa. King Erik IV of Denmark dies during a failed expedition to subdue Frisia; he is succeeded by his younger brother Knut VII. Siegfrid I reunifies Brandenburg under the Anhalt branch of the Ascanian/Aschersleben house with its ducal title recognized by Berke Khan. The new duchy of Lebus on the Oder river is created for Nogai, Berke's young nephew.
British Isles: Alasdair I rises to the throne of Alba and Scotland after murdering his brother Duncan IV the Mad.
Western Europe: A massive Arnaldist insurrection rocks central France and the Loire valley: the surviving feudatories are massacred or put to flight by peasant rebel armies and town militias. The rebels, loosely coordinated and recognizing the spiritual leadership of Jean Le Blanc, an old preaching monk from Burgundy, begin waging a chaotic three-sided conflict with emperor Stephen the Cruel of Greater Normandy and the many independent barons refusing to acknowledge his comeback in the continent.
Southern Europe: Umberto IV of Lombardy moves against the Ezzelinians but is defeated in the bloody battle of the Mella river and has to renounce his planned assault on Verona. With the bull "Ad exstirpanda" Pope Urban VI (*OTL Innocent IV) gives official sanction to the use of torture by the Inquisition:mad: . The republic of Nice gains the feudal submission of Ventimiglia, unwilling to bend to Genoa: by now Nice controls a sizable chunk of land under the Maritime Alps, from Provence to Liguria. Genoa, to counter Nice's ascent, allies with Marseille, a traditional rival. Naples frees herself from Lesser Norman control and proclaimes a Communal republic under elected consuls. Her fleet will prove a source of both wealth and strength.
Central-Eastern Europe: The elective prince of Novgorod Alexander Nevskij, a blood friend ("anda") of the new Great Khan Sartaq, gets Tartar reinforcements to fight back the encroaching Swedes, again defeating them in the battle of the Vuoksi river. A Mongol punitive expedition under Nevruy plunders the towns of Suzdal and Pereyaslavl-Zalesskij and expels prince Andrey II Yaroslavich, Alexander Nevskij's "rogue" brother, from Vladimir: the Russian ruler is exiled to Sweden.
Central Asia: Qara Hülëgü, ruler of the Chagatai Khanate, dies, succeeded by his young son Bahram Shah, grown as a Zoroastrian.
Far East: In Japan the shogunate, by now itself a puppet institution of the Hōjō shikkens (regents), is entrusted to the ten-years old imperial prince Munetaka. Henceonwards, shoguns will be imperial princes with no actual power.
Far East, SE Asia: Blocked by the Chinese in Sichuan, the Mongols, led by Great Khan Sartaq and general Kublai, a brother of khan Möngke of Persia, sweep down in the western mountains to outflank the enemy. In the process they destroy the old kingdom of Dali (Yunnan), triggering a massive southward and westward migration towards Siam and Burma; their raids reach down to Dai Viet (*north Vietnam).
Northern Europe, Central-Eastern Europe: Mindaugas of Polotsk/Palteskei converts to Waliist Islam following the example of his patron Berke Khan of Berestia, and is made emir of Lithuania and White Ruthenia. The Lithuanians begin converting to the new religion, following their undisputed leader, and soon become the Mongol's elite guard in the region.
Northern Europe, Western Europe: The Count of Holland, Dirk VIII the Saint, free from any external authority, be it Mongol or other, defeats and kill at the battle of Moergestel Louis II of Flanders, Hainault and Champagne, who had tried to grab his lands. Emperor Stephen the Cruel of Greater Normandy takes advantage to wrest back some land between the Somme and Flanders proper, but his (mostly English) forces, tied down by neverending war against rebel nobles, cities and peasants, cannot advance much further. Stephen's rule is as much resented as the Mongols were:rolleyes: , expecially for his high taxation and his land grants for English barons. The French barons resisting him obviously play the national card.
Central-Eastern Europe: Ottokar/Otakar II, duke of Austria, ascends the throne of Bohemia as vassal of the khanate of Berestia; anyway, he's the most powerful man in central Europe, apart Berke Khan.
Southern Europe: Meinhard III of Gurizberg (*OTL Gorizia) inherits the county of Tyrol from his childless father-in-law Albert IV, which in turn had five years before got Merania (the maritime lands north of Dalmatia) from Otto, last scion of the Andechs family. Thus Meinhard's Lurngau dynasty significantly increases its power, controlling a solid block of Alpine territories from Histria to the boundaries of Romancia. A unique situation is that now Meinhard is "partly" vassal of Bohemia:rolleyes: , being such in regards to Merania only. Marquis Peter III of Savoy subdues the Comune of Geneva to his high domain.
Arabia: The Saifid Arabs reconquer Bahrain from the Shabankarai princes of Fars (Mongol vassals).
Far East: The Japanese monk Nichiren establishes his own variant of Buddhism, a quite militant sect placing emphasis on the Lotus Sutras and, unusually, bent on conversion of other adherents of Buddhism and non-Buddhists as well.
Western Europe: Stephen the Cruel vainly tries to crush the Arnaldists in central France. They form in reaction the League of St.-Arnaud, despite receiving excommunication and major anathema by the Church; the moderate elements from the communal towns soon gains the upper hand and organize a disciplined peasant-based army around the minor nobles who sought refuge in the walled towns during the Mongol invasion and the subsequent unrest. In the end, the battles of Bois de la Beauce and Chambord result in stunning Arnaldist victories, though Stephen the Cruel manages to retake Orléans, massacring 5,000 inhabitants in anger:mad: .
Southern Europe: The suspect early death of emperor Alexander I (poisoned?) triggers the Second Curional (*Baronal) war in the Western "Roman" Empire of Sicily and Ifrigia (later Punia, OTL Tunisia). A long, drawn out conflict, the war pits one against the other two main claimants to the crown, Alexander's first cousins Conrad and Olympius, plus a wide array of rebel noblemen, peasant insurgents and Ifrigian secessionists. Olympius is eventually able to defeat his rival at Castropertuso (*not existing OTL) and later kill him by treason during peace talks; then he lands in Bardapolis (*OTL Tunis) and proceeds to liquidate the last rebels, as the Genoese fleet wipes out their Pisan allies at the naval battle of Jarthousa (*OTL Bizerte).
Middle East: The Saifids of Medina raid in droves Palestine ad the Sinai, fighting both the Myriamites and the Crusaders, but fail in the sieges of Jerusalem and Gaza.
Far East: Final, devastating Mongol campaigns against Korea: king Gojong and the Goryeo court are eventually forced to yield, reset their capital in Songdo/Kaesong and send the crown prince as hostage in Karakorum.
Northern Europe: Denmark expels the few Jews living there, deemed to be in favour of the Mongol domination:o .
Southern Europe: Ezzelino III da Romano dies in Verona, still excommunicated. Gravely weakened by his prisony in Canossa, he was unable to repeat his former exploits: only his cruelty, cunning and thirst for power remained the same – legendary and unsurpassed, at the time:cool: . His surviving son, Alberico, struggles to keep together what he has – mainland Veneto and little more, even that precariously – with a host of sworn enemies to face. In the meantime, Meinhard III of Gurizberg (*OTL Gorizia) and Tyrol has managed to appease the Berestian Mongols, avoiding Berke Khan's revenge, by casting a bad light on Ezzelino's heir and sending generous tributes:rolleyes: . The fleet of Nice captures Ajaccio from the Genoese, who are basically evicted from Corsica. Pistoia defeats Florence in the battle of Capalle. The Catholic Church declares purgatory a dogma.
Southern Europe, Central-Eastern Europe: The Byzantine army, with little Mongol and Cuman help, liquidates the last centers of Vlach and Bulgarian resistance and reconstitutes the Danubian border, completing the reconquest of most of former Bulgaria - the southern half of what was Megavlakia before the Mongols came.
Byzantine Empire: Despot George I Korizenos of Turcopolia dies, leaving a strong state to his son, Gabriel Ho Kyrios Megas (the Great Lord). The new ruler confirms the recognition of Anthemius II (*as Anthemius I was the last unlucky competent emperor in classical Western Rome) Megas Branas of Constantinople as legitimate basileus, though de facto keeping his independence.
Central-Eastern Europe: The exiled Rurikid prince Rostislav of Černigov is enthroned by Berke Khan of Berestia as independent king of Slavonia and Mačva (NW Serbia). Swift Mongol raids punish the feeble protests of Hungary and Serbia. Genoa buys back Taurocherson (*OTL Sebastopol) from the Golden Horde.
Middle East, Byzantine Empire: Demetrios of Canossa-Novellara, king of Cyprus and Armenia Minor, dies with no male heirs, leaving the crown to his son-in-law Vartan (Bardas), scion of an Akrite Order military family of Greek Orthodox leanings. The Armenian Church accepts the succession, though; for them, after a Catholic king, an Orthodox one is definitely the lesser evil. Cyprus, though, crumbles in anarchy as Pisans, Venetians, Genoese and Neapolitans wrestle to gain the upper hand, allying with local feudatories, both Greek and Catholic.
Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central-Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Far East: The Flemish monk William of Rubrouck, sent to Karakorum by the court of Flanders to seek help against the resurgent Greater Normans and the Dutch, is appointed as the first Catholic bishop in the Far East and sent to Dadu/Khanbaliq for the needs of the tradesmen coming from Europe, North Africa and the Levant and the many prisoners and slaves hauled up to China by the Mongols. He'll be later sanctified as St. William of Cathay and Greater Tartary.
Northern Europe: Zwanstenhafen (*OTL Königsberg) is founded at the mouth of the Pregla river as the Teutonic Order main fortress and base for piracy in the Baltic, in the service of the Mongol overlords. By now the Order has been opened to non-Germans, its ranks rapidly swelling with Poles and Baltic Prussians (!), keeping only a Catholics-only policy as a pale remembrance of its former mission. The first of many subdivisions of the county of Nassau (by now a Mongol vassal, as all of Germany except the coastal Hanseatic towns) happens as brothers Walram II and Otto I split the domain.
British Isles: The northern Irish tribal kings of Connacht, Tyrone/Aileach and Donegal/Tyrconnell launch a great nativist revolt against both the Alban-Scots, the Irish Normans and the earldom of Dublin. The Bourke/De Burgh clan holds his own in Connacht, whereas the Alban-Scot vassal princelings of Ulster are destroyed. Earl Maddox III of Dublin is defeated at Tassagh Glen while trying to stop the rebels. Owain IV of Wales (*OTL Llewellyn the Last) defeats his rebel younger brothers Ian and Dafydd, exiling them to Alba/Scotland. The promised Norman support for the rebels proved too little, too late. When proof of emperor Stephen's disloyalty is discovered, Owain solemnly rejects his feudal oath of vassalage proclaiming Wales a completely independent kingdom. Emperor Stephen the Cruel infamously reacts by starving to death in the London Tower his own wife, Owain's sister Senana,:mad: :mad: :mad: to later marry his French lover Isabeau de Verneuil. The disappearance of a child, likely victim of a brute, triggers a witchhunt in Lincolnshire: dozens of alleged witches and assorted heretics are hanged and burned until serious unrest begins and the imperial Norman chancery stops the senseless carnage.
Western Europe: Young king John II of Portugal concedes the Cortes, the Portuguese Parliament, the right to assemble once a year in Coimbra.
Southern Europe: Urban VI (*OTL Innocent IV) dies in Rome. The Cardinals elect as the new Pope and king of Italy/Spoleto the French Jacques Pantaléon of Troyes, who takes the name of Urban VII (*OTL he was Urban IV). He at once launches again the hardest fight against heresy, Arnaldism first, and soon proves deeply hostile to the Mongols (who, years earlier, torched his hometown and killed most of his relatives). The Comune of Asti rejects Montferrat yoke and defeats margrave Gugliemo VII at Calliano (Piedmont). The other Piedmontese town of Alba rebels in turn against king Umberto IV and the Guidoni dynasts, proclaiming a free Comune.
Central-Eastern Europe: The Byzantines vainly assault the walls of Vidin, held by the local voivod Ivan Bojan. The imperial army is plagued by the desertion of the Turcopoles/Vardariotes who were forcibly deported from Anatolia with Mongol and Georgian help, and are now ready to offer their services to any warlord – or, even more, to sack for themselves from the Morava to the Black Sea, from the Danube to the Aegean.
Caucasus: Möngke, khan of Persia, entrusts Ahlat (*OTL historical Armenia), peopled by a majority of Muslim Turks, to the Christian princes of Loristan (*OTL northern Armenia, not to be confused with Iranian Luristan which is located far southwest). His brother Hulagu, with a powerful army, is to liquidate the remaining Muslim states of the Middle East, chiefly the defiant Saifids.
British Isles: Extinction of the apEven dynasty of Cornwall with the death of queen Steren; Cornwall is directly annexed as a duchy of the Greater Norman Empire by emperor Stephen the Cruel, despite claims from Brittany based on earlier kinship though marriages. The Bretons seize the Scilly islands (also known as Lyonesse).
Western Europe: Bernard II of Aquitaine/Occitania defeats and kills his rebel brother Raymond the Young in the battle of Duras.
Southern Europe: The Ezzelinian lands begin to crumble. Trient (*OTL Trento) and a resurgent Padua free themselves from the yoke, the first under a new prince-bishop, the second as a Communal republic. Azzone VII d'Este reconquers Este and Monselice for his house. A precarious hold on Verona, Vicenza and Treviso is what remains to Alberico degli Ezzelini. The Augustinian order of preaching monks is officially established, the last great mendicant order after Dominicans and Franciscans. Their power, unshakable especially in native North Africa, will soon greatly expand to rival that of both orders.
Byzantine Empire: Constantine Tigomiritzes (*OTL Constantine I Tikh of Bulgaria) overthrows Turcopolian control over his native town of Skupiokastritsa (*OTL Skoplje), becoming the local independent despot and styling his domain Mikrovlakia (*OTL Slavic Macedonia). Prince Andrew I of Morea wrests the fortress port of Monemvasia from the Byzantines after a three-year long siege.
Central Asia, Middle East: Hulagu brutally crushes a Muslim rebellion in Samarkand (a half-ruined city by now) and parts of northern Persia/Iran. He then marches against Saifid Baghdad, which is taken after a two months siege and thoroughly destroyed, its Muslim inhabitants massacred or sold as slaves:eek: :eek: . Husayn ibn Khayun, the Turkic lord of Mosul, thwarts a minor Mongol force sent against his domains. When the Mongols are studying further moves, they are stopped by the news of the Great Khan's early death.
Far East: Sartaq Khan dies a premature death in Karakorum:( . At first his Khorezmian Muslim wife, Fatma Hatij Sultana, acts as regent for young Ulagchi, trying to favor her deceased husband's uncle Berke. Soon after, though, Ulagchi dies and even this time a clear patrilineal succession is not established. The Khuriltai again convenes and elects as the next Great Khan Möngke, the current khan of Persia, who entrusts his personal domain to his valiant brother, Hulagu. After holding in for years, Möngke's program is one of expansion and world domination; with his election the Mongol Empire comes in the hands of the Tuluids, one the branches of Genghis' heirs.
Northern Europe: Berke Khan of Berestia campaigns in northern Germany, extorting tribute from the Hansa after the brutal destruction of Stralsund, Rostock and Bremen. He then plunders Frisia, but has to withdraw due to the marshy terrain, unsuited for his cavalry. Things go better however in Denmark, where Jutland is ravaged and king Knut VII forced to pay tribute and give independence to Nordalbingia (Schleswig-Holstein) under his brother Sven, who becomes a vassal of Berestia. Other Mongol detachments under the young duke of Lebus, Nogai, pass into France, adding chaos to chaos; after finding stiff resitance in the north, they descend to Burgundy, burning to ashes the venerable abbey of Cluny – by now an independent ecclesiastical principality - and massacring its monks, then besiege Lyon, which pays a huge ransom to be spared a sack. Coming back, this Mongol force sweeps through Alamannia, accepting the tributes and submission of duke Rudolph I of Habsburg.
Western Europe: The fleets of Marseille and Genoa oust the Pisans from the Balearic islands. The power of the Norman barons is broken: the elective king Humbert I of St.-Jerome is killed and replaced with the Provençal Arthur Ludovic count of Aigües (*OTL Aix-en-Provence), of remote Anscarid ancestry, who establishes his own dynasty.
Southern Europe: The count of Seprio, Enrico I, is made margrave of a vast area centered on the upper Ticino river, with domain over Valsesia, Ossola, the entire lake Maggiore basin and upper Ticino, plus his ancestral lands in NW Lombardy proper. Pietro Guglielmo, a descendant of the former counts of Ventimiglia, founds the county of Tenda, a close Genoese ally hampering Nice's control of the Maritime Alps.
Byzantine Empire: The Genoese and Byzantines finally evict the Venetians from Smyrna, which is made a condominium of the empire and Genoa.
SE Asia: The Mongols try to conquer Dai Viet (*northern Vietnam) from Dali (Yunnan) so as to surround Song China, but are turned back by determined resistance.
North Africa: Alphonse I the Good, king of Mauretania/Mornavia (*OTL Morocco) conquers one by one the Canary Islands, again returned to anarchy and piracy after the death of their ruler Cauta the Maurian. Despite hard resistance, the local warlords and Menceys (Guanche chieftains) are subdued.
Southern Europe: A powerful Mongol army, some 50,000 men led by Berke Khan and Nogai, enters the Italian peninsula from Friul and, after leaving a screening force to plunder the Lombard plain, heads right down to Rome:eek: :eek: :eek: . On the route terrorized cities open the gates without a fight and pay huge tributes: in Rome the populace and the Papal court simply flee in advance, leaving a half-void city to be throughly sacked and burnt: many of the city's ancient monuments are especially targeted for destruction and crumble consumed by the flames, including the Pantheon and St. Peter's Basilica:eek: :eek: :eek: . The Mongols then kill anyone in sight over a day's journey, leaving a path of destruction. After that, they proceed to raid deep into southern Italy, sacking and extorting ransoms from cities, before leaving for the long ride back to their bases in Poland and Russia. The sack of Rome is a most great shock for Christianity, and in reaction Crusader armies are soon levied in areas untouched by the Mongol conquest – Burgundy, Spain, North Africa. The Papacy moves to Naples, and thence to Palermo, in search of a safe haven against the Mongol rage. Count-margrave Enrico I del Seprio is made lord of Como after local families' infighting had gone too far. The Flagellant movement appears in Lombardy in response to the chaos of the period; in southern Italy, instead, bands of vagrant peasants incensed by Joachimite preachers (followers of the long deceased Calabrian monk Gioacchino da Fiore, who prophesied the advent of an Era of the Spirit in the year 1260) sack the countryside and kill feudatories, adding havoc to anarchy. The Pisans and the Sardinians of the Arborea judicate (kingdom) raze Santa Igia forever ending the judicate of Cagliari, the last Genoese supporter in the island. Aimes I de Claret, a local warlord, founds the Duchy of Lesser (or eastern) Occitania, controlling the Durance valley and some Alpine areas of western Piedmont with the important Maddalena Pass.
Middle East: In the winter months a strong Mongol cavalry army from Iraq plunges on Hijaz from Jordan after sending a lesser force to sack (mostly unsuccessfully) Syria and Palestine. The Mongol force, equipped for a campaign much like the one who destroyed the Khorezmian empire, soon blockades Medina; and when the city falls, the carnage is appalling. The old sultan, Muhammad Nasir-ud-Din, who refused to bow to the invaders, is caught alive and trampled under horses, miserably ending the Saifid sultanate. The horde then heads straight to Mecca, where another horrible sack happens, thousands of pilgrims are slain or made into slaves:eek: :eek: :eek:, and the holiest Muslim religious shrines are profanated and destroyed – the Ka'aba is infamously chipped and grinded to dust on orders from Hulagu Khan. Hundreds of thousands flee south into Yemen from the Mongol assault, which however goes no further; as they came, the Mongols withdraw without even bothering to leave puppet rulers in place. Soon the Hashemite Banu Qatada clan manage to reoccupy the Holy Cities and reinstall Wali (*Sunni "Pope") Suleyman II in Mecca, but the Bedouin tribes of the Arab interior now have fallen into total anarchy.
Southern Europe: Long, drawn out conflict over Valais and Aoste between the counts of Savoy and the counts of Sion. The former ones impose their high domain over Aoste, the latter side preserves independence and expands to Geneva lake's eastern shore.
British Isles: The Irish revolt against Norman and Welsh presence extends down to the Siennories (*OTL southern Leinster and western Munster), where local Irish chieftains rise against the foreign feudatories but are defeated in the battle of Norebridge. After that the rebels lose cohesion, lacking a unified leadership. Their final assault on Dublin's walls is bloodily and decisively repulsed by earl Maddox III.
Western Europe: Portugal conquers Laobrivia (*OTL Algarve) from Andalusia.
Southern Europe: A Sicilian force with Crusaders from Spain and North Africa lands in Ostia and marches on to reoccupy a desolate, ruined Rome; there the officer and great poet Stiennu Lugudita will find inspiration to write its "Rroma ca fusti" (*a sort of Divine Comedy for importance, only centered on history rather than religion), the foundation stone of Sicilian language and a masterpiece of Medieval European literature. Nogai Khan is sent again down to Lombardy with Bohemian reinforcements for a punitive campaign. Milan is sacked and torched, many inhabitants are killed and count-archbishop Peter of Inverigo is carried away in prisony; count Enrico I of Seprio instead puts up a legendary resistance to the Mongol siege of his main fortress in Castelseprio. Then the Crusader army led by prince Paul II of Valencia and Western imperial reinforcements arrive, join forces with the (mostly Piedmontese) Lombard army and together route the Bohemians at the Agogna river, before inflicting a heavy defeat upon the Mongol horde of Nogai at the battle of Santa Maria dei Crociati (*OTL Buscate, Lombardy). After that the Mongols withdraw, leaving the Cumans of western Friul as screening and raiding force.
Southern Europe, North Africa: The Papacy, barred from reentering Rome, a ghost city almost erased from history, is trasferred in Bardapolis (*OTL Tunis) :confused: by the Western Roman emperor of Sicily and Ifrigia (*later Punia, OTL Tunisia) Olympius, who reimposes a measure of imperial authority over the Papal court.
Byzantine Empire: A Mongol expedition from Persia/Iran exacts tribute from the Akrite Order after torching Melitene (*OTL Malatya).
India: Failed expedition against the Burman Ahoms of Assam by the Dharma Empire. No victory of sort is achieved, but Buddhism is introduced among the tribal peoples of the area.
Far East: Great Khan Möngke then dies in battle against the Chinese at the impregnable fortress of Diaoyucheng in Sichuan. He is the first notable victim of firearms, having been killed by a cannon ball. His brother and expected successor Kublai Khan, instead of hurrying back to Karakorum to be elected as the new Great Khan, carries on with his siege of the triple city of Wuhan on the Yangtze river, in central China, until its final surrender. Kublai's other brother Ariq Boke, instead, usurps the throne in the Mongol capital. King Gojong of Goryeo/Korea dies just after surrendering to the Mongol might as a vassal.
SE Asia: The Thai chieftain Mengrai founds at Chiang Mai (northern Siam) the kingdom of Lanna.
Caucasus: David VI Narin, co-ruler of Iberia/Georgia together with his cousin David VII Ulu, rebels against the Mongol yoke; defeated, he takes refuge in Kutaisi, whence he manages to reign over western Georgia (Imereti). David VII also rebels the next year, and, hunted fiercely by the Mongols, reaches his cousin. In the end, David VII is forced to swallow the murder of his wife by the Mongols and accept back vassal status as a sub-king in eastern Georgia.
Far East: Song China, already on the ropes, is saved by the war of succession between Kublai Khan, brother and appointed successor to Möngke as Great Khan, and his other brother Ariq Boke who usurped the throne in Karakorum. The civil war de facto severs contacts betwen the eastern and western khanates, only partly involving the Chagatai khanate (as the local pretender, Alghu, a grandson of Chagatai, allies with Ariq Boke against Bahram Shah Khan, aligned with Kublai). In the end the legitimate ruler Kublai is finally able to prevail and capture his rebel brother, keeping him in honorable prisony up to his death.
Northern Europe: Emir Mindaugas of Lithuania and White Ruthenia founds Sambisarai (*OTL Memel/Klaipeda) on the border with the detested Teutonic Knights, populating the town with captive fellow Muslims from former Volga Bulgaria. He then defeats the rebellious Curonians, a fiercely independent pagan tribe dwelling in Courland.
Western Europe: Nogai Khan plunges in France with a fresh army from the Russian steppes (courtesy of khan Orda of the Golden Horde), sacking randomly; emperor Stephen the Cruel flees back to England with his English army, as Paris and Rouen are left to the renewed Mongol rage. This time also Brittany is plundered and forced to pay tribute to Berke Khan of Berestia, then the Mongols withdraw leaving behind a vanguard in Lorraine, the Ograinese (mostly Cumans and eastern Kipchaks), as the French and Burgundian will nickname them. France crumbles to purely local authority, apart the central areas loosely coordinated by the League of St.-Arnaud, which were mostly spared by this last invasion. The only major feudal power surviving is Anjou, under duke Alain IV, a first cousin of Greater Norman emperor Stephen the Cruel by motherly line, but also a bitter enemy when the sovereign tried to regain France by force.
Southern Europe: The Crusader armies still extant in Lombardy and the royal forces led by king Umberto IV invade Ezzelinian Veneto and take Verona after a brief, sharp siege. Alberico degli Ezzelini flees with his young sons in Hungary after a defeat on the battlefield at the Illasi river. Verona is added to the royal domain, Vicenza and Treviso are made into free cities. The Communal militia of Siena defeats the Pisan (mostly mercenary) army at the battle of Volterra, marking the beginning of the most splendid (and war-ridden) era for the Tuscan Comuni, who managed to avoid the worst of the Mongol invasions.
Middle East: A Mongol army razes Mosul after annhilating the forces of the aged Khayun Beg, a Khorezmian refugee as many of his men. Led by Hulagu Khan and his Christian Turk general, Kedburka/Kitbuga, the Mongols then head for Syria and clash with the local Sungurid Turkmen in the battle of Ath-Thadhyayn on the Euphrates, an extremely bloody draw, after which the new emir of Syria, Lalak ibn Sungur, accepts a weak vassalage to the Mongols retaining life and a considerable independence.
1260 ca.
Southern Europe: Gherardo Segarelli, a poor young man from Parma, refused admission into the Franciscan order, establishes the Apostolic movement, a heretic sect fighting Church corruption and wealth which will gain importance in Lombardy, especially among the peasantry.
Caucasus: The tenacious Muslim Laks of eastern Caucasus (Daghestan) are finally vassalized by the Golden Horde.
Black Africa: The powerful kingdom of Kanem, after the death of mai (king) Dunama Dabbalemi, enters a long phase of decline caused by internal rivalries and raids by Berbers and Arabs from the north.
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They were not contended with the silliness the Saturday ushered in so even put in some desi mixes to make it a "Spicy Saturday" .. Thanks Blog Adda!
I usher in Saturday sitting in office and somehow I am glad. There is a sense of weird spirit in me today. I feel I am possessed as I don't feel tired after working straight for 15 hours without a break. Guess it's because home beckons, or guess its because of my zeal to keep the mind occupied.
But then here in office, Saturday it is! For some the Saturday So? Remains, but as the clock strikes 12, it's as if the midnight RJ on Radio Mirchi is my soul mate who plays my eternal Dabangg favourite "Munni badnaam hui" and makes the Saturday a silly one!!! How ??? Read further…
I fail to understand how such a profound song can actually be considered as a mindless item number. The more I listen to this song the more I fall in love with it. It's like talking through the corniest of words the reality of life. I feel like running up to Jaleesh Sherwani and kissing him for coming up with such lyrics but then Dr. Google images jerk me back to reality by throwing up the face of the man! But Jalu … flying kisses all the way *muuah muaah* 😉
And yes needless to say I am also remembering Uma and DI!!! 😉
Munni badnaam hui … Darling tere liye! (Munni is infamous…Just for you Darling!)
Dear Munni,
(Before the red marker group tags this, let me clarify that since Munni is already badnaam I am a bit hesitant to make her dearest!). But then again Munni, before you tag me, ain't we all like that? Gossiping about people who seek to desire their love, ignoring the fact that all they are doing is actually for the sake of the heart? A lot of Munnis are actually 'badnaam' not because of their raunchy lipstick but because of the fact that they set out to make their men their own and step out of the clichéd – man chasing girl love story mode! 😦
Main Zandu balm hui … Darling tere liye! (So I have become the Zandu(Pain) Balm.. Just for you Darling!)
This line acts like a killer for me… I can literally die for such a thought! You pass it off as a hilarious attribute, but delve a little deeper and you shall be amazed at the profanity of thought. It screams as to how each lover tries to be the soothing balm for all ailments that might befall on his beloved. Don't we all seek to be this way… trying to be the 'one' who eases out all the pain of the man/woman we love? 🙂 *sigh*
Hain tu meri poori bottle ka nashaa…. (Oh! You intoxicate me just like a bottle of my favourite wine!)
Had this line been written in a Mills and Boon, intricately spun romantic story line which read "there's more power in your eyes to get me drunk than the best French wine", we would see bookmarks on the page to copy this line on romantic cards! But then the desi achohol bottle and the swaying sexy hips, take your sense of interpretation away and you think it's again raunchy a line and not worth any interpretation! 😦
Hoton pe gaali tere.. aakhen dulaari tere… (Lashings on your tongue tips …. Eyes serene and true)
Have you ever noticed your man ogling at that girl on the crossing who rides a bike and starts swearing when she is crossed the wrong way? It's a fact that girls getting verbal at times do turn heads. Maybe it's a turn on or maybe it's just an adrenalin gush to break the gender tag that make the heads turn. But the fact is they do turn! Again no matter how bad the swear words are, all guys in the end of the day like to be drowned in the depth of deep eyes! I don't think any language in the world is bereft of an ode to innocent and deep eyes of a maiden and yet here the same thing in simple rustic language is ignored… yet again! 😦
Item yeh aam hui … Darling tere liye! (I am become ordinary from raunchy … Just for you darling!)
This one makes me wonder if Jaleesh is gay… else how can he so sensitively understand the sacrificial women that resides in us? I mean don't we all give up the 'sexy babe' image once we find our man. Somehow the urge to look like a bomb for the world doesn't appeal anyone. Ain't we all happy to be plain Jane's once we find love? *sigh* 🙂
Ok! The song's long over and I don't even know if the above made sense. All I know is that if Y read this he would have made sure I sleep all day tomorrow and pestered me to visit the doctor. 😉 And if still not convinced would have made calls to Jaleesh and threatened to kill him if he had to bear any such more interpretations which made him forget to 'lust' after Mallaika the next time the song plays! 😉
But as of now with no such threat in vicinity (ok am confused whether 🙂 or 😦 fits here?) … but I think I liked the way the song is come to mean to me.
Silly did u say? Well I told ya …Silly Saturday it is! 😀 😀 😀
I think I should just go home and sleep while u all curse me to glory 😉
Happy Weekend Folks!!!! Leaving you with the song 😀

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Myth Busters Accident
December 7, 2011 by staff
Myth Busters Accident, After 8 years on the air, Discovery Channel's hit series MythBusters has finally had their first public accident during filming. While testing out a particular myth involving a cannon, a misfire occurred, which sent a cannonball flying through a nearby home. Fortunately, no one was injured.
The accident happened at 4pm on Tuesday, December 6, near the familiar Alameda County bomb range. Originally, the cannonball was supposed to pass through several barrels of water and a cinder block wall, in order to slow the projectile down. Upon misfiring, the cannon lifted and hit something that caused it to shoot over the protective hillside that surrounds the bomb range.
According to local television station KTVU, the cannonball bounced in front of a residential house, went through the front door and up through the second floor before finally exiting through the back wall. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to stop the cannonball.
After flying over an adjacent street, the cannonball bounced off of the roof of another house, and landed inside a parked minivan.
The owner of the van had this to say: "I kind of looked inside and seen a big old cannonball. And I had just got out of the van five minutes earlier. I'm glad my kids weren't inside the van. So lucky."
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Titannica at Wikia
The following details the creation of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
The book was first conceived in 1980, when the authors Jackson and Livingstone met Geraldine Cooke, a Penguin editor, at Games Workshop's annual Games Day. Initially Cooke was interested in publishing a 'how-to-do-it' book on fantasy role-playing games but Jackson and Livingstone became less inclined to write a technical manual. Instead they fused basic role-playing rules and fantasy adventure plots to come up with the gamebook concept. The pair began work on the project in August 1981 and it took six months for them to write the book. Penguin did not know what to make of the manuscript and it was not until over a year later that the decision to publish was finally made. The book did, however, require a second draft as each author had written half of the adventure each (Livingstone wrote the first half, up to the river crossing, which made a convenient hand-over point, and Jackson wrote the climax of the adventure), and the writing style noticeably changed part way through the book - so Jackson re-wrote Livingstone's part of the book in his own style. There was also some internal debate as to whether the book should be published as a Penguin Book or a Puffin Book, with the book eventually appearing in Penguin's Puffin imprint. In August 1982 the first Fighting Fantasy Gamebook, titled The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, finally appeared and went on to sell out its first print run in a matter of weeks. It eventually sold over a million copies in fifteen languages.[1][2][3]
The project was initially titled The Magic Quest. Although both authors disliked this title, after 'endless debates' they could not come up with an alternative. Eventually the two came up with a compromise. Livingstone, who wrote the first part, had mentioned in the opening paragraph that the whole adventure took place in Firetop Mountain. Jackson, who wrote the final part, had created a climatic battle with a powerful Warlock. On the day the book was handed in it was agreed that the two elements would be combined to create the final title: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.[4]
The finished book was made up of a clean 400 numbered references, which set the standard for the books that followed. This was, however a coincidence. When Jackson and Livingstone combined the two halves of the adventure it transpired that the numbered references, when added together, made a sum of 399. A fake key reference was added to bring to total up to 400.[5]
Cover and illustrations
The original cover of the book was designed and illustrated by Peter Andrew Jones. The design of the cover was unusual for the time, in that book covers usually had the title along the top so they could be read on the 'step' shelves found in stores - Jones, however, left room for the title of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain in the middle of the cover, much to the consternation of the publishers.[6] In later printings Puffin used a different, though very similar, cover illustration, also created by Peter Andrew Jones.
When the book was republished by Wizard the cover was once again re-worked, this time by Martin McKenna, who was asked to use the main elements from the original cover images but make them appear more modern.[7]
The book's interior illustrations were created by Russ Nicholson (who would have also illustrated the cover had confusion over the content of the book and what was wanted from the illustration not required that he begin work on the interior illustrations immediately).[8] The full-page illustrations in the book were accompanied with a caption giving the number of the paragraph depicted and a short extract from the text, a format which was only used again in the next two books, Citadel of Chaos and The Forest of Doom. The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was also unique in that the final paragraph was given an extra full-page illustration.
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Gascoigne, Marc; Steve Jackson, Ian Livingstone (1992). The Fighting Fantasy 10th Anniversary Yearbook. Puffin Books. ISBN 0-14-036290-8. Cite uses deprecated parameter
- ↑ "Fighting Fantasy History on the official Fighting Fantasy website". http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/history.htm.
- ↑ "Letter from Steve Jackson on the Internet Archive record of the old fightingfantasy.com site". http://web.archive.org/web/20020223110653/http://fightingfantasy.com/fflett.htm#Steve%20Jackson.
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Marc Gascoigne, ed. (1986). Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World. Puffin Books. ISBN ISBN 0-14-034132-3 Check
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- ↑ "Warlock Profile No. 1: Peter Jones". Warlock: The Fighting Fantasy Magazine 1 (2): 6-7. 1984.
- ↑ "Page from the official Fighting Fantasy website". http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/members/exclusives1.htm.
- ↑ "Interview with Russ Nicholson on the official Fighting Fantasy website". http://www.fightingfantasygamebooks.com/members/exclusives1.htm.


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The Infrared Module that I chose was a TruOpto part HRM138BB5100 available from Rapid (PN: 55-0902).
I chose it for operating at 3.3V. The circuit is ridiculously simple, a total of 4 components and a small bit of veroboard. I followed the manufacturers recommendations:
IR Module: HRM138BB5100
Capacitor: 47 μF
R1: 4.7 kΩ
Many designs on the net don't use the resistors or capacitor. R1 is important for good switching and some noise immunity. R2 and the capacitor help regulate supply to the detector. The VCC was wired to the Olimexino-85 3.3V VCC pin 8,
GND was connected to pin 7,
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This volunteer profile highlights the role UK health professionals are making in rural Cambodia and how the UK is benefiting too.
In the court yard of a local shop in the sleepy village of Samlout mothers and their children gather around a Durian Tree waiting to receive a check-up from local health workers and UK health professional volunteers. Some are being weighed in laundry baskets, others have a tape measure wrapped round their arms, others fidget uncomfortably as their height is recorded, and many are keen to try out hand washing using the ingenious tippy-tap. The Baby Friendly Community Initiative is just one of the projects run by the Health Partnership between Improving Global Health in the UK and the Maddox-Jolie-Pitt Foundation in Cambodia, helping to support a government initiative that was put in place a few years ago.
Ellie Jordan is a paediatric junior doctor and one of the volunteers working with local Cambodian health workers to improve training, patient care, and develop leadership skills.
'The Baby Friendly Community Initiative is about getting model mothers or village role models to set up mother and baby groups with the aim of being portals for education of mothers about things like breastfeeding, complementary feeding, vaccinations, hygiene and sanitation messages. And also as a way to monitor the babies and the children within the villages, so looking at weights and their mid-upper arm circumference particularly, looking at any malnutrition within the population.'
Rural areas of Cambodia suffer from many health problems, many associated with poverty and low education levels. Problems such as preventable illnesses such as diarrhoea and pneumonia, infectious diseases, and increasingly common non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
During this particular session, Ellie is working with two other UK volunteers and three local health professionals. They are working in partnership as part of a larger project aimed at improving a wide range of health and environmental problems. The partnership is taking a holistic approach to public health care and tackling areas such as breastfeeding, adequate complementary feeding, hygiene and sanitation, vaccinations, and household air pollution. All with an aim to improving the overall health and wellbeing of babies and children.
'I'm focusing on schools, so we're running education sessions in the schools with UV gel to demonstrate good hand washing. We're also running a banner competition, inviting the kids to get creative and design hand washing logos and slogans that we're going to turn into banners and use as community adverts, so the children in the school are then designing health promotion messages for their community. It's all to do with community ownership and sustainability.'
Ellie is on a six month placement in which time she will work closely with local health professionals to continue the work of previous volunteers, steering the project towards eventual full ownership by local health workers and community leaders.
As well as benefits for the community of Samlout, UK and Cambodian health workers are benefitting both in terms of clinical and leadership skills.
'I've really gained respect for and learnt good leadership practices from the way local colleagues interact and influence people in positions of power or seniority, and watching how they work with them to get the results that they want to achieve. It's really quite impressive. There's so many stakeholders involved in working in community development. It's not just doctors and health professionals within a hospital system, it's local government, it's community leaders, the community members themselves. I think it's something that I'll definitely use when I go back to the NHS.'
It's late in the afternoon, and the last of the mothers head home with their children. The health team has seen dozens of children and infants today who have come from all over the area. Ellie and the team sit together around a table discussing the day's work. Looking out over the rice fields and forests of Samlout it's difficult to understand how this kind of work in such a vastly different context to a UK hospital can be beneficial to the UK health system.
'The challenges and opportunities that working in a low- or middle-income country offer are so widely different from the UK and our NHS system, but also very transferrable, and actually a lot of the lessons or experiences that are learned or gathered are very applicable to the NHS as well. Too much in the NHS is about service provision, we're training to be excellent clinicians, but some of the other skills, such as leadership skills or management skills or teaching skills, have to run secondary to that. And that's what IGH provides – a real opportunity to nurture the leadership skills. In the longer term, what you then take back to the NHS as a leader is far more valuable than the snippets of passive learning that you pick up alongside the rest of your training. So I think anyone who is contemplating volunteering – I would definitely say do it.'
You can watch a short film about the project and how volunteers are helping in Samlout here.


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Our countdown of 2010's top 10 soccer stories and newsmakers -- from a Southern California slant -- continues.
Stories/No. 9: Real Madrid's visit
The gap between Major League Soccer's best and the world's finest clubs has rarely been more aptly illustrated than at the Rose Bowl last Aug. 7.
The Galaxy, en route to the Supporters' Shield (as MLS's regular-season champion), stood toe to toe with mighty Real Madrid through 45 minutes, taking a two-goal lead to the locker room at halftime.Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Real Madrid defender Marcelo, right, clashes with Galaxy forward Mike Magee during their friendly at the Rose Bowl on Aug. 7.
Then Jose Mourinho, the "Special One," unleashed his A side, bringing on World Cup stars Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Higuain, Xabi Alonso and Iker Casillas. Real Madrid, demonstrating a substantial superiority in skill, quickness of thought and ball movement, destroyed L.A. over the final 45 minutes, rallying for a 3-2 victory -- with Argentine forward Higuain scoring two of the goals.
The encounter delighted a crowd of 89,134 -- the second-largest crowd to watch a soccer game in Southern California this year, just off the 90,526 count for Mexico's Rose Bowl game against New Zealand on March 3. And it delighted the Galaxy, who considered it an honor to be on the same field with one of the globe's greatest clubs.
Real Madrid's 11-day visit to Los Angeles was pretty special, too. Mourinho is an L.A. lover; he brings his club -- previously Chelsea and Inter Milan -- to UCLA for preseason training each year. As big as Chelsea and Inter are, they're no Real Madrid: The Spaniards are one of, arguably, the big three, along with Manchester United and Barcelona. (Some might add AC Milan to the grouping.)
Fans responded, with hundreds lining the pathways outside UCLA's North Athletic Field every day for a glimpse, an autograph, a photo of some of the biggest names in the game. Inside the gated facility, a select few -- including U.S. coach Bob Bradley and his staff -- watched as Mourinho put Real through its paces.
Newsmakers/No. 9: Charlie Naimo
Everything Charlie Naimo touched seemed to disintegrate in 2010.
First the L.A. Sol, Women's Professional Soccer's top regular-season club in year one, folded before year two started. Then his Pali Blues women's team, the unbeaten W-League champs in its first two seasons, stumbled in search of title No. 3. And then the Chicago Red Stars, the WPS club he was helping turn into a contender, announced it needed cash or would join the exodus from America's women's league.
It was a rough year for Naimo, one of America's finest women's soccer coaches, who had built the New Jersey Wildcats and Sky Blue FC into national powers before he was lured from New Jersey to California as Ali Mansouri and Co. began preparing for the birth of WPS and the Sol.Courtesy L.A. Blues
It was a trying year for Charlie Naimo, who now has taken over the L.A. Blues.
He enjoyed an extraordinary first two seasons in L.A., guiding Pali -- with a roster including nearly two dozen players who have played for the U.S. national team or gone on to WPS -- to a 14-0-0 in mark 2008 and an 11-0-3 record in 2009 and overseeing the L.A. Sol's tremendous start en route to the WPS regular-season title and a spot in the league's first title game.
The Sol shut down last January, after AEG pulled out as co-owner. Pali struggled: The Blues' unbeaten streak ended after 32 games, they limped barely into the playoffs with a 3-4-3 record, then were promptly ousted by the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Naimo was hired as as an adviser to the Red Stars last summer, and working with general manager Marcia McDermott (she coached Carolina to the 2002 Women's United Soccer Association crown) and new coach Omid Namazi (former San Diego Spirit coach in the WUSA) turned WPS's most disappointing franchise (it was shut out 15 times in its first 27 games) into a competitive side expected to contend in 2011. The club went on hiatus earlier this month, the fourth WPS team to fail.
The year closed better for Naimo, with the unveiling of the L.A. Blues, the third professional men's team in Southern California. He's the head coach and general manager -- and he'll continue to serve as manager of the Pali Blues, the team's sister club.


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George Kyparisis makes bowling balls in his Miami plant. With recent increases in his costs, he has a newfound interest in efficiency. George is interested in determining the productivity of his organization. He would like to know if his organization is maintaining the manufacturing average of 3% increase in productivity per year? He has the following data representing a month from last year and an equivalent month this year:
Show the productivity percentage change for each category and then determine the improvement for labor- hours, the typical standard for comparison.
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If you see someone and, in your mind, you do the equivalent of holding up a Dulux colour chart to decide what you think of them… could I ask, in all seriousness, what goes on in your mind? What drives the cogs in your brain? What colour is the sky where you live (without resorting to a colour chart)?
In what way is the colour of someone's skin an indicator of their worth or value – to society as a whole, or you as an individual? Is melanin an indicator of badness; the more you have the worse you are? Could you please provide scientific (neurological) evidence that melanin plays such a role? Otherwise, I'm just going to have to assume that such beliefs are irrational, naive and (because no other word is suitable) stupid.
During the course of my online life, I've had occasion to talk to, debate with and (I'll admit) ridicule people who identify themself as white supremacists. Their premise is that white people are superior to black people. They see it as self-evident and, if you disagree with them, you are labelled as a traitor to your race… if you're white. If you're black, they'll have all sorts of other labels for you – none of them complimentary.
For those who believe that skin-colour makes a difference to who a person is, I'd like to provide a little historical insight regarding the supremacy of white people. When civilisation first began, the first block of stone was levelled onto another block of stone to make the first city in a land that, today, is known as Iraq. They invented the wheel, crop irrigation, writing and the bow and arrow. Around 2500 years later, on an island off the west coast of Europe, people of a very different culture arranged a group of stones which would later be known as Stonehenge. The henge-builders were a lighter shade on the Dulux chart than the inventors of cities; 2500 years earlier.
If the supremacist in you isn't convinced by the ancient evidence of your non-supremacy, and you point to examples in the modern world to back your claims, allow me to burst that bubble, too. The industrialised (mostly white) Western world was built upon the exchange of goods between 3 key regions: Africa, America and Europe. The "goods" from Africa were slaves. So, sure, the Western (mostly white) industrialised (technologically-driven) advancement over the "inferior" blacks in Africa makes white people (in your mind) "superior"… but never forget how that so-called supremacy was derived.
Africa is a recurring theme amongst white supremacists. They highlight it as a flawed continent that proves the inferiority of black people. Whilst (somehow) forgetting that Egypt (and its ancient civilisational wonders) are in Africa, they highlight how flawed the continent is. Again, they should always be mindful of the role that white people played in that continent. The slave-driven rape of its people aside, for now, modern Africa is a divided continent, with those divisions drawn on the maps of white empire builders.
Sure, Africa is reknowned for corrupt governments, weak democracy and poorly-organised, famine-ridden poverty zones, but the Post Empirical condition of those weak democracies are the direct result of a foreign political climate imposed upon those who weren't familiar with such a system. Africans, for the most part, lived nomadically or rurally under the guise of tribal leaderships. If it is taking them some time to establish stable democracies, within non-tribal state-boundaries, appreciate (if you can) the prolonged, blood-bathed turmoil that Western democracies undertook whilst trying to do the same thing – over a much longer timeframe.
White supremacy, my hairy (white) arse.
As white people, we've been lulled into thinking it's safe to be around other white people. We've been taught since birth that it's the people of that other color we need to fear. They're the ones who'll slit your throat!
Yet as I look back on my life, a strange but unmistakable pattern seems to emerge. Every person who has ever harmed me in my lifetime—the boss who fired me, the teacher who flunked me, the principal who punished me, the kid who hit me in the eye with a rock, the other kid who shot me with his BB gun, the executive who didn't renew TVNation, the guy who was stalking me for three years, the accountant who double-paid my taxes, the drunk who smashed into me, the burglar who stole my stereo, the contractor who overcharged me, the girlfriend who left me, the next girlfriend who left even sooner, the pilot of the plane I was on who hit a truck on the runway (he probably hadn't eaten in days), the other pilot who decided to fly through a tornado, the person in the office who stole checks from my checkbook and wrote them out to himself for a total of $16,000—every one of these individuals has been a white person! Coincidence? I think not!
I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never had a meeting at a Hollywood studio with a black executive in charge, never seen a black agent at the film /IV agency that used to represent me, never had a black person deny my child the college of her choice, never been puked on by a black teenager at a Motley Crue concert, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person try to bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here—have a nice day!"
I don't think I'm the only white guy who can make these claims. Every mean word, every cruel act, every bit of pain and suffering in my life has had a Caucasian face attached to it. - Michael Moore, Stupid White Men
To embrace Michael Moore's concept fully, we'd have to accept that white people are worse than black people. That, to put it mildly, would be untrue. Some people are good. Some people are bad. The key ingredients which make them like that aren't decided by the colour of their skin. The above anecdote should, however, be kept in mind by every white person who decides that black people are the ones they should always be wary of.
Of course, xenophobia isn't only found amongst white people regarding black people – but that subject will be for another post, another day.


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