Why are we so bound to history by the Romans still?
Time for a new story.
I am getting ready to go back to Africa. It’s been a wonderful summer in NoVA, but in Sept, I’ll be there! I have been delving back into history this summer. Specifically about Calcutta, I am about to do a lot of videos that dig through old books I’ve found at the Library of Congress. I can’t figure it out yet, but I am getting there.
On a bigger picture, do you think sometimes we are still under Roman rule? We are still under their time and view of the world.
Is this (below) the history you learned about the Romans?
We were all misled and lied to in our history classes. It was a process of exclusion and erasure. Romans were obfuscated, and others were outright erased.
Did you know this?
Or this?
And this?
If this interests you, here are some videos on the subject. Dr. Roy Casagranda pushes back against the artificial East-West paradigm and shows how the so-called "Dark Ages" was a period with enormous intellectual achievement.
His part 3 and part 4 were pulled from the YT channel. It might have upset too many in the narrative. To me, it looks like the missing dates, the idea that 1000 years is missing, becomes less appealing the more you research the Moors, Ottomans, and other Islamic cultures. They were erased.
And if that isn’t a stretch, then be prepared for a fertile mental expansion from Old World Florida:
I have no doubt that the Roman Empire simply regrouped, rebranded and relocated a few times. I have written about it extensively. Please see: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101
Interesting collection. I've been reading and viewing much related info recently. The last video was the most odd, many wishful assumptions and factual errors (for example "we" Greeks weren't called Greeks during ancient times), but still interesting. I think Atlantis was probably the Richat Structure/Eye of Sahara, while pre-Colombus (and perhaps much older) contact between "America" and the "Old World" makes a lot of sense.
I'm not sure if the Roman Empire has bloodline continuity to now, as a power structure. But the "spiritual" continuity seems obvious to me, even having read mostly mainstream ancient history so far. Very obvious pro-roman biases and outright lies are perpetuated and even boosted by most modern historians. Hellenistic era ( = mid/late Republic = Rise of Rome) military and diplomatic history is full of that. Abrahamic religions taking form through the Empire also makes more sense the deeper I look into it.
Either way, it makes sense as modern propaganda. The Empire is strong, you little folk are weak.