CyberEgg

With respect to at least Egypt bear in mind that the areas frequently photographed are the dramatic desert parts

Definitely not only Egypt. The Fertile Crescent from the Levante along the north end of the Syrian Desert all the way through Mesopotamia to the shores of the Persian Gulf was generally very, well, fertile land (as the name suggests).

Unfortunately, Euphrates and Tigris nowadays contain much less water due to climate change and dams built in Turkey, and farming cannot be done reliable in the lower regions anymore.

First, the Levante, Egypt and Mesopotamia are not the cradle of humanity but the cradle of civilisation. The Cradle of Humankind is a but further south in South Africa with significant findings for three early genera of homo.

Second, if one talked about the Cradle of Humankind that wouldn’t be history but prehistory.

Third, Siberia and most parts of Canada nowadays are frozen, uninhabitable wastelands during winter.

Fourth, if we talked the cradle of civilisation (what this meme is most likely about) we would also need to talk about the different climatic conditions 5000-6000 years ago and also where exactly these civilisations developed: on relatively narrow strips of fertile land around the rivers of Euphrates, Tigris and Nile.

Qwant it is.

Sources are few in numbers, many of the existing ones are not considered reliable, there is a lot of mythologicalisation (is that a word? Mythification? Something like that, it’s clouded in myths) around the “crusade”, but what can be reconstructed from the few sources that are considered contemporary no participant actually made it to the Holy Land.
A cologne chronic reports many “crusaders” died from thirst and starvation before even reaching the alps, then the trek reached Genua where a promised parting of the sea (yes, it was promised to happen just like in the bible, apparently) did not occur. From there, many turned to Rome and the Pope to be freed from their oath, others tried to board ships to Palestine, however only a few were successful and those who were were sold into slavery.

Not much of a crusade, not a lot of sources (and none from participants), a lot of conflations with other events (like children’s pilgrimages to Mont Saint Michel) and myths (like the Piper of Hamelin), etc.

But most certainly no sword and arrow action in the Holy Land.

Because they’re just a reddit reposter.

The Vendel Era is “part” of the early medieval period though.

Also I checked swedish and danish Wikipedia, they both give a similar time period for the medieval period from 476 to 1400 or 1500.

That is an odd classification of the middle ages if I’ve ever seen one.

Usually, the middle ages go from around 500 to around 1500, the early medieval period ends (depending on location) somewhere in the 11th century (1066 in England, 1054 in Byzantium or 1024 in the Holy Roman Empire, just to name a few examples) and is followed by the high medieval period that lasted until the mid 13th century, that was in turn succeeded by tge late medieval period.

“Mid nedieval period” is not a term I ever came across.

This conveys an utter misconception about what Vikings were, what they did and how everything developed.

This is crap.

There wasn’t much of anything ’nation stare’ though.

Dunno, I have been prescribed times in rehab clinics and there are such clinics in seaside locations.

What?

Nobody wants to say nothing. What message are you trying to convey?

What are you trying to say with this?

Doesn’t need to be a comment, could be just post text.

Oh the irony.

No one is forcing you not to add context. Just do it FFS.

Who? What happened?

Why though?

Is it really too much to provide a paragraph of context?

It’s overwhelming and makes the other communities I subscribed to kinda disappear.

Yeah, and that’s all fine. But my fees was basically PugJesus with some other posts here and there. And I’m not even talking only historymemes and related, but my home feed. It was just overwhelming.

Sure, PugJesus delivers nice context. Unfortunately, I had to block them because they post so much everything else in my feed was drowned by that flood.

We’ve always existed

Incidentally, We Have Always Existed is an enjoyable YT channel discussing trans people in history (mostly classic antiquity).

I know you all need this ~45 minutes deep dive.