Andrew Eubanks — The Lost Historian

From Encolombia.com It has often been said that history begins at Sumer. Traditionally, historians have constrained the jurisdiction of history to an arbitrary time frame. For example, a certain number of years have to pass before an event is considered history. On the other end of the timeline, history has traditionally been defined as written history. The invention of the written word, which is usually ascribed to Sumer in around 3500 BCE, is seen as the transition mark between history and what is considered prehistory.  By now, because of some of the topics I've written about before , I'm sure you are well aware that my definition of history is much broader. To me, history is anything that happened in the past— from just a moment ago all the way to, until we can go farther, the Big Bang itself.  To me, history is not confined to 5522 years of the written record but rather 13.8 billion years.  That being said, the transition from societies without writing to societies w...

Original art: murals of the Moldovița  Monastery in Romania This war would change the course of history and the world forever. It would begin a domino effect that had an impact so large that it marks the ending of an era. The major powers that had simply always existed in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region would fall into serious decline and finally be wiped out by a power and a movement that is important to the world today. And yet, the war is not common knowledge.  There are a few reasons this could be. For one, the name of the war ascribed to it by historians is the "Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-628" or some variant thereof which doesn't really stay in your mind all that well. Alternatively, another possibility that the war is so forgotten is that its major combatants no longer exist and the states that rose in their wake did not adopt their history as their own.  Nevertheless, the Final Roman-Persian War, as I will call the event, led to the end of both the Ro...