many very strange and dramatic things happened that have mostly been forgotten, or they are remembered in a way that elides their strangeness to our eyes by imposing ancient/medieval imaginative frameworks on them
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626 siege of Constantinople by Zoroastrian persians, Slavic pagans, tengriist avars who looked like siberian natives
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in general there were so many weird combinations of peoples, religions, ideas, etc. in close proximity and conflict, arranged in bizarre ways
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I read the last part of his book on paganism vs Christianity
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