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Written by Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama on 2025-01-15 at 19:57

Trying to decide if the post classical, the so called dark ages were bad enough to count as one of

my collapses, maybe a minor one, it was what, 1,500 hundred years after the bronze age collapse and 1,500 years before this one?

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I suppose the previous interval was three millennia or more, so maybe not, and if not this interval would be on the same scale, 3,000 years.

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but a minor one, and perhaps Rome took the gene to every corner of europe, this collapse would follow the gene reaching saturation in europe’s north. It’s all massively speculative, of course. I’m only pursuing it because of the dark ages meme, we speak of it as a collapse. I know a big theme these days is that the dark ages were fulled with art and culture, so surely not as hard a crash as some others.

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And the Celts/Picts/Druids/Scots are still a mystery in my world, first they were too fierce for the Romans, but then later the Vikings just had their way with them? Something changed, the Romans broke them or altered them somehow after all?

I suspect some detail of the spread of the gene, but I don’t know what.

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Pure speculation, but perhaps it is possible to be fierce without it, and perhaps the warrior gene doesn’t make you free but makes you a willing, compliant soldier ant, and these were the wildmen of Scotland, strong and free without it. That seems romantic; don’t quote me. 😘

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