rerevisionist wrote:[1] It's true the 'birth of Christ' is an artificial starting-point, but that doesn't mean all the related dates are wrong. You have to start somewhere.
Sure, start now, and go back safely and slowly, start in 1898 for example, as modern world, close to us, easy to check, safe, not with a 2000 date calculated by some rabbis in the Vatican!
Where do you build a house? In a safe terrain!
History, to be a Science, needs chain of custody, just as in a case in front of a judge, this is the weapon used by the accused, found by policeman Bob, at such time, given to Captain James at Police Station such, that time, and kept there under Guard, with a list of this people allowed to enter, brought today to this trials by this agents. This is certainty. And the moment we see something suspicious we stop, and solve it, whatever it takes. If the police were drunk, there was an earthquake, a fire, then careful!
So, in History, we see a revolution, a civil war, a new dynasty, a war, an invasion? Careful! Stop and check there were no book burnings, no manipulations of archives, compare old history books to the new ones....
Any historical document should always start with; "This information comes from here, book found there such place such time by such monk, if so, 90% of our famous ancient documents would be from the renascence, or copies of translated versions of another translation..."
You should start from recent times to the deep past, starting in the middle of the ancient past is absurd. Imagine a line back in time, from us, to the past, not the other way around.
And importance should be given to changes, comets, floods, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, political changes.
And like "separation and checks to power in politics", so in history, checks like statistics of population, number of kids per family, soldiers in armies, patents about weapons, analysis of ship's capabilities, history is suspect, is had to lead to results, Crimean War, a massive amphibious operation... do the numbers coincide the capabilities of the navies of the time? Always checking what the papers says with the ground.
I guess you get my point.
For example, finding sunk ships, testing, constructing roman triremes for example (Only ships with one layer, maybe two, never three, it was built and sunk, couldn't be moved, too heavy, mathematical impossibility, so it was poetry, exaggerations of "Roman" writers, the Armada Invencible used almost Roman style galleys to attack England, some galleons but lots of Mediterranean galleys, Lepanto battle again is painted with roman style ships... no advancement in 15 centuries?)
rerevisionist wrote:[3] The Chinese language seems of immense antiquity, and I stand by the comment that it has writings and documents which seem unequivocally old.
I have WW2 era books with yellow pages, depends on lots of conditions, but how do we know how old a book is?
We can't wait 600 years in a laboratory to make get the necessary data, we will die of old age, how do we know it's 800 or 200 years, during the Opium Wars, it would seem old anyways. China was isolated too much time for us, I'm not saying what happened there, just that we recently became aware of it, books like Sun Tzu are thousands of years old, but to Europeans are very recent, Tao Te Ching too, there is a big confrontation between Max Muller era, the 1800 when Orient books were translated to Europe and it's official dates, thousands of years, it could have been said "We have no idea when they were written, we consider them invaluable and have translated them" But no, their arrogance or orders forced them to close the subject matter fast and forever, so no investigation would be started, and if it did, it would have been poisoned from the start by assuming the wrong dates and wrong culture offered for it's creation.
rerevisionist wrote:tree-ring dating
it's analyzed in several books, C14 too. In WW2 a plane was lost in the ice, a decade later it had dozens of meters of ice on top. Until that time, it was assumed that the apparent changes in color in the ice were years, but after digging to a WW2 bomber it had to be abandoned, they were just marking of heavy snows, days, weeks, variable epochs, not years.
The best example is an island in Iceland, it was created in a volcanic eruption in the 60's. It appeared there, from the water, and in few months had green leaves, flowers, birds, in years small trees, a whole island with mountains and trees appeared out of nothing in the ocean in decades! Whole continents could have been created like that, in a moment.
rerevisionist wrote:and EU policy, more or less kept secret, is to import something like 50 million black Africans into Europe!
Yes, search the name Kalergi, Coudenhove-Kalergi I think, the Jew who designed the EU with the sole reason of dumbing down the Europeans by race-mixing, the EU gives prizes with his name and medal, in Spanish there is a book called "Adios Europa" by Gerd Honsik. Sad that only few people realize that..
Kalergi plan was one of many designed for post-war Germany, like Morgenthau.
