• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    2 months ago

    If there’s one thing I like to see, it’s people correcting others on the history of the Turkic peoples and their many migrations/conquests.

    Don’t forget that “Greek families” were more diverse in looks than modern thinkers tend to assume at the time.

    He might have had red curly hair, or his grandma could have been a Nubian lady his grandpa met in Roman Alexandria.

    Probably not, partly because disrespecting “barbarians” in what can only be described as systemic racism had just collapsed the Western Empire, but not definitely not.