Buba
A total creep
An interesting scenario from AH-com.
Jerusalem stolen from under Salah ad-Din's nose and dumped into the Age of Judges (i.e. tribal caciques, or warbosses if you preffer), immediatelly pre United Kingdom.
If that article is true, then ISOTed folks would NOT be a military power being civilians, children and REMFs.
The numbers look a bit high to me - 5k Moslem slaves freed, 15k Latin Christians enslaved, plus many Latin and non-Latin Christians emigrating or left alone, plus I imagine free Moslems and Jews - there were over 30k people in Jerusalem at that time?
Still, the Uties have steel which should give them an edge (ha! I make pun!) against the Bronze Age folks around them and can loot food. I'd expect some sort of Jerusalem centered polity of the Uties to survive.
This is the time of the Bronze Age Collapse and invasions of Sea Peoples
These are suspected of including a proto-Greek component (maybe a veteran of the conquest of Troi could be found?). Somebody (probably tens of somebodies) in UT Jerusalem must know Greek - could they communicate? Not easy, but with SLOW and LOUD speech and some vigorous arm waving on both sides ...
I suppose same linguistic issues apply to speakers of 12th c AD Arabic and Aramean versus 12th c BC Hebrew and Cannanite? Or would things be easier here? Hebrew is not a spoken language, but would Learned Rabbi's (who know it writing) have it easier when bumping into contemporary Hebrews?
Any Indo-European languages (Turkish, anyone?) aside (maybe) aforementioned Greek are totally useless and will die out inside 2-3 generations. Maybe Latin survives as language of the Latin Church. But the Christian traditions might fuse, ending up with Aramaic as lithurigical language?
Are there any educated people in Jerusalem capable of calculating the date from star positions? Or would the Uties go by the Bible to figure out when they are (I presume c. 500 year accuracy)?
Jerusalem stolen from under Salah ad-Din's nose and dumped into the Age of Judges (i.e. tribal caciques, or warbosses if you preffer), immediatelly pre United Kingdom.
Saladin's Conquest of Jerusalem (1187 CE)
Jerusalem, a holy city for the adherents of all three great monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) was conquered by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099 CE. The Muslims failed...
www.worldhistory.org
The numbers look a bit high to me - 5k Moslem slaves freed, 15k Latin Christians enslaved, plus many Latin and non-Latin Christians emigrating or left alone, plus I imagine free Moslems and Jews - there were over 30k people in Jerusalem at that time?
Still, the Uties have steel which should give them an edge (ha! I make pun!) against the Bronze Age folks around them and can loot food. I'd expect some sort of Jerusalem centered polity of the Uties to survive.
This is the time of the Bronze Age Collapse and invasions of Sea Peoples
These are suspected of including a proto-Greek component (maybe a veteran of the conquest of Troi could be found?). Somebody (probably tens of somebodies) in UT Jerusalem must know Greek - could they communicate? Not easy, but with SLOW and LOUD speech and some vigorous arm waving on both sides ...
I suppose same linguistic issues apply to speakers of 12th c AD Arabic and Aramean versus 12th c BC Hebrew and Cannanite? Or would things be easier here? Hebrew is not a spoken language, but would Learned Rabbi's (who know it writing) have it easier when bumping into contemporary Hebrews?
Any Indo-European languages (Turkish, anyone?) aside (maybe) aforementioned Greek are totally useless and will die out inside 2-3 generations. Maybe Latin survives as language of the Latin Church. But the Christian traditions might fuse, ending up with Aramaic as lithurigical language?
Are there any educated people in Jerusalem capable of calculating the date from star positions? Or would the Uties go by the Bible to figure out when they are (I presume c. 500 year accuracy)?