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Definitely areas I'm steering clear of, then.

It's honestly horrific. Personal bias is one thing, but if you're in academia you should keep such biases in check so you can see the whole picture in an objective manner. Revisionism should have no place in it. I dunno how you've worked with such people without wanting to strangle them. sigh

They did expand trade and contact between various people's and kingdoms. However, they still were a rampaging horde that killed countless people and committed horrific acts on a massive scale. History is not black and white like your history professor is basically arguing for, and I'm...

"But, but muh communism!" What a lot of these brain-dead kids, especially the girls and soy-boys, don't understand is that their view of communism, e.g. maintaining a Western/capitalist lifestyle like using their shitty iPhones to tweet their outrage or drinking their $10.00 Starbucks' coffees...

Agreed. I see genuine YouTube comments from people saying "this is why the class system should be abolished" (as in capitalism, not religious classes) and "workers should own a piece of XX". Of course, most comments, judging from the pictures on their comments/avatars, are from fucking...

Well, it does match up with the borders of old East Germany: It was a communist shit-hole for over fifty years, so it's no wonder that there are fewer people in science and technology in that former region now. It's gonna take more than half a century for that to change. I am sadly surprised...

Not sure about the rest of the theory, but the whole "no making incest babies with your cousins" thing does make sense. Over a few centuries? Yeah, genetic issues (diseases and the like) from such causes are unlikely to be as prevalent because you're not fucking your genetically-related cousins.