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..up a tree...in a village in the hills...

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Friday, April 29 2005, 14:41:13 (CEST)
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...the boys love to frappe history with comments like, "The Assyrians stayed up north...the Chaldeans never went out of the south...and those in the east and west stayed there too...for 3000 years not a person anywhere moved."

In reality the Assyrian Empire was cosmopolitan...being merchants and traders of an empire filled to bursting with material wealth from all corners of the world sort of implies that...everywhere in the world where goods and those buying, selling and transporting them met, bringing with them varying creeds and dogmas and prejudices...people became skeptical and then accepting of them all...or skeptical and then cynnical. But their world-view was of the most expansive sort.

What you see in the boys comes from lifetimes spent in mountain villages where the people in the next village over the hill were seen as "foreigners". To them, Assyria, was one big, narrow, prejudiced, myopic in-breeding village...like the places they came from and long for. Trying real hard to re-create an Assyria in their heads...they reject anyone who isn`t of their same tribe, sect, belief, language, music or region.

Assyrians my arse.

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