Richard Bulliet - History of the World to 1500 CE (Session 7) - The Mediterranean and Middle East

Topic: The Mediterranean and the Middle East, 2000-500 B.C.E. Part II
Speaker: Richard Bulliet
Date: 9/28/2010
Course number: W3902
Course title: World History to 1500 CE
School: CC
Session 7 (9/28/10)

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

my guess would be that history documentaries could win against WWF reruns. both are similarly stylized spectacles mainly dealing with clashes and conflicts, but the former ones come with better costumes.

[@thurdl01]

Last place I expected to see a shout out for Steampunk.

[@michaelccozens]

@godspeasant I think you need to review the lecture. Dr. Bulliet isn't saying that Iranians like war and slavery - he's saying that that was the historical narrative set up in the West during the Cold War. And how does the number of wars the US or Iran have fought in the last few decades impact on 4000 years of history? Step back, take a deep breath, and try listening to what's actually being said here.

[@nathanstroupe]

It is: ISBN -9780618992386 The earth and its peoples :a global history Richard W. Bulliet Boston :Houghton Mifflin,c2009.

[@easyengrave1649]

What did he call the Holy Land?

[@mjcard]

He called it a term that showed he had never been there. It's wonderful.

[@jdeshetlerII]

A term an objective historian shouldn't be using.

[@newsesofworlds543]

Holy Land is not a term an objective historian should be using either

[@BluJean6692]

"wretched piece of land." Calm down y'all: it was a mournful quip related to the centuries of conflict over an area not very different from its surrounding lands, specifically ironic in the context of having run through several other names for the place...

[@emf1111]

to godspeasant, he said very similar to the Vedic language not English

[@godspeasant]

Farsi (Persian) is not similar to English as this "professor" seems to believe. If you want to say "I am eating food" in Farsi you would literally say "I food eating". As far as it comes to Iranians liking war and slavery, this historian needs to review his story, I mean history. The US has fought wars in every continent within the past few decades while Iran has fought one against Iraq in 1980, which was sponsored by the US as well. Lastly, capitalism is nothing but "sophisticated slavery".

[@coe3408]

Farsi is more simillar to english than to arabic, it is an Indo-European language

[@sincitycapital]

Oh f*ck off

[@godspeasant]

@Mostafa Noor farsi obviously existed long before English did. English recently removed genders from objects (like they have in french and spanish) whereas farsi has no way of determining gender (there is no word for he or she) unless if there is context. I speak, read and write 6 languages. So what?

[@godspeasant]

@Mostafa Noor I don't remember this clip I watched it over 10 years ago but to this day I still agree with my comment made back then. You're the one trying to refute my claim from years ago and I'm disagreeing with you by showing evidence.