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Of course we’re not talking about the good Indo-Europeans—some of my best friends are Hittites.
So you've become a "Great King," have you? But why do you still continue to speak about "friendship" and about coming to Mt. Ammana?... For what reason should I call you "friend"?…Do those who are not on familiar terms with each other call each other "friend"? Why then should I call you "friend"? Were you and I born of neighbours? As my grandfather and my father did not call the King of Assyria "friend," you should not keep writing to me (about) "coming" and "Great King-ship." It displeases me.
- a barely-altered version of the letter Hittite king Mursili III sent to Adad-nārārī I of Assyria
I love how one branch is just "Albanian"
E: also Armenian, sorry yall
Albanian might be a sub-branch of Illyrian, but there's no solid consensus on the issue.
ETRURIA FOR THE ETRUSCANS
I find it odd that the pic rejects Balto-Slavic unity and calls Sorbian "Wendish".
There's growing evidence that the Anatolian branch - long thought to be the earliest split - may be better described as a sister branch. If so Proto Indo-Anatolian would be the family, with an Indo-European branch and an Anatolian branch.
I believe this has been a minority position among linguists but recent aDNA data suggests that sister branches is a good fit for the genetics, giving a little more weight to that model for the language.
Excuses, excuses. I know one when I see one.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
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The Internet in Ancient Times
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Welcome to the stone age... or the bronze age... or the iron age... heck, anything with an 'age' is welcome, except our modern age or any ages to come.
This is about what the internet was like thousands of years ago back when it all started. Like when Darius the Great hired mercenaries via Craigslist or when Egypt invented emojis.
CODE OF LAWS
1 - Be civil. No name calling, no fighting, keep your flint hand axes inside your leather pouches at all times.
2 - Keep the AI stuff to a minimum. It gets annoying and old fashioned memes are more fun for everyone.
3 - None of this newfangled modern 21st century nonsense. We don't even know what "21st century" means.
4 - No porn/explicit content. The king is sensitive about these things.
5 - No lemmy.world TOS violations will be tolerated. So there.
6 - There is no ~~rule~~ law 6.
Laws of justice which Hammurabi, the wise king, established. A righteous law, and pious statute did he teach the land. Hammurabi, the protecting king am I. I have not withdrawn myself from the men, whom Bel gave to me, the rule over whom Marduk gave to me, I was not negligent, but I made them a peaceful abiding-place. I expounded all great difficulties, I made the light shine upon them. With the mighty weapons which Zamama and Ishtar entrusted to me, with the keen vision with which Ea endowed me, with the wisdom that Marduk gave me, I have uprooted the enemy above and below (in north and south), subdued the earth, brought prosperity to the land, guaranteed security to the inhabitants in their homes; a disturber was not permitted. The great gods have called me, I am the salvation-bearing shepherd, whose staff is straight, the good shadow that is spread over my city; on my breast I cherish the inhabitants of the land of Sumer and Akkad; in my shelter I have let them repose in peace; in my deep wisdom have I enclosed them. That the strong might not injure the weak, in order to protect the widows and orphans, I have in Babylon the city where Anu and Bel raise high their head, in E-Sagil, the Temple, whose foundations stand firm as heaven and earth, in order to bespeak justice in the land, to settle all disputes, and heal all injuries, set up these my precious words, written upon my memorial stone, before the image of me, as king of righteousness.
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