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As i see we mostly discuss about world history ere. But what about YOUR local history? Where do you live? Where you come from? And historically speaking, was your hometown/area interesting?
Let's start with mine: i came from a rural area in eastern Liguria, so my local history is mostly tied with the history of the Republic of Genova
My area was mostly under the control of one of the major families of medieval/early modern Genoa: the Fieschi, a rural aristocratic family, leader of the Genoese Guelf faction (opposed to urban nobility leaded by the Doria family, mostly of the Ghibelline side) They ruled as Counts of the city of Lavagna, and were busy on costant skirmishes with the city of Chiavari, a small city state located on the other side of the river, a city very loyal to Genoa, so much it was used by the capital as a counter-weight to the ambition of the Fieschis to rule the entire east coast
The Fieschi continued to be a thorn in the side of Genoa, untile in 1548 the house head, LUigi Fieschi, tried a coup against the de facto dictator of Genoa, Andrea Doria (yes, the dude from EUIV) The coup faile so badly Luigi died in the street clashes, and after that Doria ordered the complete eradication of house Fieschi. All their members were exiled, and all their holdings in my homeland went under direct control of the Republic
Share some other interesting local history events from your area
"Women's rights", "abortion", "secularism", "left wing", "conservative", etc. When did this whole culture war begin? Has it always existed? When reading about the past, one thing I notice that is seemingly absent are these constant, daily, discussions about every aspect of how we live our lives and our values. Did a Medieval father get into an argument with his young daughter over a woman's place in society? Did they argue over economic redistribution and shit like this? Would friends leave each other over disagreements pertaining to whether they believe in abortion or not? When did we start defining everything about ourselves like this?
>"We make deal, yes?” >“You give us gold and women, we no attack.” >“You not give enough gold or women, so we attack.” >“We attack anyway.” >“We make deal, yes?" Why were steppefags like this?
>After ousting the Spanish from the north of the island in 1642, the Dutch East India Company proceeded to build a colony on Taiwan. Harsh campaigns were launched against Taiwanese aboriginals that resulted in equally brutal Dutch retaliation. The 1636 punitive attack on Lamay Island in response to the killing of the shipwrecked crews of the Beverwijck and the Golden Lion ended ten years later with the entire aboriginal population of 1100 removed from the island including 327 Lamayans killed in a cave, having been trapped there by the Dutch and suffocated in the fumes and smoke pumped into the cave by the Dutch and their allied aborigines from Saccam, Soulang and Pangsoya.[21] The men were forced into slavery in Batavia (Java) and the women and children became servants and wives for the Dutch officers. The events on Lamay changed the course of Dutch rule to work closer with allied aborigines, though there remained plans to depopulate the outlying islands.
>In the 1650s, the Chinese pirate Koxinga formed an alliance with Taiwanese aboriginals and proceeded to drive out the Dutch. Christian churches and texts were burned and the last holdouts surrendered in 1662. Dutch women and girls were taken as wives and concubines by the conquerors. Koxinga personally took the teenage daughter of the Dutch commander Caeuw (described as a "a very sweet, pleasant maiden") and that many of the Chinese considered the Dutch women more agreeable and pleasant-tempered than the venal, scheming Chinese women. It is noted that Taiwanese with blue eyes and fair features can sometimes be seen, possibly descendants of Dutch mothers and Chinese fathers.
I genuinelly don't get it. No matter how i look at it, nationalism is just arbitrary tribalistic mechanism, another tool to define outgroup, to define what young, unsatisfied, unemplyed men should love and what they should hate. We could as well be dividing our ingroup and outgroup based on who has the same first letter in their last name.
Will we eventually abandon nationality in the future? Maybe go back to the old times of empires and social order maintained by ideological authority rather than nationality?
