There is never gonna be a satisfactory answer. As I said before, large swaths of the Americas were still Stone Age societies when Europeans made contact… You’d think all of continental humanity would have advanced beyond that point

r/AskHistory exists too.

“The final image includes a man with a cap of thinning brown hair crowning his head.” It’s obviously a tonsure you big thicko.

He sounds like he would have fitted right in in Iran

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But he did exile my relatives to the new world.

Yes, everybody on this sub knows the absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence...but this is to our best current knowledge.

>On top of that there’s no evidence that mesoamerican cultures stopped developing wheeled carts because of an absence of large domesticated draft animals.

If that's your standard for why they didn't develop wheeled carts, you'll basically never have a satisfactory answer. It's next to impossible to prove a negative using archaeology.

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Unbelievable! People keep telling me that none of the founders were religious! /s

We Presbyterians can be a sour lot.

Many of the founders were actually deists. While they were raised Christian, several of their beliefs were more closely to Deism. That was a theology based on a hands-off version of God and more of a focus on the natural world. Their focus was not as much on the religious side of the French Revolution, but as was stated earlier, the economic or political rights side.

Not a Cromwell supporter by any means, and I don't think any sane person would argue he was a good person....

But what he actually did at the time wasn't considered terribly brutal.

Basically he just killed everyone who didn't surrender.

It's actually a really common thing if you look at siege warfare. Soldiers just went nuts and we're extremely brutal to sieges where the people did not surrender.

There's a lot to blame him for.... However his sieges are basically par for the course...

Look at the siege of szigetvar, a few of the mongol sieges, etc. There are baseline genocidal sieges throughout history.

Looked at by the lens of today naturally it's absolutely horrible, but yeah at the time....Completely normal.

I'd honestly blame religion and royalists for it all far more than Cromwell.

Here's some reading for you.

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/why-did-oliver-cromwell-end-ireland-first-place

https://www.history.co.uk/shows/al-murray-why-does-everyone-hate-the-english/articles/oliver-cromwell-the-most-hated-man-in

Art of cattle pulling a cart doesn’t mean human-pulled carts weren’t developed at the same time or earlier. On top of that there’s no evidence that mesoamerican cultures stopped developing wheeled carts because of an absence of large domesticated draft animals. The Maya didn’t shrug their shoulders and say “This could be awesome, if only… oh well”

Obviously you’re not a golfer…

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Cromwell in fact almost left for America in the early 1600s.

You might want to read/listen to the article, because he technically didn't. From that website: https://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/christmas-abolished/

I wish they would do this with more skulls used as relics in Catholic churches.

Bah you are nit-picking, he was Lord Protector and upheld the ban. He was in charge and Christmas was banned.

Officially, the ban on Christmas would be enforced throughout the rest of the reign of Charles I, and into the Protectorate and the Commonwealth. On more than one occasion, soldiers would patrol towns and cities, confiscating food and drink which was believed to be prepared for Christmas. But from here on, public celebrations of Christmas were usually suppressed by the authorities, but behind closed doors Christmas would continue to be celebrated. With the restoration of the Stuarts in 1660, followed the restoration of Christmas in England and Wales.

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No but Scotland did ban it in the 1500's and despite the ban being lifted in the 1700's it wasn't a holiday until 1958

It's only in the last 50 years it has become a bigger event than new year in Scotland

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