Of course they do. They are humans just like us. They like to brag about themselves, just like everyone else.
Their start of science and philosophy are Greece and Rome. This obviously is wrong. Greece and Rome were in direct contact with a civilization far more ancient and advanced than theirs. The Egyptians.
Greeks and Romans developed their ideas from Egypt. Hippocrates is not the father of medicine. This title deserves to be given to Imhotep instead. How Imhotep gave us medicine - Telegraph
Similarly they talk about Copernicus, but never mention Nasiruddin al-Tusi.
In 1834, an Ohio physician named Dr. John Cook Bennett declared tomatoes to be a universal panacea that could be used to treat diarrhea, violent bilious attacks, and indigestion. Pretty soon, Bennett was publishing recipes for tomato ketchup, which were then concentrated into pill form and sold as a patent medicine across the country.
The Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after one of them slept with another man.
Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as cups.
After Pope Gregory IX associated cats with devil worship, cats throughout Europe were exterminated in droves. Ironically, this sudden lack of cats led to the spread of the bubonic plague because infected rats ran free. The bubonic plague, or “black death” as it was called, killed 100 million people.
In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh.
People were buried alive so often in the 19th century that inventors patented safety coffins that would give the “dead” the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.
In the 15th century Wallachian ruler Vlad III (often referred to as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler) impaled 20,000 Ottoman Turks on long, sharp poles on the banks of the Danube River.
Oh that Sultan reminds me the king from Arabian Nights, who killed hundreds of ladies for infidelity of one.
Yes. The king in that story was King Shahriar. He would marry a new bride each day and have them executed the following morning to prevent them from betraying him. (The Thousand and One Nights is one of my favourite stories actually).
I recently read about a rather interesting historical figure, Princess Olga of Kiev. She's known for her aggressive campaign against the Eastern European tribes and avenging the death of her husband. It seems like history is often much stranger than fiction.
When husband, Igor of Kiev, was murdered by an Eastern Slavic tribe known as the Drevlians, she took over the rule of Kiev and the surrounding provinces. However, the Drevlians were not accustomed to and did not want a female ruler, so they sent twenty of their most eligible men to persuade Princess Olga to remarry and give up her rule of Kievan Rus. The suitors were carried by boat to the courtyard of her castle, and then dropped into a large pit where they were buried alive.
She then sent word to the Drevlian capital of Iskorosten that she had accepted the proposal and would remarry, but required that the most distinguished men among the Drevlians be present in order to formally accept the offer of marriage. The Drevlians agreed and sent the most distinguished ambassadors and nobility. Upon their arrival, Princess Olga bid them welcome and after they entered, had the doors locked and the building set afire, burning them alive. Ironically, she then held a memorial for the victims of the fire and once the Drevlian guests had arrived, ordered her royal guard to kill all 5,000 of them.
