What happened here?
Tell me about Sicilian history
Sicily
Adrian Williams
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Adam Brooks
In the Godfather Vito said that Sicilians suffered a lot through history
Is that true?
Jayden Harris
The sea people came from Sicily
atleast some of them
Noah Nelson
Thapsos?
Asher Moore
youtu.be
The shekelesh
it was the jews
Ryan White
First it was settled by greeks in antiquity, then invaded by moors/arabs in the early middle ages
Jeremiah Parker
It was settled way before the Greeks
Wyatt Walker
The Crimea of the West, as in everyone and their mother owned it at one point or another
Brayden Rodriguez
>Sicily
>West
heh
Hudson Robinson
Syracuse was one of the more based Greek city states.
Christian Cruz
It's part of the western mediterrenian.
Robert Morris
>Sicily
>not west
U wot
Jason Brown
Frederick II tried to make it the center of European culture, and almost suceeded too, but failed because he loved Islam, hated Christianity, and made more or less every other ruler hate him.
Juan Young
southern/eastern culture and heritage
Henry Miller
wasn't colonised until after Columbus discovered the new world because ancient sailors only stuck close to the shore.
Kayden Hill
best Holy Roman emperor ever
Daniel Hall
Wasn't that Sardinia?
Sicily was settled by Greeks who invented the boat in 700 bc
Brayden Powell
>Wasn't that Sardinia?
No, but that's where the meme was about.
Jacob Phillips
> failed because he loved Islam, hated Christianity
That's false though. He went into a monastery numerous times and often prayed. He just disliked the idea of papal authority being superior to the emperor's, in the era when it didn't automatically make you a bad Christian yet. The jury was still out on what exactly the papal authority entailed.
Ayden King
Athenians dun goofed over there
John Taylor
Theoretically those islands were settled by they would have had a minuscule population
Landon Rivera
The Normans conquered and held it for about a century. They built a lot of shit and were pretty based.
Jaxson Fisher
The Arabs built that shit UNDER the Normans, not the "Normans", learn the difference, retard.
Landon White
Institutionally, it was some of the most advanced countries in medieval Europe. The retention of many Byzantine-Moorish bureaucratic offices by its Norman rulers contributed a lot to a stronk centralized kingdom unmatched in Western Europe during its foundation.
Angel Hall
You are so ignorant I'm about to cry
Easton Rodriguez
So? Would we have a Monreale Cathedral if there were no Normans in Sicily? There is no need to be upset.
Wyatt Mitchell
Yes, it is the Arabs who brought civilization to Sicily, not some dirty savage viking fucks.
Jace Stewart
Does this image trigger you, mon brown skinned ami?
Liam Hernandez
You retarded fuck, Arabs were so fucking culturally and technologically superior to retarded shit for brains viking fucks.
Ryder Bell
pipe down, yossuf
Ryder Garcia
Your first post was in the right form, no this one.
"superior to", not "superior than"
Jacob Parker
I am very white but even I can't deny the superiority of Islamic culture during this period.
Too bad Wahhabism is a dumpster fire.
David Baker
Delete this post now
Daniel Richardson
yes, yes... well done Normans..
HOWEVER
Adam Ross
>In Scicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns
I gotta agree. I've heard that scicilian women are ultra-manipulative and aren't ashamed to humiliate a beta husband in public
Easton Brooks
>Theoretically those islands were settled by they would have had a minuscule population