Oh absolutely. It’s how they viewed almost everyone

@pyropulse Then it is my duty to inform you Ishtar is not an 'Aryan' Goddess. Sumerians were not Indo-European so their Gods and by the extension Akkadians' Gods were not either. Though the Akkadians were genetically Indo-European. But culture is not genetic but social - so Norsemen could be Russian, Normans or even Irish or Scottish. Turks of one place can consider themselves more Persian, some considered themselves Jews, some Mongolia while some Finno-Ugric. It's a matter of choice

Yes, those are also great examples. I have a video planned on the Roman view of Germanic gods

This is why it drives me crazy when people say the greeks and Romans had the same gods. They didnt any more than the Romans and the Germans did.

@@waltonsmith7210In my experience they only say that because there were some cases where it was 1:1, but usually it just gets spread across the board when that’s not the case at all

@@waltonsmith7210 The way I always figured it worked (and this is totally unsourced so I'm making it up) is, the Romans had their own native body of legends. And it consisted of: "Our king of the gods is named Jupiter! And he lives on a mountain! And ... well, that's all we have to say about Jupiter." So when they encountered the Greeks and discovered that their sky god was the subject of probably a hundred legends and they'd worked out an extensive family tree and even created dramatic works featuring Zeus, the Romans said, "... um, that sounds just like Jupiter, because we've got legends where he does all that stuff too! Yep, every last bit of it."

@The Historian's Craft yeah, and most people dont get taught about the general similarities between Indo European deities, so they see a few equivalencies between Greek and Roman, and then lump them all together. I certainly never heard the term "Indo European" in public education. This bothers me because it obscures Roman uniqueness.

There was another civilization which did something similar though they were a lot a lot more cruel.... Assyrians

What does that Greek phrase mean?

Unfortunately!

Though a nuisance, it's partial proof that AI won't destroy us, not as long as we can click phishing links and buy tacky consumer goods.

I can do that

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Can I ask where you’ve heard that? I haven’t come across it before. But, you’re correct that the Romans viewed the night sky as something to be held in regard

@@TheFallofRome I don't exactly remember where I heard that. I just subscribe to the narratives given out by pop culture which is why we rely on real historians such as you to verify if any of them are accurate or not. But I think everyone was beaten with the whole "Romans were more organized than the Greeks" narrative dozens of time. Plus the Romans were pioneers of the calenders system and masters of astronomy. As well with an obsession with horoscopes. In my opinion, I don't think ancient man knew how to separate reality from superstition like we do nowadays. They saw the planets in the sky and assumed these must be the gods themselves. Again, this is all conjecture that I subscribe to.

@@TheFallofRome Trust him bro. Why he would lie? Source: The voices in his head

@pyropulse I thought that was my point. We DO know more than the ancients about superstition. People back then had zero way of knowing that a planet was just a planet. Like you said, they didn't even know how to differentiate the moon and sun from other stars and planets....

@@hermanoguimaraes6343 go back to reddit

No they were not

They were genetically Indo-European but linguistically they were not

@@SharpieLEET genetically Indo-European?

A new study in Science Advances conducted by a team of researchers from Italy (University of Florence, University of Siena, University of Ferrara, Museum of Civilisation in Rome), Germany, the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom sheds light on the origin and legacy of the Etruscans through genome analysis of 82 individuals from central and southern Italy, covering the period from 800 BC to 1000 AD. BC to 1000 AD (The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archaeogenomic time transect - DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi7673). The results show that the Etruscans, despite their unique cultural expressions, were closely related to their Italic neighbours and reveal important genetic changes associated with subsequent historical events. The current study brings together genomic information over a time span of almost 2000 years, in relation to twelve archaeological sites, and sheds light on this mystery. It shows that there is no genetic evidence of a recent population movement from Anatolia.The research shows that the Etruscans share the genetic profile of the Latins of neighbouring Rome and that a large part of their genome is derived from ancestors from the Eurasian steppe during the Bronze Age.

@@marcoschwarz3763 so the Eneida was about the Etruscans?

Etruscan is not an IE language. We’re not sure where it comes from exactly, but we know it doesn’t belong to that family

@@TheFallofRome So Etruscans came from where originally? How are Romans Indo Europeans when they’re related to the Etruscans I thought

@@PackHunter117 Etruscans are probably pre-indo-European. They ruled the Romans at one point, and the Romans adopted quite a lot from their civilization, but the Romans are part of the italic family of languages, which is indo-European. I’d recommend “The Beginnings of Rome” and “The Rise of Rome” if you want to do some reading

@@TheFallofRome So the Etruscans were a group of pre IE people that stayed in Italy for a long time while the rest of Europe was dominated by the Celts, Slavs, Germans, Greeks, Iberians, and then later the Romans and Carthaginians? I know the Carthaginians aren’t Indo European right? Same with the Iberian tribes? But otherwise that means the Etruscans lived in an area dominated by IE people for a long time then?

@@PackHunter117 take out the Slavs and and you have a more accurate picture. I wouldn’t say the Etruscans lived in an area dominated by IE languages however, at least not initially. They remained a powerful force in Italy for centuries, until they were absorbed into the expanding Roman state

Unbelievably false