Mel Gibson developing show about how Christians fought off Muslim invaders.
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That would be great! We never even speak about that part of history these days, and it doesn't seem to really exist in what school history books tell of history. I presume a lot of the younger generations have no idea that those invasion attempts even happened. And frankly, neither do many older ones (or of the pretty wide scale enslavement of Europeans AND Africans by Muslims...). I mostly know because I had the habit of buying older novels, including historical ones, from used books stores when I was young after I found out I often liked them better than the new ones.
Lets just hope it will be good as a story. The most easily palatable way to get new knowledge to humans is by telling it as stories, good, exciting and entertaining ones everybody can enjoy. Then just make sure those stories have the fact parts straight.
Whether he produces or directs, I have never been disappointed by a Mel Gibson film.
I liked the one he did in Mayan....apocolypto
On my top ten list of favorite movies. In my opinion, the 2nd half of the movie is the greatest chase scene ever put on film.
Vlad the Impaler, Voivode of Wallachia, a small fiefdom stuck between the world powers of Hungary and the Ottomans, fended off both through the early into the mid 1400s. Today all we know of him is the Dracula myths but in this region of the Carpathian Mountains he is a hero. It was his shrewd politics and fearless leadership that kept Islam from the invasion of Europe.
If you ever have the time, the history of Central Europe and the Balkans is not only interesting but consequential to the story of Western Civilization.
And then you have the 700 year occupation of the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors.
Vlad the Impaler knew about psy ops, all the roads leading in and out of his country were lined with the bodies of impaled muslim soldiers and camp followers. Miles and miles of stakes up the date lockers of invading mohammedans.
Yep.
And have you heard of this:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/05/medieval-slave-trade-routes-in-eastern-europe-extended-from-finland-and-the-baltic-countries-to-central-asia/103452
Most Finns these days have no knowledge of that part of our history, and that trade only fully ended in the 18th century. The slave raiders came this far north even if getting the captured slaves to the markets alive was difficult, most died on the way, because blonds, especially pretty blond children, were a luxury item their customers would pay big sums for.
If you look at the history of this area there has never really been a Ukraine. The entire region of the Grand Duchy and western Russia was littered with Viking outposts and one was Kiev. The Vikings had a northern route to Constantinople using the Russian river systems of the Don and the Volga into the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Western Ukraine then became part of the Grand Duchy while eastern Ukraine was filled with different tribes (Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Huns), mostly nomadic. These are the tribes of the Steppes that tortured Rome for centuries. The area of the Caucuses between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea was Greek and then Islamic with the Mongols Golden Horde ruling it all at one point.
The Grand Duchy was the largest state in Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. It was also the last pagan stronghold in Europe. The Teutonic Knights were created to combat them. These are called the Northern Crusades.
This ties in to u/Maui_Boy post about John III Sobieski. He briefly reformed the Grand Duchy.
This also ties into what is happening in Ukraine. Or will when Ukraine is ultimately dismantled. I have mentioned before here I think Poland and Lithuania have designs on a new Grand Duchy.
I have a couple of books somewhere, although it's been a decade or so since I last read them. One is this: https://www.amazon.com/Northern-Crusades-Second-Eric-Christiansen/dp/0140266534
Would you recommend anything?
When it comes to that eastern slave trade, a Finn, Jukka Korpela, recently wrote a pretty good book about it, but it's available only in Finnish.
Although the more thorough - and expensive - academic version is in English.
https://www.amazon.com/Karelians-European-9001600-Studies-Slavery/dp/9004447199