Dirk_Pitt
Banned
Can someone help me craft a response to this guy? We were discussing a CKII game and he mentioned the Romans in my game by calling them the Byzantines. Any other decent human being wouldn't make this an issue.
I'm not a decent human being.
While I know there is some contention on this site about this issue... well, let's just look at his response:
I'm not a decent human being.
While I know there is some contention on this site about this issue... well, let's just look at his response:
We still call pre-colombian native Americans, Amerindians, Ancient Mesoamericans, by those names.
And what about calling China China.
Or Asia Asia?
Or Japan Japan.
should we call the French "le français", or what about the Germans "Deutsche".
Hey The "Romans" of the 1000s AD weren't truly Romans anymore, they were Anatolians or Greeks. Indeed you yourself said "embraced their Greek heritage"
Even if "Byzantine" is Archaic, its still a descriptor. What should I say, "East Roman"?, would THAT be archaic? Cause the way I see it, the original Rome was the western Roman empire, the one that fell to the goths and vandals in the fifth century. By your logic, we could technically call America "Britain".