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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rahotep101: [qb] Sorry, but the title of this thread caused me to expect more than that. That's not a stone city, that's a tumbledown garden wall made out of pebbles! There's not a cut stone in sight! This is what you call a stone city ruin: [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/171/palmyra.jpg/] [IMG]http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1441/palmyra.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/qb][/QUOTE]This isn't a competition. Anyone can throw up for comparative purposes one of the most grand towns in medieval Syria to contrast with this rather isolated and previously unknown site of stone masons, likely fleeing climate changes and/or chasing better mining opportunities. You and Jari have gone over this, a better comparison would be with the contemporary polities from which this site radiated, or with reference to Syria, with contemporary towns outside of Almyra that were less important commercially and/or more isolated (they'd likely look very similar). My theory is that Loropeni is a settlement likely built by the Dyula gold traders (who are still found in Burkina Faso) who of course would have had extensive influence during the Mali empire, when the town saw its zenith. Ignoring your picture spam, and while acknowledging Syria's architectural accomplishments, it is necessary to provide some context here as to what the Syrians, whom you throw under the bus to spite the Loropenians, actually said about the region: [b]Mahmud Ka'ti, medieval Syrian scholar on Mali[/b]: [QUOTE]"[i]Among the kingdoms of the rulers of the world, only Syria is more beautiful. Its inhabitants are rich and live comfortably[/i]".[/QUOTE]^So yes, you purposely left out Europe because most in Europe at this time were living in squalid conditions during the height of the dark ages. Using Syria as a proxy to boost your self-esteem would have been smart, were it not for the Syrians themselves praising Mali (in which Loropeni was incorporated during its apogee) as being among the most beautiful kingdoms in the world, only behind Syria! :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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