>underrated
He's still revered by a quarter of the world's population, and known by most of the remainder. Of those, how many people would you guess have an understanding of Mohammad at least as comprehensive as your own? A hundred million? Two hundred million?
Add "might as well have been a literal magician when it came to commanding forces seperated by hundreds of kilometers of hostile terrain"
Alright, better do this. Overrated: Probably the Founding Fathers. They were good, but not worthy of the mythology that surrounds them in America.
A document other people forced him to sign at swordpoint? And that he didn't obey anyhow?
I am shocked, just shocked, and not at all suspicious, to see the Italian endorse the Italians.
The creation of the document was the important part. If he didn't piss off the barons, it wouldn't have been created. And he didn't obey it, but other's did.
It is said that the only time an Italian did not endorse Italy was for the 2002 World Cup Semifinals, for had Italy proceeded to the finals, the Bald Referee would never achieved his dream of refereeing a World Cup Final.
We learned about Kublai Khan in middle school.
I'm not sure that's true; I find it more likely that people who already have a negative impression of Muslims use a negative portrait of Muhammad as an excuse to justify it. I don't think people really base their impressions and biases about other people they encounter in their lives based on a distant historical figure. Jesus doesn't get smeared on nearly as much and it doesn't keep people from going 'Jesus was cool, my problem is with his followers' and just generally dissociating him from his religion.
I mean, at some point, you're gonna run into the fact that Muhammad was a 7th century historical figure. He definitely brought a progressive message but he also... Did 7th century leader shit. You can work to erase the lies about him and teach people about the real character but in the end some people are still gonna look at him and see an evil man the same way they would a lot of famous people of that time if they learned more than pop history about them.
Actually it might be. The Hellenistic Science which resulted from spending the wealth that the Persian Empire had been hoarding once they were conquered by Alexander – which includes both a bunch of geometry and the water wheel – would be completely butterflied away. At least half the western philosophical tradition would be passed on to us substantially differently, if it is at all.
Well, since we cannot see the results, the best we can do is speculate, or wait for posters to ask us questions. Or wait for posters to do analysis of the nominees. That'd be nice.
