Turks
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Turks is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 04, 2022 and July 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the first Turks start moving west”; “Seljuks, Ottomans, other Turks, Turkmen, etc taking over Middle East”; “commanded by the Turks”. It most often appears alongside China, Genghis Khan, Mongolia.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: May 04, 2022
- Last seen: July 05, 2024
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Related Pages
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Genghis Khan (2 shared issues)
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- Mongolia (2 shared issues)
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- 1000 (1 shared issues)
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- 1200 (1 shared issues)
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- 1400 (1 shared issues)
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- 1650 (1 shared issues)
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- 1812 (1 shared issues)
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- 400 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 700 (1 shared issues)
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- Ada (1 shared issues)
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- Albania (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
“Oh yeah. You look at history, and once every two hundred, three hundred years they get their act together, form a big confederation, and invade either China, the West, or both. It’s like clockwork. 400 AD, you get the Huns. 700, the Magyars. 1000, the first Turks start moving west. 1200, Genghis Khan, killed 10% of the world population. 1400, Tamerlane, killed another 5%. 1650, the Ming-Qing transition in China, also killed 5%. We’re more than 50 years overdue at this point.”
Seljuks, Ottomans, other Turks, Turkmen, etc taking over Middle East, Byzantium: Devereaux doesn’t mention this either.
Along the flowing Danube stood the fortress Of Ismail, commanded by the Turks, With rows of nested palisades (too torturous To scale), walls, bastions, ramparts, and such works; The Russian fleet, without some loyal portress, Was firing with the rage of Norse berserks, And yet each bursting, thund’ring cannonball Could scarcely be enough to breach the wall.
Inline links: berserks