Poul Anderson Appreciation: The Two Other State Of The World Summaries

Sunday, 20 September 2020

In History Lesson II, I mentioned two other state of the world summaries. Now I learn that they have already been summarized, one twice, as follows:

So that completes that line of thought and we can return to the text of The Shield Of Time in the next post.

(Real life has also been getting in the way of blogging but we persevere.)

Sean M. Brooks said...: Kaor, Paul!

I'm puzzled by the illustration you chose. It's an image of the Western Wall of Herod's Temple in Jerusalem. And does not seem to have anything to do with this blog piece.

Ad astra! Sean; 21 September 2020 at 02:35
paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...: Sean,

The 60-70 AD post refers to the destruction of the Third Temple.

Paul.; 21 September 2020 at 08:07
paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...: 69 rather.; 21 September 2020 at 10:10
Sean M. Brooks said...: Kaor, Paul!

Got it now! I was thinking of the Mongol destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate at the Sack of Baghdad in 1259.

Ad astra! Sean; 21 September 2020 at 15:10