Sotos wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:I have posted this before but I will post it again.
http://www.albany.edu/Jennings_thesis.doc
Two quotes
"Rather, the Greek migrants seem to have taken control of most of the Cypriot cities as a warrior elite, with their language gradually coming to predominate throughout the island while the material culture remained predominantly native."
And
"Overall, the Aegean penetration of Cyprus can best be characterized as a series of movements by Aegean freebooters to a known region where they established themselves a warrior aristocracy."
Reads to me like a conquest event.
I can anticipate the dismissive responses from the apologists for Ancient Greek imperialists, with their usual abusive shoot the messenger reaction, rather than dealing in an objective and reasoned manner with the well argued thesis.
If you use the thesis of some student to support your claims then it means you have nothing better to support your nonsense. You are not a "messenger". You are an anti-Greek colonialist scum who wants Hellenism destroyed in Cyprus. You didn't seek the truth. What you did is try to find something to support your anti-Greek bullshit. But all you found are some worthless crap by absolute nobodies ... like the draft thesis of some student
just the howls I expected of dismissive abuse.. Water off a Duvcs back mate! Nothing to contest the ultimate outcome of a conquest event.