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Maybe, still the roman Empire before Jesus, un Judaea (between roman polytheism and the Jews). As said elswhere, the local (jews, here) powers had retained a lot of power (it look for me really similar to a modern protectorate, more than a total annexion), so it could be quite balanced, and the...

I think (I'm not an expert) that for the catholics, every saint can intercede (at some point) with God. My Grandma always said me to pray for St Antoine if I had lost something... And it is one of the biggest difference with protestant, who (again, I'm not an expert, so I think) just consider...

About galenic (did not know this word) elements, my favourite, the number five : Aether, or Quintessence (Empedocle, Aristotle, amongst many), the purest above all the others - in fact, you can say that it is almost anything, because they gived this name to countless concepts since antiquity. Useful

Whahh... the thread is old. Didn't see that

I recommand this novel Underland | Royal Road, about that. A bit dark, but if you want to really touch the subject, you don't really have the choice (and zorry, but you have to read almost all to really go into the immortality problems...). Scythe, by Neal Shusterman, also talks about that, but...

The Moon might be the mirror of the Sun when the Night has comed, its way to still support its believers when he dived under the horizon. Pale reflect of the Sun, the Moon would be a bit like, you know, the little bit of "Yang in the Yin". And the "Yin in the Yang" when the Moon hide the Sun...

I can confirm that the Guillotine had been invented during the XVIII century, by Dr Guillotin (1789, exactly), because before, they used the axe or the sword for the nobles, the hanging for the others. Buuut, the executionners weren't perfect, and oftenly, they did not succed to kill fastly and...

Dragons are noble creatures.The kings of the sky, the sovereign of the mountains, the masters of the plains. They reign over the rest of the beings - and as such, they take a tax in raw meat. But a dragon is too raffinate for eating a mere cow, on the ground. Too raffinate to eat a mere peasant...

For me, the main difference between nobility during the Middle-Age and the Renaissance is the degree of centralization. I can only talk for France, and thinks might change a lot according to the location, but the medieval system was very local, the little lords having a lot of power, and the...

A simple example I didn't found : the roman Empire, during the first four centuries. Every one knows they were polytheists under César and the first Princeps (Emperors), but strangely, we oftenly forget that at the fall of the Empire, they were totaly monotheist, the christian religion being the...

Well, as it had already been said, Rome lasted for a very long time, and changed a lot between the Republic and the low Empire (~500 years - and Rome was already old at that time) European Middle-Age lasted even longer, thousand years. We oftenly have a rigid idea of Middle-Age, full of...

Well, I'm not sure if that's what you are searching for, but I found this article Comprendre : les phases de la Lune (in french). French use similar terms for the moon phases as english, but I did not found in this thread the numbers, like new moon, first crescent, fisrt quarter, waxing...

Thanks ! And that's always a pleasure to hear about foreigners triyng to learn french. There wasn't any mistake in your sentences, by the way.

Hi everyone ! I'm new here, so I guess it is only polite to say hello. So, Hello. I like worlbuidling, procrastinating, and finding new things to do instead of writing (yes, these are synonyms - but any eventual reader absolutly needed to know about the compagny owning the trains, and where were...