What Does Santa Claus Have To Do With Christianity?

[daws101]

Do you know what BCE is, moron?

St. Nick was in the 4th Century AD.

I can't say it enough. You're a moron.

again talking out your ass...
BRONZE AGE: 3500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

ncienthistory.about.com/od/studentsclassroom/a/060111-Timeline-Of-Major-Intervals.htm

 

[koshergrl]

I'm sorry, about.com has led you astray:

"In Mesopotamia, the Bronze Age begins at about 2900 BCE in the late Uruk period, spanning the Early Dynastic period of Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian periods and the period of Kassite hegemony. In Ancient Egypt, the Bronze Age begins in the Protodynastic period, c. 3150 BCE.

The Aegean Bronze Age begins around 3000 BC, when civilizations first established a far-ranging trade network. This network imported tin and charcoal to Cyprus, where copper was mined and alloyed with the tin to produce bronze. Bronze objects were then exported far and wide, and supported the trade. Knowledge of navigation was well developed at this time, and reached a peak of skill not exceeded (except perhaps by Polynesian sailors) until 1730 CE when the invention of the chronometer enabled the precise determination of longitude. The Minoan civilization based in Knossos appears to have coordinated and defended its Bronze Age trade.

In Central Europe, the early Bronze Age Unetice culture (1800–1600 BCE) includes numerous smaller groups like the Straubing, Adlerberg and Hatvan cultures. Some very rich burials, such as the one located at Leubingen with grave gifts crafted from gold, point to an increase of social stratification already present in the Unetice culture. All in all, cemeteries of this period are rare and of small size. The Unetice culture is followed by the middle Bronze Age (1600–1200 BCE) Tumulus culture, which is characterised by inhumation burials in tumuli (barrows).

The late Bronze Age Urnfield culture, (1300–700 BCE) is characterized by cremation burials. It includes the Lusatian culture in eastern Germany and Poland (1300–500 BCE) that continues into the Iron Age. The Central European Bronze Age is followed by the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (700–450 BCE)."

Bronze Age -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

******* moron.

 

[koshergrl]

Timeline


Visual Timeline

• 6200 BCE
  First copper smelting in Anatolia.
  
  3800 BCE
  Earliest bronze working.
  
  3650 BCE
  Invention of the wheel.
  
  3500 BCE
  Farming has spread across Europe.
  
  3400 BCE
  Priests become the rulers of Mesopotamian cities.
  
  3000 BCE
  First Bronze Age settlement in Jerusalem.
  
  3000 BCE
  First habitation of Epidaurus site.
  
  3000 BCE
  First evidence of habitation at Thebes.
  
  3000 BCE - 2550 BCE
  Troy I - First stone-walled village settlement
  
  3000 BCE - 2200 BCE
  The first archaeological evidence of organised communities in the Cyclades.
  
  3000 BCE - 2000 BCE
  Distinctive minimalistic standing marble figurines are produced in the Cyclades.
  
  2800 BCE - 1900 BCE
  Bell beaker culture in western Europe.
  
  2550 BCE - 2300 BCE
  Troy II - origin of gold 'treasure' found by Schliemann
  
  2500 BCE - 1100 BCE
  Bronze Age in Cyprus.
  
• 2300 BCE
  Bronze is used in the Aegean.
  
  2300 BCE - 1750 BCE
  Troy III - Troy V
  
  2200 BCE - 1700 BCE
  Evidence of town planning and more sophisticated architecture in the Cylades.
  
  2100 BCE
  First ziggurats in Ur, Eridu, Uruk, and Nippur.
  
  2000 BCE
  Early Greeks settle the Peloponnese.
  
  2000 BCE
  Domesticated horses introduced in Mesopotamia.
  
  2000 BCE
  Bronze Age begins in Northern Europe.
  
  c. 2000 BCE
  Pottery wheel introduced to Minoan civilization on Crete.
  
  2000 BCE
  Akrotiri becomes an important Aegean trading centre.
  
  2000 BCE
  First shaft graves at Thebes.
  
  2000 BCE - 1650 BCE
  Akrotiri on Thera reaches its peak of prosperity and becomes a flourishing Mediterranean trading centre.
  
  2000 BCE - 1500 BCE
  Wessex culture introduces bronze working to Britain.
  
  2000 BCE - c. 1400 BCE
  Early Bronze Age in Scotland.
  
  1894 BCE
  Amorite dynasty established in Babylon.
  
  1850 BCE - 1550 BCE
  Phaistos disk manufactured on Crete .
  
  1800 BCE
  Bronze working introduced to Egypt.
  
  1795 BCE - 1750 BCE
  Life of Hammurabi, king of Babylon.
  
  1787 BCE
  Hammurabi of Babylon conquers Uruk and Isin.
  
  1760 BCE
  The Code of Hammurabi: One of the earliest codes of law in the world.
  
  1757 BCE
  Hammurabi of Babylon destroys Mari.
  
  1750 BCE - 1300 BCE
  Troy VI - probable Troy of Homer's Iliad. City at its zenith.
  
  1700 BCE - 1400 BCE
  The culture in the Cyclades is increasingly influenced by Minoan Crete.
  
  1680 BCE
  Hurrians occupy Assyria.
  
  1650 BCE - 1550 BCE
  Eruption of Thera and consequent tidal waves, destruction of Akrotiri and other Aegean centres.
  
  1600 BCE
  Rhodes has significant contact with Minoan Crete.
  
• 1595 BCE
  King Mursilis of the Hittites sacks Babylon. Begin of Babylonian "dark ages."
  
  1550 BCE
  Kingdom of Mittani is founded.
  
  1550 BCE - 1069 BCE
  The New Kingdom of Egypt.
  
  1504 BCE - 1492 BCE
  Egyptian empire reaches greatest extent under Tuthmosis I.
  
  1500 BCE
  Pastoral farming spreads across Eurasian steppes.
  
  1500 BCE
  Egyptian empire extends to the Euphrates.
  
  1500 BCE
  The site of Delphi is first settled.
  
  1500 BCE - 1300 BCE
  Mycenaean Thebes at its peak of prosperity and influence.
  
  1472 BCE
  Mittani annexes Assyria.
  
  1450 BCE
  Mycenaean monumental architecture first appears at Epidaurus.
  
  1450 BCE - 1200 BCE
  The city of Ugarit flourishes.
  
  1400 BCE
  Assyria regains its independence.
  
  BCE
  Rhodes has significant contact with the Mycenaean civilization.
  
  1400 BCE - 1100 BCE
  Culture in the Cyclades is increasingly influenced by the Mycenaean civilization of mainland Greece.
  
  1400 BCE - c. 900 BCE
  Middle Bronze Age in Scotland.
  
  1328 BCE
  Western Mittani is conquered by the Hittites.
  
  1300 BCE - 950 BCE
  Troy VIIa - VIIb Notable decline in architectural and artisitic standards
  
  1250 BCE - 1200 BCE
  Mycenaean chamber tombs constructed at Thebes.
  
  1200 BCE - c. 1100 BCE
  Mycenaean Epidaurus at its peak of prosperity.
  
  1100 BCE
  Hillforts in western Europe.
  
  1100 BCE
  Evidence of settlement destruction and abandonment across the Cyclades.
  
• c. 900 BCE - c. 400 BCE
  Late Bronze Age in Scotland.
  
  

http://www.ancient.eu.com/Bronze_Age/

 

[Vox]

Do you know what BCE is, moron?

St. Nick was in the 4th Century AD.

I can't say it enough. You're a moron.

wow. she insisted she was right and as a proof provided the link which shows exactly why she is a MORON? because her link is talking about 9-4century BC, not AD

I have to send this page to my friends overseas.

to show them that they are wrong that Americans are dumb.

Canadians are worse. This particular one is almost touching in her total ignorance.

she did not even pay attention that the time frame was listed in reverse from 9th to 4th century, not from 4th to 9th, which by itself should give you a hint

 

[Vox]

Bronze age?

Genius. Fourth century is not the bronze age, lolol..

talking out your ass as usual

The Golasecca culture (9th - 4th century BCE) was a Bronze Age culture in northern Italy, whose type-site has been excavated at Golasecca in the province of Varese, Lombardy.


Negau type helmet from the Golasecca III period (480/450 BCE).
The name Golasecca culture comes from the first findings that were discovered from excavations conducted from 1822, at several locations in the Comune of Golasecca, by the antiquarian abbot Father Giovanni Battista Giani (1788–1857), who identified the clearly non-Roman burials as remains of the Battle of Ticinus of 218 BCE between Hannibal and Scipio Africanus.[1]
In 1865 Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, a founder of European archaeology, rightly assigned the same tombs to a pre-Roman culture of the early Iron Age, with a likely Celtic substratum given the similarities with the Hallstatt Culture. He made several trips there bringing back to France part of the Abbot Giani's collection to enrich the Musée des Antiquités nationales collections, of which he was Vice-curator.
The excavations spread over various sites throughout the late 19th century. Alexandre Bertrand, also curator of the Musée des Antiquités nationales in turn went on site in 1873 and conducted some excavations by himself. With the collaboration of French, Italian and German archaeologists meeting at the Archaeological Congress of Stockholm in 1874, the timing of the Culture of Golasecca became clearer, divided into three periods from 900 to 380 BCE. It ended with the Gallic invasion of the Po Valley in 388 BCE.
The modern assessment of Golasecca culture is derived from the campaigns of 1965-69 on Monsorino, [2] directed by A. Mira Bonomi. More recent chronological studies have been produced by Raffaele De Marinis.
History[edit]
Golasecca culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

this is incredible

 

[daws101]

The important thing to remember is that he's a lighting tech, and thus has a better understanding of the English language than ANYBODY else...


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

false! again your ignorance shines....

I do enjoy the trivialization ploy, it highlights your actual emotional maturity level of about 11 years old.
my mother would trivialize things she didn't understand either.

 

[dblack]

Is Santa Claus a Christian symbol?

If so, please break it down for me by showing me how.

As it stands, I don't see how a mythical character is a symbol for Christianity.

In fact, I believe it distorts it, certainly if and/or when it's used as symbol for Christianity.

I look forward to your responses.

Santa Claus is an object lesson to prospective atheists.

 

[Vox]

Do you know what BCE is, moron?

St. Nick was in the 4th Century AD.

I can't say it enough. You're a moron.

again talking out your ass...
BRONZE AGE: 3500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

ncienthistory.about.com/od/studentsclassroom/a/060111-Timeline-Of-Major-Intervals.htm

you idiot, you know what 1500AD is, right?

it is XVI century - almost the Reformation start and the midst of Renaissance ( if you know what those two mean, of course, which I doubt)

"bronze age"

 

[daws101]

I'm sorry, about.com has led you astray:

"In Mesopotamia, the Bronze Age begins at about 2900 BCE in the late Uruk period, spanning the Early Dynastic period of Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian periods and the period of Kassite hegemony. In Ancient Egypt, the Bronze Age begins in the Protodynastic period, c. 3150 BCE.

The Aegean Bronze Age begins around 3000 BC, when civilizations first established a far-ranging trade network. This network imported tin and charcoal to Cyprus, where copper was mined and alloyed with the tin to produce bronze. Bronze objects were then exported far and wide, and supported the trade. Knowledge of navigation was well developed at this time, and reached a peak of skill not exceeded (except perhaps by Polynesian sailors) until 1730 CE when the invention of the chronometer enabled the precise determination of longitude. The Minoan civilization based in Knossos appears to have coordinated and defended its Bronze Age trade.

In Central Europe, the early Bronze Age Unetice culture (1800–1600 BCE) includes numerous smaller groups like the Straubing, Adlerberg and Hatvan cultures. Some very rich burials, such as the one located at Leubingen with grave gifts crafted from gold, point to an increase of social stratification already present in the Unetice culture. All in all, cemeteries of this period are rare and of small size. The Unetice culture is followed by the middle Bronze Age (1600–1200 BCE) Tumulus culture, which is characterised by inhumation burials in tumuli (barrows).

The late Bronze Age Urnfield culture, (1300–700 BCE) is characterized by cremation burials. It includes the Lusatian culture in eastern Germany and Poland (1300–500 BCE) that continues into the Iron Age. The Central European Bronze Age is followed by the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (700–450 BCE)."

Bronze Age -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

******* moron.

love it when you cherrypick!
Born: 270 AD · Patara, Turkey
Died: 343 AD · Lycia
BRONZE AGE: 3500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

 

[Vox]

Are either of these guys imaginary?:
]

as they are both males and human no.
but the guy wearing the red and white trimmed suit .is playing the part of a fictionalized character based on a bronze aged monk....

this has to be saved for the enjoyment of humanity

 

[Vox]

I'm sorry, about.com has led you astray:

"In Mesopotamia, the Bronze Age begins at about 2900 BCE in the late Uruk period, spanning the Early Dynastic period of Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian periods and the period of Kassite hegemony. In Ancient Egypt, the Bronze Age begins in the Protodynastic period, c. 3150 BCE.

The Aegean Bronze Age begins around 3000 BC, when civilizations first established a far-ranging trade network. This network imported tin and charcoal to Cyprus, where copper was mined and alloyed with the tin to produce bronze. Bronze objects were then exported far and wide, and supported the trade. Knowledge of navigation was well developed at this time, and reached a peak of skill not exceeded (except perhaps by Polynesian sailors) until 1730 CE when the invention of the chronometer enabled the precise determination of longitude. The Minoan civilization based in Knossos appears to have coordinated and defended its Bronze Age trade.

In Central Europe, the early Bronze Age Unetice culture (1800–1600 BCE) includes numerous smaller groups like the Straubing, Adlerberg and Hatvan cultures. Some very rich burials, such as the one located at Leubingen with grave gifts crafted from gold, point to an increase of social stratification already present in the Unetice culture. All in all, cemeteries of this period are rare and of small size. The Unetice culture is followed by the middle Bronze Age (1600–1200 BCE) Tumulus culture, which is characterised by inhumation burials in tumuli (barrows).

The late Bronze Age Urnfield culture, (1300–700 BCE) is characterized by cremation burials. It includes the Lusatian culture in eastern Germany and Poland (1300–500 BCE) that continues into the Iron Age. The Central European Bronze Age is followed by the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (700–450 BCE)."

Bronze Age -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

******* moron.

love it when you cherrypick!
Born: 270 AD · Patara, Turkey
Died: 343 AD · Lycia
BRONZE AGE: 3500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

you idiot, bronze aged did not end in XVI century

 

[daws101]

Do you know what BCE is, moron?

St. Nick was in the 4th Century AD.

I can't say it enough. You're a moron.

again talking out your ass...
BRONZE AGE: 3500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

ncienthistory.about.com/od/studentsclassroom/a/060111-Timeline-Of-Major-Intervals.htm

you idiot, you know what 1500AD is, right?

it is XVI century - almost the Reformation start and the midst of Renaissance ( if you know what those two mean, of course, which I doubt)

"bronze age"

wow more ignorance... the bronze age ends only when Iron and to a lesser extent steel were being produced in quantity...

 

[Vox]

The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze and proto-writing, and other features of urban civilization.

Chalcolithic

Near East (3600-1200 BC)

Caucasus, Anatolia, Levant, Indus valley, Mesopotamia, Elam, Jiroft, Bronze Age collapse

Indian Subcontinent (3300-1200 BC)

Europe (3200-600 [B]BC)[/B]

Aegean Civilization
Caucasus (Maykop culture)
Basarabi culture
Coțofeni culture
Pecica culture
Otomani culture
Wietenberg culture
Catacomb culture
Srubna culture
Beaker culture
Unetice culture
Tumulus culture
Urnfield culture
Hallstatt culture
Atlantic Bronze Age
Bronze Age Britain
Nordic Bronze Age
Romanian Bronze Age
Southeastern European Bronze Age
Italian Bronze Age

China (3000-700 BC)

Upper Oxus (2300-1700 BC)

Bronze Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

read at least wikipedia, if you don't have anything else.

oh, and you know what age followed the bronze one, do you?

 

[koshergrl]

You don't know what BC means...

 

[Vox]

again talking out your ass...
BRONZE AGE: 3500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

ncienthistory.about.com/od/studentsclassroom/a/060111-Timeline-Of-Major-Intervals.htm

you idiot, you know what 1500AD is, right?

it is XVI century - almost the Reformation start and the midst of Renaissance ( if you know what those two mean, of course, which I doubt)

"bronze age"

wow more ignorance... the bronze age ends only when Iron and to a lesser extent steel were being produced in quantity...

you idiot, bronze age ended half a millennium before Christ in Europe.

morons like you should be put as exhibit of the "benefits" of the public education

 

[daws101]

You don't know what BC means...

it means before christ and it's inaccurate..

what Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

In one respect, there really is no difference between an AD/BC and BCE/CE system when it comes to historical dates. The year 23 AD is exactly the same as the year 23 CE, and 4004 BC is also 4004 BCE. References to historical dates under either classification shouldn't create confusion in a researcher's mind. Major historical dates such as 1492 AD, 1776 AD or 1941 AD would still be rendered as 1492 CE, 1776 CE and 1941 CE.


The AD/BC method of identifying historical dates can be traced back to Catholic historians working in the early Middle Ages. Identifying historical dates until that point was often a complicated proposition, since different historians worked under different calendars. A Roman historian would have used the Roman AUD notation, in which Year Zero was the largely symbolic founding of Rome. Converting historical dates to the standard Gregorian calendar would not have been easy. Using the birth of Jesus Christ as a central point made more sense to the religious historians.

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-the...ce-and-ce-in-identifying-historical-dates.htm

 

[Vox]

again talking out your ass...
BRONZE AGE: 3500 B.C. - A.D. 1500

ncienthistory.about.com/od/studentsclassroom/a/060111-Timeline-Of-Major-Intervals.htm

you idiot, you know what 1500AD is, right?

it is XVI century - almost the Reformation start and the midst of Renaissance ( if you know what those two mean, of course, which I doubt)

"bronze age"

wow more ignorance... the bronze age ends only when Iron and to a lesser extent steel were being produced in quantity...

exactly, except it ended half the millennium before Christ in Europe.

Iron age in Europe was over by 400-500 AD

 

[Vox]

You don't know what BC means...

it means before christ and it's inaccurate..

what Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

In one respect, there really is no difference between an AD/BC and BCE/CE system when it comes to historical dates. The year 23 AD is exactly the same as the year 23 CE, and 4004 BC is also 4004 BCE. References to historical dates under either classification shouldn't create confusion in a researcher's mind. Major historical dates such as 1492 AD, 1776 AD or 1941 AD would still be rendered as 1492 CE, 1776 CE and 1941 CE.


The AD/BC method of identifying historical dates can be traced back to Catholic historians working in the early Middle Ages. Identifying historical dates until that point was often a complicated proposition, since different historians worked under different calendars. A Roman historian would have used the Roman AUD notation, in which Year Zero was the largely symbolic founding of Rome. Converting historical dates to the standard Gregorian calendar would not have been easy. Using the birth of Jesus Christ as a central point made more sense to the religious historians.

What Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

oh, just stop it.

you were caught in your ignorance when you have had no idea what bronze age means, when was it and when it ended and now you are copy& pasting an irrelevant material to divert attention form your embarrassment .


learn some history because your deficiencies are so glaring it is a caricature.

 

[daws101]

You don't know what BC means...

it means before christ and it's inaccurate..

what Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

In one respect, there really is no difference between an AD/BC and BCE/CE system when it comes to historical dates. The year 23 AD is exactly the same as the year 23 CE, and 4004 BC is also 4004 BCE. References to historical dates under either classification shouldn't create confusion in a researcher's mind. Major historical dates such as 1492 AD, 1776 AD or 1941 AD would still be rendered as 1492 CE, 1776 CE and 1941 CE.


The AD/BC method of identifying historical dates can be traced back to Catholic historians working in the early Middle Ages. Identifying historical dates until that point was often a complicated proposition, since different historians worked under different calendars. A Roman historian would have used the Roman AUD notation, in which Year Zero was the largely symbolic founding of Rome. Converting historical dates to the standard Gregorian calendar would not have been easy. Using the birth of Jesus Christ as a central point made more sense to the religious historians.

What Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

oh, just stop it.

you were caught in your ignorance when you have had no idea what bronze age means, when was it and when it ended and now you are copy& pasting an irrelevant material to divert attention form your embarrassment .


learn some history because your deficiencies are so glaring it is a caricature.

another false assumption.
I never get embarrassed

 

[Vox]

it means before christ and it's inaccurate..

what Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

In one respect, there really is no difference between an AD/BC and BCE/CE system when it comes to historical dates. The year 23 AD is exactly the same as the year 23 CE, and 4004 BC is also 4004 BCE. References to historical dates under either classification shouldn't create confusion in a researcher's mind. Major historical dates such as 1492 AD, 1776 AD or 1941 AD would still be rendered as 1492 CE, 1776 CE and 1941 CE.


The AD/BC method of identifying historical dates can be traced back to Catholic historians working in the early Middle Ages. Identifying historical dates until that point was often a complicated proposition, since different historians worked under different calendars. A Roman historian would have used the Roman AUD notation, in which Year Zero was the largely symbolic founding of Rome. Converting historical dates to the standard Gregorian calendar would not have been easy. Using the birth of Jesus Christ as a central point made more sense to the religious historians.

What Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

oh, just stop it.

you were caught in your ignorance when you have had no idea what bronze age means, when was it and when it ended and now you are copy& pasting an irrelevant material to divert attention form your embarrassment .


learn some history because your deficiencies are so glaring it is a caricature.

another false assumption.
I never get embarrassed

your low IQ prevents feeling embarrassment when deserved