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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1280102" data-attributes="member: 571">Then you need a sub-title to go with it. Tapestry: The World of 1066Or you could use:A Time of Faith: The World of 1066Hope Reborn: A Time of Rebirth and Renewal.A World RebornAt which point I shall stop, because all the above do not describe the historical Earth of 1066 in its entirety. When most of English cultural descent hear "1066" they think of William the Conqueror and the battle of Hastings. But there were other events that year that did have, or could have had, as great an impact on the world as a small skirmish in an unimportant kingdom.At the same time, the world of 1066 was a doomed world. Population was growing, Christianity and Islam both were expanding. As was trade and the exchange of knowledge. But, this world had its flaws.Hygiene was either unknown, or poorly applied. The Christian world alone had little use for sanitation, for this world was only a way stop on the journey to Paradise. The Black Death was still close to two centuries away, but the foundations of the great epidemics were already in place.Then too, governmental forms were restricted in that they were authoritarian. As long as things remained stable they were adequate to the task. But when crisis threatened they were often at a loss to deal with the upset in a sage and timely fashion.Adaptability to changing conditions was not a virture in 1066. Nor was listening to those of lower rank. Things are as they were, the lesser followed the greater. That is how things were, and as they were ordained by God; by whatever name you knew Him.There's tons more to be said of the Earth of 1066. Of how civilization was made up of islands in an ocean of wilderness. Of how lands such as Eire, Rus, and Tibet were home to savages (by the lights of their neighbors), and knowledge was a rare and precious thing. But that would take up megabytes of bandwidth and so is a tad too large for a message board.I guess the only real choice is, The Rules: A Look at the World of 1066</blockquote>

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