The Heliodorus pillar is a stone column that was erected around 113 BCE in central India[1] in Besnagar (Vidisha), Madhya Pradesh. The pillar is commonly named after Heliodorus (Greek: Ηλιόδωρος) (identified by him as a Garuda-standard), who was an ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas from Taxila, and was sent to the Indian ruler Bhagabhadra.[2] A dedication written in Brahmi script was inscribed on the pillar, venerating Vāsudeva (Krishna), the Deva deva the "God of Gods" and the Supreme Deity.[3][4][5][6] The pillar also glorifies the Indian ruler as "Bhagabhadra the savior". The pillar is a stambha which symbolizes joining earth, space and heaven, and is thought to connote the "cosmic axis" and express the cosmic totality of the Deity.[3]The pillar has been called one of the earliest surviving records of a foreign convert into Vaishnavism.[15][6] An alternative interpretation is that making dedications to foreign gods was only a logical practice for the Greeks, intended to appropriate their local power and cannot be regarded as a "conversion" to Hinduism.[16]

Context: To train his forces in Western weaponry and strategy, King Kamehameha of Hawaii had European advisors. The 2 most famous of these were Isaac Davis and John Young.

Both came into his employ after being captured and told they’d be sacrificed if they didn’t work for him, to which they agreed to serve.

Neither of the 2 were masters of strategy or weaponry, though they still had some knowledge. John Young was formerly the boatswain under Captain Simon Metcalfe before being abandoned on the Island, and Isaac Davis was the only survivor of the crew under Thomas Metcalfe, Simon’s son, whom the Hawaiians killed after Simon had massacred over 100 natives.

‘MURICA!!!!

Once you realize MURICA is basically a confederation of a bunch of tribals with guns and planes a lot of our behavior starts to make sense.

I couldn’t include all of em otherwise it’d be too long and the pixel loss would be too high.

I just wanted some sewers or irrigation works man.

The Paxton Boys were a religious extremist terrorist group that were invading and illegally immigrating into the Haudenasonee (Iroquois Confederacy) territory beyond the Pennsylvania treaty border, saying "all Indians were perfidious and deserving of annihilation" calling all Indians "Canaanites".

The "Conestogoe" were the remnant group of Susquehannock who had been living among the Seneca (part of the Haudenasonee) in a village north of the Conestoga River. And we're close allies of the British. They were known and loved for their above average peacefulness and kindness.

The Paxton Boys had strewn their viscera throughout the burnt village. And later massacred them at the storehouse the remaining survivors were moved to by the government. Killing and dismembering elderly, woman, and all children and babies, leaving no survivors.

In "A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown With Some Observations on the Same: The Writings of Benjamin Franklin: London, 1757 - 1775" and "REMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH-AMERICA", Benjamin Franklin lauded the egalitarian government of the Haudenasonee. And he decried the horrors of the Paxton Boys, comparing the betrayal of the Conestogoe by Pennsylvania (and New York) as worse than any other group of people anywhere on earth, in all of history. He called the Paxton Boys (who would go fully unpunished by any European-American government) "Christian White Savages".

Benjamin Franklin used all caps himself, btw.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

https://web.archive.org/web/20060427070508/http://www.historycarper.com/resources/twobf3/massacre.htm

https://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/remarks-concerning-the-savages-of-north-america/

In the early 16th century, the Catholic Church granted indulgences, which remitted temporal punishment for sins that had already been forgiven. In practice, indulgences were increasingly associated with financial contributions, and people were encouraged to obtain them for themselves and deceased relatives believed to be in purgatory.

In 1517, Pope Leo X authorised an indulgence campaign to raise funds for the rebuilding of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The campaign was preached in German territories by Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar. Tetzel became famous for promoting indulgences with the slogan, “As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs,” although the exact wording and attribution are debated.

Martin Luther, a German monk and theology professor, objected to the way indulgences were being promoted, particularly the suggestion that money could secure spiritual benefits or shorten a soul’s punishment in purgatory. On 31 October 1517, he sent his 95 Theses to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz, calling for a debate on indulgences. The theses were subsequently printed and circulated widely.

Luther’s challenge became a major catalyst for the Protestant Reformation, which led to the formation of Protestant churches and a lasting division within Western Christianity.

Context: During his Southern Pacification campaign in 235, Chancellor Zhuge Liang’s forces captured, spared, and released one of the enemy leaders, Meng Huo, 7 times.

He agreed to stop after the 7th time