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I have read them. You can't look for a contemporary neutral source. You go with the Turks or the Greeks. Since Mehmed's successors were his sons or grandsons and they had no reason to attack him, you won't hear the Turkish or Muslim historians telling that even if it was the truth. With the...

The same in Turkish. I wonder where did you all steal it from :D

Yeah, almost surely the root is the same. With these common words you can actually follow how certain groups left the Proto Indo-European group, where did they go and approximately the timing of that. Since I'm not a linguist I might be completely wrong, but the Urdu word Suraj, the Slavic...

Same thing :D I saw it written madar but with a strange a and in another place I saw it as madr. It's all the same.

Sure, but you also have: Germanic: Sun, Sonne, Zon, Sol Romance: Sole, Soleil, Soare, Sol Slavic: Sunce, Sonce, Solnce, Slunce, Slnko, Slonce, Slnce, Sonca Baltic: Saule While in Persian the word is khor-sheed which already implies that they were already divided from the above mentioned...

:tup: How old are you? Are you studying anything right now or did you finish uni?

You're a linguist?

Actually, I just quickly read into it. The general opinion is that language developed only about 13000 years ago. People communicated before, like all animals do, but they were unlikely to have had anything like structured language. It was only when humans settled down from being hunters...

Here is a question: The word Mother. A word probably as old as the developed ability to speak. Basic word. In every single language there is a word for mother, right? It's not a word that you borrow from other languages. In the Germanic languages it's: Mother, Mutter, Moeder, Mor, Modir...

From the side of the Atlantic Ocean. From the other side, from the Bering Strait, people moved from Asia to America much before the Vikings stepped on American soil.

It depends. I don't know how was Mount Everest treated locally. If it was, dunno, the place where the Gods live or the place from where you can talk to the sun etc, it might have attracted interest from the locals to climb there. But if it was the case we'd have probably heard about it so I...

Fred, what do these words mean? Winds?

One look at the map of the Atlantic is enough for an assumption that the first ones who came to the Americas through the Atlantic Ocean should have been northern Europeans. The road is much much shorter than if you do it from Portugal or France and the Benelux countries and you have lots of...

I think that Osman was only taking courses in history while Seven graduated in a faculty of history but he didn't continue after the graduation and didn't specialize in anything.

The period is actually the one you talk about above but I don't know Arabic unfortunately (And God knows how much I cursed myself for that over the last 5 years). Umayyad were some centuries before my period. The Abbasid caliphate covers my period. My specialization is Byzantine and the south...

Nah, my knowledge here is very limited so I could interfere. Muslims from Al-Andalus reaching America is a possibility, though. They had ships, they ruled parts of the Atlantic, so it automatically means that there were attempts to sail to the west.