What would have been the best overall Medieval Kingdom to live in?

[DrYouth]

You can't get Speaker to play this game because Islam has the cooties.

The poor guy has a bad case of the heebie-jeebies right now just from you pushing him like this.

[Speaker to Animals]

You can't get Speaker to play this game because Islam has the cooties.

Simple as that.

The poor guy has a bad case of the heebie-jeebies right now just from you pushing him like this.

Yeah. It's the cooties. Not the rape, enslavement, beheadings, etc.

You have a raging boner for being subjugated by Muslims, apparently. You just admitted it's your fantasy to live under medieval ISIS.

[DrYouth]

Not the rape, enslavement, beheadings, etc.

Name a culture that formed an empire that didn't have any of those things.

[Speaker to Animals]

Name a culture that formed an empire that didn't have any of those things.

It's all the same, right?

[StCapps]

Apparently StA and DrYouth agree on the least terrible place to live in Islamic world. Interesting.

[DrYouth]

It's all the same, right.

No...

There are differences.

Which is why I quoted the dates that I did.

Peaceful, prosperous and culturally and intellectually vibrant period with relatively few rapes, beheadings and enslavements...

[Montegriffo]

ISIS is basically Islam 1.0 come back.

Maybe, but Andalusia during the period I referenced wasn't Islam 1.0... more like Islam X.

LMFAO

Progressives really have a hard on for ISIS, man. Wow.

ISIS isn't even representative of todays Muslims so to link it to Islam of 1000 years ago is ridiculous.
Saying progressives love ISIS is an attempt to derail a decent thread which I hope everyone will just ignore.

[Speaker to Animals]

Apparently StA and DrYouth agree on the least terrible place to live in Islamic world. Interesting.

That's not terribly honest. DrY identified that as the best possible place to live in the medieval period.

It was like ISIS.

[DrYouth]

Saying progressives love ISIS is an attempt to derail a decent thread which I hope everyone will just ignore.

Don't ignore this thread... it's illustrative of the limits of certain imaginations.

[GloryofGreece]

I would suggest Andalusia 912-1031.

Seems like a vibrant and productive culture.

I'm biased tho... my Dad's side of the family still lives in old town Granada in the shadow of the Alhambra.

I figured someone would mention it or even Baghdad before the Mongols came. I'd think if you were Muslim and in those areas then it was rather stable and "civilized" for the time period. But since I'm not Muslim and not used to their culture/religion at all really it would be very foreign to me. Science, medicine, academics. etc. were good though for the time regardless of their religion. At least that's the narrative I hear.