Tartaria and the Mud Flood
Tartaria and the Mud Flood
What it claims
This Apeirron piece rebuts the Tartaria theory in detail, item by item.It writes that the theory spread into the English-speaking world via YouTube and Reddit between 2016 and 2018.It names Martin Liedtke, Jon Levi, and Michelle Gibson as its major English-language YouTubers.It explains that Tartary was an actual place name appearing on Ortelius's 1570 map.It writes the name referred to the Kazan, Crimean, and Sibir khanates, successors of the Mongol Empire.It cites the road built up after the 1889 Great Seattle Fire as a counterexample to the mud flood claim.It notes Heribert Illig and Anatoly Fomenko as intellectual precursors to the theory.It writes that the 1893 Chicago World's Fair's 'White City' was made of plaster over wood-frame buildings.
How the post is built
It attaches long footnotes and a bibliography, including Fomenko's seven-volume collected works, Ortelius's map, and the first edition of the Britannica, to nearly every paragraph.There are no images.
How it connects
This piece rechecks, one by one, the photos and records that believers cite as evidence.It restores their original context, construction work, fires, urban regrading, and the like.