>smack dab in the middle of everything at any period you care to look
>combined, bigger than ireland, cyrpus, crete, rhodes, gotland, malta, s*c*ly, etc etc
>produces one notable manlet and some coal thats it
I don't get it. If geography dictates history they should have been a BIG DEAL. What went so wrong?
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Geography doesn't dictate history, God does.
>corsica
>small island
>produces greatest man ever lived and greatest woman ever lived
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Sardinia and Corsica weren't inhabited until the 15th century, when maritime technology was good enough to allow people to sail the open seas. Until then they were just sailing along the coast, so it's natural Sardinia and Corsica were never reached because they are in the middle of the sea.
Memories
The discoverer of cephalosphorine-based antibiotics was Sardinian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Brotzu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Brotzu
Its not a shit on Sardinia thread its a why weren't they more relevant with absolutely OP geography.
Not that OP of a geography
Corsica is a barren wasteland with no resources and almost no fertile land since it's basically entirely a big mountain emerging from the sea.
Sardinia has better arable land and mineral resources but no navigable rivers of considerable size, and it is too distant from the mainland
>smack dab in the middle of everything at any period you care to look
that's a bad thing, not a good thing.
The nuragic culture is pretty rad:
This.
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>combined, bigger than ireland
That's factually wrong
Sardinia = 24,090 km2
Corsica = 8,722 km2
Sardinia + Corsica = 32,812 km2
Ireland = 70,273 km2
So, Sardinia and Corsica even when combinered are not even half the size of Ireland, which isn't exactly known to be particularly relevant itself.
There’s not munch activity on those islands for most of history. A few wars that just resulted in a change of authorities.
Sardinia was important for the Romans, but not because of gold (there was a bit of silver, but not much), high demographics (population density was very low) or even crucial metals (some tin, copper, barely any iron), but lead. Lead was the cash cow of Sardinia; unfortunately, you can't arm or fund an empire on lead exports on people who don't use it, and those who DID decided to administer the island themselves (Punics and Romans)
The island had also barely any infrastructures until the modern era except for some huge ports. For example, Godas tried to make himself King of Sardinia but was utterly crushed when the Vandals landed smack in Karalis and killed him because there was literally nowhere on the island he could flee ttothat the Vandals wouldn't land first by sea.
>very little silver
There was actually a considerable amount of silver, to the point that the Sardinian town of Iglesias produced 10% of the silver circulating in Europe during the early 14th century; the Roman poet Solinus famously stated: “ ‘India for ivory, Sardinia for silver, Attica for honey”; a Greek scholiast on Plato’s Timeus dubbed it the island of silver veins
that I didn't know. I'd always assumed Metalla (and its surroundings) was exclusively mining lead since it was a major lead production center and admittedly a concentration camp and lead poisoning would just kill off your undesirables faster.
>on people who don't use it
What do you mean? Lead was used extensively in Bronze age Sardinia, and some Sardinian artifacts repaired with lead clumps date even further back in time: to the copper age.
Sardinian lead artifacts and ingots have also been recently identified in many Eastern Mediterranean Bronze age sites.
In this picture: some lead ingots discovered in a bronze age Sardinian site.
They caused the bronze age collapse that time and then retired, to rest for a while. Pray their rest doesn't end soon
People think the sherden people were part of the sea people. They came from sardinia so these guys helped cause the bronze age collapse. And terrorized the eastern Mediterranean. Just so you know.
EEF attempting to destroy civilization again
>One
It has two notable people involved in the french revolution.
For most of history it would have taken decades to get there
They put maggots into cheese
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