July 2026

July, 2026 Topical Discussions: Muddy Theories

Tonight we shall discuss the folly of “Tartaria” and other chronology gimmicks, and also the folly of building a Nationalist worldview based on DNA “Science!” which denies the existence of race as a biological entity.

Establishing the truth behind our general perceptions of historical chronology: the folly of “Tartaria” and other chronology gimmicks.

Some of this evidence, I had discussed in a recent podcast on 88streams.com, but I wanted to present a more complete version of the evidence against the so-called Tartaria theory. 

There are conspiracy theories of some ancient, advanced kingdom called Tartaria, which often include sub-conspiracies claiming that centuries had somehow been added to the calendar, centuries which never actually existed in some grand conspiracy to make antiquity seem even more remote. The proponents of these theories take advantage of the historical ignorance of their listeners, and are even ignorant themselves. Some claims even assert that the “Tartarian Empire” was global, that even buildings in America are the products of a bygone civilization which somehow disappeared in “mud floods” and natural disasters. All of these claims are patently absurd, and absolutely false.

The older European maps labelled most of the interior of Asia as “Tartary” only because Europeans were familiar with the people called Tatars who had entered Russia from the East in the Middle Ages. But the entire land east of Russia was unexplored, so they used that name to describe the entire unexplored region. This practice was evidently begun when the label Tartary first appeared on a map by a Venetian cartographer Giovanni Contarini in 1506, and then by Dutch explorer and cartographer Johannes Ruysch in 1507. The British and others continued the practice of labelling the quite vast but unexplored land as Tartary. But Magellan’s famous expedition circumnavigating the earth did not begin until 1519, Magellan himself died in 1521, and it was completed without him in 1522. But Russia did not conquer Siberia until the 17th century, and the rest of its territories in Asia until the 18th and 19th centuries.