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Montezuma Well, Montezuma Castle, & Tuzigoot were all settlements of the Sinagua culture in the Verde River Valley in modern-day Arizona. Like their Hohokam neighbors to the south, they fortified
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Thread with excerpts from “Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century” by Geoffrey Parker Natural & human archives of the past. Former is what can be
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Thread with excerpts from “The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe” by Marie-Janine Calic Translation from original German by Elizabeth Janik. Original title was “Südosteuropa”. Disputes over the origins
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As bloody as the world wars were, they weren’t particularly bad by historical standards. The 17th century was uniquely bad for 2nd millennium AD, with Little Ice Age & glut
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Setbacks on the Eastern Front in 1914 led to popular anti-German & anti-Jewish animus. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, & children (including peaceful Mennonites) were forcibly deported to the
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Thread with excerpts from “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fischer The four major waves of settlers before War of Independence: Puritans from E England to
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Poland’s position between Prussia & Russia in the 1760s, Catholic oppression of Protestants & Orthodox, & the Bar Confederation’s rebellion. Many were worried by Russia’s influence in Poland. The Ottomans
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Thread with excerpts from "No Colours or Crest: The Secret Struggle for Europe" by Peter Kemp Long out of print, this book was recently republished by the excellent publishing company
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Thread with excerpts from Michael Axworthy’s “The Sword of Persia Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant” The author’s view on the historical importance of Nader Shah: he kept
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Thread with excerpts from “Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War” by Stephen Platt Hong Xiuquan was from a Hakka
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Started reading Holy Warrior MacArthur’s staff was deeply reactionary The General’s impressive memory Imposing democracy and American culture on foreign countries goes back at least to our conquest of the
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Sci-Hub gives access to this paper on Roman DNA:https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/708 Roman region had two major shifts in ancestry composition - arrival of EEFs & farming, then later the Indo-European invasion. By
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