#Empire

James Millward 米華健

JimMillward

Some too-loose writing by @nyt @KatherineKornei about early horse riding in Xinjiang. Mistake is saying that Xinjiang in 350 BCE was "China": it wasn't politically, and it wasn't culturally. (Thread)https://www.nytimes.com

Chef Eric

superthisway

Okay no secret I love The Last Jedi but I got inspired and I want to talk about villains and their use in the mainline Star Wars movies. Strap yourself

Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢

wilks_isaac

“post-industrial society” is not real. it’s just what happens when an empire outsources it’s critical systems. our jobs didn’t magically sublimate into Knowledge Work—they just left. our institutions didn’t progress

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

The Empire Attacks BDS For The Same Reason Nixon Started The Drug War"Anyone of sufficient influence who is far enough outside the capitalist, imperialist consensus worldview will necessarily find themselves

WAP for abolition™️

zwingham

"The first generation lives, the second generation rejects, the third generation researches..." With this refrain, he began to narrate the history of Ottoman slavery & chart the lives of his

Bêyøñder

Beyonder_Dk00

Buddhism and Defence: (A Thread)The bramanical Historians and Hindutva writers always Spread false History that in Buddhist time India was prone to Foreign invasions to defame Buddhism India known as

Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory

I_VG

Today's #Archaeology31 theme is #decolonise and I want to talk a bit about #Malta again and about the #Mediterranean more broadly. First up, the definition of the Med has consistently

ابراهيم المقاتل الصاخب

ibnErnest

Since the protective divide separating Muslims from polytheists was degraded and finally collapsed entirely, conflicts between Muslims have been increasingly defined by the social divides between the kuffar, as we

The Market Dog ™️

TheMarketDog

Currency and the Collapse of the Roman EmpireHow debasement can drive the end of a civilizationThread 1/5Around 200 AD, inability to pay for the state expenses lead treasuries to

Sam Sharma

Sammuddraa

Thread on "Samudragupta" Samudragupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire (c. 335 – c. 375 CE), is considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses in Indian history. He was

Dr. Asia Leeds

AsiaLeeds

Covid makes it clearer than ever that tourism is colonialism. See Tulum. Tourism is colonialism & quite literally developed as a colonial enterprise. “Travel” does not necessarily equal “tourism” but

Siddharth's Echelon

SiddharthKG7

So today is 260th anniversary of Third Battle of Panipat and this is a thread to commemorate it. -StartingIt all started with the death of Aurangzeb & end of Mughal-Maratha

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hermit_hwarang

There is a bad thread going around so I am going to explain 2 things:1) the Jeju Uprising was a communist rebellion against the division of Korea and the creation

manvir singh

mnvrsngh

Like many people, I’ve assumed that the early Muslims were such successful conquerers because of the power of a new religion (Islam) to unify diverse peoples. But after doing some

Shadow predator💀🍓

zander_jager

So I decided to listen to all of Gorillaz older studio albums and decided that I am gonna rate the albums to give my thoughts on themI'll just give my

Dr. Caroline Bartman

Caroline_Bartma

These are my top 10 sci fi books! @RMedzhitov •Grass, Sheri Tepper•The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell•The Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge•Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang•Never let

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