Dante posted:What are some other podcast except Tides of History that is good? I strongly prefer history podcast that drops the theater play fantasy reimaginations and focuses on academic work (no Carlin). Revolutions is all about the liberal revolutions [from English Civil War to Russian Revolution] and is done by Mike Duncan, the guy who did the History of Rome podcast so it hits the ground running with a podcaster who knows what he's doing.
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# ? May 23, 2020 22:08 |
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Russia isn’t a liberal revolution
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# ? May 23, 2020 22:09 |
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euphronius posted:Russia isn’t a liberal revolution he's only partway through russia so technically he still has the option of stopping after the february revolution
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Dante posted:What are some other podcast except Tides of History that is good? I strongly prefer history podcast that drops the theater play fantasy reimaginations and focuses on academic work (no Carlin). I am currently subscribed to: History of Japan History of Persia (have not started yet) Byzantium & Friends (this is the most heavily academic one on the list) The History of Egypt The Dollop (not academic, comedy history) Our Fake History (have not started yet) The History of China Lions Led by Donkeys (comedy military history) The History of Byzantium Revolutions The Partial Historians Wonders of the World Fall of Civilizations Revolutions Inward Empire
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euphronius posted:Russia isn’t a liberal revolution Bakunin aktivated
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Cast_No_Shadow posted:Seems like he couldn't win at that point. "Fine! I guess I'll just make myself a king then!"
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Dante posted:What are some other podcast except Tides of History that is good? I strongly prefer history podcast that drops the theater play fantasy reimaginations and focuses on academic work (no Carlin). The History of Egypt podcast is exactly what you are looking for
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# ? May 23, 2020 22:43 |
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Fuligin posted:The History of Egypt podcast is exactly what you are looking for History of Egypt's like one of my all-time favorite podcasts
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# ? May 23, 2020 23:01 |
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British History Podcast is up to just before the Norman Conquest. He did a great job of early Medieval Britain, but new episodes seem to be coming a lot more slowly lately.
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CommunityEdition posted:When Diplomacy Fails is an excellent one to put on in the background, because 85 episodes of the Versailles conference is just too much to binge. Piker.
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Steely Dad posted:British History Podcast is up to just before the Norman Conquest. He did a great job of early Medieval Britain, but new episodes seem to be coming a lot more slowly lately. Not that that’ll be an immediate problem for a new listener, 348 episodes in and he’s only at the 1020’s.
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Schadenboner posted:Piker. yes, what?
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# ? May 23, 2020 23:27 |
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Thanks for all the great tips!
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# ? May 24, 2020 00:25 |
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Ruins of Merv in modern-day Turkmenistan. The city of ~500,000 was sacked by the Mongols in the 13th century and depopulated. The area was completely abandoned by the early 19th century. 11th century Seljuk citadel wall.
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# ? May 24, 2020 02:15 |
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Falukorv posted:The one written by Karin Bojs? If so, what were its annoying mistakes? Cuious as i got that book as a gift but havent come around to read it yet. Yeah, exactly that one! I can't remember any specifics right now but the one that made me give up was when she was imagining being on Cyprus 10,000 BC, hearing people speak and thinking it sounds vaguely like Basque. That was so stupid to me I didn't feel like reading on.
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# ? May 24, 2020 06:40 |
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This is currently located in a really posh neighbourhood but when I visited the place in 2007 it looked like a dump without almost any mentioning of it's origin and no tourists.
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:he's only partway through russia so technically he still has the option of stopping after the february revolution He did stop after the revolution of 1905. Because he needs to finish his book on Lafayette, he'll start again in the fall hopefully.
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# ? May 24, 2020 09:41 |
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Yeah the first eight episodes of the season were a background on the history of communism and anarchism and a primer on their founders and philosophies. He's 100% continuing through 1917 and beyond once his break is over. Unfortunately he's also said that'll be the end of the podcast
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Yeah the first eight episodes of the season were a background on the history of communism and anarchism and a primer on their founders and philosophies. He's 100% continuing through 1917 and beyond once his break is over. I'd pay for him to do Cuba.
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# ? May 24, 2020 16:00 |
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Revolutions Podcast has been running for five years, I think he should be allowed to do something else. There's very little chance he leaves podcasting IMO. Podcasting took him out of a basement in rural Wisconsin and to a globe-hopping book-signing-tour New-York-Times-bestselling pop history career, I think he'll stick around.
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Disappointed he doesn't double the overall length of the series trying to capture the last 200 years of Chinese history tbh
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# ? May 24, 2020 16:47 |
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Pre-Imperial mold for Half-Tael "Ban Liang" coins. Han Dynasty Ban Liang coin. The text says Ban Liang, which is the nominal mass of the coin: half a tael. In the early Han dynasty the Ban Liang was overtaken in circulation by the lighter Five Zhu "Wu Zhu" coin. One zhu is 1/24 of a liang, so that the wu zhu coin is nominally worth 5/12 a ban liang coin. The wu zhu would continue to be minted in large volumes and serve as the coin of everyday transaction until the early 7th century when the Tang Dynasty began minting a different coin. If you've ever wondered why there's a hole in ancient Chinese coins, I couldn't tell you who first came up with it but it was used to string round numbers of coins together for larger transactions. For example a peasant paying yearly taxes might pay in grain or if he was doing better convert three strings of 100 copper cash to a weight of silver. Imperial tax payments were typically transacted in kind or in silver but not in copper cash, which became a serious monetary problem in the late Imperial Period. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 17:10 on May 24, 2020 |
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Arglebargle III posted:Revolutions Podcast has been running for five years, I think he should be allowed to do something else. There's very little chance he leaves podcasting IMO. He's said he has ideas for the next podcast, he hasn't decided what it will be yet but he's definitely going to do another one.
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I'm no expert, but aren't they conflating the Parisii of Gaul and the Parisi of the Yorkshire area? Or are the spellings mutable?
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# ? May 24, 2020 23:37 |
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Brawnfire posted:I'm no expert, but aren't they conflating the Parisii of Gaul and the Parisi of the Yorkshire area? Or are the spellings mutable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisii_(Gaul) The spellings of the ones in Gaul are apparently mutable. Caesar spelled it Parisii, Pliny spelled it Parisi, and Strabo and Ptolemy used the Greek form Parisioi. I think the ancient sources use Parisi exclusively for the ones in Yorkshire, though. They were probably related anyway.
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Haha, I tried to link the wiki articles but they got messed up like yours did... I couldn't fix it so I left it out. Thanks for the prompt response! Wiki said they were unrelated but that seemed odd to me
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# ? May 25, 2020 00:06 |
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Tomb of an Egyptian palace official responsible for sacred and temporal palace banquets. 24th century BC. I want to know how they made the bread so tall. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 25, 2020 |
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Brawnfire posted:Haha, I tried to link the wiki articles but they got messed up like yours did... I couldn't fix it so I left it out. Actually, the wiki says they may have been related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisi_(Yorkshire) quote:Burials in East Yorkshire dating from the pre-Roman Iron Age are distinguished as those of the Arras Culture,[10] and show differences from surrounding areas, generally lacking grave goods, but chariot burials and burials with swords are known,[5] but are similar (chariot burials) to those ascribed to the La Tène culture of areas of western and central Europe, giving a potential link to the similarly named Parisii of Gaul.[1]
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# ? May 25, 2020 01:02 |
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I heard somewhere recently that while Caesar was governor of Illyria, using their legions to conquer Gaul, the province got raided a bunch while it was undefended. Is there somewhere to learn more about that? When I heard it, it seemed like another point in the column for Caesar being mainly beelining building up his own power with no regard to anybody else and only pragmatically allying with reformers. Brawnfire posted:Haha, I tried to link the wiki articles but they got messed up like yours did... I couldn't fix it so I left it out. What you need to do is take the bbcode into your own hands and move the tags around manually. A number of automatic linking systems just kinda screw up when there's parentheses, so you just gotta do it yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisii_(Gaul) I've actually got into the habit of just doing text links by just going ctrl+U and adding the rest of the tag manually.
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Arglebargle III posted:
I believe it was baked in a conical pot.
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Arglebargle III posted:If you've ever wondered why there's a hole in ancient Chinese coins, I couldn't tell you who first came up with it but it was used to string round numbers of coins together for larger transactions. For example a peasant paying yearly taxes might pay in grain or if he was doing better convert three strings of 100 copper cash to a weight of silver. Imperial tax payments were typically transacted in kind or in silver but not in copper cash, which became a serious monetary problem in the late Imperial Period. This is funny, I was just readin an Ask Historians post about this a couple of days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gmiv61/why_did_former_chinese_coins_have_a_squared_hole/fr4icnl/ According to that the strings arose later; the holes are actually because of the way the coins are made. Unlike western coins which are struck with a hammer into a mold to make the imprints, Chinese coins are cast (with molds like the one in the first image), but this means sharp metal flash seeps out around the seam between the two halves of the mold, making the coins really uncomfortable to handle. So, they lathe the edges of them until they're smooth--the hole is where the lathe rod goes to let them do that.
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Koramei posted:This is funny, I was just readin an Ask Historians post about this a couple of days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gmiv61/why_did_former_chinese_coins_have_a_squared_hole/fr4icnl/ that's interesting. do you know what the mold in the picture is made from? It almost looks stone or something. presumably it can handle hot metal temperatures but I really can't tell looking at it. Also, what this about conical bread?
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# ? May 25, 2020 07:15 |
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That guy who made bread using Ancient Egyptian yeast who was making the rounds earlier reenacted the way they baked bread in the Old Kingdom using a conical clay mould. quote:According to Dr. Love, commoner foods of the Old Kingdom included beer, pulses, and onions (“they were much sweeter than ours, you could eat them like apples,” she says), but nothing was more ubiquitous than bread. Blackley, having studied hieroglyphics, says ancient Egyptians actually had 176 words for it. If they were big on baking, however, they were less insistent on clear recipes, relying mostly on oral transmission of instructions. As such, Dr. Love had to synthesize data from ancient art, writing, and archaeology to decode their baking methods. quote:He estimates that he cooked about 75 loaves before building his own bedja by hand and digging a hole in his backyard to master underground baking. “If I hadn’t spent so much time working on it, it would have been a wreck,” says Blackley. “I would have been another one of those people posting a lovely, burned, flat loaf saying, ‘Welp I guess this is what the ancient Egyptians had to deal with!’” Instead, Blackley’s backyard loaf proved exceptional, if not for one minor hiccup. “I was freaking out because I burned the top,” says Blackley. “But in the end, I realized the process of figuring out how to bake like them was really what got me so close to these people I respect so much, not the end product.” From the ancient yeast to the underground baking method, Blackley had at long last produced an indisputably ancient loaf with the same rich sweetness as his summer sourdough. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-bread-did-ancient-egyptians-eat Pics in the article.
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Silver2195 posted:Actually, the wiki says they may have been related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisi_(Yorkshire) Ah! I'm poo poo at BBCode *and* research alike! Thanks for drawing my eyes to this.
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“It was unbelievably emotional for me,” says Blackley. “I stan Egypt.” I remember seeing a video about something like this in middle school, but iirc it was Mesopotamian. The famed Urukian Beveled Rim Bowls (probably the first mass-produced item in human history) might have been used similarly from some quick reading. That makes more sense to me than rations being given in raw barley. Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 09:25 on May 25, 2020 |
# ? May 25, 2020 09:06 |
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Does producing apparently valid results push him from “dweeb” to “eccentric”?
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# ? May 25, 2020 09:15 |
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No he's rich. It's that.
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Roman abstract mosaic art. 4th century AD or earlier, Leptis Magna.
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Arglebargle III posted:No he's rich. It's that. Can I simultaneously love/hate it? On the one hand, obviously his rich rear end can do whatever he wants On the other, ancient Egypt and the ancient Andes are what made kid me think history was cool, and reading modern egyptian scholarship is a huge part of why I abandoned a good career to try and eventually be a history person. I also loving love cooking and especially the history of how our modern foods came about so ugh
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