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Monthly Archives: July 2017
From Africa to Scotland
Modern technology has afforded more tools for measuring and dating finds of past human activity. Radiocarbon dating can measure up to 40,000 years ago. This has resulted in recalibration of estimated ages of archaeological finds so that items already in … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, archaeology, carbon dating, geology, human migration, ice age, mesolithic, neolithic, Orkney, scotland, UNESCO
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Out of Africa
Title: A San (Bushman) who gave us an exhibition of traditional dress and hunting/foraging behavior. Namibia. (IDBeatty_002219) Perhaps the biggest long-term strength of the hunter-gatherers’ lifestyle was that it provided an inbuilt control on the overall level of human population. … Continue reading
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Tagged archaology, Assyrian, bronze age, climate change, demise of empire, farmers, Hittites, hunter-gatherers, iron age, Levant, Mesopotamia, nomad, Old Testament, resources, science
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Rome Kingdom to Empire: impact on Brittania to Judea
Rome had a Kingdom, then a Republic, then an Empire. What follows is the evolving significant people and events which resulted in the Empire. The last Kingdom monarch was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, located in Ancient Rome. As a result of … Continue reading
The Adoption of the Gregorian Calendar
I grew up using the Gregorian Calendar without much thought as to its origin (or realising it was called the Gregorian Calendar!) My digging back in time has taught me that this pervasive and powerful system dates back to Pope … Continue reading
7th Century Religious Earthquakes
Rome first influenced the conversion of Pagans living in the British Isles, to Christianity. According to Prosper of Aquitaine, Palladius was from a noble family in Gaul. In 429, he was serving as a deacon in Rome. The Pope commissioned … Continue reading
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Tagged anglo-saxons, battles, beliefs, Britain, Byzantine, Christians, conversion, ireland, Jerusalem, Jews, muslims, pagans, Persians, scotland, Slavs, theology, wR
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From Roman Empire to the New World
Thank you Wikipedia, illuminating my path of education as I search for understanding. Thank you also all the various sites on history and books of information on battles for control of areas of the known world which had previously been … Continue reading
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Romans left us with Christianity in a Savage Britain
When the Romans left England in 410 AD the population had no understanding of how to govern, feed themselves or protect each other. 420 – Pelagian heresy outlawed in Rome (418) but, in Britain, supposedly enjoys much support from … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th century, anglo-saxons, celts, christianity, england, germania, holy roman emperor, missionaries, religion, st boniface
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Debt as a Driving Force
Philip IV of France (born in Fontainebleau in 1268, the second son of Philip III. His mother (Isabella of Aragon) died when he was three and his stepmother, Marie de Brabant, allegedly preferred her own children to Philip and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Avignon, christianity, crusades, debt, england, family, feudal to civil society, Holy Land, kings and queens, Knights Templar, papacy, Philip IV of France, power, religion, roman catholicism, Rome, scotland, war
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Human Vulnerability
There have been three major outbreaks of plague. The Plague of Justinian in the 6th and 7th centuries is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague. From historical descriptions, as much … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th century, 14 a18th century, Black Death, conflict, disease, gangrene, Jani Beg, Khan, Mongol empire, religion, rodents, Silk Road, trade, war
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