Monthly Archives: July 2017

From Africa to Scotland

Posted on July 28, 2017 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, archaeology, carbon dating, geology, human migration, ice age, mesolithic, neolithic, Orkney, scotland, UNESCO | Leave a comment

Out of Africa

Posted on July 25, 2017 by borderslynn

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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Rome Kingdom to Empire: impact on Brittania to Judea

Posted on July 24, 2017 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Agrippa, Augustus, Byzantine, Caesar, Church of the Nativity, conflict, death, Jesus, Jews, Judea, muslim, Octavian, Pantheon, power, Rome, scotland, war | Leave a comment

The Adoption of the Gregorian Calendar

Posted on July 22, 2017 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 16th century, Europe, Finance, Gregorian calendar, international adoption of calendar, Jesuits, Julian, Pope Gregory XIII, streamlining business, trade | Leave a comment

7th Century Religious Earthquakes

Posted on July 20, 2017 by borderslynn

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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Pre and Post the Year Muhammed was Born

Posted on July 19, 2017 by borderslynn

In 570c, a boy called Muhammad, was born in the Arabian city of Mecca. In Eastern Europe there were migrations of nomadic peoples and major changes were taking place as the Byzantine Empire fought for retention of its borders. Prior … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 6th century, 7th century, Avars, Byzantine Empire, Caesar, Jerusalem, Justin II, Khosrow, Lombards, Maurice, Middle Ages, muhammed, Persia, Romania, Sassanid, Thrace, Tiberius | Leave a comment

From Roman Empire to the New World

Posted on July 16, 2017 by borderslynn

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

Posted on July 10, 2017 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 5th century, anglo-saxons, celts, christianity, england, germania, holy roman emperor, missionaries, religion, st boniface | Leave a comment

Debt as a Driving Force

Posted on July 10, 2017 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | 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 | Leave a comment

Human Vulnerability

Posted on July 7, 2017 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 13th century, 14 a18th century, Black Death, conflict, disease, gangrene, Jani Beg, Khan, Mongol empire, religion, rodents, Silk Road, trade, war | 1 Comment

Monthly Archives: July 2017

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