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"Rereading the sources surveyed by Green and Fancy, we have found no evidence in the various texts that would tie the various epidemics/pandemics in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt to plague, supposedly brought unintentionally by the advancing Mongol army that besieged Baghdad in early 1258."

Brack, J., Biran, M. and Amitai, R. (2024) ‘Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources’, Medical History, pp. 1–19. doi: doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.38. @histodon @histodons

"The modus operandi of men like Hawkins was to sail to Guinea, acquire a cargo of enslaved people, by force and/or barter, and ship them to the Spanish Caribbean and Mexico.91 Here, Hawkins would claim inclement weather had forced him to the area (a tactic used by many illicit traders), offer platitudes to local officials and sometimes promise to help clear out foreign pirates from the area.92 In return, he asked the Spanish to purchase his enslaved people. If that failed, he became aggressive, after which the local elites, often under-manned and in relatively lightly defended settlements, would agree to purchase his human cargo."

Gary Paul Baker, Craig Lambert, ‘William Fowler’, Sir William Garrard, Sir John Hawkins and the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade, The English Historical Review, 2024;, cead213, doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead213 @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

🇺🇸 "Local and state laws quickly targeted Chinese immigrants, often forcing them to pay fees and abandon their traditional methods of doing things. Government employment, and even the use of public schools, was banned for the Chinese. Courts typically excluded testimony from Chinese immigrants, meaning any legal disputes between Chinese and white residents would almost automatically be decided in favor of the white party."

Rust, Owen. "The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/chinese-exclu (accessed April 3, 2024). @histodon @histodons

"A news report in 1965 looked at 'programmed learning machines' which aimed to utilise technology and assist individual learning." youtu.be/he3SJVUqE_o

"The article asks whether people on the right of the ideological spectrum appraise the past, present, and future differently from people on the left. The data show that this is so in the case of the past: In all countries examined, right- compared to left-wing supporters evaluated the past as being more positive. In the United States and Poland, and possibly also in the United Kingdom (although in the latter country the results of the regression analysis are not confirmed by the Pearson correlation), an effect emerges also when considering the good-prospect future scenario: This was evaluated more positively on the left."

Rigoli, F. (2024). Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population. Political Psychology, 00, 1–23. doi.org/10.1111/pops.12971 @psychology

"It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land."

Cordoni, C. (01 Mar. 2024). Reconfiguring the Land of Israel, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004696761 [Accessed 02 April 2024]. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (78)

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"Prominent atheists insist that the Roman emperor Constantine never really converted to Christianity, pretended to adopt the faith as a political ploy and created the Bible at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. And all these claims are total garbage." youtu.be/3HBv_X6k35g @histodon @histodons @religion

"Making use of the most up-to-date photographic equipment at the time, Lohmeyer’s project was a meticulously planned PR campaign. Its goal? A celebration of colonialism and empire." youtu.be/rpZztZkscFA @histodon @histodons

"The establishment of banana republics reveals much about imperialism and the history of the Western Hemisphere. Here are 7 facts you may not know."

Stoyack, Aaron. (2024, March 31). 7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics. Retrieved from thecollector.com/banana-republ @histodon @histodons

"While it is difficult to assess the level of both political and economic stress in Provincia Judaea, the unrest there, evident by the vast influx of legions and supplementary troops into it during these years, may account for some amount of any additional stress. If, as I have suggested, the locals were responsible for providing supplies and places of rest for their oppressors, it would have harmed the locals’ livelihood. These actions seemed to have laid the groundwork for the revolt, so when Hadrian announced his decision to found Aelia Capitolina over Jerusalem, tensions had reached a breaking point."

Burnstein, B. H. (2017). The causes of the Bar Kokhba revolt : a critical reassessment and new comparisons (T). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from open.library.ubc.ca/collection @histodon @histodons

"discover the historical origins behind five popular sayings: “mad as a hatter”, “bite the bullet”, “crocodile tears”, “I have a bridge to sell you”, and “baker’s dozen”." halfarsedhistory.net/2024/03/3

"Today, by examining historical evidence found in Israel, Egypt and Jordan, then harnessing cutting-edge science, can historians finally manage to reveal the mysteries of Jesus's life?" youtu.be/mIk8MyVMLt0 @religion

"Magellan’s behavior became increasingly rebellious and not in tune with the Portuguese authorities’ expectations. He took leave without permission, was accused of illegally trading in Morocco, and even quarreled with the Portuguese King Manuel I."

Perpuli, Francisco. "Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/ferdinand-mag (accessed March 27, 2024). @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

attribution: The Mariner's Museum Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

"To experience the popes and their city from afar meant to gaze upon metres-long rolls of an unfamiliar, precious, Egyptian fabric, and to watch them being unfurled in a church, palace, or place of assembly, to reveal decrees penned in a strange southern Italian script, sometimes even an Arabic one that looked stranger still. Was this the Rome of Bede, Offa, Wulfstan, Æthelred? " blog.oup.com/2024/03/england-a @histodon @histodons @medievodons

"Archaeology supports the conclusion that Brittany was not founded in the mid-fifth century. A foundation in the late fourth century is most compatible with the archaeological evidence, limited though it is."

Howells, Caleb. "Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/magnus-maximu (accessed March 28, 2024). @histodon @histodons

attribution: Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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