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🔴 **The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology**

_“This article introduces the underlying reasons for the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire, challenging entrenched assumptions through the lens of climate. It reviews scholarly discourse, focusing in particular on a theory linking Mongol expansion to a global dry period, while juxtaposing this with recent research spearheaded by climatologists. Their findings reveal that Mongol expansion coincided with favorable climatic conditions, casting doubt on the traditional narrative.”_

Fan, K.w. The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 135 (2025). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-043.

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🔴 🇺🇸 :youtube: **Why Trump’s Tariff Idol, McKinley, Abandoned His Own Tariff Policy**

length: eight minutes and forty five seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=svktRVVNJO

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🔴 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919**

_“This article argues that Wilson fought for inclusion of both the phrase ‘self-determination’ and the substance of it but was convinced to remove both by his own advisers and members of the British delegation. These men had an agenda at variance with Wilson’s, one focused on solidifying wartime transatlantic co-operation into a post-war governance model that would strengthen the British imperial position and bring the US into support of it.”_

Malcomson, S.L. (2025) ‘The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–24. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000.

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🔴 🗺️ **A Brilliantly Detailed Map Of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks**

_“...an incredibly detailed map of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks in Eurasia an Africa during the 11th-12th century.”_

🔗 brilliantmaps.com/medieval-tra

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🔴 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🎙️ **Episode 345: The History of Greenland**

"In this week’s episode, become familiar with 4,500 years of Greenlandic history, from the settlement of pre-Inuit, Norse, and Inuit peoples, through to the current importance it has in global affairs."

🔗 halfarsedhistory.net/2025/02/0.

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🔴 **Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest**

Daniel Boffey

_“The wide chronological range of the coins suggests they were not selected based on quality, gold content or weight but removed from circulation in a single event, consistent with being spoils from the early Roman conquest of Britain under the general Aulus Plautius (AD43-47).”_

🔗 theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j

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🔴 🇺🇸 🇬🇱 🇬🇧 :youtube: Trump's Greenland 'Grab' - A British Problem

Mark Felton Productions

_“President Trump's announcement that Denmark must transfer sovereignty over Greenland to the US has caused a transatlantic diplomat spat which has just become more complicated when Denmark revealed a 1917 agreement made with Britain concerning Greenland's future.”_

length: eight minutes.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=TMDDLGkP1I

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🔴 🗺️ **The first regional maps and the first world map**

Miguel García Álvarez

_“It was created in Babylon around 500 BC as a copy of an original 200 years older, which has not survived to the present day. It is a clay tablet with drawings and inscriptions showing the Babylonian view of the world.”_

🔗 cartographerstale.com/p/first-

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🔴 :youtube: **Coin or Not to Coin: Why did the Greeks bother to create coinage? - Gilles Bransbourg**

length: one hour and four minutes.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=IClozYcZP7

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🔴 **Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany**

_“...we develop and test the argument that the Roman occupation produced an advantageous positive economic imprint (e.g., investments in economic infrastructure and a trade culture), which in turn imprinted a deep, persisting adaptive macro-psychological profile. Both the economic and macro-psychological imprints co-evolved and continue to contribute to inequalities in adaptive personality traits and related health and well-being outcomes across Germany today.”_

Obschonka, M. et al. (2025) 'Roma eterna? Roman rule explains regional Well-Being divides in Germany,' Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, p. 100214. doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.1.

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🔴 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 **Denmark’s new royal coat of arms marks the end of a 400-year-long Swedish-Danish conflict**

Martin Sunnqvist

_“In reality, the king’s decision to change the coat of arms was about bringing the different parts of the Danish kingdom together in a way that is more representative of modern Denmark. This is not a new practice. What is, however, surprising is his choice to remove a part of the royal coat of arms that has been there since 1397 and has been a source of conflict with Denmark’s neighbour Sweden.”_

🔗 theconversation.com/denmarks-n.

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🔴 **Could you pass an English exam from 1913?**

Janine Machin

_"The exam comprised a series of papers on phonetics, grammar, and translation, which took 12 hours to complete."_

🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedn9p.

🔴 **The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus**

Solomon Adams

_“Weierstrass discovered a function that, according to Ampère’s proof, should have been impossible: It was continuous everywhere yet differentiable nowhere.”_

🔗 quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-.

🔴 **Architectures of learning**

Dr Cristian Ispir

_“Our historical narratives often center on literate, language-based learning—philosophy, science, law, and literature. However, culture itself is a learning system, one that processes challenges, stores solutions, and disseminates best practices.”_

🔗 biblonia.com/p/architectures-o

🔴 📚 **Before Control-P: The Printing Process**

Patrick Hastings

_“This post will explain how press operators used a printing press to produce multiple copies of identical text for wide distribution. Although this process may seem slow and cumbersome to contemporary readers, remember that printing replaced the hand-copying of manuscripts by scribes. It is impossible to overstate the degree to which printing technology revolutionized communication in Europe when it appeared in the 1450s.”_

🔗 blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025.

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🔴 **North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**

_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_

Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695

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