Ancient winemaking is documented from at least 7000 BC in Georgia and 5000 BC in Iran. The grapevine's spread from the Caucasus region westward to the Mediterranean is both an agricultural and a cultural history.
The settlement of Madagascar by Austronesian peoples from Borneo, sometime around the first millennium AD, is one of the most extraordinary long-distance migrations in human history.
Ironworking in sub-Saharan Africa reaches back to at least 500 BC in the Great Lakes region, predating any plausible diffusion from North Africa. The independent invention hypothesis is supported by the specific characteristics of the furnace technology.
The La Tène material culture spread across a very wide geographic range, but whether that represents ethnic Celtic identity, cultural diffusion, or trade in prestige goods is a genuinely open question.
The ancient letter as a literary form — Cicero's letters to Atticus, Pliny's letters to Trajan, Paul's epistles — straddles the line between private communication and public literature in ways that are interesting for understanding ancient media.
Garum — Roman fish sauce — is the condiment that drives modern people to horror but was as ubiquitous in Roman cooking as olive oil. The production sites in North Africa and Spain were industrial scale.
The scale of Cannae — 50,000 killed in a single afternoon — is staggering even by modern standards. The logistics of that much killing in a pre-gunpowder engagement taxes imagination.
Ancient winemaking is documented from at least 7000 BC in Georgia and 5000 BC in Iran. The grapevine's spread from the Caucasus region westward to the Mediterranean is both an agricultural and a cultural history.
The settlement of Madagascar by Austronesian peoples from Borneo, sometime around the first millennium AD, is one of the most extraordinary long-distance migrations in human history.
Ironworking in sub-Saharan Africa reaches back to at least 500 BC in the Great Lakes region, predating any plausible diffusion from North Africa. The independent invention hypothesis is supported by the specific characteristics of the furnace technology.
Respectfully disagree. Here's my experience: It's good but not as revolutionary as people claim
Great point about Spirit Island. I'd add that start with the basics and master them
The La Tène material culture spread across a very wide geographic range, but whether that represents ethnic Celtic identity, cultural diffusion, or trade in prestige goods is a genuinely open question.
The ancient letter as a literary form — Cicero's letters to Atticus, Pliny's letters to Trajan, Paul's epistles — straddles the line between private communication and public literature in ways that are interesting for understanding ancient media.
Saving this for later
This is the way
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Persian in this thread?
This should be pinned at the top of the forum
I had the opposite experience — Azul worked great for me
Pandemic in 2020 was emotionally complicated and I will not elaborate.
Garum — Roman fish sauce — is the condiment that drives modern people to horror but was as ubiquitous in Roman cooking as olive oil. The production sites in North Africa and Spain were industrial scale.
The scale of Cannae — 50,000 killed in a single afternoon — is staggering even by modern standards. The logistics of that much killing in a pre-gunpowder engagement taxes imagination.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Terraforming Mars in this thread?