It's a mutual understanding of Roman statues.

Wow, your dates are patient longrunners type!

Do any of you have any books about the Japanese age of exploration?

Question: Was there any specific criteria for the differentiation between autonomous republics of the Russian SSR (like Tatarstan) and for the USSR republics properly (like Kazakhstan)?

That is, why did some of the ethnic minorities of the Russian Empire just got to be autonomous republics within Russia and not direct Soviet republics?

I know this was a joke but it reminded me of something the Director of the site of Knossos on Crete (the location of the legendary labyrinth and Minotaur) told my class about 35 years ago. He said that it took Arthur Evans a decade to excavate Knossos (ca.1900), but if they were starting today it would take over a hundred years. That’s how much stuff there was and how quickly they plowed through it.

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That's what I tell my 2nd dates when we get to third base.

They should just dig up all of Rome, get the artifacts, then put it back again.

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Looking for a book(s) recommendation, I'd like to read about the early interactions between Native Americans and newly arrived Europeans. English, Spanish or French doesn't matter, just accountings of how the people within colonial powers interacted with their neighbors.

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Karl Marx was baptized a Lutheran as a kid and he and Engels both were inspired by German peasants revolt in 1500s which German workers serfs went against the Church and Noblemen .

Roman statues differ from greek examples precisely because they tended to depict subjects in a more naturalistic, and imperfect form.

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Books about the Chinese Civil War? In particular the evacuation of Palace Museum artifacts to Taiwan

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The face looks to be a portrait of an actual person rather than the immortal flawless (demi-)god, so maybe it belongs to a funerary monument with a statue of the deceased depicted as Hercules, not unlike Commodus had himself depicted as this greatest of Greek heroes.

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The Inca still had countless warriors, 80K of them directly with king Atahualpa (though he only had 5,000 unarmed men when he was captured). It took many years of fighting to subdue the Inca despite great providence. It certainly wasn't a boring war.

All the same, I do have some ideas for alternate history regarding disease.

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West Mexican art has been found with large amounts of tin in it, though as I said I'm not sure what the quality was like for a tool. If you make an art object, it's fine for it to have air-bubbles and defects you can smooth away at the surface level, but a tool is liable to break. I wouldn't expect availability to be the problem, since the Americas is one of the most abundant sources of copper on Earth. The Zapotec were well known for their copper deposits, and Mexico became one of the greatest producers of copper later on. Tin was also available.

Apparently, copper and bronze smelting was only coming into its own around the 15th century, just before Europeans arrived. If so, it may be that there just wasn't time to develop a bronze industry. It's also plausible the overly high tin, 23%, in that find may've been intentional, to reduce the necessary temperature.

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Apparently the Tarascan may've used bronze weapons, and even breastplates, against the Aztecs. Also, despite there being no iron forges, apparently some Aztec chiefs had daggers made of meteoric iron: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2844401

So I guess the Tarascan had gotten a healthy bronze age empire going, and were ahead of the others. Perhaps they had factors helping them get ahead.

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You not liking a source is not the same as discourse of the content of the source.

Read Shakespeare. I don't know what to tell you.

I also enjoyed Agent Sonya! All of Macintyre’s books are, IMO, fantastic but to me this one told the most interesting story.

Thanks for the recommendation. If you wanted insight into the Egyptian PoVof the campaign, read Al Jabarti's account of Napoleon in Egypt. I'll make sure to check out Strathem!

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