To be fair, whiskey makes me sleepy too 🤣🤣🤣

Thats hilarious! Although to be fair, historians are amazingly good at spotting inconsistencies, so they will probably approach with skepticism 😁

The spread of Islam saw the conquest of tribal/pastoral societies by a much more complex and organised civilisation. I found a pretty good quote on Wikipedia that holds that conversion to Islam "represented the response of a tribal, pastoral population to the need for a larger framework for political and economic integration, a more stable state, and a more imaginative and encompassing moral vision to cope with the problems of a tumultuous society."

If you can rationalise wars of conquest being relatively ‘peaceful’ paths to conversion, much more oppressive methods of subjugation and subordination - forced conversion, ethnic cleansing etc. - would come later.

From what I understand, in the early stages of the caliphate Islam was a status symbol that separated the ruling Arab elite from the masses.

Additionally, Sudan: Kushite and Coptic Christianity

Pakistan & Southeast Asia: Buddhism and Hinduism

Yeah he basically tried to take down corruption and greedy business intetests but copped a shelacking for it. To this day we are still fighting it.

Thank you. Were there any specific triggers that helped it to become so successful in the region? I'm sure I'm asking for a simple answer to a complex question, so no problem if the answer is 'no'!

Bligh was unfairly maligned. His crew mutinied, but only because they wanted to keep having orgies with Tahitian sex slaves and Bligh wanted to keep to the mission. He was set adrift with a dozen loyalists and saved all of their lives by navigating thousands of miles with nothing but a compass on a fucking life boat. One of the most impressive feats of human sea faring ever. Stupid Mel Gibson

What is a good source (preferably documentary/docuseries) to learn about the history of Europe? I know the individual histories of some civilizations but I was looking for a big-picture overview.

i don't get how they successfully achieved this. The game of 'telephone' never works!

prostitution existed in england in that time.

When my daughter was born we identified her mother's place of birth as PI for the Philippines. Daughter just turned 26 and about a month ago I noticed her birth certificate states mother's place of birth as Pitcairn Island. That is going to mess up a future genealogist.

Ole Ned “whiskey is my best friend” Young. He could sleep through cannon fire.

In Arabia: local polytheism, but also Christian and Jewish communities.

In the "Persian Empire" (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan) : mainly Zoroastrians and significant Christian communities.

In the Levant (Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey) : Orthodox Christians.

Outside of Arab polytheists all those are still somewhat around. Mainly Christians (in Lebanon and Egypt mainly).

Not sure about this particular case, but war games like that were conducted on maps.

What is the officially recognised reson for the downfall of Hemp?

There are a lot of "salt Creek"s in the region. Most are nam d Salt Creek because of the natural salt licks along their banks. A quick Google search I found several papers discussing salt usage and harvesting in the Ohio River valley.

I know from having lived in Illinois a lot that the Rock River, Fox River, Vermilion River and several others have natural salt licks. What is now Sterling, IL was a Sauk village before European settlers. Part of why they settled there was access to salt and the game it attracted. Lincoln, IL along a Salt Creek is the same, although it was a Kickapoo village. Danville IL as well along the Vermilion River.

Before Islam what religion were the countries that we'd now consider traditionally Muslim (for example Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan).

I'm aware that those countries didn't exist in the same form so I'm interested in the people who lived in those areas.

Are there any good (ideally not too heavy) reads about the early history of Islam? I find the spread of belief systems very interesting and enjoyed studying the history of Christianity many years ago.

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Breadfruit tostones are ridiculously good

What is the point of this comment? He just said he liked it, nothing else.

Sounds like he disrupted a gang of british army crooks, but those crooks were the only people with guns. Bad move.

People that know this story know it from the movies, but the tangential stories are amazing as well.

1. While being bad at discipline (with 2 uprisings against him), Bligh was still an amazing leader and mariner. Even though the mutineers dumped him and about 8 others in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Bligh managed to make it all the way to Jakarta to report the mutiny, losing only one man to a hostile islander along the way.

This would be near impossible today, let alone ~200 years ago.

2. After the mutiny, Fletcher Christian and the other mutineers found Pitcairn Island and hid there, knowing it would be hard for the British Navy to find them.

The island was rocked multiple times by racial violence, often spurred by sexual intrigue and alcoholism, after one of the mutineers learned to make alcohol from a native plant on Pitcairn.

Interestingly, most of the women seemed to be devoted to their English husbands, avenging their deaths when they were killed by some Tahitian men who had been brought along as slave laborers.

One Englishman, Ned Young, slept through the mutiny AND possibly also the massacre of the English.

What is the clothing material Ansenberg, it was popular in the USA in the 1860s. Thank you.

I was at the Greenwich Maritime museum last week they have a section* on Bligh which explains this very thing.

*of their Pacific exhibition room from which my main takeaway was how astonishing the Island peoples' feats of navigation were - they basically memorised the current flows for various islands, prevailing winds, constellations etc. before they even set out. This knowledge was passed down by word of mouth for generation after generation and they used it to cross thousands of miles of ocean safely on boats held together with twine(no iron avaliable). Massive tangent there but it really blew me away.
I recommend visiting the museum if you have the chance, it's even free entry.

I don't mean this as a flex, but I have been there twice. I used to be a cook on tall ships and we sailed to Pitcairn on both trips I was on. The boats are Called Pacific Swift and Pacific Grace.