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GSilky t1_j97i0wt wrote

Reply to comment by Poikooze in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

While I can't name any particular ones, as more things are translated and spread the mythology of Siberia, Central Asia, and the Native Americans are being discovered. I would start there if you are interested in new myths.

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GSilky t1_j97hk0y wrote

Reply to comment by BaldBear_13 in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

Your talking about "hydraulic despotism". It might be real, but we can't know for sure. Basically, the despot oversees the water supply for irrigation and, due to the nature of the enterprise, is given full power over it and the society that relies on it. You can see it in other places as well with other resources. Thomas Friedman says the same thing is going on with petroleum, as nations that base their economy on oil almost all have dictatorships.

The reality is that the Hellenic democracies evolved out of despotism, as did Roman republicanism. Urbanism probably had more to do with democratizing Greece and Rome than environment. All the destabilizing able people living in a city rather than on their own lands created a requirement that they all have a chance to exercise power.

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GSilky t1_j97g7ci wrote

Reply to comment by Jaredlong in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

IDK, medieval history seems to be mostly about the king fighting with his vassals, and then when the king dies, vassals fighting with the princes.

In Persian and Turkish history, there always seems to be a period when one brother kills all the others and then becomes king and has to go and put down all the revolts that spring up.

So I would say mostly through superior violence is how the hereditary monarch maintains their power.

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pier4r OP t1_j97cwwy wrote

Reply to comment by zerepgn in Why Nikola Tesla is So Famous (and Westinghouse is not) by pier4r

The nobelitis part was referring to tesla's later period , there few patents are involved. Have you read the article?

One example:

> Tesla claimed that not only could he send electric power wirelessly for 50 million or 100 million miles at “rates of one hundred and ten thousand horsepower.” He also said that he had made a radio machine that “could easily kill, in an instant, three hundred thousand persons.” Even stranger Tesla swore that he received an unusual communication that he decided must have been from Martians. (Although he also added the thought that there could also be aliens on Venus or the moon as, “a frozen planet, such as our moon is supposed to be, intelligent beings may still dwell, in its interior, if not on its surface.”[58])

about "things that work"

> As the years passed, Tesla didn’t manage to demonstrate any significant communication nor transmission of power from his tower. Instead, on January 19, 1903, Marconi was the one who sent the first two-way transatlantic wireless signal from Roosevelt in America to King Edward of England and back, and Marconi appeared to everyone to be the winner of the wireless race.[62] Tesla was undeterred, but Morgan was done with Tesla and his promises and cut off funding. By the next year, Tesla wrote J. P. Morgan in desperation: “Since a year, Mr. Morgan, there has hardly been a night when my pillow was not bathed in tears.”[63] By 1906, he had to fire all his employees at his wireless tower, Wardenclyffe, where it remained empty for many years

Thus I still have the feeling you didn't bother to read the article.

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