It's all nationalistic propaganda and myth made after the fact. The truth is the samurai class exploited and brutalized the lower classes in their society at least as much as their contemporaries in other parts of the world. A samurai could literally execute a commoner at will and without trial. There's are reasons why the Meiji reformers sought to strip them of their powers.

They acted according to the majority of settlers their allegiances. Those colonies who were populated by for example puritan emigrees sided with parliament, whereas crown colonies typically sided with the king. Their was some limited fighting but overall the colonies were pro-Parliament. The last rebellious islands in the Caribean were forced in line by Cromwell by 1652.

The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin along with its companions The Creators and The Seekers are must read for anyone wanting to grasp the broad sweep of history ... and some really interesting details

Been wanting to do some research on Neolithic Society on social aspects, relationships, living conditions and distribution of function/work.

Got "Inside the Neolithic Mind" ready to be read as I'm getting through 'Evolution of Desire' by David M. Buss, but I'm always open to other recommendations!

The History of English is a great podcast

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Finally got around to finishing Fernando Bouza's The Iberian World: 1450–1820, and I highly recommend it. The book does an excellent job at providing an invaluable and detailed snapshot of Iberian socio-economic, political, colonial, and religious life during a critical period in global history!

Are independent professional excavations illegal even with the landlords permission? I feel like if i were a billionaire id make it my lifes work. There are probably some incredible things waiting under a few of those mounds.

>The traditional historical narrative is that the Etruscans became 'Romanised' implying their culture passively adopted Roman culture and was completely taken over by it. This discovery implies that rather then a holistic transformation into Roman culture, the Etruscans and Romans integrated their cultural identities. This allowed for elites to use votive artefacts together, such as these bronzes, even though there were heaps of war and conflict at the time.

Whenever I've heard of other peoples in Italy being Romanized, it's been presented as something that didn't even really start until after the apparent period this find is from. So I find this slightly puzzling.

I've been reading a lot of articles but "Flavian dinasty" was the most precise thing i found about the most recent of those statues and inscriptions, almost all articles just say I century B.C. So the answer is probably yes but we should wait further news.

I'm going back for my physics PhD, hopefully, but it's been decades since I studied physics. You know how I'm going to catch up? The history of physics. If you go through major experiments and realize that the technology and the times influence the thinking, in any discipline, it becomes a cohesive whole.

I think it was Richard Feynman who said that the universe doesn't see biology, physics, psychology, or anything as separate. They're all a continuum of the universe expressing itself, so to speak. It's only man that categorizes and compartmentalizes.

The idea that no man is an island goes even further. Nothing happens in the universe unless it is influenced by something else. It's all momentum.

I think it has to do with women pre and post birth.

From a post-birth point of view, once a child has developed the point that they can go to school or do equivalent things where the mother is left home or in the dwelling while the child develops, she gets the same lonely feelings that a modern woman gets when her hubby is at work and she feels ignored.

I think women also feel certain power when they know that they can attract men as they develop into being women.

Let's face it, it's much easier for a woman to get a man and a man to get a woman, and knowing that they can attract many men and, if necessary, can control them through sex, adds a lot to the idea of female sexual power

Power of course being key to the Victorian ideals that probably gave birth to the modern idea that women are less sexual because men wanted to control women the same way that England or the West wanted to control the world.

So the old line “Emperor Claudius was the last known person to have known/written in Etruscan” has been pretty much been disproved by these?

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The Hindu faith has been a speculated to be 10,000 years old based on recent Brahmin prayer recordings.

Linguists were able to take the different prayers back through the different languages some originated in.

If I recall correctly, they were some prayers that could not be translated until anthologist walked by. Turns out, they were animal sounds and it's thought that the religion started from father's teaching sons about the animals that were found locally and then they began to be worshiped and the calls for the animals were the foundations of those prayers.

I'm a rare coin dealer, but I specialize in American coins. EBay is terrible for selling anything, to be honest, except for sports cards.

The margin on coins, if you're a reputable dealer, is very slim, unless you're dealing with super high-end stuff, where you can go up or down by a thousand bucks and not bat and I.

Most of my inventory runs in the 20 to $50 range, but I can occasionally sell coins that are worth $100 to $250. Unfortunately, the market's been terrible over the summer. I'm stuck with a bunch of silver coinage that's going to take a while to sell.

Yes. I'm a rare coin dealer. I deal with American coins, but we are aware of each other.

There are a lot of coin publications, as well.

I live within 50 miles, I still haven't been there.

Literal Flavor country

One of the most flavorful periods, to be sure.

Yes it is, but historians and archaeologists use to think that by the II Century B.C. - I century A.D. period (from which the bronzes are) Etruscan culture and language had already died out, Etruscan influences on roman culture have always been dated in the Monarchy and early-mid republic, some of those statues are from the Flavian period.

Yes. All we're doing is correcting OP who skipped hundreds of years ahead.

We're pressed for time. Can you sum it up in a word?

No one disputes that?

Love Roman history but Etruscans seem to get the short end. Understandably Etruscans were early on and the winners chose to overlook their part in the action. In any case I thought as interesting as the interaction of 2 "tribes" was the find of"body parts" as temple offerings.

Didn't they limit this conclusion, for now, to just the subject temple?