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Thread with excerpts from “The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia” by Peter Hopkirk Central Asia Napoleon’s plan to invade India by land with Russian help frightened the

What will the human population of Earth be in 2100? How many nuclear weapons will be used between 2020-2100? Will there be a disease that kills more than 5% of

Thread with excerpts from “The Russian Civil Wars 1916-1926: Ten Years that Shook the World” by Jonathan Smele 10.5 million died in the Russian Civil War, another 2 million fled,

Thread with excerpts from “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fischer The four major waves of settlers before War of Independence: Puritans from E England to

Important Southern California history - the Takic Invasion http://www.pcas.org/assets/documents/Takic.pdf Sutton argues that Takics split off from other Uto-Aztecans in 2000 BC, and invaded Los Angeles Basin in 1500 BC Lands

Thread with excerpts from “That Desert is Our Country: Tuareg Rebellions and Competing Nationalisms in Contemporary Mali (1946-1996)” by Baz Lecocq Tuareg call themselves “Kel Tamasheq” which means “the people

What are some historical questions you all would like to see answered? Pre-1492 only. I want to know cause & extent of Numic expansion, what happened in medieval Canadian arctic,

Hakan's knowledge on the relative worth of races (living and dead) will be greatly missed His studies on racial transmogrification in North America were particularly noteworthy - an issue seldom

The middle third of Charlemagne’s realm fragmented in 900s. Two claimants tried to reunify parts of the kingdom in 1000s, but the local noblemen defeated them, preferring the broad autonomy

Thread with excerpts from Serhii Plokhy’s “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine” Ukrainian ecoregions - very important in development of identities, dialects, and states Iranians, Germans, Huns, and

Thread with excerpts from “The Silk Road: A New History” by Valerie Hansen Many government, trade, legal, & personal documents survive due to the reuse of paper. It was expensive,

Barely remembered IE groups: Iberian/Occitanian, British (& N French/Benelux/N German?), Finnish, & Kama Basin Are there any pre-Uralic IE DNA samples from Finland & Kama Basin? West Mediterranean Bronze Age