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Oyez oyez cocofaaaaaans! We're BACK with more history today. Yesterday we blazed through coconuts' spread around the globe, and today we'll consider Roman (and Byzantine. AND SASANIAN) coconuts!So buckle
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Aw yeah. #cocotwistory in , , ... First, the coconut is a lie. It isn't a nut. It's a drupe, a stonefruit or berry, but instead of eating the fruit
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Today I'm going to be writing about eels in figurative language. Examining metaphors, similes, etc. is a useful way of getting a sense for a historical culture.Lots of metaphors =
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So before we get started talking about historical English eels, lets take a second to define our fish. We're not talking about electric eels (which aren't actually eels!), or about
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1/9 The centerpiece of Islamist thought is one idea: only God is sovereign. This implies that only divine law is legitimate. Failure to submit to this conception of God is
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1/9 Is Saudi Arabia alone responsible for popularizing anti-Shi’a #sectarianism on a global scale? Quite the opposite. For this mission, the Kingdom could heavily draw on South Asian expertise, experiences,
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1/9 The rise & sudden visibility of (political) #Salafism has led to a frantic search for clarity. Where does this phenomenon come from? How old is it? Shall we locate
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1/9 Modern Shi’i Islam as we know it would not exist without South Asia. It all starts in #Lucknow in North India. From 1775-1856, the city was the capital of
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Good morning, today is MAP DAY! #historicmap #cartography #Twitteristorian #twitterstorians 1/8 Although chronicles+geographic texts mention all kinds of maps that had been created before the 10th c. (strategic maps to
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Erik Wade (@erik_kaars) again! Last big thread for me as this week's host. Hopefully also a little less big than the other threads (sorrrrry, I am wordy). I want to
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Erik Wade (@erik_kaars) here again! I am again not really going to talk about my own work, but about the history of scholarship, specifically the history of scholars of the
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Erik Wade (@erik_kaars) here. Today, I want to talk about other peoples' work. Often when we tell the story of scholarship on pre-modern race, we center the work of white
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