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Breaking the Byzantine SystemThe arc-of-history narrative cites two disasters in particular that both reflected and precipitated Byzantine decline: the Battle of Manzikert and the 4th Crusade.The systems approach unambiguously fingers
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@drdanisanchez tweeting for @tweetistorian about WWIII in Africa again. We are finally going to talk about getting drunk in WWII Free French Africa. YAY! Stick around and I'll give you
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A few of my former students tweeted about racism and Covid-19 vax testing in Africa, specifically DRC over the past 24 hrs. It is an important topic that links medical
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The Byzantines often tried to assimilate barbarians by resettling groups of them in other parts of the empire. But this worked at cross-purposes to another desire: to use the barbarians’
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Day 2 al-Mustazhir billah would ascend the caliphal throne at the ripe old age of 16 . . . In the span of two years-- so many of the key
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Welcome to #FridayFeeling #WomenOfMilitaryHistory with @KaraDixonVuic talking about how the "homefront" operates in support of morale for troops in war. Today's scholar, @KaraDixonVuic, is the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor
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Hello again! @iandavidmorris here.Following yesterday’s thread, let’s talk about slave soldiery in Islam.Enslaved people have been made to fight across many ancient and medieval societies, but they were nowhere so
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Hello everyone! Shall we talk a bit about slavery in the medieval Islamic world?The contours of Islamic history are deeply shaped by slavery and manumission (the freeing of slaves).https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1193767988006182912 Slavery
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Hello again. @iandavidmorris here. Let’s wrap up our discussion on slave soldiers.https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194388946861600769 As we have seen, in the first 200 years of Islam, enslaved people ran the households of wealthy
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