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@Peter_Nimitz
Interested in wild adventures, obscure tribes, & historical processes.
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Jun 19 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Thread with excerpts from "Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict" by @BrandtMarieke Image The concept of "dual use" knowledge Image
Jun 7 • 36 tweets • 20 min read
Thread with excerpts from "Hezbollah: A Short History" by Augustus Richard Norton Image Shia birthrates in mid-20th century Lebanon were higher than those of Sunnis & Christians. Image
Apr 29 • 41 tweets • 27 min read
Thread with excerpts from "Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic" by Michael Axworthy Image one reason to find the Iranian Revolution interesting is that it proceeded to follow a non-Western path of development, much like India & China, rather than following the Western path.

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Apr 15 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
one Chicago entomologist used a beetle species as a proxy for water quality (Chicago Water Management is perhaps not trustworthy?) Image alcohol consumption in at least New Kingdom/Roman Egypt as a means to avoid Schistosomiasis: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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Feb 11 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Thread with excerpts from "A History of Myanmar Since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations" by Michael Aung-Thwin and Maitrii Aung-Thwin Image Burma is a colonial era English name for Myanmar. In the Burmese language (Myanma Saga), the ethnicity & nationality of locals are not distinguished - such distinctions are made only in Western academia.
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Jan 29 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of Africa's Middle Ages" by Francois-Xavier Fauvelle Image Mansa Musa's rise to power is known only through a dictation written down by a secretary in Cairo. Image
Dec 29, 2023 • 16 tweets • 9 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Algerian War, The Algerian Revolution" by Natalya Vince Image death toll in Algerian War is disputed, but census comparisons suggest it was about 350k-400k - about 3% of the population.
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Dec 25, 2023 • 19 tweets • 12 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Balkan Reconquista & Turkey's Forgotten Refugee Crisis" by William H. Holt Image Islamic impulse towards iconoclasm ensured that physical Ottoman commemorations of triumphs & catastrophes were usually limited to inscriptions on fountains, clocks towers, & mosques. Statues of men in Turkey are usually from the republican era.


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Dec 17, 2023 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire" by Clive Foss Image Contemporary Arabic and Greek sources for the first Ottoman rulers have a dearth of information. However, three late 15th century Turkish offer enough information to understand the early Ottoman realm when combined with archaeological, epigraphic, & cartographic work.

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Dec 2, 2023 • 39 tweets • 28 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Abbasid Caliphate: A History" by Tayeb El-Hibri Image Latin world's understanding of Abbasid Caliphate was almost mythological due to distance. Byzantines by contrast saw Abbasids as the only empire equivalent to theirs (Holy Roman Empire's imperial pretensions were rejected by Byzantines).
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Sep 6, 2023 • 45 tweets • 30 min read
Thread with excerpts from "Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang" by James A. Millward Image Japanese Xinjiang scholarship is apparently the best developed. One wonders how many parts of the world can be best understood in a third (non-English, non-local) language. Image
Jul 30, 2023 • 21 tweets • 12 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs" Image Ctesiphon & Seleucia were part of an agglomeration of seven cities by 636 AD. Unstated if they were partly depopulated by the misery of the previous 34 years (I’d guess they were).
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Jul 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Seljuk Turks liked animal and human images even after their adoption of Islam - unlike their predecessors.

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Jun 13, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan" by Iraj Bashiri Image The author arrived in Tajikistan in the middle of the civil war. The local security forces were initially suspicious of him, but eventually decided to let him into their country so that he could popularize their favorite (or second favorite) writer - Sadriddin Ayni.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImage
Jun 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
demographics of 22nd century are interesting to think about. Fully internationalized upper class largely of Indian origin with significant European & East Asian substrate that extensively used genetic engineering, majority of world's population is black, fragments of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… the mid-21st bioerror plague is one of the big wild cards - no way that genetic engineering tech keeps diffusing without something going really badly. How badly though...
Jun 4, 2023 • 23 tweets • 15 min read
Thread with excerpts from "Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran" by Maria Subtelny Image the book focuses on Sultan Husain Bayqara, great-great-grandson of Timur the Lame whose rule comprised a third of the Timurid period en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Hu… Image
May 19, 2023 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
Foreign claims of Alexander the Great go way back - Sassanids claimed that he had a Persian father and a Macedonian mother. Image Sassanid founding myth involves an episode where they defeated a warlord whose power derived from the possession of a giant worm, which the Sassanids killed along with the warlord. Image
Mar 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting article that makes a convincing argument that life got better for nobility (in addition to normies) after the Black Plague, but makes a less convincing case that deaths in battle dramatically fell in 16th century cambridge.org/core/journals/… repeat collapses of the Polish and Hungarian states caused a lot of records to be lost, so presumably there is a lot of survivorship bias in the figures which argue for a decline in E European battle deaths among nobility. ImageImageImage
Mar 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Baltic Germans being mostly Finno-Ugrian in ancestry makes their character a lot more understandable imo. More Bleppsama, less Jacob Gottschalk. ImageImageImageImage I think the man who wrote the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle was an immigrant from Germany, but the point stands:
Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
wouldn't surprise me if some Indus Valley Civilization artifacts turn up in Mombasa some day: researchgate.net/publication/33… The IVC-E Africa contact looks like it would have happened 2200-2000 BC. Odd time for a long distance contact - it was a pretty bad time in the world (most famously known by the first Egyptian Intermediate Period & the Fall of Akkad). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Mar 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Less than 3% of UK zoomers identify as homosexual. Just as in USA syphilis is a largely gay disease in UK. USA has 5x the population of UK, but 23x as many syphilis cases. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… & gov.uk/government/pub… & cdc.gov/std/statistics… Obviously the numbers aren't directly comparable since UK & USA have different demographic makeups. Blacks are 12% of population in US, but 36% of syphilis sufferers. Even taking them out though, USians have 3x higher syphilis rate. cdc.gov/std/statistics…