The Most Powerful Pirate Lord in History was a Chinese Woman

Born a Prostitute, she rose to command 80,000 Pirates

& Forced the Qing Empire to Negotiate

🧵thread Born Shi Yang, ~1775 in Canton, China. She would become Ching Shih

As a poor woman from a poor area she became a prostitute on a floating brothel, serving pirates coming to port (example pic)

But she provided more than services of the flesh

The Alamo, Thermopylae, Rorke's Drift, Custer

Stories of Last Stands are told for Millenia, but you haven't heard of this one

When the "Vikings of North America" fell to the Russians

Thread 🧵 The Tlingit & Haida were feared for hundreds of miles

They wrote wooden armor & raided the coasts for slaves

Instilling fear in all people they came in contact with. But this created false confidence

I thought the Title of this article was strange. Vague. Irrelevant. Rude.

In these situations, I look at the author, and learn about them

So here's a thread 🧵 on Jane Herz, US Femail Reporter (yes really), her "reporting"

And why you should not care what she says Jane Herz is no longer credited with the work

I assume based on backlash. But this was already archived.

Before I get into this article, her other "reporting" & why her attacking @nataliegwinters is disgusting

Jane's High School cost $65,540/year

The United States was founded as a CHRISTIAN Nation

Our Founding Fathers said it themselves, it's been hidden from you

Quotes that prove it (bookmark this to reference) Thread 🧵 “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”

-John Adams

A century Before Columbus, a fleet of 300 ships sailed from China

30 years & 7 voyages, they visited Africa, Asia, India, & the Middle East

But then the fleet was burned or left to rot. The Records destroyed. Why?

Thread 🧵🧭 Unlike Columbus, the Eunuch Admiral Zheng did not seek discovery, Gold, or Conquest

He was tasked with projecting Chinese Maritime Power & engaging in diplomacy/trade with tributaries & Distant Rulers

30,000 sailors, diplomats, officials, & soldiers sailed under his command

How much do you know about the United States... before it was the United States

10 Question Quiz on Colonial American History

1. Which of these Colonies Was Established First? Key at the End

2. What Native Americans were present at the pre-Independence Albany Conference that led to the eventual Government

Flint Dibble wrote a thread attacking Graham Hancock & Ancient Apocalypse Season 1

It is filled with innacurate statements, misdirections, and lies

Thread below🧵 about what Dibble got wrong -glaringly- AND a link to the videos I did on it The Thread:

https://x.com/ill_Scholar/status/1881866184469209111

486 American Indians in a mass grave.

But the year is ~1325. Pre-European.

What happened, and what it tells us about life before contact in North America - thread🧵 Even today, some people assert that Europeans brought the concept of total war, not true

The site of the massacre was found in the 1950s, reported on in 1978 by the SD Archaeological Society

The Famous Wounded Knee, by comparison, was *only 150-300 people

Nov 2022, Flint Dibble wrote a thread that would lead to him going on Joe Rogan

The thread was about Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse Season 1

It is filled with innacurate statements, misdirections, and lies

Thread 🧵 Issues start almost immediately

The first lines of Ancient Apocalypse are NOT declaring an all out assault on archaeology, but about the OPPOSITE.

They are about ACADEMIA'S attacks on HIM (video)

This is a practice test for the US Citizenship test

Done in a thread 🧵 of polls for X

You need 60% (6/10) to pass. Do you know enough to pass the test?

1. Where is the Statue of Liberty? The real test is oral, not multiple choice, but this gives you an idea

Key at the End

2. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

This man died to protect 2nd century Roman artifacts (pictured)

ISIS tortured him for a month, he refused to disclose the location of the artifacts. For that he was beheaded.

a Syrian Archaeologist named Khaled Al-Asaad

A thread 🧵 of his life & work For 4 Decades starting in 1963, Khaled Al-Assad was the Head of Antiquities in Palmyra

He was a dedicated steward of the Levant City that was conquered by Rome in the 1st c AD

His work saw Palmyra designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980

Tolkien incorporated real cultures, mythology, and his life when building his world

Not an exact copy, he took inspiration to craft the races & cultures of Middle Earth

Those influences in this thread 🧵 The Shire is idyllic

It represents Tolkien’s own home in the West Midlands English countryside

Safe, cozy, filled with nature and wildlife

A place the protagonists did not want to leave, but had to to protect it

Not all Great Civilizations of the Americas were in South & Central America

What is now the USA had its own

The Mississippi Mound Builders spread thousands of miles across the River Valley, thread 🧵 Cahokia flourished for hundreds of years beginning in 900 AD

It was one of the largest cities

But the metropolis was abandoned around 1350 AD, and we can only speculate on why

A Culture's Drug Use Explains the Culture

They Change Over time, marking greater cultural shifts

Thread🧵on the Culture of Drug Use, starting with Hallucinogens Distinct Evidence of Hallucinogenic Drug Use Dates Back 3000 Years.

However, Humans have likely used Hallucinogens even longer.

We just don't have hard proof of it

This strange artifact was found in a field in Alabama in the 19th Century

Initially, it was thought to just be some random art

But new research shows it contains the Key to PROVING a connection between the Mayan Culture and the Mississippian culture

Why in this thread 🧵🧭
This new research is from Anthropologist
@CamHMcConnell

The motifs, details, symbols, and angles on this calendar disk were painstakingly discovered by this brilliant man

I used to think the Crusades were Evil

Bloodthirsty Christians killing for religion

But learning beyond what I was taught in school made me rethink this entirely

Thread on why the Crusades were justified🧵 The most basic information changes the entire situation

Before the Islamic Expansion starting in the 7th c. the Holy Land was full of Christians and other religions

The Crusades were not a conquest but a RE-conquest

Sh*tting in the Street in India: An Ethnographic Analysis 💩

Here to provide you the truth that Anthropologists dismiss with "cultural relativism"

Despite Being 17.5% of the World's Population, India accounts for over 50% of street sh*tters

A thread🧵 Yes, 1 Billion people in the world poop in the street!

Over HALF are in India!

(Image from the first post taken from a real NGO tackling this sh*tty issue, there's more in the thread, they're hilarious)

The Crusades are demonized even in modern Western Culture

Helpless Muslims just defending their land from evil Christian invaders?

Not even close. Defensive Wars in direct response to Islamic expansion

Context for why the Crusades were justified thread 🧵✝️☦️ Prior to Islam

Christianity reached North Africa and Asia Minor (Middle East)

Zoroastrianism in and around Persia

ARABIA was multi-religious,✡️ Jews, ✝️☦️Christians, other Abrahamic Religions, & Pagans all lived there

486 Arikara American Indians in a mass grave, Missouri River

Men, women, kids, bodies mutilated on the site of their destroyed village. Even their dogs slaughtered.

But the year is ~1325. The perpetrators unknown, but pre-European

Crow Creek Massacre thread 🧵 Even today, some people assert that Europeans brought the concept of total war
This is not true

The site of the massacre was found in the 1950s, reported on in 1978 by the SD Archaeological Society

The Famous Wounded Knee, by comparison, was *only 150-300 people

Nov 2022, Flint Dibble wrote a thread that would end up resulting in him going on Joe Rogan

The thread was about Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse Season 1

It is filled with innacurate statements, misdirections, and lies

Thread 🧵 Issues start almost immediately

The first lines of Ancient Apocalypse are NOT declaring an all out assault on archaeology, but about the OPPOSITE.

They are about ACADEMIA'S attacks on HIM

Shown here in video

A Culture's Drug Use explains the Culture

Different Cultures Choose Different Drugs, similar cultures use similar drugs

They Change Over time, marking greater cultural shifts

Thread🧵 on the Culture of Drug Use, starting with Hallucinogens Distinct Evidence of Hallucinogenic Drug Use Dates Back 3000 Years.

However, Humans have likely used Hallucinogens even longer.

We just don't have hard proof of it