/u/PangeranDipanagara's posts
I asked this 4 days ago and got no answer, so here goes: Can we speak of an Eastern Mediterranean imperial tradition akin to the Chinese tradition of empire? How recognizable would Ottoman institutions in 1683 have been to a Byzantine observer in 1018, or a Roman observer in 392?
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"A Fijian canoe built in Samoa" could carry 500 to 600 people. How exactly did Pacific Islanders make canoes on such a scale, in a sea where cyclones aren't uncommon? And why did they need such enormous canoes?
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An Ancient Chinese poem says, "Beneath lie men who died long ago / Black, black is the long night that traps them... Thousands of years they lie without waking." Was the Ancient Chinese view of the afterlife really so gloomy?
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Why did the "Spanish" conquest of Mexico end up that way? That is, why did Spain end up with dominance over the former Aztec territories, instead of Tlaxcala or the other native allies who far outnumbered the conquistadors?
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How deep was sixteenth-century Maya knowledge of history? The Maya encountered by the Spaniards knew of Chichen Itza, of course, but how much did they know of their Late Classic or Preclassic ancestors?
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Can we speak of an Eastern Mediterranean imperial tradition akin to the Chinese tradition of empire? How recognizable would Ottoman institutions in 1683 have been to a Byzantine observer in 1018, or a Roman observer in 392?
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In the 1640s, Chinese pirate/warlord Zheng Zhilong had a corps of 300 African musketeers he had purchased from the Portuguese. Would these African slaves have been Catholic?
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