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Social category influence countries 30.19% travel destinations 8.49% finance 1.89% social networks 0.94% technology brands 0.94% currencies 0.94%

Social topic influence in the 20.75%, china 5.66%, rome 4.72%, egypt #1476, land of #30, bc 3.77%, the first 3.77%, increase in 2.83%, sea 2.83%, ethiopia 2.83%

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"In [----] during a lull in the Reconquista [----] unemployed Catalan mercenaries were hired by the Byzantines to check the advance of the Turks in Anatolia. This "Catalan Company" gained a series of victories over the Turks driving them back in West Asia buts so ravaged the country and was so unruly that Emperor Michael IX decided to ambush it succeeding in killing its leader yet failing to fully destroy it. Furious at this betrayal the Company regrouped under new management inflicted a serious defeat on the Byzantine army and continued to ravage Thrace for [--] years. Moving on to Greece the"
X Link 2026-01-06T22:19Z 31.8K followers, 695.5K engagements

"The more analyses I read about Napoleonic battles the more incredible Napoleon looks. In a study of [---] French Engagements in the Napoleonic wars the strongest predictive variable of French Success is Napoleon's presence on the battlefield. While a S.D. increase in the ratio of French to enemy troops raises the odds of success to loss by 30% Napoleon's battlefield command raises success odds by 500% (times 5). As the Duke of Wellington famously noted Napoleon's presence on the field is worth "forty thousand men." https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015491359403278508"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:26Z 31.6K followers, 275.9K engagements

"Criminal offending by various communities in the Ottoman Empire from "The Statistical Yearbook of the Ottoman Empire.""
X Link 2026-01-26T20:07Z 31.8K followers, 137K engagements

"Seasonal movements of West African Nomads. Large number of people in the Sahel region are transhumant pastoralists who move southward during the dry season to find water and grazing land and move back northward toward the Sahara during the wet season"
X Link 2026-01-27T11:01Z 31.6K followers, 11.8K engagements

"My preliminary estimate of historical homicide rates in Japan. Based on available data Japan has always had low rates of violent crime even as far back as the Meiji Era"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:03Z 31.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Source: https://araingang.medium.com/the-ethnic-composition-of-mughal-nobility-b700ed6a37ee https://araingang.medium.com/the-ethnic-composition-of-mughal-nobility-b700ed6a37ee"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:21Z 31.6K followers, [----] engagements

""The sons of the nobles became the bondsmen of the Chinese people their unsullied daughters became its slaves. The Turkic begs gave up their Turkic names and bearing the Chinese names of Chinese begs they obeyed the Chinese Emperor and served him during fifty years.""
X Link 2026-02-02T19:54Z 31.8K followers, 30.5K engagements

"The destruction of Old Great Bulgaria by the Khazars and the scattering of the Bulgars: "It is now time to speak of the dominion of the Huns (as they are called) and the Bulgarians and their affairs. In the area of the Maeotic Lake Azov Sea by the river Kophis lies Great Bulgaria (as it was called in olden times) and here lived the so-called Kotragoi who are also of the same stock as the Bulgarians. In the days of Constantine who died in the West a certain man by the name of Kobratos became master of these tribes. On his death he left five sons upon whom he enjoined not to part company under"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:04Z 31.9K followers, 18.6K engagements

"In Ethiopia and Eritrea. Based on Isotope analysis of New kingdom Baboon mummies imported from the 'Land of Punt'. Where the fuck was it https://t.co/TA33a8Ie7b Where the fuck was it https://t.co/TA33a8Ie7b"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:10Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Deep Maniot Greeks a highly genetically isolated group. "Deep Maniots paternal lineages trace back to Bronze Age Iron Age and Roman-era Greece" and "show little evidence of absorbing later incoming groups such as the Slavs" "Even Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (905959 CE) remarked on the Deep Maniots unusual origins noting that they are not of the lineage of the Slavs but of the Romans of old who were called Hellenes.* He further recorded that Deep Maniots continued worshipping the Olympian gods well into the 9th century" "over 50% of present-day Deep Maniot men descend"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:24Z 31.9K followers, 34K engagements

"The Punic Wars but it's Hannibal winning again and again against a never ending number of Roman troops for all eternity. Funny to think that even if Hannibal would've won the battle of Zama he still wouldn't be anywhere near to defeating Rome. https://t.co/0K01aMoLWM Funny to think that even if Hannibal would've won the battle of Zama he still wouldn't be anywhere near to defeating Rome. https://t.co/0K01aMoLWM"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:52Z 31.9K followers, 84.7K engagements

"If you leave any large animal with a group of drunk men at least one of them would try to climb and ride it. This is why agriculture preceded the domestication of animals. First horse ever to be ridden by a human: "what the fuck is going on" First horse ever to be ridden by a human: "what the fuck is going on""
X Link 2026-02-06T05:06Z 31.8K followers, 84.1K engagements

"Rome had plenty of enemies with two eyes several one-eyed enemies (Hannibal Sertorius Julius Civilis Amanirenas) but no enemies with zero eyes. There is a positive relationship between number of eyes and being an enemy of Rome"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:13Z 31.9K followers, 12.4K engagements

"Ethnicity of Ottoman Viziers"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:30Z 31.8K followers, 433.5K engagements

"@Clint_Davey1 "how the countries that fought it still exist." Some don't"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:55Z 31.6K followers, [----] engagements

"In the following decades a mass movement of Han people into this new farmland significantly expanded agricultural production"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:50Z 31.9K followers, 15.9K engagements

"Another equally important factor is an increase in crop yields. Data on rice yields shows a slight improvement over time but a far greater factor is the introduction of new world crops into China"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:50Z 31.9K followers, 15.9K engagements

"Qing data from over [----] counties relating to whatever maize is grown in the county allows us to map the spread of New World crops in China. From the end of the Ming to mid 19th century maize went from being utilized in 10% of counties to all counties"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:50Z 31.9K followers, 13.9K engagements

"Interestingly the combined effects of the decline in mortality due to the decrease in disasters and of the increase in population possibly meant that the situation in China was becoming more Malthusian with per capita GDP declining toward subsistence"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:50Z 31.9K followers, 11.7K engagements

"Graphs from: "Chinas Extraordinary Population Expansion and Its Determinants during the Qing Period 1644-1911" - Kent Deng. And also from the Cambridge Economic History of China vol 1"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:50Z 31.9K followers, 10K engagements

"1600 muskets: "Although the musket ball could carry [---] yards or further aimed fire was effective only to about eighty yards. The complicated loading procedure limited the rate of fire to one shot per minute and even then the rate of misfire could be as high as [--] percent.""
X Link 2026-02-10T20:27Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Graphing the military revolution in the West. Number of notable historical developments in gunpowder technology by century and region in which they occurred"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:28Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Many notable works were produced when their writers were imprisoned: Pilgrim's Progress Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy Marco Polo's travels Don Quixote and [---] Days of Sodom. Prison provided both time and discipline for authors as Trotsky recalled on his own time in jail: "perfect for intellectual work." The only question that now remains is what do we frame George R. R. Martin with https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021653573184950458 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021653573184950458"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:32Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Correctionas people noted Copts are 3.5% of the population of Cairo not the whole of Egypt"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:18Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The Indo-European term for 'cow' may be related to the Chinese and Sumerian words for 'cow'. The word may be a wanderwort which spread along with the spread of domesticated cows"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:53Z 31.9K followers, 17.6K engagements

"Funny to think that even if Hannibal would've won the battle of Zama he still wouldn't be anywhere near to defeating Rome"
X Link 2025-03-13T00:26Z 31.9K followers, 99.3K engagements

"An Old Turkic inscription by the Gktrk Khan warns his tribesmen not to be attracted by luxury and to settle down lest they be destroyed: "by means of sweet words and soft materials the Chinese are said to cause the remote peoples to come close in this manner.If you go towards those places oh Turkish people you will die If you stay in the land of tkn and send caravans from there you will have no trouble If you stay at the tkn mountains you will live forever dominating the tribes" Interesting how there are echoes of the same socio-political idea common in classical civilization that luxury"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:53Z 31.9K followers, 190.3K engagements

"As part of the Arab slave trade in Africa Ethiopians were traded by Muslim rulers into India. In the late 15th century a group of these East African slaves working as palace guards all the way in Bengal committed a palace coup and formed a short lived dyanasty"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:21Z 31.9K followers, 102.5K engagements

"Description of the start of the Arab conquests from a newly discovered Maronite chronicle unearthed in Sinai: "And in the year nine-hundred forty-five and the twenty-fourth year of Heracliuss reign 633/4 the Arab robbers arrived and fell upon the land of the Holy Land inflicting great damage to it by sword and by enslavement. Then Theodoric the emperors brother took the Roman army and marched against the Arabs but the Romans were defeated and fled before them. And a marvellous sign appeared in the heavens signifying the wrath that would befall the land at their hands.""
X Link 2026-02-11T19:11Z 31.9K followers, 68.2K engagements

"https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/p=45769 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/p=45769"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:53Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

""The Avars were large of stature and proud of spirit and God destroyed them. They all perished and not one Avar survived. There is to this day a proverb in Rus' which runs 'They perished like the Avars.' " - Primary Chronicle of the Rus'"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:50Z 31.9K followers, 53.1K engagements

"@pegobry_en A major reason why France colonization was much more limited was because it experienced an early demographic transition starting from 1750s; in comparison British birth rates only started declining in the 1860s"
X Link 2026-02-16T12:57Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Oftentimes when groups migrate to a new country they tend to cluster/specialize in certain occupations. By analyzing surnames one can see the same was true in the medieval world. Looking at occupational surnames of a foreign origin in a language tells us that migrant communities that brought these names to the language were often involved in specific crafts. In the Croatian language: Surnames of Romance origin are related to shipbuilding (Kalafat Kalafati Kalafatovi Kalafat) and barbers (Barbir barbir). Surnames of German origin are related to woodworking and cloth-making: shoe-makers"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:43Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Several hoards of lead disks with Greek inscriptions have been found in China attesting to the presence of Greek merchants there during the Roman period as part of the Silk Road trade route. These disks have also been found in the Han captial Changan"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:52Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

""Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction" "unlike construction agriculture has seen massive drops in labor required to perform it. The percentage of the population employed in agriculture has declined from [--] to 60% in [----] to less than 2% today. ""
X Link 2026-02-13T23:22Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"How to beat Napoleon Get an army nearly twice as large as him and then you've got a decent chance. "Napoleonic France won even though outnumbered on average by 9% whereas their opposition won only when they outnumbered the French by typically 83%.""
X Link 2023-07-15T09:36Z 31.9K followers, 1.3M engagements

"In many countries metal detection is illegal England took the opposite approach encouraging it and working with hobbyists to record artifacts. The result is the "Portable Antiquities Scheme" the world's largest database of small archaeological finds. Now at [-------] artifacts"
X Link 2024-09-18T20:53Z 31.9K followers, 825.6K engagements

"Relatedly: "At the upper end of the IQ distribution people can learn things rapidly. High-school freshmen in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) who had tested in the top one-hundredth of one percent managed to get a median score of [---] out of [---] on an AP Biology exam (95th percentile) after an intensive three-week course" This quote tweet got a boatload of likes. But if a smart non-lawyer had [--] months to do nothing but prep for the bar it would not surprise me if they had a decent chance of passing it. https://t.co/AOOp7NY2az This quote tweet got a boatload of likes. But if"
X Link 2024-10-20T15:42Z 31.9K followers, 96.4K engagements

"The World Wars overwhelmingly recruited from the upper classes of society they killed close to half of the adult men in the British nobility a similar percentage to those who died from violence during the Hundred Years War when the nobility was an explicit military class"
X Link 2024-11-12T20:48Z 31.9K followers, 615.9K engagements

"Alexander the Great being an absolute maniac: "For a while a few minutes at the most and perhaps less the king of a vast empire fought alone inside an enemy stronghold.""
X Link 2025-02-20T18:59Z 31.9K followers, 429.8K engagements

"How the Romans saw various groups:"
X Link 2025-02-28T15:08Z 31.9K followers, 1.1M engagements

"A Frankish Odyssey. Around [---] Emperor Probus defeated the Germanic people in a series of wars. As part of the peace agreement Germanic groups were resettled throughout the empire. This included a group of Franks who were resettled in the region of Pontus on the coast of the black sea but almost as soon as they were settled the Franks rebelled. Taking control of a fleet stationed in an Euxine harbor they sailed out of the black sea into the Mediterranean pillaging their way through Anatolia Greece and North Africa. They ravaged the famous city of Syracuse in Sicily and tried to take Carthage"
X Link 2025-09-13T17:11Z 31.9K followers, 114.6K engagements

"Celtic words in the Turkish language ultimately sourced from the Galatians who settled in Anatolia in the 3rd century BC"
X Link 2025-10-12T09:38Z 31.9K followers, 729.7K engagements

"Roman state efficiency the last of the Goths the ancient tribes of Israel Egyptian papyri the rate of homicide among the medieval nobility and many more highlighted threads from recent months: Odyssey of the Franks: https://x.com/lefineder/status/1966912608713281767 A Frankish Odyssey. Around [---] Emperor Probus defeated the Germanic people in a series of wars. As part of the peace agreement Germanic groups were resettled throughout the empire. This included a group of Franks who were resettled in the region of Pontus on the coast of the https://t.co/6CiAxZb3KY"
X Link 2025-10-30T23:42Z 31.9K followers, 55.6K engagements

"The limited quantitative evidence we have regarding the effects of the black death on the Middle East and Central Asia shows a scale of mortality that is comparable to Europe. 54% of the population of Cairo perished 60% of Damascus and half of Samarkand died. As Ibn Khaldun who lived through the plague stated: "Civilization both in the East and the West was visited by a destructive plague which devastated nations and caused populations to vanish. It swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out. Civilization decreased with the decrease of mankind. Cities and"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:47Z 31.9K followers, 24.1K engagements

"Looking at the year of death of scholars in Baghdad there is a massive jump in mortality when the Plague hits around 1348"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:47Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"You can look at the [----] Central Asian dated tombstones in Kyrgyzstan and see a similarly large jump a few years earlier related to the spread of the Black Death from the east to the west"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:47Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Under the Qing dynasty China experienced a massive expansion in population growing from 50-150 million persons in the Ming Era to around [---] million by the mid 19th century. The main reasons for this extraordinary expansion🧵"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:50Z 31.9K followers, 122.9K engagements

"Language origin of new English words by century. You can see the effects of the Norman conquest bringing Romance terms into English and of the Renaissance facilitating the loan of Greek words into the language"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:54Z 31.9K followers, 142.1K engagements

"Evolution of French infantry formation. In the early 17th century lines were 10-person deep with a high ratio of pikemen to musketeers; [---] years later pikemen were obsolete and lines were 3-4 thin. This was because formations were dictated by the slow firing rates of guns which necessitated conveyor belt style warfare in which lines were deep enough so that by the time the first line finishes firing the last line could finish reloading and replace it. As firing rates steadily improved lines could become thinner and thinner dense pike formations had less ability to provide defense for such"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:03Z 31.9K followers, 26.6K engagements

"In the [----] census of Cairo Copts who are 3.5% of the population of Egypt "constitute 47% of writers and clerks 11% of waqf managers and neighborhood sheikhs 6% of merchants of intermediate goods and 5% of service and administrative employees.""
X Link 2026-02-12T13:52Z 31.9K followers, 26.1K engagements

"Data from this study: "La naissance d'une statistique d'tat" https://www.persee.fr/doc/hism_0982-1783_1998_num_13_1_896 https://www.persee.fr/doc/hism_0982-1783_1998_num_13_1_896"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:52Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Scipio asked Hannibal whom he considered the greatest general to which the latter replied "Alexander of Macedonia." To this Scipio assented since he also yielded the first place to Alexander. Then he asked Hannibal whom he placed next and he replied "Pyrrhus of Epirus" because he considered boldness the first qualification of a general; "for it would not be possible" he said "to find two kings more enterprising than these." Scipio was rather nettled by this but nevertheless he asked Hannibal to whom he would give the third place expecting that at least the third would be assigned to him; but"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:07Z 31.9K followers, 173.7K engagements

"The Roman ambassador draws a line in the sand warning the Seleucid emperor to hold back on his invasion of Egypt: After receiving the submission of the inhabitants of Memphis and of the rest of the Egyptian people some submitting voluntarily others under threats Antiochus marched by easy stages towards Alexandria. After crossing the river at Eleusis about four miles from Alexandria he was met by the Roman commissioners to whom he gave a friendly greeting and held out his hand to Popilius. Popilius however placed in his hand the tablets on which was written the decree of the senate and told"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:29Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Had Napoleon won at Waterloo and then gone on to inflict a couple of more defeats on his opponents could he have broken the allied coalition and driven some of them to negotiate a peace settlement with him"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:54Z 31.9K followers, 15K engagements

"'Use a pen Saddam Hussein.'"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:03Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Here's how Napoleon could still win. @lefineder It would be a nearly impossible feat https://t.co/f049gMPOjE @lefineder It would be a nearly impossible feat https://t.co/f049gMPOjE"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:06Z 31.9K followers, 30.5K engagements

"Land of the Chuds a Baltic-Finnic people who were "among the founders of the Kievan Rus' state." The Primary Chronicle records: "The Chuds the Slavs the Krivichians and the Ves' then said to the people of Rus' 'Our land is great and rich but there is no order in it. Come to rule and reign over us.' They thus selected three brothers with their kinsfolk who took with them all the Russes and migrated. The oldest Rurik located himself in Novgorod; the second Sineus at Beloozero; and the third Truvor in Izborsk. On account of these Varangians the district of Novgorod became known as the land of"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:33Z 31.9K followers, 44.2K engagements

"@pegobry_en That's possibly true the problem is there were already far more British than French people in North America in 1750s around 10-20x so you could not change that ratio with colonial fertility rates"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:49Z 31.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Map of Viking movement and influence"
X Link 2025-09-10T14:51Z 31.9K followers, 67.4K engagements

"A letter from a fresh Roman recruit arriving in Rome to his mother in Egypt"
X Link 2025-09-15T21:45Z 31.9K followers, 209.5K engagements

"We know from Diocletian's Price Edict that the price of shipping 1kg of grain from almost anywhere accessible by water to Rome was just 2-5 denari less than a quarter of a day's wage. Such cheap shipping prices meant the cost of sending letters across the Mediterranean Black Sea and even to Britain was fairly marginal. A letter from a fresh Roman recruit arriving in Rome to his mother in Egypt. https://t.co/TGWIRvo5rd A letter from a fresh Roman recruit arriving in Rome to his mother in Egypt. https://t.co/TGWIRvo5rd"
X Link 2025-09-17T04:04Z 31.9K followers, 151.8K engagements

"German sense of humor"
X Link 2025-09-20T23:23Z 31.9K followers, 90.4K engagements

"Only around 10% of Roman family names in the late Republican period survived into late antiquity"
X Link 2025-09-24T00:45Z 31.9K followers, 77K engagements

""At first I wanted to erase the Roman name and convert all Roman territory into a Gothic empire: I longed for Romania to become Gothia and Athaulf to be what Caesar Augustus had been. But long experience has taught me that the ungoverned wildness of the Goths will never submit to laws and that without law a state is not a state. Therefore I have more prudently chosen the different glory of reviving the Roman name with Gothic vigour and I hope to be acknowledged by posterity as the initiator of a Roman restoration since it is impossible for me to alter the character of this Empire" - Athaulf"
X Link 2025-09-29T00:29Z 31.9K followers, 108.5K engagements

"Greco-Roman writers were the first to use coordinates of latitude and longitude to map places and the first to lay down geometrical treaties specifying how to project regions onto maps. This transformed Geography from a mere itinerary schematically displaying places into a real science based on mathematical principles. Ptolemy's Geography written around [---] AD gives the coordinates of [----] different places on top of being a monumental achievement in pre-modern mapping when these coordinates are compared to modern Greenwich coordinates a tight correlation is seen (0.98) between the numbers"
X Link 2025-10-01T11:38Z 31.9K followers, 42.3K engagements

"Tribes of Europe. "This vast map covers just about all possible tribes which were documented in the first centuries BC and AD mostly by the Romans and Greeks.""
X Link 2025-10-01T16:30Z 31.9K followers, 103.6K engagements

"In [---] BC a vast Celtic army invaded Macedonia killing its king. Afterwards some Celts continued to Anatolia pillaging the region until stopped by the Seleucid king Antiochus in [---]. Seemingly Antiochus was also nearly killed by the Celts. An inscription dated to around when the Celts were defeated honors his personal Physician for treating him after "having been wounded in the neck in the battle." Remarkable that the Gallic invasion almost killed both the Kings of Macedonia and of the Seleucid Empire"
X Link 2025-10-06T13:08Z 31.9K followers, 109.5K engagements

"- The Trojan war didn't happen. - The Trojan war happened but was just a raid that was exaggerated. - The Trojan war happened and it was part of the raids that destroyed bronze age civilization"
X Link 2025-10-06T22:19Z 31.9K followers, 197.1K engagements

""The Pashtun is never at peace except when he is at war" - Afghani Pashtun proverb. BREAKING: The Afghan Taliban announce that they have launched attacks against Pakistan at [--] points along the border. Source: Afghan Defense Ministry https://t.co/ASmBmWgI81 BREAKING: The Afghan Taliban announce that they have launched attacks against Pakistan at [--] points along the border. Source: Afghan Defense Ministry https://t.co/ASmBmWgI81"
X Link 2025-10-11T19:29Z 31.9K followers, 98.4K engagements

""The Scythians think it is good after killing a man to scalp him and carry the frontal hair on ones horses brow on the one hand and cover the skull with gold or silver leaf and to drink from it and offer libations to the gods on the other hand. Among the Greeks no one would want to go into the same house as a person who had done such things." -Dissoi Logoi 2.1-19 4th century BC"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:25Z 31.9K followers, 109.1K engagements

"The Roman ambassador to Attila's courtPriscus met a fluent Greek speaker dressed like a "well-to-do Scythian." Asking who he was he replied that he was a Greek merchant taken captive who adopted nomads' way of life. "He considered his new life among the Scythians better than his old life" praising the spoils of raiding the leisure afterwards the lack of severe taxation and the ability to defend oneself using arms"
X Link 2025-11-12T12:36Z 31.9K followers, 65.8K engagements

"This study finds that over the past [-----] years polygenic scores for household income increased by [---] standard deviations intelligence by [----] S.D and years of schooling by [----] S.D. Evidence of directional selection for cognitive ability in the last [-----] years from the David Reich lab https://t.co/N0eN2Nepzu Evidence of directional selection for cognitive ability in the last [-----] years from the David Reich lab https://t.co/N0eN2Nepzu"
X Link 2024-09-15T17:53Z 31.9K followers, 376.6K engagements

"@norvid_studies The Romans seemed to have really hated him"
X Link 2024-10-26T18:42Z 31.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Bronze Age Humanitarian reform"
X Link 2025-01-11T15:28Z 31.4K followers, 35K engagements

"The 23-mile-long (35km) Canal of Corbulo. Dug c. [--] AD and connected the rivers Meuse and Rhine. Tacitus reports that it was dug "in order to keep the soldiers busy and to avoid the dangers of the Ocean""
X Link 2025-04-04T12:15Z 31.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Up until the 19th century Persia faced large-scale tumult due to repeated nomadic invasions. The Qajar tribes which took control of the country c. [----] were themselves Turks who originally arrived in the region in the Mongol era. "At the outset of the Qajar dynasty the Persian economy displayed the characteristics of a traditional economy disintegrating under the stress of political anarchy. Several decades of external invasions internal strife and endemic lawlessness.for the early 1800s with half of the population thought to have been nomadic.""
X Link 2025-06-03T18:55Z 31.5K followers, 32.9K engagements

"@haravayin_hogh You were close not the center of Europe but the center of the world. "The Greenwich meridian is a prime meridian a geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London England.""
X Link 2025-11-18T23:38Z 31.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@RomeInTheEast I sometimes think about Romans complaining about how bad things are under the Julio-Claudians or Commodus. "Boy you don't know what's coming""
X Link 2025-12-23T21:15Z 31.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Between the late medieval era and [----] literacy rates in Britain increased from 5% to over 60%. This happened despite virtually no state investment in Education in a bottom-up process motivated by individual interest in acquiring literacy and Protestant religious zeal in spreading it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011138935918084128 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011138935918084128"
X Link 2026-01-13T18:11Z 31.9K followers, 71.3K engagements

"The ancient Greeks invented vending machines. What is a true fact so baffling it should be false What is a true fact so baffling it should be false"
X Link 2026-01-18T12:44Z 31.3K followers, 292K engagements

"Interesting that despite Yerevan being the capital of Armenia its name is derived from a pre-Armenian language that remained largely undeciphered until the late 20th century. Only around the 1960s/70s the city name was deduced to derive from an Urartian word interpreted as "capture" "conquest" or "victory." The "Birth certificate" of Yerevan (old name Erebuni) capital of Armenia is a cuneiform inscription at the Erebuni Fortress left by the King of Urartu on a basalt stone slab about the foundation of the city in [---] BC. Translation : By order of God Khaldi Argishti the son"
X Link 2026-01-19T00:52Z 31.3K followers, 62.8K engagements

"Philosophers rarely publish the null results of their thought experiments. Very troubling"
X Link 2026-01-20T02:25Z 31.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Urartu was an Iron Age kingdom that expanded from its core around Lake Van to parts of Armenia Anatolia and Iran. From the names preserved in Urartian inscriptions we can see the ethnic diversity in the empire: 33.1% of names belong to the Urartian language. 11% are Anatolian mostly from its conquest in the west. 8.5% are Semitic and 4.2% Iranian mostly from its eastern conquests 7.6% are Armenians who probably arrived in the region of the Armenian highlands toward the late Bronze Age. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014060512443593006 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014060512443593006"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:40Z 31.3K followers, 25.8K engagements

"Genetics of Irish Travellers. Travellers seperated from settled Irish as much as [---] years ago. There is "considerable genetic distance between the settled Irish and the Irish Travellers .which is comparable to values observed between German and Italian or Scotland and Spain." Travellers have much higher rates of consanguinity "The ROH profile of the Irish Travellers is comparable to other consanguineous populations such as the Balochi of Pakistan and Druze of the Levant." Travellers used to have a much higher population in the past which contracted over time while the settled population"
X Link 2026-01-21T21:52Z 31.4K followers, 90.6K engagements

"Irish Travellers are often thought to have some connection to Gypsies due to cultural similarities and while this is false in the Irish case it's true of Swedish Travellers the "Resande" who formed a few hundred years ago from an admixture between Romani and Swedes. Genetics of Irish Travellers. Travellers seperated from settled Irish as much as [---] years ago. There is "considerable genetic distance between the settled Irish and the Irish Travellers .which is comparable to values observed between German and Italian or Scotland and Spain." https://t.co/1DG5dUQkDM Genetics of Irish Travellers."
X Link 2026-01-22T18:27Z 31.3K followers, 19.5K engagements

"People don't know this but excavating a ladder and then using it to climb out of the excavated site is actually standard archaeological practice. Look at this BEAUTIFUL Iron Age ladder discovered by archaeologists nearby at Sizewell. Absolutely fabulous preservation. https://t.co/Nhtk5jpCAF Look at this BEAUTIFUL Iron Age ladder discovered by archaeologists nearby at Sizewell. Absolutely fabulous preservation. https://t.co/Nhtk5jpCAF"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:29Z 31.3K followers, 192K engagements

"1st-century coverage of Germany and of Germans. "violent rain and wind came up that separated them still further while the ground that had become slippery around the roots and logs madewalking very treacherous for them and the tops of the trees kept breaking off and falling down causing much confusion. While the Romans were in such difficulties the barbarians suddenly surrounded them on all sides at once coming through the densest thickets" - Cassius Dio on the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. @vintagemapstore Woodland coverage of Germany - Roman era and today. The legions dealt with an entirely"
X Link 2026-01-23T00:14Z 31.3K followers, 80.8K engagements

"More analyses of Napoleon's battle performance in this thread: https://x.com/lefineder/status/1680149326297800704 How to beat Napoleon Get an army nearly twice as large as him and then you've got a decent chance. "Napoleonic France won even though outnumbered on average by 9% whereas their opposition won only when they outnumbered the French by typically 83%." https://t.co/2kiOR5OQOs https://x.com/lefineder/status/1680149326297800704 How to beat Napoleon Get an army nearly twice as large as him and then you've got a decent chance. "Napoleonic France won even though outnumbered on average by"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:26Z 31.4K followers, 17.1K engagements

"The graph is made from the statistically significant variables in this logit regression with the logit coefficients transformed to odds ratios"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:26Z 31.4K followers, 10.3K engagements

"The economic calculation problem in the Talmud"
X Link 2026-01-26T13:28Z 31.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Areas by duration under Ottoman rule"
X Link 2026-01-26T15:19Z 31.6K followers, 48.9K engagements

"Percent of adults who know the meaning of the word: Consume - 61% Remorse - 51% Tranquil - 36% Compassion - 29% Tirade - 17% Plagiarize - 13% Travesty - 5% Often we see some loon here claiming that anybody could learn college algebra or calculus or higher mathematics. For perspective: TABLE [--] Adults 16-65 Passing WAIS Vocabulary Items (%) Item Passing(%) Item Passing(%) Often we see some loon here claiming that anybody could learn college algebra or calculus or higher mathematics. For perspective: TABLE [--] Adults 16-65 Passing WAIS Vocabulary Items (%) Item Passing(%) Item Passing(%)"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:10Z 31.6K followers, 70.3K engagements

"@Telos_of_War Perfectly cromulent words"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:12Z 31.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Underappreciated how much and how fast modernity transformed the world. In [----] more than 70% of the population of Ethiopia was still nomadic. When the British took over Iraq post WW1 3/4 of the population were nomads. In [----] a quarter of Iran was nomads; in [----] half of Iranians were nomads. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015981577214239194 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015981577214239194"
X Link 2026-01-27T02:53Z 31.6K followers, 16.5K engagements

"@gcochran99 Mauritania misread the chart"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:18Z 31.5K followers, [---] engagements

"More than 70% of the pop of Mauritania not Ethiopia"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:20Z 31.5K followers, [----] engagements

"https://rosalux-geneva.org/west-african-nomads-moving-with-the-herds/ https://rosalux-geneva.org/west-african-nomads-moving-with-the-herds/"
X Link 2026-01-27T11:02Z 31.4K followers, [----] engagements

"We should throw virgins into a volcano to stop this"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:38Z 31.3K followers, [----] engagements

"In the ancient Sumerian tale "The Debate between Sheep and Grain" the personification of grain is said to "foster neighbourliness and friendliness" and "sort out quarrels." While the life of pastoralists is filled with danger: "My farmer chases away your herdsman with his cudgel. Even when they look out for you from the open country to the hidden places your fears are not removed from you: fanged snakes and bandits the creatures of the desert want your life on the high plain." In the earliest writing from the dawn of history people noticed how differing subsistence strategies create different"
X Link 2026-01-27T20:06Z 31.3K followers, [----] engagements

"An endless number of important archaeological finds is being discovered by an army of British amateur metal detectorists. In many countries metal detection is illegal England took the opposite approach encouraging it and working with hobbyists to record artifacts. The result is the "Portable Antiquities Scheme" the world's largest database of small archaeological finds. Now at [-------] artifacts. https://t.co/zLZT0LWlgZ In many countries metal detection is illegal England took the opposite approach encouraging it and working with hobbyists to record artifacts. The result is the "Portable"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:01Z 31.5K followers, 77.6K engagements

"Pre-Islamic "Tayma cube" from Saudi-Arabia depicting animal sacrifices to various pagan deities by the ancient Arabs"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:12Z 31.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Taking into account international as well as local fame probably Henry Adams who settled in Braintree Massachusetts in [----] has the honor of being the progenitor of more distinguished descendants in various male lines than any other American who has ever lived.""
X Link 2026-01-29T14:11Z 31.3K followers, [----] engagements

"2nd-century BC tomb of King Skilurus at Scythian Neapolis capital of the Scythians. Neapolis would eventually be destroyed by the Goths around the 3rd century AD"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:57Z 31.4K followers, [----] engagements

""Slavs in their Original Homeland" "Between the Turanian Whip and the Sword of the Goths""
X Link 2025-03-27T16:34Z 31.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The rate of Fructose intolerance is highest in European populations; the mutation that disables the metabolism of fructose may have spread from Steppe populations since their diet did not depend on fruits which allowed it to proliferate. Ancient DNA samples find that the mutation that leads to impaired fructose metabolism is shared between Middle Don Scythians and present-day Europeans and isotope analysis of Scythian teeth shows a "diet primarily comprised of foods with minimal or no fructose or fructan content such as meat dairy products and C4-plants.""
X Link 2025-11-19T00:43Z 31.9K followers, 79.5K engagements

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