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Nothing in human history compares with the Atlantic slave trade (1441-1840) in its magnitude, cruelty or sustained brutality. Slavery was not a new institution invented in the Middle Ages. In ancient times, the losing side in war was enslaved and made to pay for its misfortune with servitude...
From Ying to Shang and to Zhou Dynasties,the plain of chengdu was not the production of common salt,but the ancient Shu civilization could be advanced from this place and shooksouth-west part including southern place, flouring over 1000 to 2000 years, in which there was an important secret ...
one along the South Asian coast and the other through Silk Road trade. By better understanding the adoption of this water-demanding crop in the arid regions of West Asia, we explore an important chapter in human adaptation and agricultural decision making. ...
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In the Inland Niger Delta, this plant is claimed to be the most useful of all wild plants, providing, in addition to food and drink, fodder, thatch, caulking for boats, vegetable salt after calcining which is used to make soap and indigo dye. Also, it is the most common plant (...
In addition to the study of botanical macro-remains, these characteristics of millet provide other ways to trace this crop in archaeological contexts, broadening our knowledge of ancient diet and land use; such analyses are accordingly mentioned when they have been carried out. The North Pontic ...
The policy of ancient Egypt, too, and that of the Gentoo government of Indostan, seem to have favoured agriculture more than all other employments. Both in ancient Egypt and Indostan, the whole body of the people was divided into different casts or tribes each of which was confined, from...
The geomagnetic field variations on the continent of Africa are still largely undeciphered for the past two millennia. In spite of archaeological artefacts being reliable recorders of the ancient geomagnetic field strength, only few data have been reported for this continent so far. Here we use th...
locally variable landscapes result. Hence the desert region that extends from the lower Volga and central Iranian plateau eastward through theKara-KumandKyzylkumdeserts to theTakla MakanandGobiin the east is uninhabitable only in some salt-encrusted lowlands. Even in the most barren reaches of unsal...