On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man.
Of the event she noted:
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day…no, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe
The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world
While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact—it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress.
A bit ironic given this is disseminated over the Internet...
The Internet would be far better if giant corporations didn't control platforms & endlessly surveille & profile & do so very unequally--to me that largely is a capitalism, governance & regulatory failure--power & control of infrastructure.
@JustCodeCulture@histodons@sociology@anthropology Blame corporations all you want, but it’s shitty people that make the internet such a terrible place. Doesn’t matter how open or closed things are, if people are going to be terrible either way.
Maybe if the internet was MORE regulated, such as, everyone was forced to use their real verified identities and real pictures, they wouldn’t be able to hide behind anonymous accounts, trolling everyone.
@Oozenet@nazgul@peterbrown@JustCodeCulture@histodons@sociology@anthropology That’s a good point. You’re less likely to start shit in person, for fear of being punched in the face. Perhaps all internet connected devices should be equipped with some sort of deterrent, like your phone will shock you when you say something dumb.
“Some scholars have suggested that the Shakyas, the clan of the historical Gautama Buddha, were originally Scythians from Central Asia, and that the Indian ethnonym Śākya has the same origin as “Scythian,” called Sakas in India.”
@paninid@histodons Herodotus seemed to believe they might be tangentially related. Multiple separate groups or tribes across Asia, that shared some sort of umbrella culture.
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world
In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and the Classical age across the ancient world—in the West, the Near East, India, and China.
We tend to think of the Acropolis as an unchanged relic of classical Athens, but it turns out that a lot of stuff has happened there since the time of Pericles:
Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future.
@Grizzlysgrowls@appassionato@bookstodon The Romans, themselves. All they wanted to do was provide civilization, modern construction and engineering to everyone, and the Barbarians ruined it.
@Grizzlysgrowls@appassionato@bookstodon Everything is subject, but would you rather live in squalor, with a thatched roof and animal skin clothing, or have the Romans build you a whole city, with stone buildings, public baths, aqueducts, maybe even an amphitheater.
@Grizzlysgrowls@appassionato@bookstodon People overvalue the nebulous concept of freedom. Many slaves were treated well, had the Roman equivalent of white collar jobs, and lived cushier lives than their “free” counterparts.
@BackFromTheDud@mutinyc@Grizzlysgrowls@appassionato@bookstodon Have you ever heard of Lee Kuan Yew? He was responsible for dragging Singapore from a poor fishing village into one of the richest and most modern places in the world. Liberalism and democracy is only possible in society that is already civilized and peaceful. It takes harsher means to lay the initial groundwork first.
This week: what did lions mean to the ancient world, and why did so many rulers hunt them? Let’s take a look at the lion hunt as depicted in ancient art.
