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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Who Are Herodotus\u27 Persians? [PDF]
, 2009 In analyzing how Herodotus\u27 descriptions of foreign societies reflect Greek assumptions and prejudices, we have sometimes failed to recognize the extent to which he reports persuasive and historically valid information.
Munson, Rosaria Vignolo
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Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus’s Histories [PDF]
, 2013 This chapter examines lived space in Herodotus’s Histories’ and explores how the picture that emerges differs from abstract depictions of space. Such overly schematic representations we see articulated by the Persians at the very beginning of the ...
Barker, Elton +3 more
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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Pictorial and Illustrated history of the Sassanian Era (An Analysis of "Ketab Al Sovar" or"BaniSasan's Soorat-ul- Molouk) [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2013 An investigation on Iranian earlyIslamic historiography sources indicates that historiography in ancient Persia had a prominent positionas it remarkably achieved incredible and unique initiatives in its own kind on that particular era.
Rohallah Bahrami
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Retrospective analysis of tax systems in the Ancient East
Ученые записки Российской академии предпринимательства, 2021 The article analyzes the system of taxation and fiscal arrangements in the countries of the Ancient East (Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, India and China in the period from 3000 of the third Millennium BC to the beginning ad the analogies with the individual ...
S. A. Shapiro, M. G. Piloyan
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Analogie historyczne w sytuacji postkolonialnej
Sprawy Międzynarodowe, 2021 The historical experience of the region on the frontier of civilizations that is the South Caucasus is marked by alternating periods of short-term independence and long-term subordination.
Bartłomiej Krzysztan
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]
, 2016 In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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