From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversion and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History [PDF]
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
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Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse. [PDF]
Elife, 2023 Fuks D +6 more
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Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Jacobson MJ +4 more
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International money and common currencies in historical perspective [PDF]
The authors review the history of international monies and the theory related to their adoption and use. There are four key characteristics of these currencies: high unitary value; relatively low inflation rates for long periods; issuance by major ...
Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr., James R. Lothian
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A survey on federated learning: challenges and applications. [PDF]
Int J Mach Learn Cybern, 2023 Wen J +5 more
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While the crisis proceeds: A world redistribution of economic power? [PDF]
The crisis has drawn attention to the fact that not only emerging powers but other regions of the world as well may be offering different development models and may constitute into alternative, in some dimensions more positive agents, in the conduct of ...
Renato G. Flores Jr.
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Wine economy in Byzantine Shivta (Negev, Israel): Exploring the role of runoff agriculture and droughts through Agent-Based Modeling. [PDF]
PLoS OneGarty B, Gambash G, Levy ST, Bar-Oz G.
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Persistence and Innovation in the Greco-Roman Medical Tradition: The Reading and Writing Practices of a Tenth-Century Monk. [PDF]
Soc Hist MedMarchiori SM.
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Drought as a possible contributor to the Visigothic Kingdom crisis and Islamic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Camuera J +7 more
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A critical survey of recent research in Chinese economic history. [PDF]
China is a resilient dinosaur. In contrast with so many other great empires in Eurasia – the Egyptian, Roman, Byzantine, Arabian, Ottoman and Tsarist-Soviet – China has the longest history.
Deng, Kent
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