A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires. [PDF]
Nat CommunThe emergence of vast territorial empires is a recurring development in the history of human civilization. Their ability to extract resources from their subjects, and to redistribute them, also increases the potential of higher levels of economic ...
Alfani G, Bolla M, Scheidel W.
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Embodied emotions in ancient Neo-Assyrian texts revealed by bodily mapping of emotional semantics. [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Emotions are associated with subjective emotion-specific bodily sensations. Here, we utilized this relationship and computational linguistic methods to map a representation of emotions in ancient texts.
Lahnakoski JM +5 more
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Asia Anteriore Antica, 2023 This contribution aims to use social history and social theory to investigate political power and compliance with authority in ancient Western Asia, through the case study of Neo-Assyrian imperial building projects.
Marta Lorenzon, Caroline Wallis
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Jumalad sõjas: jumalik toetus ja sõdade teoloogiline õigustamine muistses Anatoolias ja Põhja-Süürias [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 As we can see, divine support, divine intervention, and an ideology of (divine) warfare developed in the Hittite world throughout the whole of Hittite history and became better formulated and more complex with the passing of time, reaching their apex ...
Vladimir Sazonov, Joanna Töyräänvuori
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The Role of Greek Merchants in European Capitalism and Greek Independence Movement
Mukaddime, 2021 This article aims to understand the mostly-neglected role of the Greek merchants in the Greek independence movement by looking into their integration in European capitalist system.
Feride Aslı Ergül Jorgensen
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COLOSSI-CRUMBS IN THE YEAR 1900 – COLOSSI-COLOSSI IN THE YEAR 2100 TRANSFER OF DEMOGRAPHIC-ECONOMIC PREDOMINANCE FROM EURASIA TO AFROAMERICA [PDF]
Revista Română de Geografie Politică, 2019 If in 1900 Eurasia was the mistress of the world and Afroamerica only its crumbs, by the year 2100 the two major regions will be on an equal footing, becoming two colossi with roughly equal proportions of demography, economy, influence and culture ...
Luca DIACONESCU +2 more
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Settlement Patterns and Urbanization in the Yautepec Valley of Central Mexico
Open Archaeology, 2021 We carried out a full-coverage survey of the Yautepec Valley in the 1990s to reconstruct demography and settlements and their changes through time. We investigated the extent to which well-documented developments in the adjacent Basin of Mexico were ...
Smith Michael E. +4 more
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An Empire of Networks: The Political Economy of the Habsburgs in the Caribbean (1492–1556)
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2022 This article presents an analysis of privileges as one of the instruments used for the colonization of the New World. Based on an original dataset comprising more than five hundred prerogatives granted by the Spanish Crown, this article applies network ...
Montserrat Cachero +1 more
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Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires [Book Review] [PDF]
, 2013 This article reviews the book 'Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid', Mughal and Ottoman Empires, by Stephen P ...
Drury, Abdullah
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Maritime Commercial Empires and Land Territorial Empires in the Black Sea Region
Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, 2018 The research I conduct is focused on establishing and describing the major patterns of international interaction in the Black Sea region which have repeatedly occurred throughout history, based on two main criteria: the major players acting in the ...
Лівіу Міхаіл Янку
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