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The Silk Route from Land to Sea

open access: yesHumanities, 2018
The Silk Route reached its historic and economic apogee under the Mongol Empire (1207–1368), as a direct result of the policies of Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan) and his successors.
Jack Weatherford
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Social construction and meta‐ground

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 954-973, November 2025.
Abstract The notion of social construction plays an important role in many areas of social philosophy, including the philosophy of gender and sex, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of disability. Yet it is far from clear how this notion is to be understood.
Asya Passinsky
wiley   +1 more source

Genghis Khan and Modern Mongolian Identity: The Democracy Connection

open access: yesThe Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2014
No abstract available DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjia.v0i8-9.127 The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs; Number 8-9, 2002, Pages 36 ...
Paula LW Sabloff
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The Flooding of Lagash (Iraq): Evidence for Urban Destruction Under Lugalzagesi, the King of Uruk and Umma

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Offensive Heritage in an Era of Globalization and Mass Migration

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 601-619, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Essays on the ethics of monuments tend to focus on their morality in relation to domestic populations. In this article we turn our attention to how the principles we favor for the ‘ingroup’ apply to various ‘outgroups’, including foreigners and foreign governments, guest workers, visiting scholars, forcibly annexed or colonized peoples, and ...
Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of Juchid genealogies according to five lists of “Muizz al-Ansab”

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2022
The purpose of the study is to study the genealogy of the Juchids according to the five lists in the «Muizz al-Ansab». The uniformity of the structure of the Muizz al-Ansab lists enables researchers to identify new data in the genealogical chains of the ...
Sabitov Zh.M.   +2 more
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Mobility against all odds: the experiences of Chinese international students in Portugal amid the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic significantly affected international student mobility. Chinese international students had to deal not only with challenges such as border closures and lockdowns but also with discrimination and stigmatisation. In this paper, we examine the decisions of Chinese students to engage in international mobility and their ...
Thais França   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hygiene culture of nomads in the Eurasian steppes during the 13th–15th centuries

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
Based on a comprehensive study of various written sources and ethnographic materials, this paper considers some aspects of personal hygiene of nomads, who lived in the Eurasian steppes during the 13th–15th centuries, i.e., primarily in the states of ...
L.F. Abzalov
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High Frequency Haplotypes are Expected Events, not Historical Figures [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2016
Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which they ...
Elsa G. Guillot, Murray P. Cox
doaj   +1 more source

Hunger in global war economies: understanding the decline and return of famines

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The resurgence of famines is a topic of concern. This paper explains the recent trajectory using the framework of contending ‘global war economies’. It characterises the unipolar neoliberal world order era (1986–2015) as the ‘Pax Americana’ war economy, focusing on the United States dollar's roles.
Alex de Waal
wiley   +1 more source

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