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You should mind your manners at dinner, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoderic_the_Great In 488, Emperor Zeno ordered Theoderic to overthrow the German Foederatus Odoacer, who had likewise been made patrician and even King of Italy, but who had since betrayed Zeno, supporting the rebellious Leontius. After a victorious three-year war, Theoderic killed Odoacer with his own hands while they shared a meal, settled his 200,000 to 250,000 people in Italy, and founded an Ostrogothic Kingdom based in Ravenna.[4]
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I really hope you go to wherever glyptodons were most common. I wonder when spoken language developed. If they were drawing pictures, you figure they were communicating with each other. I bet they've got some cool stories for you.
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I did some google-fu on why the gap between the invention of the saddle and the stirrup was so long.
Here is the answer I found from r/askhistorians - You need a certain saddle design to make a stirrup work. It needs to have a tree (a firm wooden frame like this) for the stirrups to anchor to, otherwise every time you put weight in one stirrup, the saddle will slip like this. The lack of a tree also creates abnormal pressure points on the horse's back, which will be greatly worsened by the stirrups. That will cause the horse back pain, which leads to an ornery horse that's apt to buck you off (or worse, become crippled). Most early saddles served only to make riding more comfortable for the rider, so they were treeless. The first saddles to have trees were the Roman saddles that Agrippa911 linked to (those saddles could easily have stirrups attached; it wasn't too long after the invention of those saddles that stirrups came into use). I should note that nowadays we have treeless saddles that do not cause pressure points on the horse's back and and can have stirrups attached, but they were developed very carefully by vets to avoid putting too much pressure on any one point in the horse's back. They also use elastic to create a tighter girth, preventing saddle slippage. Picture of a saddle tree: |
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I'm showing your landing spot as 85 BC. Rome really seems to dominate the news in this period.
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I ran it for myself and I'll be doing a lot of camping. I got 32832 BC.
Hmm. At some point in this time someone will actually make art depicting a human for the first time, so that's cool. And while we don't yet have domesticated dogs, the concept may be fermenting in the minds of my peers. For the most part, though, my tribe and I are ruggedly independent. We may or may not have invented musical instruments at this point, so none of these people have heard any Springsteen songs. Like amnorix, I'm living in the ice age, but I'm in the earlier part of it. Maybe not the peak of the ice age, but we weren't really expecting it so it was hard in that sense. Cold or not, I might check out these people in northwest Europe. It sounds like they must've had some serious game with the ladies: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...years-ago.html
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251 AD. I don't think we have that century covered yet, so I look forward to what you find. I know nothing about it.
Uh-oh. Stay out of crowded places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Cyprian
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2015 AD. Your Super Bowl sucked, but that's not a mystery. Let me know where you decide to go and study in this interesting era.
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I choose Hawaii. The first Hawaiians arrived near that time and lived without politics or defined society for a few years as settlement continued and before the Tahitians showed up in full force and instituted hierarchies and a caste system. The risk is that no one knows exactly when they arrived so I might land on a deserted island, but I hardly think I couldn't enjoy a year marooned there, eating fish and fruit only as the mammals came with the settlers. I would love to see a settlement free of an establishment. They surely brought customs with them and the initial groups made the voyage together so probably had some inherent leadership but as more settlers arrived, how that translated into a society would be interesting and has not been documented at all. |
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I just looked up Easter Island, and that was right about the time that Polynesians reached that place. They weren't building moai yet, so we wouldn't learn the most interesting stuff about them. But that would be a great place to go back and learn their written language and other stuff. There's all sorts of interesting stuff about this place: http://www.history.com/topics/easter-island
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You get the year 1826, which was a happening year. I hope you'll take a couple of days out to visit Jefferson and Adams before they pass away. It would be nice to hear what they think about the 50th anniversary of the revolution.
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After thinking about it, for my assignment of 691 B.C., I will travel to the heart of Mayan Civilization, which was at the height of its power. With my white skin, I will be worshipped as a God. Perhaps Kukulcan, who the Mayan's described as having white skin (check), blue eyes (check) and white hair (nope, but I could dye it I guess) in his human form.
My mission while I'm with the Mayans is to preserve as many of the Mayan Codices as I can. When the Spanish arrived in the early 1500s they burned almost all of the Mayan Codices, as well as Aztec and Olmec writings, which represents a huge blow to our understanding of the Meso-American cultures today. |
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