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“Anonymous” and the Shakespeare Controversy

by David Tollen | Oct 30, 2011 | The Early Modern Age

Don’t let lukewarm reviews fool you: Anonymous is a really good movie. It includes some far-fetched plot-twists, but overall it builds a compelling drama out of the theory that William Shakespeare did not write Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, and the other...
Why Did so Many of History’s Kings Marry their Sisters?

Why Did so Many of History’s Kings Marry their Sisters?

by David Tollen | Oct 4, 2011 | Ancient History, Special Historical Studies, Pre-Columbian Americas

Why did kings marry their sisters in so many historic societies, like ancient Egypt, Hawaii, the Inca kingdoms, pre-industrial Thailand, and several African realms? Why is royal incest so common? Incest sets the king above society. If a king can break society’s...

The Horse Reshaped Civilization — Without Horseback Riding

by David Tollen | Oct 2, 2011 | Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia

You’d think horses became important when people started to ride. But actually the horse reshaped civilization long before the first cavalry charge or mounted messenger. During the centuries following 2000 B.C.E., warriors of China, India, the Fertile Crescent,...
Aramaic: the Humble Language that Overcame the Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires

Aramaic: the Humble Language that Overcame the Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires

by David Tollen | Sep 25, 2011 | Classical Civilization, The Postclassical Age (Medieval History)

Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew living in Judea, yet he didn’t preach in Hebrew, and he may not even have spoken it. Judea was then part of the Roman Empire, yet Jesus didn’t speak Latin either. Of course, Greek played a larger role than Latin in Judea and the...

Stone Age GPS and the Discovery of Hawaii

by David Tollen | Sep 11, 2011 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Australia, the Islands, & Further Africa before the Modern Age

Polynesians settled Hawaii during the 400’s C.E. They came by double-hulled sailing canoe from the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific. The trip probably took months, and survival required substantial supplies of food and fresh water. Even then death loomed...
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