{"id":136631,"date":"2018-05-29T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136631"},"modified":"2018-05-30T08:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:21:25","slug":"its-a-small-world-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/its-a-small-world-after-all.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Small World After All"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the drawbacks of world history — at least as taught in the US — is the idea of separation. Culture X was here, Culture Y was there, don’t get them mixed up because that would make for a difficult test to write.\u00a0But the reality is that all those “primitive” cultures ranged far and wide along trade routes. Which is why you find Near Eastern artifacts in Scotland, and Viking (or is it “Vandal”) graffiti in Constantinople.<\/p>\n

I mean, not to over-exaggerate it in the opposite direction. We’re not talking about the AD 900 equivalent of farmers in Tanzania watching American shows on Chinese TV sets. But the idea that all these cultures, in as small a space as Europe and the Middle East, were separate and distinct and had no contact with one another, is not only kind of silly, but patently, by the evidence, false.<\/p>\n


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\nViking Runes at Hagia Sophia<\/a><\/span>
\nA small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One of the drawbacks of world history — at least as taught in the US — is the idea of separation. Culture X was here, Culture Y was there, don’t get them mixed up because that would make for a difficult test to write.\u00a0But the reality is that all those “primitive” cultures ranged far and … Continue reading “It’s a Small World After All”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[945],"class_list":["post-136631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","tag-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/viking-inscription-in-Istambul.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1671,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/27\/our_tribute_to.html","url_meta":{"origin":136631,"position":0},"title":"Our Tribute to Western Civ","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Nov-01 9:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Our Tribute to Western Civ A letter from Cynthia Peters, Associate Director of Public Affairs at Pomona College: Thank you for making us aware of the Wall Street Journal articles....","rel":"","context":"In "ZT & PC"","block_context":{"text":"ZT & PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43605,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/did-the-amazons-ever-exist.html","url_meta":{"origin":136631,"position":1},"title":"Did the Amazons ever exist?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Jul-14 9:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"Leaving aside the question of whether Herodotus was ever perfectly accurate (short answer: no), there is some interesting archaeological evidence to suggest that \"warrior woman\" cultures were a real thing, and that Amazon legends either sprang from, or were backfitted to, their existence.\ufeff Did the Warrior Women Known as the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37546,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/resurrecting-a-sunken-egyptian-city.html","url_meta":{"origin":136631,"position":2},"title":"Resurrecting a sunken Egyptian city","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Jun-13 10:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. 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