I didn’t realize 14th century Twitter allowed so many characters.

Call 'em... Archaeo-shovelometrists

Choosing the right battlefield is not luck, though. They might have taken position their intentionally, knowing it would be hard for the knights.

I once read it was a plowed field and that made it worse.

Interesting, I would love to take this tour.

Hello! On clock faces featuring roman numbers, the number 4 is written as IIII instead of IV. It is oftend told that King Louis XIV. made the watchmakers to write it as IIII deliberately for aesthetic reasons.

Now my question: Has anyone a source for that? Unfortunately I can't find anything... I want to show it to my students. Thanks in advance!

Zoinks, they came out in a van!

I appreciate your correct use of “of late” instead of the criminally over-/mis-used “as of late.”

Article seems to think it's a cargo ship that was probably carrying fruit from the Caribbean.

I am enjoying the History extra podcasts, there are many discussions by some very good people.

Forgive me if I’m mistaken it’s been a while since I learned the story. I don’t think we ever forgot the event of the sinking and I think we always knew where it sank we just didn’t have the ability to dredge it up immediately and by the time that technology was available we just assumed it would have decomposed to the point where such actions would have been pointless.

By the way, in Manchu language the word Juxen means pleb, low class people. But somehow other nations thought this was the name of Manchus people, thus Manchus were called by outsiders as Jurchen for a long time. And I think Ligdan khan was unaware of the real meaning of this word, so by calling Nurhaci “the ruler of 3 tumen juxen” he unintentionally hurt Nurhaci’s feeling (which was pretty funny)😂.

It's not exactly Time Team is it? Hippy Team more like it.

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This is good stuff. Thanks.

You could probably build a whole profession from that idea!

Generally speaking, each lord contributing soldiers had to meet a certain standard, and the soldiers in question usually had a high enough status to equip themselves. It's likely there was some form of subsidy by the lord, but that would be case-by-case, like a lord acting as a creditor for a bulk order if payment was in goods instead of coin.

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I think they mean that the disrespect sounds like something a middle-schooler would employ, but I'm not certain.

Who wants sand in their thongs?

Totally grew up on Scooby Doo so that’s amazing 😂

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A very, very small part of a thing

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Thanks :)