Tag: history
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Grave Sites as the First Chinese Cities
Fortified cities, and the entire social structure, in China might have begun with burial mounds. Whereas there are many mentions in the Li Ji and other documents that concubines, wives, and slaves were killed at the funerals of dignitaries and emperors, the Han Dynasty mostly abolished this. Instead, paper or straw figurines were buried in…
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The ROBAlogy of Mythology
In 2025, I’m researching myth as a further test of the ROBA Hypothesis. The literature is too vast to get a holistic view of myth, let alone even a single domain of myth. Indian mythology alone can’t even be summarized into a coherent hierarchy or chain of events. There are tons of nature gods, tons…
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A Stuntman’s History of Violence
The city… is the source of violence, or the product of violence? Lewis Mumford’s The City in History says that the city acquired a propensity for a particularly harsh kind of violence with unlimited expansion due to the emergence of kings. Smith’s The Aztecs details the violence of the Aztec Triple Alliance and how it embarked…