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Grey Wolf
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Why would you farm pigs in biblical times in Israel?
Is it
1) Many people flouted the dietary laws so you had a market among Jews?
2) You farmed them to sell them to gentiles (Greeks, Romans etc) as the Law did not say you couldn't kill and cook them, only not eat them?
3. You farmed them for their skin (pigskin, suede)? What then of the meat? Feed it to animals?
or was it
4) The pigs were wild, which would imply there was a herd of feral pigs around, presumably on marginal land, that was left alone because nobody wanted to hunt them as they could not eat them?
Is it
1) Many people flouted the dietary laws so you had a market among Jews?
2) You farmed them to sell them to gentiles (Greeks, Romans etc) as the Law did not say you couldn't kill and cook them, only not eat them?
3. You farmed them for their skin (pigskin, suede)? What then of the meat? Feed it to animals?
or was it
4) The pigs were wild, which would imply there was a herd of feral pigs around, presumably on marginal land, that was left alone because nobody wanted to hunt them as they could not eat them?
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1 - partly - those who objected to the imposition of laws from Jerusalem
2 - definitely - there were lots of non-Jews in Israel/Judah/Palestine
3 - combined with (2), yes - sell the meat, use the rest
4 - there were, but there were also domesticated swine
For a much better informed source, have a look here: https://www.academia.edu/4062281/Pig_Husbandry_in_Iron_Age_Israel_and_Judah
how much of poland lithuania was german before the partitions and subsequent germanisation projects? what parts of it were german speaking?
also what would a reversal of the effects of the harrowing of the north be called? the recovery of the north???
also what would a reversal of the effects of the harrowing of the north be called? the recovery of the north???
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Been thinking of a potential scenario involving Italian and Swiss Italian colonization of North America, in which one or more of the major Northern Italian states establish a successful colony in what is now the OTL Eastern United States in the late 1500's or early 1600's and this plays a major role in the cultural development of North America and the creation of the United States.
I'm thinking the colony would be in either North Carolina and extending into the Appalachian Mountains or have it be in New Jersey and then extending into upstate New York and Vermont at its apex.
Personally, I'm leaning towards the former and because of this colonial endeavor, the Scots-Irish do not successfully settle Appalachia or the Upland South and those that tried were driven out after being defeated in a bloody war in the 1700's, most likely during the chaos of the Seven Years War. Britain still wins the Seven Years War, but the Italian-Swiss colony in Appalachia acts as an effective buffer against British expansion for a while and the colonists side with the Anglo-American colonies in this timeline's equivalent of the American Revolution in exchange for keeping their autonomy.
Throughout the next hundred years or so, most of the colony is sold to the United States until a small core in the High Country of Western North Carolina is kept and retained by the Kingdom of Italy following the wars of Italian unification. World War I and World War II both happen largely as they did in OTL.
After the United States enters World War II, the colony is briefly occupied by units of the Virginia and North Carolina National Guard and after VJ Day, the United States and Italy enter an agreement similar to the one held between Britain and China over Hong Kong where the colony is semi-autonomous but remains under nominal Italian control for the next sixty years before then becoming officially part of the United States in 2005.
I'm thinking the colony would be in either North Carolina and extending into the Appalachian Mountains or have it be in New Jersey and then extending into upstate New York and Vermont at its apex.
Personally, I'm leaning towards the former and because of this colonial endeavor, the Scots-Irish do not successfully settle Appalachia or the Upland South and those that tried were driven out after being defeated in a bloody war in the 1700's, most likely during the chaos of the Seven Years War. Britain still wins the Seven Years War, but the Italian-Swiss colony in Appalachia acts as an effective buffer against British expansion for a while and the colonists side with the Anglo-American colonies in this timeline's equivalent of the American Revolution in exchange for keeping their autonomy.
Throughout the next hundred years or so, most of the colony is sold to the United States until a small core in the High Country of Western North Carolina is kept and retained by the Kingdom of Italy following the wars of Italian unification. World War I and World War II both happen largely as they did in OTL.
After the United States enters World War II, the colony is briefly occupied by units of the Virginia and North Carolina National Guard and after VJ Day, the United States and Italy enter an agreement similar to the one held between Britain and China over Hong Kong where the colony is semi-autonomous but remains under nominal Italian control for the next sixty years before then becoming officially part of the United States in 2005.
Grey Wolf
Donor
Portugal offered Venice warehouses in Lisbon after the route to the East via Egypt was closed. Venice refused because they assumed that the route via Egypt would reopen. If they had accepted then Venice would have had ocean-going ships akin to Portugal, yes going to the East Indies, but it would also give a spring board to the West
What are possible Spanish/Portuguese transliterations of 藥師佛 (Chinese: Yaoshifo)?
If it's any help the French transliteration would be Yao Che Fo so maybe Yaóxafo or Yaoxafo?
krieger
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Almost no part was exclusively German speaking. German was widespread on the northern coast of country, in cities such as Gdańsk/Danzig or Elbląg/Elbing, but the local people did not consider themselves German and were loyal to PLC.
i suppose a better question would be what parts were overwhelmingly german speaking, what parts were true majority, and what parts were mixed. for the question of pre partition nation building that wouldnt matter, but for later revisionism it would. "we should have this part cause it used to be polish" "nuh uh the coast has been german for centuries" that sort of thing. i want to know what areas are majority by new settlement/ conversion and which are older and more established (from an 1800s viewpoint.) on a similar note itd be neat to know how much of czechia's sudetenland was german before the Austrian push to recatholicize the place.
Because even if we pretend the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery: if you let the South secede and go industrialize, they are a hostile foreign power right next door to you. And they control the Mississippi instead of you.
Grey Wolf
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Odd question, but I am watching Mary Beard say "the Romans raped Boudicca's daughters" and it occurs to me to ask whether we know who did? Was it ordinary rank and file soldiers, or the general? Which one would have seemed to be worse? I don't mean with regard to the crime itself, but in terms of face and humiliation?