Small OTL History Questions thread (Before 1900)

Did the Arab slave trade of Africans, Europeans, et. al. leave significant genetic traces?

Yes. There were identifiable populations of negroes in the northern Ottoman Empire, including an all black village on the northern coast of the Black Sea which survived into Russian imperial rule.

There are clans and tribes among Arabs of the Levant and Mesopotamia (including some of the Bedouins) who are known as "black".

The Arabs don't like to talk about this much; they prefer to forget about the East African slave trade. Also, there is a long tradition of anti-black prejudice in the Middle East, and black presence/ancestry is ignored if possible. (The clans mentioned above are barely acknowledged.)

As to European ancestry: DNA scanning in Morocco has turned up descendants of Icelanders carried off by Barbary pirates several centuries ago.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Not sure if this is the place, but I need some names of 19th century revolutionaries (the less nationalist the better) and socialists within the bounds of the Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire. People between 1848-1900 would be great.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Otto Bauer is probably what you search with the concept of austro-marxism.

Right, and I will. But I'd like some people for the Austrian Empire to become an 1848-style revolutionary state in an equivalent Seven Weeks War in the 50s or 60s. And I'd like some socialists mixed in from the beginning to facilitate something like austro-marxism coming to the fore later.
 
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