January 2011
We Love Early Medieval History: So what *is* Early... →
weloveearlymedievalhistory:
Like many things in this period, there isn’t a consensus on the exact dates of the beginning and end of what we call ‘Early Medieval History’.
Traditionally, the Middle Ages begins after the ‘fall’ of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. It’s hard to put an exact date on the end of early Medieval…
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New Blog!
So yesterday I started a blog about Early Medieval History, because I still have a month of holidays left and I have nothing else better to do. BUT REALLY BECAUSE I LOVE EARLY MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW THIS.
Anyway, if you’re interested in history, please clickity click and take a look!
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I've got my day all worked out
I did half an hour of German study, and now I’m spending half an hour reading history comics.
I think that’s a fair trade, amirite?
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GUYS
Check out this cool blog about Early Medieval History that I totally didn’t start myself!
*cough cough*
But really. I’ll love you forever if you follow.
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Fuck Yeah Ancient History: Collapsed civilization... →
fuckyeahancienthistory:
The first known civilization to have been established in present day South Asia, was the Harappan civilization. There were two main cities, Harrapa and Mohenjo which flourished along the Indus River basin. The inhabitants of these cities lived in stone houses, had sewage systems, used bronze tools…
The first Ancient History essay I ever wrote was about the...
You know what was bad ass?
fuckyeahancienthistory:
Triremes were goddamn bad ass.
You would not mess with this ship.
These ships are also how the Athenians went ahead and became the most powerful city state in Greece.
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Fuck Yeah Norsemen: the beginning →
vanaheim:
In Norse mythology, Vanaheimr is one of the Nine Worlds and home of the Vanir, a group of gods associated with fertility, wisdom, and the ability to see the future. Vanaheimr is attested in the Poetic Edda; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the
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Ireland's Viking Fortress Found →
Linn Duachaill was founded in A.D. 841, the same year as Viking Dublin. The fortress was used as a center by the Vikings to trade goods, organize attacks against inland Irish monasteries, and send captured Irish slaves abroad.
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noahdwood:
I made a cute thing...
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old...”
– - JRR Tolkien (via thebridgecity)
[ all is not lost // you will wake to the morning. ]
(via marchingtheskies)
