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EXCERPT: India has a rich history of royalty. Over the centuries, it has seen several dynasties headed by powerful kings and queens. Arguably one of the most prolific of these kings was King Ashoka, Emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty from 268 to 232 BCE.
Beautifully capturing Ashoka’s place in history, in ‘The Outline of History’, historian HG Wells writes “In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who called themselves ‘their highnesses’, ‘their majesties’, ‘their exalted majesties’ and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines and shines brightly like a bright star, even unto this day.”
King Ashoka earned his glowing place in history because of the enormous change in his outlook after the Kalinga War, when he became a devout Buddhist. His beliefs made for a peaceful, prosperous kingdom with a ruler truly committed to the well-being of every individual in the kingdom. [...] During his rule he erected several stupas across the kingdom which, along with his edicts are important historical sources....
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New Native American Population Could Rewrite History
http://www.newhistorian.com/new-native-a...week/8430/
EXCERPT: . . . Scientists have found evidence of a previously unknown population of Native Americans, a discovery that could cause a drastic rethink on the history of how humans populated the Americas. The revelation came from the genetic analysis of ancient DNA from the remains of a six-week old infant found at an Interior Alaska archaeological site. The new Native American group have been named “Ancient Beringians”.
“We didn’t know this population existed,” said Ben Potter, one of the lead authors of the study published in the journal Nature, and a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “These data also provide the first direct evidence of the initial founding Native American population, which sheds new light on how these early populations were migrating and settling throughout North America.”
The discovery suggests two new scenarios for the populating of the Americas. One possibility is that there were two distinct groups of people who crossed the Beringian land bridge prior to 15,700 years ago. The second is that a single group crossed the land bridge and then split in Beringia into two groups, the Ancient Beringians, and other Native Americans, with the second group moving south of the ice sheets 15,700 years ago....
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EXCERPT: India has a rich history of royalty. Over the centuries, it has seen several dynasties headed by powerful kings and queens. Arguably one of the most prolific of these kings was King Ashoka, Emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty from 268 to 232 BCE.
Beautifully capturing Ashoka’s place in history, in ‘The Outline of History’, historian HG Wells writes “In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who called themselves ‘their highnesses’, ‘their majesties’, ‘their exalted majesties’ and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines and shines brightly like a bright star, even unto this day.”
King Ashoka earned his glowing place in history because of the enormous change in his outlook after the Kalinga War, when he became a devout Buddhist. His beliefs made for a peaceful, prosperous kingdom with a ruler truly committed to the well-being of every individual in the kingdom. [...] During his rule he erected several stupas across the kingdom which, along with his edicts are important historical sources....
MORE: http://historyhustle.com/ashoka-buddhist...an-empire/
New Native American Population Could Rewrite History
http://www.newhistorian.com/new-native-a...week/8430/
EXCERPT: . . . Scientists have found evidence of a previously unknown population of Native Americans, a discovery that could cause a drastic rethink on the history of how humans populated the Americas. The revelation came from the genetic analysis of ancient DNA from the remains of a six-week old infant found at an Interior Alaska archaeological site. The new Native American group have been named “Ancient Beringians”.
“We didn’t know this population existed,” said Ben Potter, one of the lead authors of the study published in the journal Nature, and a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “These data also provide the first direct evidence of the initial founding Native American population, which sheds new light on how these early populations were migrating and settling throughout North America.”
The discovery suggests two new scenarios for the populating of the Americas. One possibility is that there were two distinct groups of people who crossed the Beringian land bridge prior to 15,700 years ago. The second is that a single group crossed the land bridge and then split in Beringia into two groups, the Ancient Beringians, and other Native Americans, with the second group moving south of the ice sheets 15,700 years ago....
MORE: http://www.newhistorian.com/new-native-a...week/8430/