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formerly known as etaoin...
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Great site, eta. I could have spent all day. I like the idea of a "temporal" approach to history -- teaching everything that happened at a certain time, rather than presenting the entire history of a society, then going back to the "beginning" to teach another society.
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Look up 4000 years ago, India, and the interesting (though IMO not feasible) claim that the Indus Valley Civilisation is the "mother culture of all the Indo-Europeans".
This is an idea I have seen before, and is mooted by a number of Indian and Pakistani historians, but I'm sorry, I don't yet buy it. The dates alone seem wrong, as well as the technology: it's all very well for them to have had iron at the time, but what about horses and chariots?
Interesting idea, though.
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the sunshine warrior
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All a bit light and frothy, though. How much is "enough" and how much is "too much"? Matter of opinion, I guess.
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I think I like it because it is an easy read. It's like a spring-board...when something hits my fancy, I can do a more indept study on that specific subject. If it went into too much detail, then I'm not sure I'd wade through everything until I found a nugget of info that'd pique my curiosity.
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Carpal Tunnel
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... and it seems to think that the 1960's fall into the "25 years ago in North America" category.
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Yes, it's a bit too late for PIE, and some other non-Hindi-speaking Indians suggest that Dravidian was spoken by the Indus Valley culture.
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