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Why Asian Maritime Supremacy Collapsed (14th–17th Centuries)
The Danger of Anti-Trade Ideology Destroying Wealth, Prosperity, and Power For over a millennium, the world’s greatest maritime trading system was not European but Asian. From China and Japan through Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, dense networks of ports, merchants, shipbuilders, financiers and navigators generated unprecedented wealth, urbanisation, and cultural exchange. Yet between the…
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The Retreat of Climate Alarmism
From 1989 to 2020, we were repeatedly told that global warming was man-made, driven almost entirely by our CO₂ emissions, and that unless drastic action was taken, catastrophe would be inevitable. Early warnings go back even further: in the 1950s, scientists cautioned Congress that the Arctic could become ice-free within 25–50 years. But the 1970s…
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Linguistic Diffusion Delusions
It strikes me that the Out-of-India thesis, which dismantles the Steppe-based Proto-Indo-European (PIE) model, parallels the outdated assumptions that still dominate debates on the origins of English. The Few and the Many In both the Aryan Invasion/Migration model and the standard “Anglo-Saxon origins” model, a small group supposedly arrives speaking an alien language which the…
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Maritime Trade and the Green Agenda
Last month something potentially very significant happened in the maritime trade world, which went largely unnoticed. The IMO (International Maritime Organisation), the UN body regulating global shipping, having done an efficient and competent job since its foundation in 1958, because it is driven by its maritime member states, voted to postpone for a year the…
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The False Mediterranean Bronze Age Chronology
Why its Correction Matters to Historians of all Areas. Everyone has heard of the post-Roman empire Dark Age, fewer of the Mediterranean Bronze Age Dark Age. In 1991 Peter James and a team of specialists in ancient Mediterranean history encapsulated the growing doubts of many historians about the conventional chronology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age…
Nick Collins 