Lapita: Origins of Oceania
While empires rose and fell in the West including the Sumerians, the Romans, and even the Mongols; oceanographic navigators spread across...
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Joseph Wilson
Jul 15
Dare to Be Un-Relatable
The desire to relate to each other is nothing new for a species of social primates like us who depend on being contributing members of a...
Joseph Wilson
Jul 10
Top 10 Locations On My Trip to Circumnavigate the Globe
In 2023/24 I came up with the idea to start an international tour company while halfway around the world on a trip to circumnavigate the...
Joseph Wilson
Mar 29
Folklore Poland
While many weary travelers bound for Eastern Europe in search of spooky castles and witch-haunted woods flock to Romania and the Balkans,...
Joseph Wilson
Mar 18
Captain's Log: Feudal Japan March 2024
27 February 2024 Early this morning, I boarded the first of three flights from Germany to Japan with a flight from Cologne to Zurich....
Joseph Wilson
Jan 29
Music of the Mountains
Perhaps the quintessence of American folk music, bluegrass has gone on to inspire countless musical genres in the United states and...
Joseph Wilson
Jan 22
Heavenly Horses
In the land where horses were first domesticated over five thousand years ago, one breed of horse was so valued by ancient armies that an...
Joseph Wilson
Jan 14
More Than Gyros & Baklava
In a quiet street in one of Greece's loudest cities sits an olive stand pushing pitted olives in more colors and varieties than my eyes...
Joseph Wilson
Sep 27, 2023
The Reconquista
Fueled by religious zeal, the Reconquista was an era of almost constant conflict between the Islamic taifas (or city-states) in Southern...
Joseph Wilson
Sep 13, 2023
Islam in Medieval Iberia
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality,...
Joseph Wilson
Sep 7, 2023
Judaism in Medieval Iberia
Sephardic Jews- a diaspora Jewish population- was common in Medieval Spain & Portugal with the term Sephardic literally translating to...
Joseph Wilson
Aug 23, 2023
Christianity in Visigothic Spain
Arianism was an early sect of Christianity consisting of followers who believed that Jesus's birth served both as the start of his life...
Joseph Wilson
Aug 8, 2023
Women in Medieval Iberia
Women played a major role in Medieval Iberia throughout its history. Visigothic noblewomen were crucial to the spread of Christianity...
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