A benefit claimed by some for the Second Anglo-Burmese War which took place mostly in Thailand(1852)was the doubling of Bangkok sea trade.
One of the keys to an understanding of these Wars is an understanding of the British East India Company. The Company was the major tool of British Capital.
The British were most actively dominating Burmese trade and that of the Siamese by force of arms and control of the seas from about 1820 to nearly the turn of the century.
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Sunday, December 9, 2012
"Ecotopia"
Ecotopia is one of the "Nine Nations. " It lies close along the north Pacific shore of North America.
Form Ecotopia barges can make it all the way to Idaho.
Ecotopia runs along the west coast of North America from just north of southern California north along the coast of Oregon, Washington, and Canada well up the Alaskan coast.
There are persons in Ecotopia willing to reduce the amount if money they earn in order to improve their quality of life. They question the directions we take. Even some southern Californians may call Ecotopians weird. They are against things like putting an atomic plant for the generation of electricity near a liquid propane plant in an earth quake fault. How weird is that?
The people of Ecotopia note that our failure to stop wealthy business owners from employing large numbers of illegal aliens by enforcing our laws, takes our employment and weakens respect for our laws.
There is a high level of education and if civic organization in Ecotopia.
Form Ecotopia barges can make it all the way to Idaho.
Ecotopia runs along the west coast of North America from just north of southern California north along the coast of Oregon, Washington, and Canada well up the Alaskan coast.
There are persons in Ecotopia willing to reduce the amount if money they earn in order to improve their quality of life. They question the directions we take. Even some southern Californians may call Ecotopians weird. They are against things like putting an atomic plant for the generation of electricity near a liquid propane plant in an earth quake fault. How weird is that?
The people of Ecotopia note that our failure to stop wealthy business owners from employing large numbers of illegal aliens by enforcing our laws, takes our employment and weakens respect for our laws.
There is a high level of education and if civic organization in Ecotopia.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
More Notes on "Hopewell Culture"
The use of the term "Hopewell Culture" is a way to keep from telling you that we talking about a kind of confederation of the ancestors of the owners of your local casino."Hopewell Culture" might be thought of as a set of snap-shots of the doings of those ancestors from about 400 BC to 400 AD.
Hopewell people have been refereed to as 'mound builders.' Exotic grave goods such as sheet mica art, fresh water pearls, and copper craft added a mystique of their earthworks. We are finding that their influence spread from Nova Scotia to Cuba, from the Rockies to the Atlantic.
Their heartland at the time of the photo tended to be the Ohio River Valley in what is now the state of Ohio.
We are gaining some idea of how climate changes effected them.
We are better understanding that dress and grooming were important to them. They wanted to look good and did.
We may find that the history of the Iroquois and other tribes may inform of us of the people we have called Hopewell.
What can you tell us about the unusual bony ear growth genetically transmitted among Hopewell nobility.
We may be helped in adopting to our own climate change by looking at the medicinal and nutritional qualities cultivated and harvested by Hopewell peoples. We might start by looking more closely at plants such as: sump-weed, goose-foot, sunflower, knot-weed, little barley, may-grass, and their brand of tobacco.Hopewell people and those related to them have lived long and strong by harvesting wild deer and hickory nuts. Maybe we can live longer and stronger by learning to do similar ha vesting of our own.
The ancestors of the Adena and Hopewell peoples lived in a cooler climate and used their atlatals to cast spear/darts at the giant armadillo, camel, horse, dire-wolf, ground-sloth, long-horned bison, saber-toothed tiger, and short faced bear around what is now Cincinnati, Ohio, Jackson, Mississippi, and Jefferson City, Missouri.
From well before 4000 BC to about 400 BC, Hopewell people may have been the least war-like people on earth. It seems that they put their energies into spiritual activities, long distance trade, looking good, art, and developing ways of getting along.
There is a very great deal of practical knowledge yet to be learned from thees people. For example, why did they build a straight 'road' in what is now Ohio, fom Newwork to Chillicothe. How did they benefit from it?
Hopewell people have been refereed to as 'mound builders.' Exotic grave goods such as sheet mica art, fresh water pearls, and copper craft added a mystique of their earthworks. We are finding that their influence spread from Nova Scotia to Cuba, from the Rockies to the Atlantic.
Their heartland at the time of the photo tended to be the Ohio River Valley in what is now the state of Ohio.
We are gaining some idea of how climate changes effected them.
We are better understanding that dress and grooming were important to them. They wanted to look good and did.
We may find that the history of the Iroquois and other tribes may inform of us of the people we have called Hopewell.
What can you tell us about the unusual bony ear growth genetically transmitted among Hopewell nobility.
We may be helped in adopting to our own climate change by looking at the medicinal and nutritional qualities cultivated and harvested by Hopewell peoples. We might start by looking more closely at plants such as: sump-weed, goose-foot, sunflower, knot-weed, little barley, may-grass, and their brand of tobacco.Hopewell people and those related to them have lived long and strong by harvesting wild deer and hickory nuts. Maybe we can live longer and stronger by learning to do similar ha vesting of our own.
The ancestors of the Adena and Hopewell peoples lived in a cooler climate and used their atlatals to cast spear/darts at the giant armadillo, camel, horse, dire-wolf, ground-sloth, long-horned bison, saber-toothed tiger, and short faced bear around what is now Cincinnati, Ohio, Jackson, Mississippi, and Jefferson City, Missouri.
From well before 4000 BC to about 400 BC, Hopewell people may have been the least war-like people on earth. It seems that they put their energies into spiritual activities, long distance trade, looking good, art, and developing ways of getting along.
There is a very great deal of practical knowledge yet to be learned from thees people. For example, why did they build a straight 'road' in what is now Ohio, fom Newwork to Chillicothe. How did they benefit from it?
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
"Hopewell" People Continued
The American Indian participants in the great exchange system which extended the length of the Mississippi and well beyond were not only long distance traders and of deep religious convictions, but were also experienced managers and husbandmen of wide resources.
They were hunters of wild game. Their most respected weapon was of a type used by their ancient ancestors. Those ancestors had hunted game that was, indeed, large. They had hunted the mega-fauna of song and legend and paleontology. The weapons they used was the spear thrower, the atlatl, and its spear like dart. I have heard the very word, atlatl, used in chants to the great drum and to smaller ones too. Our long distance traders of the waterways also obtain game using sophisticate trapping techniques, bow and arrow, spear and more
Yes, I am writing of "Mound Builders."
Their religion was strong and important and their mounds are evidence of 'religious' centers. Oral histories can tell us much of their religion. Old physical remains have also informed us. Their most beautifully crafted objects seemed to have had little or no economic or practical use. Was it 'art for art's sake?' Why were very many of the best of these objects carefully buried in the mounds with their dead.
These people were not us. Like us in important ways? Yes. But we benefit from realizing that they saw the world from a viewpoint very much their own. We benefit by knowing that not everyone categorizes the objects and doings of reality as we do.
For example, the famous 'mounds' to which w have tended to give religious cognizance, or to consider cemeteries, may well have been focal points of trade, commerce, and social gatherings. They may have been teaching and scientific centers. There is much we do not know.
They were hunters of wild game. Their most respected weapon was of a type used by their ancient ancestors. Those ancestors had hunted game that was, indeed, large. They had hunted the mega-fauna of song and legend and paleontology. The weapons they used was the spear thrower, the atlatl, and its spear like dart. I have heard the very word, atlatl, used in chants to the great drum and to smaller ones too. Our long distance traders of the waterways also obtain game using sophisticate trapping techniques, bow and arrow, spear and more
Yes, I am writing of "Mound Builders."
Their religion was strong and important and their mounds are evidence of 'religious' centers. Oral histories can tell us much of their religion. Old physical remains have also informed us. Their most beautifully crafted objects seemed to have had little or no economic or practical use. Was it 'art for art's sake?' Why were very many of the best of these objects carefully buried in the mounds with their dead.
These people were not us. Like us in important ways? Yes. But we benefit from realizing that they saw the world from a viewpoint very much their own. We benefit by knowing that not everyone categorizes the objects and doings of reality as we do.
For example, the famous 'mounds' to which w have tended to give religious cognizance, or to consider cemeteries, may well have been focal points of trade, commerce, and social gatherings. They may have been teaching and scientific centers. There is much we do not know.
Monday, March 21, 2011
UAR Notes Continued
In earlier notes I wrote of the ancestors of the peoples of the Emirates before Muhammad and Jesus.
In later times the offspring of these special people were known for protecting their waters and tending to deal with others with respect and honor. Many of them had used the sea far and long their roadway for trade. They contacted a great many different peoples and were know by those others as competent and trustworthy. They were navigators, seamen, merchants and traders. They carried news and learning along with their cargoes and goods. They could tell a good story too. Let me add that their ships tended to be small, but technically advanced and their cargoes tended to be precious.
Most of them became men of Islam at an early date. To this day most of them pray to the One five times.
They had not knuckled under to Rome in the days before the Prophet nor afterward, but the did accept its gold. When the Poruguese and then the Dutch and then the English came to their waters and began to to trade along their long establish routes they were not please. These Frankish Europeans did not seem to understand how to treat others with honor and respect. They seem ignorant of the ways of dealing diplomatically with others. They were neglectful of simple diplomatic courtesies, but their guns seem to get better year by year.
The Europeans, though seemingly ungrateful, had learned from Semitic peoples. From men of Islam they learned of numbers, medicine, philosophy and more.
The ancestors of the men, and women, of Fujairh, Abu Dhabi, Sharjish, Ajman um al Quwain, Ras al Kaimah, Dubai and beyond are learning of new happenings and doings today. They are remembering the best of their past and learning the bes of the present. Hopefully, they are giving all of their children to learn well, for they are not many.
Please feel free o save me form my ignornce. Feel free to correct my errors. I know ittle and have much to understand. In these post I am noting bits and pieces that come to my aging mind. For example, it comes to me that there is an oud. There is an oud that could well be the most popular musical intstrutment of this land. I have not visited this land. Has it been called Khaliji? Then I imagine that there is an oud of haliji. My ears are not so old that the oud of Khaliji could not bring some of the spirit of Khaliji to my mind and heart.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Tyranny
People Know when they are being tyrannized. They see where that tyranny is coming from. The know about the process of tyranny even when they don't know the word.
You can know the meaning: It feels arbitrary and despotic. To the majority it appears random and without reason. The thoughtful and those directly hurt know that it is abusive and oppressive. The people don't like it.
The American people of the United States support tyranny over the people of other countries. I have seen it first hand in Latin America and have been told of its activity elsewhere. When asking about it at our embassies and else, I was told that it was done in the name of 'stability,' and knew that meant 'comfort to American business.' When I mentioned that I was taught that one of the principle advantages of democracy is stability, I met blank stares.
Now I hear American officialdom using the term democracy a bit more. But when questioned one finds that what they mean by democracy is 'like us.' By 'like us' they mean comfortable to American trade. To them it seems to have nothing to do with governance of the people, by the people, and for the people.
There meaning seems pervasive and sinister.
You can know the meaning: It feels arbitrary and despotic. To the majority it appears random and without reason. The thoughtful and those directly hurt know that it is abusive and oppressive. The people don't like it.
The American people of the United States support tyranny over the people of other countries. I have seen it first hand in Latin America and have been told of its activity elsewhere. When asking about it at our embassies and else, I was told that it was done in the name of 'stability,' and knew that meant 'comfort to American business.' When I mentioned that I was taught that one of the principle advantages of democracy is stability, I met blank stares.
Now I hear American officialdom using the term democracy a bit more. But when questioned one finds that what they mean by democracy is 'like us.' By 'like us' they mean comfortable to American trade. To them it seems to have nothing to do with governance of the people, by the people, and for the people.
There meaning seems pervasive and sinister.
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