History, U.S. History, World history, prehistory, geological history, Archaeology, Irish history, and history of many sorts. Much history can be sorted out by visiting our history timeline blogs. This also seems like place for essays on culture.
Cossacks
have been free men and democratic. They have only been known to history
since about 650 AD. They have been active in self-governing communities
for well over a thousand years. They have been open, inclusive, with a
Slavic bent. They knew a world from Siberia to Lithuania and up and down
for many years, but were drawn to a certain land.
The Ukrainian Cossack State was formed in about 1650 in what is now central Ukraine. Their leaders were elected.
Through the years they have been few. Democracy is not easy. They experienced much, and stayed free among strong neighbors such as Poland, Russia, and Lithuania. Among such neighbors they continued to show a strong will for self-governance.
They formed the Ukrainian Peoples Republic in 1917 to 1921, the western Ukrainian Peoples Republic 1918 to 1919, and the Ukrainian Peoples Republic in exile from 1920 to 1992.
They were among the very first members of the Soviet Union with its promise of self-governing citizens. They may have been the first to leave that Union when it showed little will to self-governing citizenship.
They were among the charter members of the United Nations with its promise of a chance for peace and freedom. They have not given up on their fellow members yet.
Ah, yes, I believe that at the breakup of the Soviet Union the were left with one of the greatest stock of atomic weapons on Earth and gave up that stock to the U.N.
They have been few and still are. They are still a mixture of races, nationalities, and religions. They are a free democratic people self selected from that mixture.
We
might mention that while all this was going on they, with the help of a
few viking Norsemen, created Russia. Oh, and they had a modern republic
type written constitution in 1710.
I believe that a history of the cultures most effecting these people could be traced back another 4,000 years. However, before about 650 AD they were little recognized in history as a discrete people. Throughout perhaps a thousand years of their history they stayed freer, more democratic, and inclusive than most. They have had to defend themselves and they have. They have also kept the hope and faith that they could live a free people among free people. They have seen inclusiveness, freedom, and democracy disappear like smoke again and again. Still they hold a vision of that freedom and self governance closer and dearer than do most.
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Ukraine. Ukraine. Ukraine.
Thank you for reading.
rcs
Neanderthals lived in Europe perhaps 400,000 years ago and may have been in that region more than twice that many years ago.
Neanderthals
may have lived in Spain(Cidron) as recently as 49,000 years ago. They
may have practiced cannibalism there as recently as 60,000 years ago.
Mysterian Neanderthals may have lived as recently as 28,000 thousand years ago.
It seems that many Neanderthals may have had red hair.
It
seems that through important periods of time Neanderthals may have been
fewer than "us." Nearly all of us are probably partly Neanderthal.
Dramatic climate changes and severe weather impacted us and Neanderthals. 49,000 years ago Neanderthals were a dying race.
I'll write more abundantly about our old friends, our old cousins when ever you wish. Let me know in "comments" below. However, by searching the 60 posts on this blog you may find all you care to know waiting for you right here. By checking the info already here you may find more specific questions to ask me. Also you may be able to correct errors I have made or add new information yourself.
by Richard
I think that on another blog I may have called it the Iranian Horsemen Road. Anyway,I
believe that by 2000 BC there was already enough silk on the great
trading network , we have called the Silk Road, to fairly call it a silk
road.
By
the time Europeans knew that they were trading with China and India,
the Road ran from beyond Java to Italy and included more than trade just
with India and China..
I believe that India early traded fine textiles on the Road.
From
about 500 BC to about 200 BC Persian(Iranian) horsemen and their
wheeled vehicles kept trade moving along the Road from the far east to
the near east.
The
Chinese, especially those of the Han Empire, did a good job of keeping
trade moving on the Road from 206 BC to about 220 AD when the Ottomans
closed it. During those 400 or so years the Han's traded a lot of silk.
Does anyone want to know what was going on along the route before 500 BC to about about 2000 BC?
The
Chinese now have a new fast railroad link along the Road. What else is
going on their? Is it true that the Iranians controlled the road the
longest.
by Richard Sheehan
