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The Essays on Geology, History, and People, which I quoted the other day on iron weapons, is really exciting. Covers such a range of history.
It's also really exciting because of how much of my other research i can hook up with it:
*Research on history of Mesoamerica and Teotihuacan control of obsidian (incorporated as Elven history)
*Research on early stone tool use (incorporated as Dire Wolf culture)
*Kurlansky's Salt
*California history as driven by the Gold Rush and the re-investment of the wealth it accumulated. Not directly talked about but paralleled by other mineral booms.
*some later chapters I haven't gotten to will hook up with Cadillac Desert
*Mattingly's Renaissance Diplomacy
*info surrounding Bujold's Spirit Ring, which is based heavily on De Re Metallica and the Saxon silver mines.
*a lot of my recent research on Coin Etymologies shows up
*the research i did a few months back following out the links from the Line of Succession to the British Throne into topics like the Electors, and the various royal houses of Europe. (to be incorporated into dwarven history and culture)
and from those last few, sending out tendrils throughout European history, which I've been running into variously, including through a lot of articles for work.
Piece by piece, history comes together.
ETA: The section on Earthquakes starts with a discussion of 1989 and downtown Santa Cruz.
It's also really exciting because of how much of my other research i can hook up with it:
*Research on history of Mesoamerica and Teotihuacan control of obsidian (incorporated as Elven history)
*Research on early stone tool use (incorporated as Dire Wolf culture)
*Kurlansky's Salt
*California history as driven by the Gold Rush and the re-investment of the wealth it accumulated. Not directly talked about but paralleled by other mineral booms.
*some later chapters I haven't gotten to will hook up with Cadillac Desert
*Mattingly's Renaissance Diplomacy
*info surrounding Bujold's Spirit Ring, which is based heavily on De Re Metallica and the Saxon silver mines.
*a lot of my recent research on Coin Etymologies shows up
*the research i did a few months back following out the links from the Line of Succession to the British Throne into topics like the Electors, and the various royal houses of Europe. (to be incorporated into dwarven history and culture)
and from those last few, sending out tendrils throughout European history, which I've been running into variously, including through a lot of articles for work.
Piece by piece, history comes together.
ETA: The section on Earthquakes starts with a discussion of 1989 and downtown Santa Cruz.