Pre-History
History prior to written records.
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A lawyer and linguist during the 18th, Sir William Jones, while stationed in India, observed that the Sanskrit language shared similarities with other European languages. He theorized that Sanskrit shared a common ancestor with Greek, Latin and Old Iranian. There are many words in Indo-European languages that are cognate with one another, i.e. that were…
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I have been interested, maybe even obsessed with history for as long as I can remember. Not only big sweeping arcs of history, but the everyday and even sometimes mundane parts. I love to go down endless rabbit holes on sometimes obscure topics i.e. why did Napoleonic troops line up in brightly colored uniforms. I’m…
History Buff Chronicle 