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Triple Plough
An abandoned triple plough. Such machines with superior metal cutting blades were first introduced to agriculture during the Industrial Revolution of the 18-19th century.

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Horse-Powered Threshing Machine
A French illustration of a horse-powered threshing machine. This machine, used to separate grain from the husk, was invented in 1787 by the Scotsman Andrew Meikle (1719-1811). The machine used a drum with beaters to remove the husk, first...

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Mechanized Reaping Machine
An 1884 illustration of the mechanized reaping machine which was invented in 1834 in the United States by Cyrus McCormack. (U.S. Library of Congress)

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Kaya Şahin
Kaya Şahin, the author of Peerless among Princes, the Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman.

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Peerless among Princes, the Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman
Peerless among Princes, the Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman by Kaya Şahin.

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Tablet Describing the Akitu Festival
Fragment of a Babylonian clay tablet, with 16 lines of inscription describing rites in Babylon relating to the Akitu festival. Fragment of the right half, copy of a text containing regulations for making offerings. From the Library of Ashurbanipal...

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The Roman Empire and the Crisis of the Third Century, c. 270 CE - Pretenders, Breakaways, Plague, and the Fight for Unity
This map illustrates the fractured state of the Roman Empire in the aftermath of the assassination of Emperor Severus Alexander (reign 222–235 CE) in 235 CE, marking the beginning of the period known as the Crisis of the Third Century. During...

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Tim Pauketat
Tim Pauketat, author of Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America.

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Dagobert I
An imagined portrait of the Merovingian king Dagobert I (r. 623-639). oil on canvas by Émile Signol, part of the "Portraits of the Kings of France" series commissioned in 1837 by King Louis-Philippe (r. 1830-1848), 1842. Palace of Versailles...

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Death of Dagobert I
King Dagobert I (r. 623-639) on his deathbed, illustration from the Chronique des empereurs, 15th century.
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris.