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oh yes that was what I was getting at. This was long before the smelting of iron was known so meteoric iron was incredibly valuable. But the trade agreements were notable because it was the only such strategic resource that was called out.
It was the yellowcake uranium of the late 3rd milenium.
The Assyrian traders themselves were almost exclusively bringing in tin. They would sell it for textiles and gold and such but Tin was almost the entirty of what they brought.
Would they actually melt it down and forge it?
Yeah they could work it. Probably not melting it down but hammering it. It would be another 1000 years before iron smelting became common or iron objects or weapons came into common use.
And they are mostly notable because they did become so common. It took a very long time for iron weapons to match the quality of bronze. Poor quality iron is hard to work and makes shitty weapons but it is cheap and available. Tin was always a limited and incredibly expensive strategic resource. So much so that nearly all bronze produced was used for either weapons or upper class luxury goods.
In the eastern mediterranean and middle east you find very little in the way of bronze craftsmans tools or ploughs for example. It was simply too valuable. But iron, while not producing better quality weapons or goods, was massively more common than tin. It was actually available to the lower, productive, tiers of society in a way bronze never was.
What did they call meteoric iron? Did they have a fancy name for it?
(this is getting a bit out of my depth but a quick googling reveals)
It was the only kind of iron they knew of so I don't think they hard words to distinguish meteoric from other iron. The Akkadian for iron was pazillu. I'm having trouble finding what the Luwain word was.
The Hittite word is Ḫalpiki (languages in the Hittite empire are complicated, it wasn't a single culture and there were both indo-european and non-indoeuropean languages in use)
Though it seems a lot of cultures took on the Akkadian pazillu and transliterated it for their word for iron (eg: the west semitic languages)
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I saw a woman getting ticketed for jaywalking this morning by a cop on a motorcycle.
While I didn't see the actual jaywalking, it sure as shit looked like she walked right in front of a bus. So, I don't really blame the cop.
Though, I really wish they would get half a dozen cops to just sit at downtown intersections and write tickets for blocking intersections. They'd be getting back to their car after writing one ticket just in time to write another.
Am I the only one who thinks this post should be preserved for posterity?
oh yes that was what I was getting at. This was long before the smelting of iron was known so meteoric iron was incredibly valuable. But the trade agreements were notable because it was the only such strategic resource that was called out.
It was the yellowcake uranium of the late 3rd milenium.
The Assyrian traders themselves were almost exclusively bringing in tin. They would sell it for textiles and gold and such but Tin was almost the entirty of what they brought.
Would they actually melt it down and forge it?
Yeah they could work it. Probably not melting it down but hammering it. It would be another 1000 years before iron smelting became common or iron objects or weapons came into common use.
And they are mostly notable because they did become so common. It took a very long time for iron weapons to match the quality of bronze. Poor quality iron is hard to work and makes shitty weapons but it is cheap and available. Tin was always a limited and incredibly expensive strategic resource. So much so that nearly all bronze produced was used for either weapons or upper class luxury goods.
In the eastern mediterranean and middle east you find very little in the way of bronze craftsmans tools or ploughs for example. It was simply too valuable. But iron, while not producing better quality weapons or goods, was massively more common than tin. It was actually available to the lower, productive, tiers of society in a way bronze never was.
What did they call meteoric iron? Did they have a fancy name for it?
"meteoric iron" is a fancy name, and inevitably the translation in English for whatever it is any culture calls it.
Speaking as someone who knows almost nothing about this subject, I thought it was called 'thunderbolt iron.'
Which I only remember the name of because the name is cooooool.
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"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I saw a woman getting ticketed for jaywalking this morning by a cop on a motorcycle.
While I didn't see the actual jaywalking, it sure as shit looked like she walked right in front of a bus. So, I don't really blame the cop.
Though, I really wish they would get half a dozen cops to just sit at downtown intersections and write tickets for blocking intersections. They'd be getting back to their car after writing one ticket just in time to write another.
Am I the only one who thinks this post should be preserved for posterity?
nope. I even bolded the same
It was like seeing an actual, honest to goodness unicorn in the wild.
Which seems like a good idea considering the lecture at 8:15 tomorrow
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Is there a rundown on how Phalla's work? I'm reading through Critical Failures atm and they look fun. People look like they're having fun. I have no idea what they're doing.
Is there a rundown on how Phalla's work? I'm reading through Critical Failures atm and they look fun. People look like they're having fun. I have no idea what they're doing.
I saw a woman getting ticketed for jaywalking this morning by a cop on a motorcycle.
While I didn't see the actual jaywalking, it sure as shit looked like she walked right in front of a bus. So, I don't really blame the cop.
Though, I really wish they would get half a dozen cops to just sit at downtown intersections and write tickets for blocking intersections. They'd be getting back to their car after writing one ticket just in time to write another.
Am I the only one who thinks this post should be preserved for posterity?
nope. I even bolded the same
I am perfectly reasonable in my hatred of cops. I only hate them for the multitudinous awful things they do, not for the rare times when they're just doing the job they're massively fucking overpaid to do.
Oh hey let's look at the list. Ok, Boston is number 4 ok what number 3... Washington DC?!
This methodology is suspect.
Having just been to San Fransisco the other week, that list is wrong.
It's "kay", I guess.
Hey, now, I'm sure that... *checks link* Bloomberg Businessweek uses nothing but the most stringent and careful analyses for when they're making lists of things in order to fill space.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
i tend to get really depressed when i am not at work, working
today i am quite down
(this is getting a bit out of my depth but a quick googling reveals)
It was the only kind of iron they knew of so I don't think they hard words to distinguish meteoric from other iron. The Akkadian for iron was pazillu. I'm having trouble finding what the Luwain word was.
The Hittite word is Ḫalpiki (languages in the Hittite empire are complicated, it wasn't a single culture and there were both indo-european and non-indoeuropean languages in use)
Though it seems a lot of cultures took on the Akkadian pazillu and transliterated it for their word for iron (eg: the west semitic languages)
You ARE 80's guy
nope. I even bolded the same
wtf at that grenade
Speaking as someone who knows almost nothing about this subject, I thought it was called 'thunderbolt iron.'
Which I only remember the name of because the name is cooooool.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
It was like seeing an actual, honest to goodness unicorn in the wild.
What the
Work sucks
They were probably at Tidi, fortetting that the coupons we won were left for dead at Teknokrates.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Which seems like a good idea considering the lecture at 8:15 tomorrow
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
Wait what? I have work on Saturday?
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
They're all variations on Mafia.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'm not going to be all sexist up in this bitch
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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"i love you more than THE BLACKEST CREATURES TO CRAWL FROM THE DANK PITS OF NIGHTMARE"
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cow
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Jesus Ireland, get your fucking head out of your arse
what if work is dropping bass and turning on el wire and making people dance until they explode
does work then suck
probably @gooey
i've been unstaffed and while it's been kind of annoying/frustrating, they've been paying me money to sit on my butt at home and watch tv so
like even if it's boring or unfulfilling
fat stacks go a long way towards fulfillment, let me tell you