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Yes, same woman. She was the first historian I read. Then I read some guy's work and was so disappointed. That was my first lesson in men ignoring grocery lists as a prime data source. Not all men. I just read a book by Bernard Lewis who also tracked grocery lists a little bit.
So? The point is that hundreds of years they managed to keep rule. This means that, if people behaved, they didn't interfere with most of the day to day living. Visciousness doesn't allow this. There was bad and there was good during those 400 hundred years. For an author to claim this longevity didn't produce any good is lying. Just having a government where the peons can plan for the next n years is useful.
We were talking about greenhouse gas levels, which is related to energy consumption, which includes energy used in production. Reduction of energy consumption does...
They will stay home and do their own work. Turks know how to work and they take great care of their tools. Even their hay wagons were painted in enamels with decorations (this could have been printing but I couldn't tell). From what I saw, Turks cleaned up their messes. Note that this is based on spending one day in the country.
That could be that northern vs. southern personality. You would find a similar difference in the USA.
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