The Unholy Trinity: How Piracy, Slaves, and Opium Fueled the British Empire

If a people know their TRUE history then they can never be conquered!

NEW MAP: Europe 311: Collapse of the Tetrarchy (10 June 311) https://buff.ly/3xslYiL In early May 311 Galerius died and was succeeded as senior Augustus by Maximinus Daza. Although Constantine and Licinius would pay lip service to this decision until late 312, Maximinus had little authority over the two Augusti and did not appoint a new tetrarch. #4thcentury #lateromanempire #ancientrome #byzantium #constantine #carta #cartografia #constantinei #easternromanempire #europe #europeanhistory #historia #historian #historias #historical #historylesson #historymatters #historyteacher #map #maps #roman #romanafrica #romancivilwar #romancivilwars #romanempire #romanhistory #romans #tetrarchy #worldhistory #newmap (at Sirmium Palatium Imperiale) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQmwLaHJCf/?utm_medium=tumblr

When the bubonic plague hit the US at least 280 people were infected and it killed at least 172 over the next eight years. #plagues #plague #history #theblackdeath #bubonicplague #til #todayilearned #ushistory #todayilearnedthat #instahistory #americanhistory #historygram #historydaily #dailyhistory #historic #historical #historicaf #historylesson #historylessons #historylessonoftheday #historyfacts #historygeek #historynerd #historybuff #historybuffsofinstagram #historylover #historylovers #ilovehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeWewol01y/?utm_medium=tumblr

Let's discuss the REAL reasons Haiti is so "poor." 🤔 The Caribbean nation became the world’s first Black-led republic when it declared its independence from France in 1804. That day, Saint-Domingue, once France’s richest colony, known as the “Pearl of the Antilles,” became Haiti. 🇭🇹 It was a land long coveted for its riches of sugar, coffee and cotton. Its declaration of independence meant that, for the first time, a brutally enslaved people had wrenched their freedom from colonial masters. But it came only after decades of bloody war. Many also aren’t aware that without Haiti’s help, several countries in Latin America would not have obtained their independence. Simon Bolivar received support from Haiti in 1815 to free Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and modern Bolivia from Spanish rule. In 1825, more than two decades after Haiti's independence, the king of France forced Haiti to compensate former French colonists for their lost "property." Haiti, unable to pay the hefty sum, was forced into a debt that it had to shoulder for nearly a century. Throughout the 19th century, a period marked by political and economic instability, the country invested little in its infrastructure or education. In the early 1990s, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president. He was then ousted twice from power over the next 15 years. In 2010, it suffered a devastating earthquake that claimed the lives of about 300,000 people. The country never really recovered, and it has remained mired in economic underdevelopment and insecurity. A cholera outbreak in 2016, linked to U.N. peacekeepers, killed at least 10,000 Haitians and sickened another 800,000. United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti fathered and left behind hundreds of children, researchers found in a newly released academic study, leaving mothers struggling with stigma, poverty and single parenthood after the men departed the country. While the United Nations has acknowledged numerous instances of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers in Haiti and elsewhere, the study on Haitian victims went further in documenting the scope of the problem in that country — the Western Hemisphere’s poorest — than had been previously known. “Girls as young as 11 were sexually abused and impregnated” by peacekeepers, who were stationed in Haiti from 2004 to 2017, and some of the women were later “left in misery” to raise their children alone, according to the study by two academic researchers. The study, based on interviews with 2,500 Haitians who lived near peacekeeper bases in the summer of 2017, depicts a trail of abuse and exploitation left by some of the soldiers and civilians who served in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Then in July, Jovenel Moïse, who became president in 2017, was assassinated at his residence.

The boots worn by the actors portraying American soldiers in “Saving Private Ryan” were made by the same company that supplied boots for American soldiers during the Second World War. #FACT

Baba Yaga Fly to her Hut. Did you know that the words for chicken and smoked were so similar that it’s possible the description of Baba Yaga‘a hut was mistranslated from “the house on smoked legs” to “the house on chicken legs”. Smoking logs in herbs to prop houses on was used to protect the house from water damage, pests etc. It is also possible that the name Baba Yaga was given to any woman in the village who healed and helped people which would explain why the accounts of her are so varied and why I’m some myths Baba Yaga had many sisters all by the same name. Anyways this has been your short folklore history lesson. #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #artwork #painting #acrylicpainting #acryliconcanvas #witchy #witch #witchyart #babayaga #folklore #folkart #slavic #slavicmythology #history #historylesson https://www.instagram.com/p/CHjHrZEhFoK/?igshid=3hcy0f2satk6

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