the model, it do good.

So the author, Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻 , shows us stuff like this graph, which is a pretty compelling case that agriculture was invented when seasonality got crunk, and then spread in a seasonality-biased pattern:

Why did so many hunter gatherer groups around the world nearly-simultaneously and in an unconnected way develop agriculture?

This has been a kinda problematic question in human prehistory.

It may have been solved... by an economist?

Studying the economics of... Earth's orbit?

Churches carved out of rock in Ethiopia
'Carving churches out of rock using only a hammer and chisel may seem extraordinary to us, but for those living in rural areas of Ethiopia, it’s simply an expression of faith. There are hundreds of rock-cut...'
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob, by isaac Samuel open.substack.com/pub/isaacsamue…

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Newly translated by Wendy Laura Belcher and others!

This is an excellent review on the philosophy of the Zahatata of Zara Yacob And Walda Heywat in the overall development of philosophy in Africa.
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The radical philosophy of the Hatata: a 17th century treatise by the Ethiopian thinker Zara Yacob open.substack.com/pub/isaacsamue…

Zara Yacob's 'Hatata': a 17th-cent. philosophical treatise

Zara Yacob & Walda Heywat of Ethiopia are some of the prominent African philosophers whose works have been studied

others include Sayyid Abdallah of Pate (Kenya) and Dan Tafa of Sokoto (Nigeria)
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the 17th-century castle of Guzara, built by Emperor Fasilidas, overlooking the town of Enfranz where Zara Yacob and Walda Heywat completed the Hatata.

These monuments were characteristic of the Gondarine period and are briefly mentioned in the Hatata.
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in response to critics of his radical philosophy, Walda Heywat stated that;

'I write to turn the wise and intelligent toward inquiry, through which they may ‘seek and find’ truth.
For inquiring into everything is beautiful wisdom.'

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