Brit-Am Research Sources (26 February, 2014, 26 Adar-1, 5774)
Contents:
1. Who Was Sandakhshatra?
2. Stephen Phillips: The Picts and Cruithin
3. Was Esau's Descendants in Rome? by Linda Watson
4. The Ancient People in the Middle East. Where are they today? by Linda Watson. Moab in North Africa? [and Spain?]
5. Remember the Green Revolution and How US Citizens Saved most of the World's Population!
History and Overview of the Green Revolution by Amanda Briney
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1. Who Was Sandakhshatra?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandakhshatra
Sandakhshatra, Sandaksatru or Sandakuru was a Cimmerian king in the late 7th century BC. According to the Assyrian inscriptions provided by Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, he was the son of Tugdamme. These inscriptions show that Tugdamme was killed in battle but that Sandakhshatra survived and thus became the next King of the Saka, a Scythian tribe. It has been speculated that Sandakhshatra was the famed Cyaxares who helped in conquering Assyria.[1] Rea, Cam. The Assyrian Exile Israel's Legacy in Captivity, p. 140, 144
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2. Stephen Phillips: The Picts and Cruithin
Hi Yair
The Picts and Cruithin were two separate peoples, but the silly Irish historians have confused the two. Both Bede and Ammianus make a clear distinction between Picts and Dalraidi-Scots. They were two separate peoples, albeit all descended from the same Israelite race. The Picts even spoke a different language. St Columba needed an interpreter when conversing with them. (Early Irish History & Mythology p.355, T. F. O'Rahilly.) This confusion between the Cruithin and the Picts arises because the Scots, who later became rulers of the land, adopted the title rex Pictorum:-
Cinaed mac Ailpin (858), the first Scotti who ruled in Pictland, is styled rex Pictorum by the annalists, and his three immediate successors get the same title. (Ibid. pp.372-3.)
The Pictish ancestral province was Fortrenn, a name which is reminiscent of the Turoni who, in Julius Caesar's time, were located alongside the Pictones in Western Gaul. (C. Julius Caesar, Gallic Wars vii.4. See also Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, entry under Tu€™rones, William Smith, London 1854.) Fortrenn would then be a corruption of Fir (i.e. 'men' or, more correctly, 'sons') of Turone. The Dalraidi-Scots were at that time still in Ireland.
Regards,
Steve
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3. Was Esau's Descendants in Rome?
by Linda Watson
http://12tribehistory.com/was-esaus-descendants-in-rome/
Extracts:
According to Jewish historians, the Roman Empire came to be identified with Esau and 'Edom'. In medieval rabbinic writing, 'Edom' is used to refer to the Byzantine Empire.
The Byzantine Empire make up the Modern countries of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Spain and Italy. Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Iraq, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and almost all other Balkan countries.
Esau Descendants also were in Turkey in the Taurus Mountains. They were called the Isaurians.
Zeno was a Byzantine Emperor reigning from 474 to 475 AD. Zeno married the daughter of Byzantine emperor Leo I and fathered Leo II. The child reigned briefly upon the death of Leo I but died within a year and Zeno, having been appointed co-emperor, succeeded him in 474 AD.
He was an Isaurian from the land of Isauria in Southern Asia Minor in the Taurus Mountains. The Isaurians carry the name of Esau. If take the name Esau you drop the 'E' and replace it with an 'I' You will have the name Isau. It is so extremely close to the name Esau.
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4. The Ancient People in the Middle East. Where are they today? by Linda Watson. Moab in North Africa? [and Spain?]
http://12tribehistory.com/the-ancient-people-in-the-middle-east-where-are-they-today/
Moabites amongst Moors of Morocco and Black Africans?
Spain?
Medes - Kurds
Esau amongst Persians?
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5. Remember the Green Revolution and How US Citizens Saved most of the World's Population!
Green Revolution.
History and Overview of the Green Revolution
By Amanda Briney, Contributing Writer
http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandissues/a/greenrevolution.htm
Extracts:
The term Green Revolution refers to the renovation of agricultural practices beginning in Mexico in the 1940s. Because of its success in producing more agricultural products there, Green Revolution technologies spread worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s, significantly increasing the amount of calories produced per acre of agriculture.
The beginnings of the Green Revolution are often attributed to Norman Borlaug, an American scientist interested in agriculture. In the 1940s, he began conducting research in Mexico and developed new disease resistance high-yield varieties of wheat. By combining Borlaug's wheat varieties with new mechanized agricultural technologies, Mexico was able to produce more wheat than was needed by its own citizens, leading to its becoming an exporter of wheat by the 1960s. Prior to the use of these varieties, the country was importing almost half of its wheat supply.
Due to the success of the Green Revolution in Mexico, its technologies spread worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s. The United States for instance, imported about half of its wheat in the 1940s but after using Green Revolution technologies, it became self-sufficient in the 1950s and became an exporter by the 1960s.
In order to continue using Green Revolution technologies to produce more food for a growing population worldwide, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation, as well as many government agencies around the world funded increased research.
Countries all over the world in turn benefited from the Green Revolution work conducted by Borlaug and this research institution. India for example was on the brink of mass famine in the early 1960s because of its rapidly growing population. Borlaug and the Ford Foundation then implemented research there and they developed a new variety of rice, IR8, that produced more grain per plant when grown with irrigation and fertilizers. Today, India is one of the world's leading rice producers and IR8 rice usage spread throughout Asia in the decades following the rice's development in India.
Impacts of the Green Revolution
Since fertilizers are largely what made the Green Revolution possible, they forever changed agricultural practices because the high yield varieties developed during this time cannot grow successfully without the help of fertilizers.
Irrigation also played a large role in the Green Revolution and this forever changed the areas where various crops can be grown. For instance before the Green Revolution, agriculture was severely limited to areas with a significant amount of rainfall, but by using irrigation, water can be stored and sent to drier areas, putting more land into agricultural production - thus increasing nationwide crop yields.
In addition, the development of high yield varieties meant that only a few species of say, rice started being grown. In India for example there were about 30,000 rice varieties prior to the Green Revolution, today there are around ten - all the most productive types. By having this increased crop homogeneity though the types were more prone to disease and pests because there were not enough varieties to fight them off. In order to protect these few varieties then, pesticide use grew as well.
... the use of Green Revolution technologies exponentially increased the amount of food production worldwide. Places like India and China that once feared famine have not experienced it since implementing the use of IR8 rice and other food varieties.