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iamthepulta · 22 days ago

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I KNEW when I started this process that alum would be a heavily overlooked commodity throughout history but this paper is going into the taxation by the Roman empire, particularly their fortresses along the trade route in order to secure it as an international commodity and GOD that is so cool. Aluminum is just like nitrates but for clothing, art, and processing rather than war!! Then we were able to synthesize the process and it's become forgotten and obsolete.

#Total aside. It's becoming my personal pet peeve that academic papers with a fairly narrative layout NOT be in APA formatting because #I literally can't read the paper for the citations. Use Chicago I'm fucking begging you. Journal editors: you need better taste.#... shit how am I going to fit clothing into all this?#Also this paper brought up 'protactor ad mercurium' which the paper speculates is the manager of monopolized commodities #but I don't think that's right. I think that's the metallurgical commodity manager and I wonder if alum was also used for gold mining in #Spain; which would explain the massive uptick in alum mining at the time and also all the effort put to securing the resource.#We could check this by seeing if the amagamation process uses alum OR if the mercury production in Amalden/uhhh that one in Austria #required alum. Alternatively it could've just been used for all the other shit that was going on at the time: art and medical use and #clothing was at an all-time high. only why would you have protractor ad mercurium for that...???#You know I could solve this with Google #GOOGLE WHAT IS PROTACTOR AD MERCURIUM

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