Stanford University historian Jack N. Rakove stated that " The voluminous records we have for the constitutional debates of the late 1780s contain no significant references to the Iroquois " and stated that there are ample European precedents to the democratic institutions of the United States.

If the panegyric detailing the ceremony implied that the true center of the Empire was not Rome, but where the Emperor sat ("... the capital of the Empire appeared to be there, where the two emperors met "), it simply echoed what had already been stated by the historian Herodian in the early third century: " Rome is where the emperor is ".

In the 1st century BC, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus stated that the Etruscan language was unlike any other.

Mick Mercer, author, noted music journalist, and world's leading historian of Goth music stated, of Kimveer Gill, that he was " not a Goth.

The historian William J. Cooper has stated that Davis believed in southern social order that included " a democratic white polity based firmly on dominance of a controlled and excluded black caste.

In an interview conducted by Jan & Dean fan and historian David Beard for the Collectors ' Choice release, Jan & Dean The Complete Liberty Singles, Dean Torrence stated that he felt the duo should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: " We have the scoreboard if you just want to compare number of hits and musical projects done.

The Greek historian Herodotus stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid, and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemnos stele.

Russian historian Yury Zhukov stated that Nikolai Bukarin's portraits of Joseph Stalin were the only ones drawn from the original, not from a photograph.

An historian has stated, " it was quinine's efficacy that gave colonists fresh opportunities to swarm into the Gold Coast, Nigeria and other parts of west Africa ".

In terms of an overall context, historian Ronald Mellor has stated that the Annals is " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

Arafat's sister Inam stated in an interview with Arafat's biographer, British historian Alan Hart, that Arafat was heavily beaten by his father for going to the Jewish quarter in Cairo and attending religious services.

A number of sources, including Mohammed Oudeh ( Abu Daoud ), one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre, and Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black September was an armed branch of Fatah used for paramilitary operations.

Presidential historian Justice D. Doenecke stated that Garfield lacked judgment in his appointment of Robertson that proved to be problematic.

As historian Mikhail Shcherbatov stated, her court was “ arrayed in cloth of gold, her nobles satisfied with only the most luxurious garments, the most expensive foods, the rarest drinks, that largest number of servants and they applied this standard of lavishness to their dress as well .” Clothing soon became the chosen means in Court by which to display wealth and social standing.

The official royal tour historian, Gustave Lanctot, stated: " When Their Majesties walked into their Canadian residence, the Statute of Westminster had assumed full reality: the King of Canada had come home.

The cause behind the soured relations is not fully known, though historian Marjorie Chibnall stated that, " historians have tended to put the blame on Matilda [...] This is a hasty judgement based on two or three hostile English chroniclers ; such evidence as there is suggests Geoffrey was at least as much to blame ".

The Roman historian Tacitus is often stated to have been born in Terni, but there is no evidence for the claim, which is circumstantially based on the probable birth there of the emperor of the same name, and on the attested fact that that emperor took care to have his namesake's works widely copied, in the apparent belief that they were related.

Byzantine historian Procopius stated that two Christian monks eventually uncovered the way of how silk was made.

In 2009, historian Benny Morris ' stated in his retrospective book One States, Two States that about one third of the Palestinian deaths up to 2004 had been civilians.

As the historian John Nicholls stated, " Fotheringhay has been distinguished beyond any other place in Britain, except the Capital, by the aggravated misfortunes of Royalty.

The historian J. Bottéro stated that these poems display " extreme reverence, profound devotion, the unarguable emotion that the supernatural evoked in the hearts of those ancient believers " but that they showed a people who were scared of their gods rather than openly celebrating them.

British historian Sir James Edmonds stated, " It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final victory on the Western Front were laid by the Somme offensive of 1916.

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

Commentators have stated that, " more than just a pretty face ", Antonia Fraser is an accomplished historian and " an intellectual ".

The same historian says Croesus had 420, 000 men in total, which was composed of 60, 000 Babylonians, Lydians, and Phrygians, also Cappadocians, plus nations of the Hellespont, which amounted to 300, 000 men which also had 60, 000 cavalry in them.

Lester Grabbe, a historian of early Judaism, has written that " the religious policy of the Persians was not that different from the basic practice of the Assyrians and Babylonians before them " in tolerating – but not promoting – local cults, other than their own gods.

As the early modern period commenced in the late 15th century, many changes began to shock Europe that would have an effect on the production of grimoires ; the historian Owen Davies classed the most important of these as being the Protestant Reformation and subsequent Catholic Counter-Reformation, the witch-hunts and the advent of printing.

From that, they commenced to envisage it as a totality, as no historian of one period or of a single people was likely to do, nor any analyst of his own type of civilization alone.

At a time when Korea was suffering under the yoke of Japanese Imperialism, a fuller assessment of Eulji commenced with the Korean historian Shin Chaeho ( 신채호, 申采浩, 1880 – 1936 ), who published a biography of Eulji in 1908 and held him out as an example of Korea's traditional nationalist spirit.

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

Three hundred years later, the American astronomical historian William Ashworth suggested that what Flamsteed may have seen was the most recent supernova in the galaxy's history, an event which would leave as its remnant the strongest radio source outside of the solar system, known in the third Cambridge ( 3C ) catalogue as 3C 461 and commonly called Cassiopeia A by astronomers.

As the sinologist historian Derk Bodde points out, Su Song's astronomical clock did not lead to a new generation of mass-produced clockworks throughout China since his work was largely a government-sponsored endeavor for the use of astronomers and astrologers in the imperial court.

Gago Coutinho ( 1869 – 1959 ), officer of the Portuguese Navy, navigator and historian, headed a geodesic mission to São Tomé between 1915 and 1918 when marks were place as a basis for a geodetic network in the archipelago, and after that observations for triangulation, precise base measurement and astronomical observations were made.

Not any individual, be it noted, but those in positions of command: emperors, princes and popes who may be counted on to act always in terms of their self-interest — the famous Guicciardinian particolare .” In the following excerpt, the historian records his observations on the character of Pope Clement VII:

The historian Dave Evans studied self-professed followers of the Left-Hand Path in the early 21st century, making several observations about their practices:

Drawing upon Antonio Gramsci's observations of Italian politics and history, Canadian historian Ian McKay has suggested that trasformismo has also played an important role in Canadian politics.

The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices.

His story is told in the History of Armenia attributed to the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi ( 410 to 490 ).

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

Alexandria's population was also close to Rome's population at around the same time, the historian Rostovtzeff estimates a total population close to a million based on a census dated from 32 AD that counted 180, 000 adult male citizens in Alexandria.

The historian Warren Treadgold estimates that under Diocletian the number of men in the civil service doubled from 15, 000 to 30, 000.

According to the historian Philinus, this army was composed of 50, 000 infantry, 6, 000 cavalry, and 60 elephants.

In 552, Justinian dispatched a force of 2, 000 men ; according to the historian Jordanes, this army was led by the octogenarian Liberius.

The historian Andreas Kossert describes that the incorporation happened despite protests of the local populace, the municipal authorities and the German Government, According to Kossert 6, 000 inhabitants of the region soon left the area.

Italian historian Andrea Del Col estimates that out of 51, 000 — 75, 000 cases judged by Inquisition in Italy after 1542 around 1, 250 resulted in a death sentence.

Australian historian Robert Manne suggests " approximately 20, 000 to 25, 000 " were removed between 1910 and 1970, based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics report of 1994.

An early 19th-century historian wrote that the Tuscarora traditionally were said to occupy the " country lying between the sea shores and the mountains, which divide the Atlantic states ," in which they had 24 large towns and could muster 6, 000 warriors, probably meaning persons.

During the 1990s, linguists Kalevi Wiik, Janos Pusztay, and Ago Künnap and historian Kyösti Julku announced a " breakthrough in Present-Day Uralistics ", dating Proto-Finnic to 10, 000 BC.

Fred Graffen, military historian with the Canadian War Museum, estimated in Vietnam Magazine ( Perspectives ) that approximately 12, 000 of these personnel actually served in Vietnam.

A 2001 study by the Russian military historian G. F. Krivosheev estimated the total war dead at 2, 254, 369 ( Killed in action 1, 200, 000 ; missing and presumed dead 439, 369 ; died of wounds 240, 000, gassed 11, 000., died from disease 155, 000, POW deaths 190, 000, deaths due to accidents and other causes. 19, 000.

The historian Timothy Brook, in his The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China, states that the Ming census was inaccurate, as China in the late 14th century had at least 65, 000, 000 inhabitants, if not 75, 000, 000.