Nick Collins ✓

@nickcollins1953 · joined 04 Aug 2024

Maritime historian | Author of ‘How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World' Subscribe to my essays: https://t.co/pplwcnqac7

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins19535 Sep

Pythagoras never claimed to have invented his theorem. Indian altar-builders had been using it in the Sulba Sutras a thousand years before he was born, to size fire altars for Vedic ritual. He was born on Samos to a Sidon-based merchant father and reportedly lived in India for 41.3K views · 2.1K likes · 640 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins19534 Sep

Greek philosophy is downstream of Indian philosophy, transhipped through Phoenician ports. Around 950 BC, Hiram of Tyre and Solomon of Israel signed a treaty to send joint fleets down the Red Sea to the Gujarat coast, and for a full century the ships ran on a three-year cycle.

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195330 Aug

India's coastline used to be bigger, and so was the coast of the equatorial world. The darker grey is the modern coastline. The paler outline around it is the coast at the height of the last Ice Age, when the sea lay 120 metres lower and much of what is now shallow shelf was dry

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195327 Aug

Almost every culture on earth keeps a story of a great flood. In India it is Manu, warned in time by Vishnu in the shape of a great fish who towed the boat to safety. The stories cluster thickest in exactly the regions that drowned when the Ice Age ended. They describe the sea h

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195326 Aug

@nickcollins1953 While India and Sundaland were heavily populated during Ice Age with people migrating to India from Sundaland. Some of the stories of submerged lands could actually be memories from SE Asia. Closer to our time, the anomalously submerged Poompuhar is only two mill 3.5K views · 24 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195326 Aug

Explore more in my book 'How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World'. https://t.co/rppMlbUFnl https://t.co/FLHESu4UyK

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195326 Aug

Link to my full Substack essay: https://t.co/16CXiNsEPl https://t.co/er6xKGaJCZ

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195326 Aug

At the height of the Ice Age, the busy part of the world was in the Indian subcontinent and equatorial lands. Three great floods took much of it, now on the sea floor. At Poompuhar, on the coast of Tamil Nadu, an underwater survey has mapped an 11 by 3 kilometre area, https://

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195321 Jul

@nickcollins1953 Leave international scholars, our colonial slaveeft liberal indian historians will mock you. U will b tagged as hindu right wing agent. 9.5K views · 293 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195321 Jul

Full substack essay, with sources: https://t.co/DVcwh3tcPH https://t.co/DDJAITrHqP

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Nick Collins ✓@nickcollins195321 Jul

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was. I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the ht

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Median views43 940this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %301.87%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.50%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

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Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.0× audience	3.62%	83.4×
Engagement rate	1.50%	1.52%	0.99×

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes61.9%22 456 in total

Reposts19.0%6 898 in total

Replies0.9%334 in total

Quotes0.6%227 in total

Bookmarks17.6%6 385 in total

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