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Can anyone identify this card? I believe it to be used during the War when gas was rationed(cross from /AskReddit | It's a gas ration card. Gas was rationed in various tiers depending on the person's anticipated needs.
go [here](http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm) for a decent explanation. | {
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Looking for help with a reading list, if you don't mind helping | I'm first going to make a few suggestions to your list, if you don't mind:
The Art of War (Both): Sun Tzu's Art of War is absurdly famous, and may be the most read Chinese book in the West. This does not, however, mean it deserves to be. It is written in an easy, aphoristic style that leads itself to notable quotables... | {
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Was there any form of Protestant reformation in
England prior to that instigated by Henry VIII? | Up until Henry's split with the Church, he was a paragon of Catholic virtue...at least enough to earn the title "Defender of the Faith," a title the English crown still carries. Henry was a diligent hunter of anti-Catholic sentiments and even wrote counter arguments to Martin Luther.
The closest you would find would ... | {
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What type of paper did Shakespeare write Romeo and Juliet on? | Old rags.
No seriously. Old worn out hemp and linen rags would be pulped and then pressed to remove the water then pressed out into sheets and then dried. | {
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How true is the seemingly common notion that France has never won a war? | [French Battle Record](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_involving_France). Not to shabby for a nation with 1500 year old history.
The joke about the French being surrender monkeys is a relatively modern invention (past 60 years or so). For most of their history they performed amazingly well. If the Fren... | {
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Who is considered to be the best monarch in history? | There is a saying among presidential biographers that the greatest president is the one you are writing about. Anyway.
Most of the evidence for these comes from literary sources, which have very specific concerns and aims. So, for example, if you asked just about anyone who the greatest Achaemenid Persian king was, th... | {
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When did we start using the BC/AD dating system? | The answer is 525.
From [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini
>The Anno Domini dating system was devised in 525 by Dionysius Exiguus to enumerate the years in his Easter table. His system was to replace the Diocletian era that had been used in an old Easter table because he did not wish to continue the memo... | {
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When thinking of pirate music we have a very certain recollection of gypsy-like music. Do any of the modern compositions have any historical value? What did pirate music sound like if there was such a thing?
| Pirate music would have been a mix of [sea chanties](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_shanty), popular period music, and folk songs.
Gypsy music would have been a very different style as it was largely Eastern European in flavor while most pirates that people think of were English, Dutch, and French with an occasional... | {
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What is the historical viewpoint on homosexuality? | Well, monogamy is discussed in another thread on here, but the categories of "heterosexual" and "homosexual" are inventions. The places to start are Michel Foucault, *The History of Sexuality*, and Thomas Lacquer, *Making Sex.* Foucault's is the earlier, more theoretical, more philosophical work; Lacquer's is the more ... | {
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What did the Ottoman empire campaign for in the Berlin West African Conference? | According to Henk Wesseling's book on the subject, they were invited to the conference just for show, together with other nations such as Austria-Hungary and Sweden. The original conference were only to touch three points concerning West Africa, none that truly concerned the Ottoman Empire. From what I can read, they d... | {
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Who was Che Guevara really? | Che was like almost all revolutionaries, a Knight Templar.
He truly believed in a revolution of the people, the idea of communism, and the building up of the laboring classes of Latin America. He had spent his youth traveling and seeing how the lower classes were being exploited and marginalized, he saw the corruptio... | {
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Why was Berlin capital of Germany after the Unification? | Berlin became the seat of the Prussian King and the Prussian capital when in 1701 the [Elector of Brandenburg] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I_of_Prussia) gained the title *König in Preussen* ("King in Prussia"). | {
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Who Is The Main Contemporary Historian of Hadrian? | The sad truth is, there is none (at least none that I am aware of). He wrote an autobiography, of which only a letter directed at Antoninus Pius, his successor, as introduction survives.
The relevant book (the 69th) from Cassius Dio (writing from the 3rd century) only survives in fragments and excerpts by byzantine m... | {
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I remember hearing about a guy who invented malleable glass. When he showed it to the Roman Emperor, the Emperor had him killed immediately. Anyone else hear of this story? | [This might be of interest](http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00915FA395412738DDDA80B94DB405B828CF1D3)(PDF)
Also, there is this story regarding aluminum
>*The Roman historian Pliny, who lived between AD. 23 and 79, relates how a certain worker in metals appeared at the palace, bringing to the Empe... | {
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How important was the American Revolution of the late 18th century? | It's certainly overshadowed by French Revolution but I wouldn't say it's treated as a side-note. For example, here in Poland it's part of high/middle school, with the emphasis on US constitution and government (Polish national hero Kosciuszko being involved might have helped though). | {
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Why does Argentina care so much about the Falklands? | Las islas Malvinas has always been considered to belong to Argentina, despite the fact that there are no actual Argentinians living on it. See it as a question of nationalism (particularly put forward in force by the dictatorship in Argentina and Leopaldo Galtieri, dictator and general of Argentina in 1982).
The newly... | {
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Italian Telescopic Gunsight Information | Damn, this is a tough one. As Italian tanks tended to be a bit smaller than usual, they were often fitted with guns of a smaller calibre.
This especially was the case with the L6/40. It's main armament, the Breda 35, was an anti-aircraft gun which typically used a telescopic sight (http://tinyurl.com/7689jj8). Images... | {
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How bad was the Vietnam War comparatively? | I think we need to go down to a grassroot level with this to see it out of a proper perspective.
The American soldier in the Vietnam War had to constantly go out on patrol, something called "humping the boonies" and it was the most common thing for an infantryman to do. No matter if you were on the countryside or in t... | {
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How much did the fall of Constantinople impact/lead to the renaissance? | When the Renaissance started is a much debated issue and heavily depends on interpretation of the facts. I dont really know if the Fall of Constantinople let to an exodus of teachers and learned people, but the proces that we call the Renaissance was already set in motion before 1453. The Renaissance is a period or pro... | {
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I understand the Islamic golden age was from 750 to the 1200's. Why did it end? Gengis Khan? | CogitoNM has a point when they mention the shift in philosophy from Itjihad and broader research and cultural approaches to a more conservative approach based on historical precedent and relative religious conservatism, but they left out the reasons for this shift.
It is my understanding that the sack of Baghdad by th... | {
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How did the US gain naval dominance over long standing naval powers? | Cash, and being the last man standing.
By the 1920's and 1930's England couldn't afford to rule the waves any more. The cost of maintaining a huge fleet took up a significant proportion of their military budget during a huge economic downturn. Of course England always viewed their power through this phrase, "The Eng... | {
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Why did Eisenhower initially lie about the U-2 incident? | Ike's biographer simply calls his insistence on secrecy and denial of the U2 program a fetish. Ike thought Powers had followed orders and had taken the suicide pill after setting aircraft's demolition charge. The idea was that the cover story of a weather research flight would actually work, though Khrushchev delayed t... | {
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Good places to learn the history of China online? | You might find Jonathan Spence a good starting point. His "Search for Modern China" is one of the standard college texts in use. There are some good lectures up here, to start you off:
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2008/]
There's also a lot of good content on the UCSD Modern China website, but a lot of it is qu... | {
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The Profitability of American Slavery | That is a great question but it's also an enormous one. I'm currently reading a book which centers heavily on the economics of slavery just in VA and SC and just during the 18th century, and it's almost 700 pages. In other words, for a great answer you might have to do some reading.
The short version, as best I can re... | {
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Did western Imperialism destroy non-western nations and prospects to achieve prosperity and freedom? | Bit of a loaded question, but no, no they did not.
Here is why.
First, let's go ahead and assume that "Western Nations" applies to essentially Europe and North America above the Rio Grande. Now that we know who we are referring to when describing Imperialism, we can go from there.
The answer is, clearly no, as ev... | {
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How much did the industrial revolution in Great Britain affect the balance of power in the world? | It gave Britain a tremendous economic advantage, allowing Britain to build a much larger industrial base than other nations. However, there are some issues that need to be untangled regarding your question of the global balance of power.
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Alcohol through the ages | Even societies that are known for their consumption of alcohol (Ireland,Britain, Germany, even the US) have attempted to prohibit drinking in certain places, drinking certain kinds of alcohol, or during certain ceremonies/occasions. What I find most interesting about the consumption of alcohol through history is not ne... | {
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Good Introductions to the Etruscans | [Here's](http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20110929-1115a.mp3) the BBC podcast from "In Our Time," you might look up the names of the contributors on JSTOR or other databases for their publications.
They are Phil Perkins of the Open University, David Ridgway of the University of London and Corinna Riv... | {
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How many epicycles in total did Ptolemy's model of the universe have? | Epicycles were only needed to explain the retrograde motion of planets. There were five planets in the Ptolemaic system that rotated around Earth; therefore, there were five epicycles. | {
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During the Apartheid Era, was South Africa a total single party state, or were some minor opposition parties allowed? | Under Apartheid non-white populations in South Africa where brutally and systematically oppressed by the white minority regime. However, some semblance of democracy was maintained among the white population throughout the Apartheid period.
The right to vote was largely restricted to whites, but frequent elections wher... | {
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The Ottoman "Decline" | I've got two books that may help you:
*The Middle East Today* by Don Peretz. It's a fairly thick read but the first half of the book explains the Ottoman political system and how the various Middle East nations were carved from its remains.
*The Ottoman Empire: 1700-1922* by Donald Quataert. | {
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Was there more air pollution during the height of the industrial revolution in America, or the America today? | Per capita, it was higher then, by miles. In the 19th century, EVERYONE burned either wood or coal to heat their homes and run their businesses. Today, we have a variety of much cleaner-burning fuels, more efficient engines, and measures that reduce smoke. Measures like the Clean Air Act have reduced particulates by re... | {
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Did the Holy Roman Empire seriously considered themselves to be "Roman"? | Wikipedia can help you with this:
> The term sacrum (i.e., "holy") in connection with the medieval Roman Empire was used from 1157, under Frederick I Barbarossa.[4] The term was added to reflect Frederick's ambition to dominate Italy and the Papacy.[5] Before 1157, the realm was merely referred to as the Roman Empi... | {
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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Well, for one, RTK is a historical novel. The historical version is the Records of the Three Kingdoms (san guo yan yi vs. san guo zhi).
Basically, I don't have on hand a list of all the fictionalized/dramatized stories (there are way, way, way too many), but somethings that are really important and key are:
a) Peach ... | {
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Can anyone explain the monetary issues in the US during the late 19th century? | I took a few classes dealing with the American economy around that period so here's what I know.
First, silver was promoted among the populists because there was more of it. At the time that US dollar was based on the gold standard. Now as time went on, gold became more valuable and so did the dollar.
In connection, ... | {
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How did EU countries switch instantly from their old currencies to the Euro? | Though the proces itself took many years to construct, the change from Gulden to the Euro happend on one day.
This is long ago, I was like 10 or 11. so I dont know everything about it anymore. I remember we all, everyone in the Netherlands, got a package which contained one coin of each coin, as a gift. The old curre... | {
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How long have humans considered flatulence funny? | Body humor, and especially fart humor, is universal and timeless.
[Here's a good book on the subject.](http://www.amazon.com/Who-Cut-Cheese-Cultural-History/dp/1580080111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328903430&sr=1-1) | {
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Need a recommendation for a short piece on antebellum politics, abolition, and slavery. | That much info in that small of a space is a tall order, but I have an idea or two for you.
1) If you want a straight shot (i.e. boring) solution, I checked out my bookshelf and found James McPherson's "Ordeal by Fire: The Coming of War" Volume 1, Third edition. It's in more of a textbook style, so it'll have top-down... | {
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Two part question. | I'll try to answer the first part of your question.
Every civilization had to deal with economic issues. So you can find economic thinking in the records of every ancient civilization. For example the Egyptians and Babylonians had to develop sophisticated administrative apparatuses including systems of measurements, l... | {
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The (Napoleonic) Laws of War - any formal documents? | At the time I believe there was a fairly well developed *philosophy* of the laws of war. However, law here refers to a law of nature, not a law between states. For more on this philosophy you should read up on Hugo Grotius, who is regarded as the father of international law and specifically focused on the laws of war. ... | {
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Someone told me recently that the UK is the only country to have ever paid off an entire national debt is this true? | Nope, Andrew Jackson paid of the entire national debt in the United States. (Not entire but down to 32,000 dollars which is about 2 million in today's money)
Also as your question implies, they paid off the debts of the very expensive napoleonic wars, not necessarily the existing debt. | {
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Roman salute | I have not actually ever seen this discussed in secondary literature, nor have I discussed it in the field.
[Here](http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat.html?func=view&catid=20&id=299979&view=entrypage) is a discussion (that I cannot verify for its accuracy) that includes some places to look for primary source... | {
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Opinion top 10 of Events from 1895-1919. | If you wanted to narrow down WWI into something a little more manageable the Treaty of Versailles would be a good choice. It did have pretty drastic consequences with regards to interwar Europe, the Rise of Nazism in Germany and the outbreak of WWII.
My other suggestion would be the Russian Revolution and the rise of ... | {
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The Study Of History In The Past, What About The Future? | I think what you're describing would be called 'cultural history' rather than 'pop history'. 'Pop' history tends to bring to mind popular history as opposed to academic or scholarly history. If you're talking about cultural history, then I think you're right in that there are many more historians working on it today th... | {
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How many states were involved in the Civil War? | States' loyalties get a bit messy. Officially speaking, eleven states (TX, SC, NC, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, VA, TN, AR) actually seceded from the Union. Additionally, Missouri saw a lot of infighting but didn't officially secede.
However, as Missouri clearly shows, the official choice of a state over secession didn't refle... | {
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Is The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant considered a good telling of history? | You should definitely buy it. It's considered one of the great works of the 20th century.
Understand that the discipline of history is constantly changing, and these books are 50 years old or so. The scholarship has moved on, but there are few historians who are *great* storytellers. Durant was one. | {
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A brief contrasting analysis of technological and cultural development In occidental and oriental worlds through history | Erm... is this a question? | {
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Hey fellow historians, how many of you are about to take MA comprehensive exams or DQEs?How have you been studying? What keeps you going? | My PhD exams were over four days. Five hours on day one for the major field, then three each on two, three and four for the minors. They sucked. A very difficult week.
My prep consisted of a lot of reading (duh,) but for me, note-taking worked well. After I processed a book, I'd write out two or three sentences summar... | {
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Why did the Founding Fathers of America choose a plurality voting system? | I'm dodging your question because I don't know the precise answer. I don't care much about third parties, but I do agree we could have a much better system (IRV with batch elimination would be a nice start). I re-read Federalist 10 yesterday. I'm not sure that Madison would consider our system today a 2 party system. I... | {
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Can r/AskHistorians recommend some reading on differences between Tycho Brahe's and Copernicus's planetary systems? | Followup: What official text did Brahe present his astronomical theory in? | {
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Was Rodrigo Borgia as terrible a pope as everyone says? | The key thing to understand is that he was a person, and had all the depth and imperfections of a human being. Think about, say, George Bush. He has a very mixed legacy because there were some things he did really well, and some things he did very poorly.
Rodrigo Borgia was extremely decadent, to be sure, but he also ... | {
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Why didn't NATO intervene when the Warsaw pact nations invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia? | Because they didn't want to start a WW3. | {
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What is / was a "stencil list"? | I did a search on google books for "stencil list". It appears to be a set of cards, with one address per card. Then, the stack of cards is used to quickly put the addresses onto an envelopes using some kind of small printing machine.
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What can history tell us about societies that are so accepting of violence, and so unaccepting of sex? | First off, history does not repeat, it at best rhymes. So always take history with a grain of salt when trying to apply it to the present. America is not as puritanical as people make it out to be, there are far more puritanical countries in the world than the U.S. Also, the same standards that apply to American fil... | {
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What did the French do (actual or perceived) to make the Americans and British feel they were ungrateful for their efforts in WWII? | Sibling Rivalry over the 900 years before WWII (England/France)
Vichy France. (Collaboration in general)
Charles de Gaulle and his relations with the allied leaders.(The history of this guys relationship with the UK/US in the years after the war are enough on it's own)
French unreliable allies after the war. (NATO)
I... | {
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Are there any good resources for stories behind the gifts received by British kings and queens? | Dunno about a list of gifts specifically but the royal collection has a website here http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=11 which includes gifts to the monarchy | {
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Why did most of the North American fauna and flora disappear 10.000 years ago? | The extinctions of most megafauna in North America, and on other continents including Australia and Europe, is known to coincide with the arrival of a new species in those regions. This new species is highly versatile in terms of the habitats it can live in, and is also widely omnivorous. It is believed to have acted a... | {
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Why didn't Austria Industrialize to the extent of other countries? | This is a very good question indeed, and it has a bit of an explanation to it.
To understand the industrialization of nations in Europe there are several key things that we must identify when it comes to each nation, that is, the political environment, popular philosophy, resources and most importantly the French Rev... | {
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After JFK was assassinated, how long did the first family continue living in the White House? | I don't know what the precedent/rules are, but according to Wikipedia, [they lived in the White House for two weeks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Kennedy#Life_following_the_JFK_assassination) before vacating. | {
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Books on Soviet Tactics in the Second World War | Luckily this article is available as a free download:
"Stalingrad and the Evolution of Soviet Urban Warfare" by David R. Stone
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13518040902918089
Also, try the following:
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Did smilodon (Saber Tooth Cat) have stripes? | that might be more an [/r/askscience](/r/askscience) question. | {
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Do you know of any videos about Industrialization, the worker or immigration in the U.S. after the Civil War? | Uh... how soon after the civil war? Are you talking the late 19th Century or something in the early 20th?
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Who were the Assyrians-Chaldeans? | There is actually an enormous amount to say about the Assyrians.
The name Assyrian comes from the city Assur(or Ashur) which was the earliest capitol of the Assyrian state. (perhaps as early as 2400 BC). Ancient Assur was located near the site of the modern Iraqi city of Mosul. Ashur was also the name of the cheif dei... | {
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WWII, this may have been asked a million times about Operation Barbarossa. | The treaty you're talking about was the [Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact), and was signed in August 1939. If my school is the same as others, it is sometimes taught as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, though this is not really the most accurate name. The pact was named after the two m... | {
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What's the main reason the US were defeated in Vietnam? | I'm going to totally disagree with yep45's explanation, though I admit that his is the orthodox opinion. The problem with it, in my mind, is that it perpetuates the basic narrative of WWII without recognizing the way the world changed and with added political implications.
The "lesson" that the US took away from WWII ... | {
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Why were the Sudeten Germans so unsatisfied with being part of Czechoslovakia? | >Were they discriminated against, or was the reason just nationalism (stemming from historical anomosity)? Given that such a vast majority of the Sudeten Germans supported the Nazi party (over 90% if I remember correctly from school), there must surely have been discrimination that turned even the less nationalist-m... | {
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How did America become a world power so quickly | The quick answer is the rapid rise of big business and the innovations they made in efficiency. You had men like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt who took the concept of an economy of scale to an extreme. The US economic policy at this point was Laissez Faire, so companies could become huge quick without worryin... | {
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How did the Middle East end up being so fucked up? And has it always been this destructive? | EDIT: A lot of people are streaming in and I just want to say (as others, elsewhere have said) that you should take this with a grain of salt. By no means is it a complete answer, and in many ways respects its quite a glancing version of history
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Before we start we have to define the Middle East. Let's take it to ... | {
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"Worldology" | Finns are Scandinavians. Finland is considered to be a part of Scandinavia. I am Swedish, so I should know.
Also, I do see some inaccuracies such as claiming that Algeria got its independence in 1960 (it was 1962), that the Spanish Civil War lasted between 1931 and 1939 (36-39) as well that the Irish War of Independen... | {
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Why did the North Koreans not choose to revolt during and after the event of the N.K. Famine? | They blamed others for it ~ specifically they blame the United States. The North Korean propaganda machine is strong and has instilled in the heads of the populace that the American imperialists are out to get North Korea and are responsible for even the smallest things such as lights flickering. The cult of Kim Il Sun... | {
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How hard is it to become a college or highschool history professor? | College - hard. You'll need to have a PhD. Which will require 5 years of grad school, wherein you'll have to write a publishable book.
High school - not hard at all. Public schools will require a teaching Master's. Don't do Teach for America, everyone ends up hating it. | {
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Seeking r/AskHumanities Panel/Subscribers! | So the difference between r/AskHumanities and r/AskHistorians is that the former creates an environment for an interdisciplinary answer(s)? | {
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Looking for sound or video footage of anti-immigration speeches, demonstrations, and propaganda from roughly around the time of WWII. | I'm afraid I don't know of any video clips, but I have some posters, do they interest you?
http://i.imgur.com/7U0bT.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCTE3KDAjw | {
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How much news coverage (in the U.S.) did the secessions and wars in the former Yugoslavia get in the early 1990s? | There was coverage but in blurbs that mostly left people confused.
An example of it that I have is funny but it's the best I can do. In the movie Clueless, there is a scene in which the guy is watching the news and it is about the war in Bosnia. Sadly I don't have proof. I tried to find it but searching youtube f... | {
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How was depression seen in the past? | Check out sloth on Wikipedia. Depression in medieval Europe was viewed as a sign of lack of faith or religious vigor, hence sinful... | {
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Why has America evolved into such a conservative country? | There used to be a much more open radical movement in the United States, but it really started to fall away after the great strike of 1877, the Haymarket Riot, Homestead strike, etc. in the late 1800s when leftist radicalism became associated with violent, lawless anarchists.
This trend continued through the 20th cent... | {
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What are the cardinal rules of historical methodology? | Always read sources against the grain, look for what's unsaid, what's assumed, often the silence and the assumptions can tell you as much as what is present.
Always be aware of who your source is in dialogue with, no text is created in a vacuum, everyone has an audience, most people are arguing against someone, ofte... | {
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How did the Diadochi levy their armies? | Well it's been awhile since I've studied this but here it goes. There were many different systems depending on the satrapies they controlled but mainly it was of two types. One was based on the core of Greek and Macedonian settlers, who were given land in exchange for military service. The elite 'silver shields' phalan... | {
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What were the logistics of dealing with casualties in ancient and medieval battles? And how accurate are the Total War games? | There were no nurses pulling wounded soldiers off the field of battle. More often than not soldiers were left where they fell and at times it took days for them to die if they were not discovered by their own side after the battle or killed by their enemies if they weren't worth attempting to save. Depending on the t... | {
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Papers that discuss the history of left politics in America | The history of the left in US labor politics is quite long and interesting. I could rattle off at least 100 titles, most of which I've actually read. Many of which I've taught.
If you'd like to start with a couple of the more well-known books, start with:
Salvatore, *Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist.*
Halpern... | {
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A few question to a Historian, if you will. | With (probably) very different location and job market, I can't say a lot about first two. However, I'm currently teaching in elementary school while working on my PhD. Job market is tough, and without a good number of publishes I don't think PhD would help much.
As for interest in World War 2 - many people get into e... | {
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Can someone please explain what exactly the Final Solution was? | Sorry, but we're not here to do your homework for you. That's what [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution) is for. | {
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When polygamy was common, were there just a lot of single guys? | A lot of men would die in war or in what we would refer to today as industrial accidents. Mining is pretty dangerous, as is hunting, tending to livestock, etc. Thus, you'd have a "surplus" of women. | {
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Why was John W. Burgess a supporter of imperialism? | I commented on this in your other thread, but I'll add my thoughts here so to promote discussion if anybody has additional information for you.
I'm not an expert on the Spanish-American War nor am I an expert on the Philippine War. I also lack any academic intimacy with John Burgess.
That said, according to Foster Rh... | {
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Some advice would be most appreciated. | Dude, MUN crisis committees always, and I mean ALWAYS go off the rails like crazy. You don't need any real advice. I gavelled several times (UCLA, Cal, Irvine, oh the mid 2000s) and one time I managed to sneak a cell phone into the neighboring cabinet and had their entire discussions channeled to us. Another time we su... | {
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How did Japan's modern censorship laws come to be? | I posted about this on Reddit 5 years ago:
http://www.reddit.com/comments/8heo/tentacle_porn_and_other_seldomly_answered/c8i9y
I wouldn't use that snarky tone today, but basically, yes, censorship laws were created in response to heavy criticism from Christians about Japanese "barbarism". Christian missionaries organ... | {
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How Did Accents Develop? | You probably want to ask this question in /r/linguistics. | {
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Historical basis for wicca/paganism? | Much of what we know about ancient wicca/paganism (witch craft) comes from things like the [Malleus Maleficarum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum), and other treaties on superstitions and folk lore. Of course by this period of time Christianity was pretty firmly in place in Europe so much of what would... | {
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I need your help regarding George Kennan's Long Telegram | It would seem likely that this might have come from a Comintern meeting. The big one that year was the "World Congress Against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism". This might be the source as the Soviet Union essentially ran the Comintern and its possible that Stalin attended to give some speeches. I would start l... | {
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Why is the Iberian peninsula the way it is today? | You should start by reading the Wikipedia pages on Spain and Portugual, and the pages on Spanish and Portuguese. There's a good summary of the last thousand-plus years of history there.
Here's what I picked up in a few minutes of reading:
1) A lot of Iberia was controlled by Muslims in the Middle Ages.
2) The Cathol... | {
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What did ancient/medieval battles look like? | Ok, well, you have to go back to the beginning.
The first battles between villages and small cities were probably fought by fewer than a couple hundred men at most, sometimes not even that many. You would often just meet up in a field or be ambushed in the woods on the way to raiding the other village and fought from... | {
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Why are there different languages? | Ok, so, aside from this being better posted in [/r/linguistics](/r/linguistics) its a tough one.
~~You see, man thought he could build a tower to reach the heavens in an act of hubris. God looked down on them in anger at their arrogance, and he then struck the tower down, scattered them to the four corners of the ear... | {
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Was Japan as polite of a society before / during WWII? | I don't know if it's valid to judge a culture on the actions of its army and fascist military leaders... It's sort of a special situation. In addition, the [Empire of Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_japan) was a different nation than the current Japan. The current Japan does not maintain a standing army a... | {
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"post_permalink": "/r/AskHistorians/comments/pu1fw/was_japan_as_polite_of_a_society_before_duri... |
Where and when did the term "White Slavery" come into use. | I don't know when it entered the lexicon, but generally it refers to the ca. 1.5 million Christian slaves within the mediterranean slave trade during the early modern period. I was often used to evoke the savagery of the "Turks" or other non-Christian groups who owned them. See [the Arab slave trade](http://en.wikipedi... | {
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How Did the DDR and USSR Justify the Berlin Wall? | I think this question aims at the propagandistic explanation for walling in the country I was born and lived in for 2 years before it vanished.
The "official" name of the wall (in German: "Mauer") was "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall" (something like antifascist protective barrier). The fascists in this case, derived fr... | {
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Native American Epidemic | *Could there have been a situation where Native Americans were separated from the impact of disease?*
**Short answer, No.**
The entire motivation for making the journey across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was to have contact and trade. [This means that diseases were traded back and forth between the two](http://ww... | {
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Why is Reagan considered to be the greatest (or at least most popular) president of modern time? | He is?? | {
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Was Stalinism a continuation of Leninism? Was Stalinism or Trotskyism more like Leninism? | There are advocates for both the idea that "Stalinism", or Stalinist policies, were a continuation of what Lenin began, and there are those that disagree. The former was usually lumped together with the 'totalitarian school' during the Cold War while the latter were the 'revisionists'. Considering the information tha... | {
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"post_permalink": "/r/AskHistorians/comments/pvmwo/was_stalinism_a_continuation_of_leninism_was/"... |
What were the military tactics of your average Eastern Front battle in WWII? | This is not my area, but I think your question is far too vague. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there were several variations considering what section of the front it was, who was in command, what battle it was, what the overall situation was and also what period in the war it was. | {
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How did the Ancient Celts maintain health and hygiene? | They had no sewage systems, because for the large part they had no cities. There were some proto-urban areas like Bibracte, but it wasn't a city on a Mediterranean scale. I suspect that the lack of urbanism went a long way towards protecting their health. | {
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