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The Mongol Empire's domestic policy. | My speciality is the Ilkhanate, which was founded by Chinggiz Khans grandson Hulegu after the fall of Baghdad in 1258 and the death of his brother, the Grand Khan, Mongke in 1259.
To begin with, as has been noted elsewhere in this thread, the later stages of the Mongol conquests were not as bloody as was reported at t... | {
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How did Australian society change in the 1920s? | Essay question, huh? | {
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Flour in the middle ages | I think they stored grain rather than flour. Flour is harder to store. Some people stored hard bread instead, but I've never heard of british hard bread so I don't know.
The farms didn't usually have their own mill, so yes, then went to the miller every once in a while to get grain milled.
Unrelated but interesting,... | {
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Finding new sources of information. | Obviously, JSTOR is a good way to get more sources. Also, it depends on your topic. I wrote a lot about British Imperialism and a lot of the primary sources are now in London and India so I wound up in London for a bit, even though I wasn't studying abroad. | {
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Can anyone recommend a good book about Iraq under Saddam Hussein? | It is rather dry, but a good overview for the history of Iraq (I believe covering Saddam, least he was on the cover >.>) is *A History of Iraq* by Charles Tripp. | {
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What was daily life like in the People's Republic of Hungary circa 1960? | Hungary at this time - after the 1956 revolution - was on the way to become the "happiest barrack in the communist camp".
This was the era of the so called Goulash Communism: [Wikipedia] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash_Communism).
It was also the time of the "Nagy generacio" (Big Generation), a kind of cultural ... | {
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What has been the role of religion in Italian education and politics in the last 50 years? | I can tell you how it is now as seen by a young Italian.
The Italian state is secular, and so is the public education. There is a religion hour in school, but you do whatever religion you are part of (or none). Religions recognized by the state are taxed like non-profits (ie they pretty much aren't).
In politics, it'... | {
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When and (why) did long hair become fashionable for women? | long hair is the default, unless you have tools to cut it, it will grow
also long hair is a liability in a fight, so if you are likely to get in a fight you might want it at least short enough to prevent an opponent to get a grip | {
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A question about ancient Egypt. | At first, only those who could afford the complete process and were of sufficient status did have themselves mummified. Those that did not still paid for the best tombs that they could, and hoped that the climate would do what it could. For example, [in the cemetery for the craftsmen who worked on the pyramids](http://... | {
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I'm having a hard time understanding Thomas Jefferson- he seems to be too complex to fit into any modern, easy to understand stereotype. So, who was he? | He could be naive, backstabbing (just ask John Adams), hypocritical, petulant, arrogant, inspiring, thoughtful, shrewd, populist, a polymath, non-corporate (banker), virtuous, republican.
(I'm a John Adams person, so he isn't my favorite founding father...neither is Alexander Hamilton, but I respect his amazing abilit... | {
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Information on B-52's? | "The Air Force" edited by James McCarthy has some information on the B-52 as it relates to SAC and nuclear policy. For technical information I'd get a Jane's aircraft book. Otherwise take a look on JSTOR.
Lastly, I don't think you could call the B-52 a revolution in war fighting. More like the apex of conventional str... | {
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Hey /r/atheism! I have an essay on the inquisition due tomorrow... Help? [xpost from r/Atheism] | It was not nearly as extensive, or as bad, as popular culture gives it. Modern perception largely stems from animosity between the Spanish and the English at the time. That would probably be a more interesting perspective than yet another "Religious Intolerance! Bad! Bad!"
Not that it wasn't bad, of course. | {
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How did Naval battles work before gunpowder was invented? | According to David Nicolle in his book Medieval Warfare Source Book:Christian Europe and its Neighbors pp 208-210.
* Chinese ships of the Tang period had stone throwing artillery, and most marines were armed with crossbows.
* In 1363, during the Poyang campaign one chinese faction fielded 3-decked ships, with palisade... | {
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History on Punk Rock of the 1970s; Social or Cultural Historians | A fellow grad student with me did her dissertation on feminism and GenX and spent a lot of time at the zines archive at Duke University. Her dissertation is available through ohiolink ([Generation X and the Invention of a Third Feminist Wave [electronic resource] by Elizabeth Ann Bly](http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search~S0... | {
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Can one of you distinguished historians recommend a decisive biography of Thomas Jefferson? | For an exhaustive biography- Duma Malone wrote a [six volume series on Jefferson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumas_Malone#Career). This was over the course of a few decades.
But I also back up eternalkerri:
American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis.
Also Jefferson has plenty of published primary documents that can add to... | {
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So tell me about Thomas More? | In literary terms, I tend to favour the *Wolf Hall* interpretation over the *Man for All Seasons* approach (though don't use these as official references for obvious reasons)
Essentially, that he was a man of principle, and lovely to his daughter, but a sanctimonious, pious self-important man who was out of touch with... | {
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What kind of condiments were available in the Ist century AD in Eastern-Europe? | [This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum) | {
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In your travels, what do you think is the most "populated" portion of history? (By historians) | I can only speak from an American perspective but so far as I've seen, the Cold War and the American Civil War era are both highly saturated. The Cold War (in my experience) because of society's large desire, before the fall of the USSR, to understand what the hell was scaring everyone so much. This ironically has depr... | {
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Which war/conflict prior to WWI was seen most similarly to how we see WWII today; the subject most talked about, the biggest tragedy ever, and that humanity should never come close to committing such acts again? | It would likely be the Napoleonic Wars. I am not sure that it was ever discussed in the exact terms you suggest, but it certainly was the first modern conflict involving mass army's and massive death tolls. Furthermore it is after this that we see the Pax Brittanica. | {
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Where did the shape of the heart come from? And why do we associate it with the emotion of love? | I've read that it's based on the shape of a woman's buttocks & thighs when she bends over.
~~(Sorry, I'm on my mobile at the moment, so I can't link to sources. But the Wikipedia article on "Heart (symbol)" mentions this possible origin among other.)~~
EDIT: Here's a link to [the Wikipedia article about the heart... | {
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Why did the military operations of Russia in Afghanistan go so poorly while the U.S. military incursion seem to go so well? | I don't think anyone would argue that the United States has had an easy time of it in Afghanistan. After all, just a year ago (9 years after American troops invaded, interestingly enough...) there was still a huge US troop commitment, and heavy fighting taking place in several regions. While some of those soldiers have... | {
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What caused Africa to be decolonized so suddenly and haphazardly by multiple European powers? | Your question makes it sound like Africa was decolonized unilaterally from the European side. That's definitely not so. At the same time, it's a really complicated issue with different reasons for every colony.
North Africa - The treatment of North Africa under the French (I'm thinking Algeria, mostly, but also Tunisi... | {
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What were sleep schedules like in pre-industrial societies? | I think the theory you are refering to is one commonly put forth, but most evident in the work of Roger Ekirch, who has written a book relating to to this topic called At Day's Close: Night in Times Past. He states that in the preindustrial era, before modern electric lighting, people segemented their sleep patterns in... | {
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Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in 1979? | I don't have much to add here, but Soviet/Russians had wanted Afghanistan/Central Asia since Catherine the Great, it wasn't some spur of the moment decision. | {
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In your opinion, what is the best primer or introductory book in your field? | Well, despite my tag saying 20th Century War, I'm far better at Caribbean pirate/privateer history.
[Under the Black Flag](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081297722X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000PS6Z38&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0EW9GN... | {
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Why did Spain never take over Portugal? | Uh yeah. They did. After Battle of Alcácer Quibir resulted in the death of Sebastian I of Portugal, Spain controlled the throne of Portugal for the next 60 years. After that, John IV of Portugal, Duke of Braganza revolted and brought the house of Braganza to the throne.
Also, Napoleonic Wars. The British were fighting... | {
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Looking for good textbooks regarding Asian History | There are two standard books on China:
China: A New History--by John Fairbank. This is probably the most well known one. It is well written, but passes over the pre-Qing history far too quickly. Still, it gives a good baseline, just don't expect any narrative.
A History of Chinese Civilization--Jaques Gernet. Somewha... | {
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What ends slave economies? | You're right, Christianity wasn't the only reason slaves became less prevalent in Rome. Economics, social and military reasons played a part.
With Roman military expansion starting to slow, especially when compared to the size of the Roman population, less slaves were being captured to sell. And since Roman citizens c... | {
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Who was the most evil person to ever walk the Earth? | Wow, that is entirely subjective.
Well, let's go ahead and frame it in universal modern moral terms: unnecessary killing, narcissistic pursuit of power, imposing of abnormal values upon groups of people, racist/classist/gender/sexual divisions amplified to an unusual degree, xenophobic behavior.
From there we can ma... | {
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Japanese Conquests of Korea | I suppose you are talking about the Imijin War or aka Seven Years War during the 16th century? The Koreans did poorly ON LAND against the Japanese for several reasons.
1st. Most of the Korean military forces were militias, that were primarily trained to defend fortresses from foreign invaders. Koreans at the time didn... | {
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Help me become politically & historically learnèd... looking for book recommendations on Middle Eastern conflict/history. | For a better understanding of current issues in the Middle East, I would recommend Roger Owens, *State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East*.
This book was used for a History of the Modern Middle East class I T.A.ed for a few semesters ago. Owens is considered an expert in this field and this bo... | {
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Historians of Reddit. Help settle a dinner debate about the Irish Diaspora. Were they farmers? | They were both farmers *and* city dwellers, yet mostly city dwellers.
Many of the Irish did move off to rural areas of the North East and Old NorthWest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.) mostly, but they also largely stayed in the cities. These immigrants went on to become the stereotypical Irish railroad worker, Irish cop... | {
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Book/online resource request for learning historical evolution of technology and culture | If you have specific interests in the History of Technology I would be happy to suggest things. Most of the very broad histories of technology I find to be severely lacking and I have little patience for these books that attempt to apply a sweeping theme to the technological history of a whole era.
For example if you ... | {
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How chaotic, if at all, was the process of writing a letter or sending a message to someone in a different country in the 19th century and earlier? | Here's a tidbit from getting mail back from the exploration expeditions in the late 1700s and early 1800s back from, say, Africa, or at least Mungo Park did this when he set out looking for the Niger and many others under Joseph Banks did the same. On the back of these letters, they'd say that whoever delivered this ba... | {
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How accurate are Dan Brown's books? | It's been a few years and I only have read the DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons.
That being said, they struck me as having *some* accurate historical facts, but pretty much all the overarching analysis of history is dubious at best. That being said, I don't think the author was going for anything more than some accu... | {
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Were Roman legions reinforced to replace casualties? | Ok, So there are a couple of answers here.
Short answer is yes, the legions were constantly conscripting new recruits, for most of the Empire this would be on a volunteer basis, as it is in the US now, however in times of crisis there could be forced conscription. They were also constantly conscripting Non-roman citi... | {
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Andrew Jackson and Indians | Well at the time, it looked as though Andrew Jackson was a savior to the people who were living in the territories in the south (modern day Mississippi and Alabama). Jackson went through the territory and pretty much slaughtered the Creeks after the Fort Mims massacre (just north of present day Mobile). Some of the Cr... | {
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Stalin's purges - military question. | It is my understanding that the purges were much less religiously motivated than they were ideologically motivated. Stalin was famously paranoid, and anyone who gained too much power, or spoke against him even in the slightest was sent to the Gulags or worse. The fact that some of these who died in the purges happened ... | {
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How come women came to need equal rights, rather than the other way around? | This is an anthropology question and there may be a subreddit for that. However, relevant is that there have been quite a few matriarchal societies. I don't think that there has ever been an actual "Amazon" society where men are systematically repressed, but several Native American culture, for example, could broadly b... | {
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Why did the Guild system collapse? | Simple answer: emergence of routinized labor in a factory. Call it Taylorization, [division of labor,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour) or whatever you like, it was the change from craft control of labor to factory-based production that ended most guilds.
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"[...] In the 13th century you have more direct ancesters that there have ever been [...]" -- Stephen Fry, QI | [this](http://www.youtube.com/user/C0nc0rdance?feature=g-u-u#p/u/39/ZrKrGkgeww4) is a good video that talks about it, specifically how it relates to the concept of race.
[this](http://www.youtube.com/user/C0nc0rdance?feature=g-u-u#p/u/35/jyknbCLys_8) and [this](http://www.youtube.com/user/C0nc0rdance?feature=g-u-u#p/u... | {
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Book Recommendation on the Orange Revolution in Ukraine | I coincidentally just came across a book on the Orange Revolution while doing research for a seminar paper on post-communist Ukraine. There aren't too many books on it, but the one I found is [Orange Revolution and Aftermath: Mobilization, Apathy, and the State in Ukraine](http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Revolution-After... | {
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If the USA had joined the axis, would Germany have won WWII? | Why don't you, at the very least, waste your time thinking up semi-plausible scenarios? | {
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EDL wonk is maintaining that Muslims did not fight on the side of the Allies in either world war. | A quick link to anything about Lawrence of Arabia would probably be handy! | {
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How will history remember George W. Bush? | Too soon to say, in my view. I'm no professional historian, but IMO it generally takes at least a few decades (3 or 4) to be able to properly evaluate the impact of a leader and contextualise his/her role in history. I would say that other than the very obvious and immediate impacts of Thatcherism and Reaganism, it is ... | {
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Was Hitler Funded? | The US and Britain did support Hitler for a while in the '30s in the hopes that fascism would be a bulwark in Europe against the spread of communism. (The US, Britain, and Nazi Germany also all jointly funded Franco during the Spanish Civil War to help his fascist army defeat the opposition anarchist, republican, and c... | {
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What do you think of William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"? | >However, I'm curious about the author's claim that (in the words of Wikipedia, which are more succinct that I could be) "Hitler’s ascension to power was an expression of German national character, not an expression of the totalitarianism in ideologic vogue during the 1930s" and "that German history logically procee... | {
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Book on history of Middle Eastern conflicts? | I dunno about US specifically, but the ['The Peace to End All Peace'](http://www.amazon.com/Peace-End-All-Ottoman-Creation/dp/0805068848) by David Fromkin is one of the best introductory pieces about the creation of the modern Middle East and the decisive role the West, Primarily the United Kingdom and France, played i... | {
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What were the most important socio-political effects of the Little Ice Age? | You gotta be more specific. The Little Ice Age lasted from the Middle Ages to the Victorian Era and you'd expect that for such a long period of time, with specific dips in temperature, great changes have happened.
The demise of the Greenland colony was certainly the first one. There were tons of famines in Europe that... | {
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Why did so many people from french and british colonies go to war for their occupying power during the world wars? | Dr David Omissi writes this about the Indian soldiers fighting on the western front during WWI:
>What motivated men to fight in a war thousands of miles from home, in a cause that did not seem to be their own? The Indian Army has often been described as a mercenary force, and money may have been one motive for enli... | {
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Did Ancient Civilizations have advanced technology? | The most common cited example of these sort of advancements is the [Baghdad Battery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery). The pots appear to be from the Sassanid Dynasty (first Millenium AD) and the uses for them appear to be fairly limited. There's also reports of lodestones being used as compases by the Olm... | {
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How much, if any, did the fall of Constantinople have to do with the birth of the Renaissance? | It mattered some, for some of the reasons that WARFTW laid out, but it's important to remember that the Renaissance was well under way by 1453. Petrarch was writing one hundred years earlier, as was Boccaccio, and the seeds of humanism were flourishing by the early 15th century with Valla, etc. Plus, you have Braccio... | {
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If evidence now disproves it, how did the belief that the Jews were used as slaves to build the pyramids come about? | From a commenter named Xenophon ([source](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pr2x3/til_that_theres_no_archeological_evidence_of/c3rrxcc))
>The patriarchs, Exodus, the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve and talking snakes and the fall, the account of creation in Genesis - pretty much all of the Pentateuch, is ... | {
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[meta]Let's maybe set out some guide rules and scope for this subreddit? | Should there be a way to flag questions that seem like pure homework mining? For example, I saw the following question pop up the other day:
> I'm not very well educated on the nature and subject of the old Guild systems of Medieval and Renaissance Europe and I am curious what economic or political factors lead to... | {
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What was Africa like before decolonization? What was it like before the 20th century? | The best way to understand it is divided into regions, IMO.
Northern Africa (bordering the Mediterranean)
* Extensive communications with Europe and Middle East.
* Home of Egyptian civilization
* Areas colonized by Greeks (Cyrenaica) Phonecians (Carthage) Romans, Visigoths, Arabs.
* Berber nomads seem to have ha... | {
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Is their a list of unparalleled soviet technology somewhere? | Ground effect vehicles is the one that occurred to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle
AFAIK they never took off (ha ha) in the West.
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Could use some sources on 17th century military history. | I'm sure we can have a long and interesting discussion on this topic, but before we can get started I need to know more about this play and specifically the character of Lucifer. What is the play about? Is Vondel trying to comment on contemporary politics (remember 1654 is the year of the passage of the Act of Seclusio... | {
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Reddit: At what point in history did social welfare became commonplace in society? | Pat Thane argues in [The Foundations of the Welfare State](http://books.google.com/books/about/Foundations_of_the_welfare_state.html?id=qb7ZAAAAMAAJ) (1996) that in Britain the political demands for a much more robust state intervention in the economic life of the country began around 1870. Up to this point, the domina... | {
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Colonization-Colonization/imperialism is blamed for most of Africa's problems today (civil wars, genocide, ect.) but what about the two countries that weren't subject to imperialism? | Ethiopia was colonized, basically. Abyssinia/Ethiopia was attacked and made part of the "Italian Empire" by Mussolini's fascist Italy in the 1930s just before WWII. Regardless of having belonged to the ultimately doomed League of Nations (post-WWI precursor to the UN), Britain and France basically let Italy get their... | {
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What are the best cache's of digitized sources in your field? | The House of Commons has [vast digitized collections](http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/index.jsp), although they require a subscription. I have no idea what an individual one would cost, but even the institutional ones are apparently pricey. The are not comprehensive, usually focusing on reports from commiss... | {
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How fast could messages travel in the past? | One of the interesting things I usually forget the Great Eastern did was laying the first trans-Atlantic submarine cable in 1866. I usually only think of the British Government chartering the ship to transport troops to Canada in 1861 to prevent the Irish-Fenian movement from filibustering that country in the name of t... | {
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What if the U.S stayed 100% neutral during WW2? | Open ended, aren't we?
For what it's worth, Japan most likely continues on its conquest(s) in the Pacific and continues to avoid the Soviet Union. Eventually, I would venture, they still attack the US.
In Europe France is still defeated. Then two things might happen, England resists as it did and Hitler eventuall... | {
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Where did the Slavs come from? How did they manage to spread out over so much of Eastern Europe? | I'm curious about this too. Hopefully someone will have an answer. It's especially interesting considering the native people of the area, and the species of proto-human that was recently discovered there (the name eludes me, but perhaps there was inbreeding as with the neanderthals). | {
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I little help with Medieval History. | Are you looking for primary or secondary sources?
In terms of primary sources, here are a few of the major ones:
Albert of Aachen. Historia Ierosolimitana: History of the Journey to Jerusalem
Anna Komnena. The Alexiad
**Fulcher of Chartres. Historia Hierosolymitana**
**Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hi... | {
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The Panel of Historians II | I could feasibly apply for a tag in Canadian History, if that's of any use to anyone. Also could speak with some degree of authority on European History.
I'm four months from completing my BA in Modern History at Somerville College, Oxford University. It's given me a fairly broad understanding of European History from... | {
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Historians! I'm researching the earliest religions (Uruk/Ubaid period or anything earlier). What academic resources would you recommend? If you have books to suggest or expertise on the topic I would also love to hear from you. [x-post from AskSocialScience] | Karen Armstrong talks about the development of Judaism in relation to some of the earlier Near Eastern religions. A History of God covers it, the first chapter at least. It is an interesting read apart from that. 'Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide' is also useful.
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What was the downfall of the Teutonic Knights? | The Teutonic Knights weren't a great power in Outremer. Therefore, they gained power in Prussia via the Prussian Crusades against the Semigallians, Samigotians, Old Prussians, and whatnot. After they established themselves, they proceeded to get a bit too full of themselves and attack Novogorod, and was thoroughly driv... | {
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Were ancient people, such as Ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, or the Han, aware that humans once lived in caves with stone age technology? Were they aware of human technological progression on that sort of scale? If so, how did they know, and did they keep record of it? | If you look at some really ancient texts, you can see a kind of cultural echo of times when humans were not settled, agricultural, dwellers in towns. This isn't as direct an answer as you might have hoped for, and perhaps someone will dig out some references from Herodotus or Pliny or someone. It is relevant, however, ... | {
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Were miracles ascribed to historical figures but ignored by historians as elaborations? | I am aware this is probably not exactly what you were thinking but perhaps you can humor me.
Popular writers loved to play up the miraculous genius of some independent inventors, especially in America. It makes for a nice story that one lone genius rebelling against the establishment developed something that more esta... | {
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What did Medieval society, authorities, and philosophers/theologians think about the concept of democracy? | I can't comment on how it is for every nation, but Iceland adopted an assembly in 930 AD (Althing) and Jamtland in modern Sweden was basically a quasi-republic that veered towards anarchy over now-recognized forms of governance, although being conquered by Norway in the 1100s put an end to that. Don't forget that Venic... | {
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Information on Vietnamese colonial soldiers on the Western Front during WWI? | It seems quite a few 'nationalities' found themselves in France during the First World War. Including a Russian corps, a member of which eventually went on to become a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
And here's what I found: [Link](http://san.beck.org/20-10-VietnamandFrench.html)
>Sarraut returned as governor-genera... | {
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Hundred year war essay- recommendations? | [The Hundred Years War](http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-War-English-1337-1453/dp/0140283617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330322148&sr=8-1)
[The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle](http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-War-Battle-Middle/dp/0812216555/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1330322148&sr=8-2)
First for ove... | {
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Oldest person we know to have existed? | We do have some inscriptions mentioning a King Scorpion, but we have basically no idea who that person is. He may have been important in the unification of Egypt, but our evidence is purely circumstantial. I think a much more interesting question is who is the first archaeologically attested person who we can actually ... | {
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What are the best examples of the usage of propaganda throughout history? | The Soviets and pretty much everyone during WWI and WWII.
Nazi, UK, and American WWII propaganda is probably the most iconic. | {
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Textiles at the very beginning of the industrial revolution? | Read this paper by Robert Allen:
*THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE*
http://www.ehs.org.uk/ehs/conference2007/Assets/AllenIIA.pdf
As well as *Europe Since 1815* by Mitchell Garrett and James Godfrey
They explain in agonizing detail the economic and demographic forces behind the British Industri... | {
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What are the other names for "The Great War"? | It was in the early days called "the war to end war," or "the war to end all wars" - in optimism that it would be the last. However (even during the war), as it became apparent WWI would not, in fact, end war, the term became used more sardonically. | {
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Would Segregation Have Been Abolished Without Brown v. Board of Education? | Actually, there was a looooong history of chipping away at [Plessy vs. Fergouson.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_racial_desegregation_case_law). Essentially it largely came down to before BvB.E., that you had to provide equal but seperate, which meant that the states had to provide a black law sc... | {
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Cultural Theory Reading Group, Horkheimer and Adorno on the Culture Industry (crosspost from r/CTRG) | Thanks for posting. I just finished "The Culture Industry" over break. I'll keep an eye on the group. | {
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How were suddenly fatal illnesses (heart attack, stroke, cancer, etc.) perceived throughout history? | People in the past were keen observers of nature and were well aware that people could suffer from medical conditions -- they just lacked the knowledge to understand the why of them or treat them as we can today (and doubtless people 100 years from now will look back at our treatments and say "Why did people die of hea... | {
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History of letter writing | The history of letter writing is a very broad topic on a very large time frame. For example: [This is a letter and envelope from around 2037 BCE.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Employement_contract_IMG_0074.jpg)
To generalize, writing was more or less restricted to the upper/middle class; think merchants, scribes,... | {
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Darwin's use of "Natural Selection" | Is there a question here? I'm having a little trouble figuring out what kind of answer you're looking for. | {
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How would you write realistic sci-fi that would take people back to the Middle Ages in another planet? | Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffery always struck me as a good way to set about doing that.... minus the dragons of course.
Basically, take your colonists (who'd bring horses because people like horses), drop them on an out of the way planet and then have some terrible catastrophe befall them that renders their original col... | {
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Advice on an undergrad thesis: Medieval to EM European Cultural History (x-post from r/history) | My recommendation is a more modern event... Edward VIII / The Duke of Windsor. I did my undergrad thesis (75 pages) on his political / social escapades. I personally found the topic fascinating and I think you'll see some parallels with your interests...
When George V died in January 1936, the crown fell to his olde... | {
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Could someone give a (relatively) quick and easy-to-understand explanation of the Yugoslav Wars from the early 90s? | I don't really like to copy-paste my own posts, but I wrote a rather concise overview on the topic. It was well received, and to be hones I had reposted it once before to similar effect. So, with minimal edits to suit your particular question, here it is:
I'll try to be short, so I'll write just about Serbs, Croats an... | {
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Could anyone suggest a interesting topic involving the 1991 gulf war for my history dissertation? | Based on my tag, you might know where I'm going to go with this...
To me, it's always been fascinating how America built this grand coalition to "protect" little ol' Kuwait, but left out the most powerful military in the region when it told Israel to stay out of it. I admit that claiming that the U.S. lied to go to wa... | {
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American Civil War Medals of Honor... | It was really the only medal given at the time. It became sort of a catch all for awards given for various acts. They actually [went back and revoked some](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor#27th_Maine_and_other_revoked_awardings) because they didn't really deserve it. | {
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Favorite badass history stories? | Teddy Roosevelt's manly essence. I don't think people realize just how bad ass he was.
He essentially willed himself to overcome asthma that should have killed him, was an avid boxer, took judo, broke more than one bone horse jumping, was a Sheriff in the old west, won a Medal of Honor, wrote 18 books many before he ... | {
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How did the American Whig party die out, and where did they go? | I'm not an expert, I've just been reading an insane amount about Lincoln and the Civil War lately...but with that disclaimer, the short answer is that most Whigs, like Lincoln, became Republicans.
Ok, the fundamental principle of the Whig party was basically being as conservative as possible in the Burkean sense. It's... | {
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How did Prussia come to its end? | I'm starting at 1918 because I'm not secure in my knowledge before that date, and I don't want to tell you something wrong.
The Weimar Republic was designed - with respect to the relationship between states and the federal government - to be something like the United States: strong states and a weak federal government... | {
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The Effectiveness of Mercenaries | Mercenaries are handy when you need expendable men. The French Foreign Legion in Algeria and Indo China for example. Machiavelli was pushing for Florentine nationalism in a way. To help keep the Medici and the Popes armies out. A solder fighting for his country is willing to die, one fighting for money will surrend... | {
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I need the most awesome primary source you've got. | [Edward Geary Lansdale tells the story of how he used a local vampire legend to scare the living daylights out of the Huk guerillas during the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines 1946-54.](http://books.google.se/books?id=lqnRt8K4WnQC&lpg=PA72&dq=lansdale+huk+asuang&pg=PA72&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&... | {
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When did Europeans start using Arabic numerals? | It became more common over the early Crusade period (1095-1200), and especially just before the 3rd Crusade (1187-1197) because logistics was becoming extremely complicated, and also the credit economy began evolving in a serious way (after about 1215) which required bookkeeping that could be done in columns. Roman nu... | {
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In what name or cause were the most people killed since 1000 A.D.? | >I know this is a complicated question
It's a loaded question. It's trying to seek out a specific villainous ideology or belief of some sort in history when there really isn't any.
There are villainous people, but not ideas. | {
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Did we have a valid reason to rebel against England | I don't have a source on me now, but wealthy landowners were also upset that they were forced to house & feed British soldiers on their lands at their own cost.
The main people who were to gain from the rebellion were those wealthy land/slave owners, merchants and businessmen who wanted more political and economi... | {
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Primary sources on the Spanish Civil war | This is outside my field a little bit, but since no one's responded yet, I'll chime in. The obvious place to start would be George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. It is still referenced over and again in what little I've recently read on the Spanish Civil War, and Orwell is such a great writer that it is hard to ignore... | {
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Ancient roman historians vs. Modern historians | In the primary sources I have read recently (which are typically late Republic to 3rd century crisis) there seems to be a blurring of the line between "truth" as we might perceive it as modern historians and storytelling.
Without trying to be too all-encompassing with my definition of the goal of modern historians (a... | {
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What movie would you say most screwed up the public about history? | Gone with the Wind, by a wide margin. I grew up in one of the areas affected by Sherman's march to the sea, and there are still people who will spit on the ground at the mention of his name. The movie is **extremely** pro south. It depicts the pre-war era as this idyllic camelot. "The last time when gentlemen were gent... | {
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Primary Ottoman Sources from World War I | The most prominent English language memoirs of the war would have to be Halide Edip Adıvar's. She published several volumes of autobiographical novels and memoirs between 1922-1962, a few of which you can download .pdfs of (there are links on her Wikipedia page). I would suggest starting with The Turkish Ordeal or th... | {
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Question about the portrayals of Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More | Relevant thread from a few weeks ago:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pzkwf/so_tell_me_about_thomas_more/ | {
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