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AskHistorians | field | Why did the death of Tito lead to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia?
Was the will of one man really enough to withstand the ethnic tension between six different states, or were there other factors? How was he able to unite them in the first place?
Thank you. | 0 | I figured I should take a whack at this one considering that I have some first hand knowledge.
Josip Broz Tito came to power at the head of a partisan group closely allied ideologically with the Soviet Union but, as with any rebellious group, played all the Allies for support.
The administrative structure for the g... | 30 | 18.68544 | 20.677494 |
AskHistorians | field | Why did the death of Tito lead to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia?
Was the will of one man really enough to withstand the ethnic tension between six different states, or were there other factors? How was he able to unite them in the first place?
Thank you. | 0 | Can I please remind everyone that Ask*Historians* isn't the place for anecdotal answers. If you're going to post, please base your answer on solid historical sources and be prepared to cite them if asked. | 10 | 25.833788 | 20.137403 |
AskHistorians | field | How accepted is the idea of the "axial age"?
It seems like a kind of grand theory of history, which I have knee-jerk skepticism about.
But that's an uninformed judgment on my part, so what do actual historians think? | 0 | For those of us who have never heard of it, could you provide a short summary? A few google searches turned up a book and a wikipedia article, but I'm not sure I really get the point. Something about a 'major shift' in how humans think around the first millenium BCE? | 11 | 17.385874 | 16.734678 |
AskHistorians | field | How accepted is the idea of the "axial age"?
It seems like a kind of grand theory of history, which I have knee-jerk skepticism about.
But that's an uninformed judgment on my part, so what do actual historians think? | 0 | The "Axial Age" is a topic discussed more frequently by scholars of comparative religion or comparative philosophy rather than historians. The basic premise is that the major philosophies and religions of the ancient world developed around the same time frame (during the middle of the first millennium BC), including th... | 8 | 7.669502 | 9.800674 |
AskHistorians | field | How accepted is the idea of the "axial age"?
It seems like a kind of grand theory of history, which I have knee-jerk skepticism about.
But that's an uninformed judgment on my part, so what do actual historians think? | 0 | It is still talked about today, because it isn't so much a theory as an observation, and a pretty intriguing one at that that allows for some interesting explanations, because although you can pick nits all day there is a strong impression that the foundational intellectual groundwork for the later regions of East Asia... | 8 | 21.195009 | 24.040283 |
AskHistorians | field | Roman Baths
Were Roman Baths in the city of Rome during the late Republic/early Empire only built to improve general hygeine or did they have other purposes? And if anyone could point me in the direction of some sources that would be great, I can't find anything myself.
| 0 | Baths weren't for washing. Romans washed by pouring oil on themselves, then scraping it off with a dull blade called a strigil. | 3 | 16.250158 | 17.18844 |
AskHistorians | field | Roman Baths
Were Roman Baths in the city of Rome during the late Republic/early Empire only built to improve general hygeine or did they have other purposes? And if anyone could point me in the direction of some sources that would be great, I can't find anything myself.
| 0 | This is an interesting question, and it really shows one of the major problems with archaeological terminology, in that it is of use to archaeologists but does not necessarily to modern day usage, or even usage in the past.
Baths did have a certain hygienic component, although as wackyvorlon points out it does not cor... | 5 | 17.861353 | 20.357176 |
AskHistorians | field | Roman Baths
Were Roman Baths in the city of Rome during the late Republic/early Empire only built to improve general hygeine or did they have other purposes? And if anyone could point me in the direction of some sources that would be great, I can't find anything myself.
| 0 | I think Tiako has this pretty well covered, I will say that you should look outside of this period to understand baths as a phenomena in Roman society generally; since they tended to be built in places far outside of Roman Italy, it has implications for the actual purpose of building baths in the first place. Limiting ... | 1 | 34.753716 | 35.990856 |
AskHistorians | field | Roman Baths
Were Roman Baths in the city of Rome during the late Republic/early Empire only built to improve general hygeine or did they have other purposes? And if anyone could point me in the direction of some sources that would be great, I can't find anything myself.
| 0 | Bath's have a hygienic property, but they also have a social & civilised property, baths were more than merely for hygiene. They were a social meeting place for some of the population. They were also a stamp of the Roman way of life, they built baths on the fringes of their empire to try to bring the local populati... | 1 | 20.220179 | 21.950333 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | I teach a 6-week class on a very specific time and place, so I may not be the respondent you're looking for, but I'll share my process anyway.
For every class, I try to have a theme. Politics is one, clothing is another, food is a popular topic. I generate an outline that takes up exactly one page of college ruled no... | 6 | 16.653223 | 18.712528 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | By "one class" do you mean one lecture, or do you mean, like HIS 101?
My experience is in teaching rhetoric and composition, mostly, but I like building from one session to the next so there's a sense of continuity. We know how that works, but today, how can *that* make THIS work?
Regardless, for any single lecture,... | 3 | 21.077143 | 23.728939 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | Let me just say this: If you try to lecture a group of 8th graders for the entire class period, you're going to have a bad time. I'm not a history teacher (I teach French and Latin) but I do have a lot of experience with that age group, and if one thing is true, you have to *keep things moving*. A typical Latin less... | 38 | 10.833648 | 12.914247 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | This question would be better directed towards /r/teachers. | 2 | 166.107956 | 21.861322 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | For this age group, I would keep the lectures short. Maybe lecture for the first half of class on some sort of social/political/economic/religious trend (I find that powerpoint presentations with lots of images, movies, and sometimes music help to hold the attention of college kids who increasingly have trouble focusi... | 6 | 15.761136 | 17.116375 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | I teach at the college level, for about six years. This may be a little much for 8th graders, but the basics should still be useful. Here's how I go about it:
1. Create an outline of the major key points I want to address in the lecture. How to come up with the outline? Start with listing chronologically or thematica... | 10 | 11.792893 | 15.134463 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | Hey, I'm student teaching eighth grade right now (in the United States, I'm assuming you are somewhere else?). I'm surprised your school is just throwing you out there and expecting you to teach, which is why I'm wondering what kind of program you are in or if you are in a different country.
To put a very complicated ... | 15 | 12.367706 | 14.360508 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | Look up "pedagogy," which is the study of effective teaching, essentially. I can't point you to anything specific to what you need to teach because I've only taught practice lectures/done teaching workshops at a university level (grad student in a department that basically sees grad student TAs as marking monkeys, noth... | 3 | 16.702827 | 18.185404 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | Start with a textbook. It may feel like cheating, but they're designed to hit the high points in an organized, comprehensible manner. I never embark on a lecture without grabing my favorite textbook and creating an initial outline.
Use lots of visuals. As others have pointed out, 8th graders have a short attention spa... | 2 | 16.601404 | 19.215071 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | My classes are generally run as seminar with very little lecture, and seated in a circular pattern; no-one is behind or in front of any one student, and s/he cannot "hide" from the class.
Lectures are brief, no more than 20 minutes max for a freshmen level course. Keep it brief, don't dilute your lecture with facts an... | 2 | 16.132393 | 19.839861 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | I taught middle school for a few years, and believe me that the way you prepare for a class for 8th Graders is going to be *way* different than preparing for a lecture full of college students. For one thing - as others have said, you need to *not* do a lecture. 8th graders don't have the notetaking skills to make a le... | 4 | 11.543747 | 13.984673 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | First off: in my opinion good teachers don't lecture. I've been teaching college students for 20+ years and while lecturing (standing in front of the room and talking *at* the students) was in vogue still in the mid-1990s, there are better ways to teach. If for whatever reason (bad school, giant school, poorly trained ... | 2 | 10.52829 | 13.996915 |
AskHistorians | field | Teachers and Professors of /r/askhistorians , how do you usually go about preparing for a lecture?
I am a college student enrolling in field study one next semester and my Supervising Practitioner offered to let me teach one class of European History at the 8th grade level. I am beyond excited at the prospect of this t... | 0 | I step on a few legos, hit my head against the wall, scream for a few minutes, gargle nails and then listen to the worst music I can find to remember what pain feels like.
Then, a few shots of whiskey, a quiet prayer to remind myself that it's not *their* fault they're like this and....
Oh, I kid, I kid.
Usually... | 1 | 17.972988 | 21.494686 |
AskHistorians | field | In both (English translations of) Caesers The Gallic Wars and Thucydides The Peloponnesian War they refer to crops as corn. This was well before the Colombian exchange. Is this a translator choice or what is the reasoning?
They’re both Oxford World History editions and I assume they are talking about wheat or is corn a... | 0 | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corn
Check out Definition 3:
>British : the grain of a cereal grass that is the primary crop of a region (such as wheat in Britain and oats in Scotland and Ireland); also : a plant that produces corn
The "corn" we know in America (which is also known as maize) got its na... | 10 | 11.869636 | 11.134971 |
AskHistorians | field | In both (English translations of) Caesers The Gallic Wars and Thucydides The Peloponnesian War they refer to crops as corn. This was well before the Colombian exchange. Is this a translator choice or what is the reasoning?
They’re both Oxford World History editions and I assume they are talking about wheat or is corn a... | 0 | As a side light to the above, Korn is the word for "grain" in German. I believe our corn is sometimes called "sweet corn" in Britain. I've heard stories about American corn getting shipped to Germany after the war in response to a request for 'Korn' and then not knowing what to do with what arrived. Corn is still usual... | 2 | 26.185707 | 23.960888 |
AskHistorians | field | In both (English translations of) Caesers The Gallic Wars and Thucydides The Peloponnesian War they refer to crops as corn. This was well before the Colombian exchange. Is this a translator choice or what is the reasoning?
They’re both Oxford World History editions and I assume they are talking about wheat or is corn a... | 0 | In British English 'corn' is used to refer to wheat, barley and other grain crops. Maize is also referred to as 'corn' or 'sweetcorn' in UK English. When UK prime minister Theresa May talked about running through cornfields as a kid recently she meant wheat or barley fields not maize. | 2 | 14.109714 | 16.859997 |
AskHistorians | field | I heard this from an old teacher of mine, and i have to wonder..
My old history teacher told me that modern times greatly resemble the days shortly before the French Revolution (Economically, at least). Would this be true? He said how the rich are and were so disconnected from the poor, the middle class is ans was shri... | 0 | It is a pretty ridiculous comparison, and misunderstands enormously the nature of the French Revolution. For one thing, before the Revolution, there was an actual *famine.* The Recession may be hard now, but there is an enormous gulf between Recession and *famine.* As for the middle class, the problem wasn't that they ... | 45 | 17.051044 | 17.563591 |
AskHistorians | field | I heard this from an old teacher of mine, and i have to wonder..
My old history teacher told me that modern times greatly resemble the days shortly before the French Revolution (Economically, at least). Would this be true? He said how the rich are and were so disconnected from the poor, the middle class is ans was shri... | 0 | It's interesting because I was today making the comparison of the July Revolution of 1830 to similar times nowadays. I also was thinking about the comparison between Louis Philippe I and Barack Obama, two leaders during a "changing of the guards". Both leaders succeeded men who were known for their policies of tighte... | 0 | 19.135471 | 23.291821 |
AskHistorians | field | I heard this from an old teacher of mine, and i have to wonder..
My old history teacher told me that modern times greatly resemble the days shortly before the French Revolution (Economically, at least). Would this be true? He said how the rich are and were so disconnected from the poor, the middle class is ans was shri... | 0 | To compare the modern United States to the Ancien Regime is absolutely ridiculous, given that there currently is no institutional distribution of advantage to a noble elite.
No matter how people feel about the income gap or tax policies towards the rich, it just does not compare. | 13 | 36.493378 | 31.607681 |
AskHistorians | field | I heard this from an old teacher of mine, and i have to wonder..
My old history teacher told me that modern times greatly resemble the days shortly before the French Revolution (Economically, at least). Would this be true? He said how the rich are and were so disconnected from the poor, the middle class is ans was shri... | 0 | The modern American society is much closer to the American Gilded Age, a time of greater wealth disparity, a shrinking middle class, and a general populace that did not trust the federal government due to a chain of corrupt and inept presidents. | 3 | 15.979518 | 19.651762 |
AskHistorians | field | I heard this from an old teacher of mine, and i have to wonder..
My old history teacher told me that modern times greatly resemble the days shortly before the French Revolution (Economically, at least). Would this be true? He said how the rich are and were so disconnected from the poor, the middle class is ans was shri... | 0 | I think it's a silly comparison personally but your teacher makes a valid point. 80% of all wealth in the USA is owned by like 5% of the population | 1 | 25.622671 | 19.034224 |
AskHistorians | field | I heard this from an old teacher of mine, and i have to wonder..
My old history teacher told me that modern times greatly resemble the days shortly before the French Revolution (Economically, at least). Would this be true? He said how the rich are and were so disconnected from the poor, the middle class is ans was shri... | 0 | You could draw a cursory connection between the two, but there are very important differences:
1) The rich have always been disconnected from the poor throughout history. This didn't "cause" the French Revolution, and it sounds like an assertion someone would make after reading _A Tale of Two Cities_ one too many tim... | 3 | 10.912821 | 12.747626 |
AskHistorians | field | Monday Methods|Finding and Understanding Sources- Part 1, Finding Secondary Sources
Hello and welcome to a special edition of Monday Methods. Today we are kicking off a multi-week project focused on how to find and apply sources in an essay or other written academic work.
Several of our flaired users have volunteered ... | 0 | #Help I’m a Normal Person and not an Academic or Student, How Do I Get to Read All these Expensive Academic Books You all Insist on Recommending? (Or, how to stop spending money and learn to love the American library system)
Dear gentle reader,
I am sure you, like many, have googled a book recommended here and been... | 15 | 10.306807 | 12.604144 |
AskHistorians | field | Monday Methods|Finding and Understanding Sources- Part 1, Finding Secondary Sources
Hello and welcome to a special edition of Monday Methods. Today we are kicking off a multi-week project focused on how to find and apply sources in an essay or other written academic work.
Several of our flaired users have volunteered ... | 0 | Hello everyone!
AskHistorians is a very neat collaboration between experts, non-experts and just everyday people who happen to come here with questions about history. Due to the openness of the format we have many readers who may not have a background in history and want additional information not just about the hist... | 12 | 10.216217 | 12.347369 |
AskHistorians | field | Monday Methods|Finding and Understanding Sources- Part 1, Finding Secondary Sources
Hello and welcome to a special edition of Monday Methods. Today we are kicking off a multi-week project focused on how to find and apply sources in an essay or other written academic work.
Several of our flaired users have volunteered ... | 0 | #How Not to Suck at the Library: Hot Tips for Undergraduates (And Some Grads I’ve Met Really Could Also Use This)
This is not a research guide proper. Other than the basics of using major databases and Worldcat, it’s actually very particular to your library, and should be taught to you as part of one of your very firs... | 16 | 14.280675 | 17.34441 |
AskHistorians | field | Monday Methods|Finding and Understanding Sources- Part 1, Finding Secondary Sources
Hello and welcome to a special edition of Monday Methods. Today we are kicking off a multi-week project focused on how to find and apply sources in an essay or other written academic work.
Several of our flaired users have volunteered ... | 0 | I'm linking /u/butter_milk's comment [from an earlier Monday Methods](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/34tz4a/monday_methods_using_the_library_using_search/cqygpo2) because it mentions two very simple and very useful methods for finding more, related sources once you have gotten started.
I also want to ... | 8 | 20.967802 | 22.619375 |
AskHistorians | field | Odd question: historically, where would my politics lie as far as influences?
Summary version:
* All systems and relationships (employee/employer, race/race, man/woman, nation/nation, police/citizen, government/citizen) has to be a perfectly equal playing field with matching rules and balance for all sides.
* All righ... | 0 | You sound libertarian, except a lot of your beliefs don't fly with libertarianism. Compulsory voting, for example, would be considered government coercion.
Also, libertarians don't support the UN, as it doesn't mesh with US sovereignty. With Rwanda, libertarians would argue that it's not a US problem, so the governme... | 4 | 11.980378 | 15.071697 |
AskHistorians | field | Odd question: historically, where would my politics lie as far as influences?
Summary version:
* All systems and relationships (employee/employer, race/race, man/woman, nation/nation, police/citizen, government/citizen) has to be a perfectly equal playing field with matching rules and balance for all sides.
* All righ... | 0 | If you're looking for a specific "influence" for your set of beliefs, I'm afraid that you may be disappointed, because a lot of what you listed can be traced to several (often contradictory) systems or philosophies.
Think about some of these historically. Number one, for example, could be traced to the liberal consti... | 6 | 10.102092 | 11.463496 |
AskHistorians | field | Odd question: historically, where would my politics lie as far as influences?
Summary version:
* All systems and relationships (employee/employer, race/race, man/woman, nation/nation, police/citizen, government/citizen) has to be a perfectly equal playing field with matching rules and balance for all sides.
* All righ... | 0 | I would say libertarian with a heavy dosage of classical republicanism. Practically speaking, you want to assign a libertarian role to the government, but you want the civic ideals of republicanism. | 5 | 19.122902 | 21.237312 |
AskHistorians | field | Odd question: historically, where would my politics lie as far as influences?
Summary version:
* All systems and relationships (employee/employer, race/race, man/woman, nation/nation, police/citizen, government/citizen) has to be a perfectly equal playing field with matching rules and balance for all sides.
* All righ... | 0 | [relevant](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SqhhJb_P3Kk/TCJgH4WvoJI/AAAAAAAAMYE/Vo8IuIuBa5M/s1600/Libertarian+lifeguard.jpg) | 1 | 24.973169 | 40.843437 |
AskHistorians | field | Odd question: historically, where would my politics lie as far as influences?
Summary version:
* All systems and relationships (employee/employer, race/race, man/woman, nation/nation, police/citizen, government/citizen) has to be a perfectly equal playing field with matching rules and balance for all sides.
* All righ... | 0 | Like Talley said, you have a broad variety of influences, many from contradictory philosophies. Almost everyone in the modern mixed economy does. In your post I see the distinct influence of everything from Locke and Jefferson to Georges Sorel to Hegel and Marx to William James.
Because it's such a mix, the best encom... | 2 | 23.557127 | 24.927397 |
AskHistorians | field | Odd question: historically, where would my politics lie as far as influences?
Summary version:
* All systems and relationships (employee/employer, race/race, man/woman, nation/nation, police/citizen, government/citizen) has to be a perfectly equal playing field with matching rules and balance for all sides.
* All righ... | 0 | Whatever you label them, I like your politics. A journalist in the UK called Jeremy Paxman once said of party affiliation: "no one has a monopoly on wisdom". I try to remember that. | 2 | 31.21862 | 33.39735 |
AskHistorians | field | American Historians: What in your minds is the best general history of the US since the revolution?
Next year I will be taking a 4th year seminar on American Radicalism in its various forms throughout the last 200+ years. In preparation I'm hoping to do some reading this summer on American history in general as I am re... | 0 | For foreign policy, I recommend George C. Herring's *From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776*. It's a bit long, but very readable. Herring is great at summarizing and putting events in context. | 3 | 12.991937 | 12.633614 |
AskHistorians | field | American Historians: What in your minds is the best general history of the US since the revolution?
Next year I will be taking a 4th year seminar on American Radicalism in its various forms throughout the last 200+ years. In preparation I'm hoping to do some reading this summer on American history in general as I am re... | 0 | I really liked Johnson's [History of the American People](http://www.amazon.com/History-American-People-Paul-Johnson/dp/0060930349). He's a center-right writer so I think it would be an interesting counterpoint to reading about radicals. | 3 | 10.280457 | 10.494425 |
AskHistorians | field | American Historians: What in your minds is the best general history of the US since the revolution?
Next year I will be taking a 4th year seminar on American Radicalism in its various forms throughout the last 200+ years. In preparation I'm hoping to do some reading this summer on American history in general as I am re... | 0 | If you are looking for just one book, I'd suggest [From Colony to Superpower](http://www.amazon.com/From-Colony-Superpower-Foreign-Relations/dp/0195078225) by George Herring. It privileges foreign relations but it covers a huge swath of time.
If you have time for other readings I would highly recommend the following:
... | 20 | 3.49533 | 4.777384 |
AskHistorians | field | American Historians: What in your minds is the best general history of the US since the revolution?
Next year I will be taking a 4th year seminar on American Radicalism in its various forms throughout the last 200+ years. In preparation I'm hoping to do some reading this summer on American history in general as I am re... | 0 | Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" -- focuses primarily on the various plights of sections of the American people throughout its history. Not a traditional who-what-where-when-why history book, but definitely seems about what you're looking for. | 3 | 18.956467 | 20.213261 |
AskHistorians | field | American Historians: What in your minds is the best general history of the US since the revolution?
Next year I will be taking a 4th year seminar on American Radicalism in its various forms throughout the last 200+ years. In preparation I'm hoping to do some reading this summer on American history in general as I am re... | 0 | In addition to xcdz's suggestions, I think you'd do well to poke around in labor history. You'll find lots of stuff dealing with radicalism.
Some suggestions:
Herbert Gutman, *Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America*
Sean Wiletnz, *Chants Democratic*
For a very good overview in one book, look at Foner... | 6 | 28.179262 | 31.448833 |
AskHistorians | field | American Historians: What in your minds is the best general history of the US since the revolution?
Next year I will be taking a 4th year seminar on American Radicalism in its various forms throughout the last 200+ years. In preparation I'm hoping to do some reading this summer on American history in general as I am re... | 0 | Great suggestions, all of you! And thanks for the help. This has developed into quite the summer reading project but I think it will definitely be worth pursuing. | 2 | 37.804012 | 38.632614 |
AskHistorians | field | American Historians: What in your minds is the best general history of the US since the revolution?
Next year I will be taking a 4th year seminar on American Radicalism in its various forms throughout the last 200+ years. In preparation I'm hoping to do some reading this summer on American history in general as I am re... | 0 | Was really sad when I realized that didn't say "best general in history of the US." | 1 | 95.849747 | 62.061577 |
AskHistorians | field | Of the 6 million Jewish people killed in the holocaust were some falsely accused of being Jews? If so how many?
Whether they were purposefully accused or wrongly. | 0 | There are miscarriages of justice across the US today in which people who are falsely found guilty are executed each year, and with a genocide the scale of the Holocaust, of course there were people who claimed not to be Jewish but were still liquidated.
The common answer for how Jews were selected is that you were J... | 1 | 16.746553 | 19.881666 |
AskHistorians | field | Of the 6 million Jewish people killed in the holocaust were some falsely accused of being Jews? If so how many?
Whether they were purposefully accused or wrongly. | 0 | To piggyback on this...
Why didn't more people just claim they weren't Jews, move to a new town and live like everyone else? | -1 | 36.454834 | 19.246597 |
AskHistorians | field | Of the 6 million Jewish people killed in the holocaust were some falsely accused of being Jews? If so how many?
Whether they were purposefully accused or wrongly. | 0 | fyi, you'll find some previous responses in this thread
* [During the Holocaust, how difficult was it to lie about being Jewish? Were there a lot of falsely accused Germans?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/31drmu/during_the_holocaust_how_difficult_was_it_to_lie/) | 1 | 10.053724 | 8.446957 |
AskHistorians | field | Why can I read old Spanish but not old English or old french?
Hi! I'm a native Spanish speaker. I can read text like "el cantar del mio cid" with no problem (just have to read it slowly) most other Spanish speakers I know have no problem with old Spanish. I'm also a Spanish speaker and a french speaker. I can't read an... | 0 | Welcome to /r/AskHistorians. **Please [Read Our Rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/rules) before you comment in this community**. Understand that [rule breaking comments get removed](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/h8aefx/rules_roundtable_xviii_removed_curation_and_why/).
#Please consid... | 1 | 7.957306 | 9.155039 |
AskHistorians | field | Why can I read old Spanish but not old English or old french?
Hi! I'm a native Spanish speaker. I can read text like "el cantar del mio cid" with no problem (just have to read it slowly) most other Spanish speakers I know have no problem with old Spanish. I'm also a Spanish speaker and a french speaker. I can't read an... | 0 | So, I don’t know anything about Old Spanish (sorry) or even if it’s called “Old Spanish” officially, but I do study Old English, and the short answer is you can’t read it because it’s basically a different language than Modern English.
Old English was spoken/written from about 800-1100 in Britain. It is similar to Ol... | 254 | 19.488207 | 26.152582 |
AskHistorians | field | Why can I read old Spanish but not old English or old french?
Hi! I'm a native Spanish speaker. I can read text like "el cantar del mio cid" with no problem (just have to read it slowly) most other Spanish speakers I know have no problem with old Spanish. I'm also a Spanish speaker and a french speaker. I can't read an... | 0 | /u/RickFletching Pretty much said it all, but I do want to point out that this Spanish poem is a little more contemporary with Early Middle English than Old English. It might be better to compare something with [The Owl and The Nightingale](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/OwlC/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext), an Early Mid... | 28 | 15.771717 | 18.818405 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | Well, from 1500 to the present, it would be a toss-up between European imperialism or the widespread adoption of fossil fuels and resulting industrialization.
But from 1914 on, I'd say nationalism. | 5 | 18.636322 | 13.526717 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | Industrial revolution, without a doubt. | 2 | 214.93222 | 23.441767 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | I think you are wrong to say that one major event is more significant then another. Our world would not be the same without the discovery of the America's (either by Columbus or another person). It would not be the same without the Industrial Revolution, nor without the French Revolution, nor without the influence of m... | 0 | 16.156576 | 16.668861 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | Imperialism (1884 Berlin Conference)- sets the stage up for Nationalist competition and the world wars. | 3 | 166.948318 | 166.11438 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | Historical process?
I'd go with Enlightenment (which was a predecessor and pre-requisite for industrialization *and* nationalism) or the European emigration boom, which was completely unprecedented in scale and made some of the Imperial conquests very lasting indeed with Americas and Australia leading the pack.
As fo... | 1 | 23.14447 | 25.994991 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | The building of mercantile empires from 1500, that sought to monopolise vast regions and economies in order to extract resources from them.
From 1914, probably something boring like increases in agricultural output. | 2 | 31.466667 | 33.456532 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | Can I say "modernity," or is that a cop-out? ;)
[Note: you might not get that joke unless you've recently spent some time in graduate school.] | 4 | 30.355303 | 27.270947 |
AskHistorians | field | A question about global history.
What event, person, or historical process do you consider to be the most significant in shaping our modern world?
Let's limit this discussion to the years 1500 to the modern era, say 1914 and on.
Had a final in World History earlier today, and I thought this was an interesting questio... | 0 | [The Battle of Lepanto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto_%281571%29) | 2 | 3.446226 | 4.561406 |
AskHistorians | field | Have there been movements in the 20th Century demanding or that women be conscripted on a par with men?
If not, have there been movements demanding that women be enabled to enlist as combatants in armed forces?
In many countries, women obtained voting rights before, during or slightly after WWI. Given that in many of ... | 0 | >Given that in many of said countries able-bodied men were either conscripted or liable to be drafted, were there any non-fringe movements in the first half of the 20th Century demanding that female conscription accompany female suffrage?
There are a lot of generalities in your question, how do you define 'fringe' ... | 3 | 6.921834 | 8.077335 |
AskHistorians | field | Have there been movements in the 20th Century demanding or that women be conscripted on a par with men?
If not, have there been movements demanding that women be enabled to enlist as combatants in armed forces?
In many countries, women obtained voting rights before, during or slightly after WWI. Given that in many of ... | 0 |
In the United States during the First World War women pursued and obtained positions in the military as soldiers, physicians, and nurses. Many women hoped that wartime service would further women's claims for rights including suffrage. They argued that serving on and off the battlefield as an obligation of citizenship... | 2 | 13.059277 | 17.280132 |
AskHistorians | field | Have there been movements in the 20th Century demanding or that women be conscripted on a par with men?
If not, have there been movements demanding that women be enabled to enlist as combatants in armed forces?
In many countries, women obtained voting rights before, during or slightly after WWI. Given that in many of ... | 0 | Yes. The first US Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin, famously voted against the declaration of war against Japan in 1941 because:
>["As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else."](http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/20147)
The National Organization for Women adopted a policy in 1980 that opp... | 6 | 8.71813 | 10.455042 |
AskHistorians | field | Have there been movements in the 20th Century demanding or that women be conscripted on a par with men?
If not, have there been movements demanding that women be enabled to enlist as combatants in armed forces?
In many countries, women obtained voting rights before, during or slightly after WWI. Given that in many of ... | 0 | The WWII women aviators of the [British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transport_Auxiliary) and the American [Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots) lobbied through back channels to get recognition as military personnel.
... | 3 | 12.071857 | 13.655992 |
AskHistorians | field | What do we know about the "sea people" that destroyed or weakened ancient civilizations ?
| 0 | Always more to be said, naturally, but this question arises frequently enough to have [its own section in the FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/antiquity#wiki_sea_peoples.3A_who_were_they.2C_where_did_they_come_from.3F), which will hopefully answer most of your questions about this period. | 636 | 11.9699 | 8.386021 |
AskHistorians | field | What do we know about the "sea people" that destroyed or weakened ancient civilizations ?
| 0 | Follow up question - why don't we know that much about them? | 62 | 49.453106 | 35.533829 |
AskHistorians | field | What do we know about the "sea people" that destroyed or weakened ancient civilizations ?
| 0 | Follow up question: Are there similar real but mythologized cultures in other areas of the world like China or the Indian sub continent?
| 44 | 39.633591 | 29.020254 |
AskHistorians | field | What do we know about the "sea people" that destroyed or weakened ancient civilizations ?
| 0 | Have any "sea people" bones been recovered from ancient battle sites? | 18 | 199.758789 | 216.46524 |
AskHistorians | field | What is the significance of the wise men bringing Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh?
| 0 | Allegorically, these refer to different aspects of Christ:
Frankincense - Used to perfume the Temple, it refers to Christ being the ultimate Prophet and Priest.
Gold - Symbolizes Christ the King of the Universe.
Myrrh - Used in funeral proceedings. Foreshadows His death.
In a more practical sense, these were all h... | 45 | 15.52212 | 15.508042 |
AskHistorians | field | What is the significance of the wise men bringing Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh?
| 0 | Isn't that a myth?
Serious question. | 7 | 43.204308 | 16.243317 |
AskHistorians | field | What is the significance of the wise men bringing Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh?
| 0 | Frankincense, Gold, Myrrh
AUGUSTINE. **Gold,** as paid to a mighty King; **Frankincense**, as offered to God; **Myrrh**, as to one who is to die for the sins of all.
-St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, A.D. 396.
| 56 | 13.055164 | 12.162811 |
AskHistorians | field | What is the significance of the wise men bringing Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh?
| 0 | I recently gave a paper at ASOR about the frankincense trade in the Roman Empire. These gifts are meant to be HIGH status items, shown to contrast the low stature of Jesus's birth in the manger. Gold is obvious, but Frankincense and Myrrh were imported to the Mediterranean world overland from south Arabia (the area of ... | 47 | 12.022907 | 17.815622 |
AskHistorians | field | What is the significance of the wise men bringing Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh?
| 0 | Since you asked for the significance, I'd like to refer you to the church fathers. My first place to go is usually the Catena Aurea (Golden Chain), a composition of quotes on the gospels, composed by Thomas Aquinas.
You can find the quotes on the 2nd chapter of Matthew [here](http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/catena1.i... | 12 | 13.185611 | 16.746754 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | The fall of the Ming Dynasty was to do with the coming of little ice age. Will elaborate later when I come back. | 8 | 38.301613 | 46.045254 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | You have two questions there. Specific and long term.
In the specific the two divine winds (Kamikaze) that stopped the Mongols from invading Japan are quite huge.
In the long term the cold/hot periods have been tremendously significant in the world and have played a massive role in the development of humanity (the te... | 86 | 35.74781 | 40.428574 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | Mud caused by heavy rainfall is widely acknowledged to have played a part in determining the result of the Battle of Agincourt. If it hadn't of rained so much (and the armies hadn't have engaged eachother on a recently plughed field) the French would have had a much easier time in their heavy plate armour and could hav... | 59 | 22.7824 | 19.367062 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | The Spanish Armada | 28 | 103.050247 | 63.823914 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | The Battle of Qadissiyah, where a smaller and under-equipped Muslim army of Umar Bin Al-Khattab took on the bigger, more powerful and more experienced army led by Rostam Farrokhzad. Though the Muslims did have genius tacticians like Khalid Ibn Walid on their side, the turning point of the battle happened on the third d... | 13 | 12.468795 | 16.688341 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | The 'Providential Wind' that carried William of Orange to Torbay in 1688.
This is one of the reasons that I don't believe in inevitability in history - you never know when something as seemingly background as the weather will change the course of events entirely.
I haven't read it, but Jonathan Israel and Geoffrey Pa... | 18 | 12.307492 | 15.32008 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | these arent all weather related, but quite a few examples can be found [here](http://www.cracked.com/article_18894_6-real-historic-battles-decided-by-divine-intervention.html) at cracked.com | 2 | 14.134147 | 17.108011 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | [Siege of Vienna](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna) might have been won by the Ottomans if the summer of 1529 had not been exceptionally wet, bogging down Ottoman forces and slowing their advance.
If the Ottomans have won at that point, entire course of European history might have been different (e.g. Euro... | 16 | 10.286156 | 10.310436 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | I'm not a professor, just a high school history teacher. However, I can think of a few instances.
One of the most significant is the Battle of Hastings. In 1066, the Normans under William the Conqueror wanted to take over England. They put off the invasion due to weather. The English king had to release his peasant co... | 41 | 14.242426 | 14.737251 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | Hitler and Napoleon both tried and failed to invade Russia. They didn't count on how cold the winters are. | 5 | 22.652615 | 15.126286 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | Does climate change count?
I've read that the Egyptians' early art depicted a much more lush portrait of North Africa. The Navajo cave dwellings were abandoned due to lack of timber & water (theory). The effects of climate on tool use, culture, and migratory patterns among early Homo Sapiens & Neanderthal, the... | 35 | 28.344393 | 31.346592 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | the Ice ages? | -3 | 1,226.919922 | 371.424316 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | Weather had a big impact on almost every war fought on Russian soil. During the autumn and the spring thaw, movement is almost impossible due to the nature of the soil. This is called Rasputitza. This was crucial to slowing the mobility of the Wehrmacht in the autumn of 1941 and allowing the Russian forces to organize ... | 51 | 15.323766 | 16.147873 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | The fog at the battle of Austerlitz played a big part in concealing Napoleon's advance on the Pretznitz (sp?) Heights. | 2 | 48.919544 | 56.935726 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | I'm no historian, and this didn't decide the outcome of the war or anything, but I've always found it interesting that during WWII, Nagasaki wouldn't have been bombed if not for bad weather. The initial target that morning was Kokura, about 100 miles away. The weather reports were initially favorable for bombing, but... | 22 | 7.529526 | 9.199399 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | The march across the belts, which led to the treaty of Roskilde | 1 | 78.470848 | 86.263008 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | hard winter was big factor in WWII german invasion in russia from what i know
also battle of waterloo a view on the reasons of napoleon defeat
> the third, was the horrible weather, that had softened the ground, and rendered the offensive movements so toilsome, and retarded till one o'clock the attack that should ... | 1 | 42.243908 | 41.307026 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | I think that there were a number of WW2 battles affected by weather. This was in an age when we had modern military equipment capable of combat at a distance, but not the radar and imaging technology to gather tactical intelligence at the same distance. I believe that many of the carrier battles in the Pacific were aff... | 1 | 17.430334 | 23.744349 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | The Little Ice Age affected China as well as Europe. In some places that used to grow oranges, the crops had to change. The Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty after plague hit the Yangtze river valley in the 1340s, which caused the death of 50% of the population in some places. As these people died, there wasn't e... | 7 | 7.897944 | 9.294414 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | Nobody talked about how weather influence harvest. It's not spectacular and doesn't change history in a day or a week, but poor harvest can lead to very important consequences. | 9 | 42.994991 | 32.148533 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | As it turns out, there is a field of [archeoastronomy](http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/cfaar_as.html)- who knew?
I find this fascinating: When dating Winter Counts, pictorial calendars kept by many different Plains Indian tribes, every single one that dates back to 1833 depicts the incredible Leonid Mete... | 2 | 29.813076 | 39.69455 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | If you’re in the United States and don’t mind a little pop history, the Weather Channel has a whole show devoted to just this topic. http://www.weather.com/tv/programs/When-Weather-Changed-History.html | 7 | 9.186262 | 14.417974 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | I highly recommend Mike Davis' *Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World*. He examines how El Niño led to drought and food shortages. (It is important to note, however, that he does clearly delineates between food shortages caused by poor harvests and actual famines caused by politic... | 8 | 15.375748 | 15.620316 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | Very generally speaking, from the time that firearms became common in war to the widespread use of smokeless powder and cartridge firearms, battles just weren't fought in the rain.
It takes two to tango, so to speak, and black powder - particularly when you're talking about its use in something that has to be loaded f... | 4 | 12.928436 | 14.422905 |
AskHistorians | field | When has weather played an important factor in changing/influencing history?
The only example that comes to mind is when the Persian fleet was destroyed by a giant storm in the Aegean Sea during the Greco-Persian War. But what other lesser known examples are there (specifically from modern times)?
Second question: It ... | 0 | During the American Revolution, George Washington had to create Valley Forge to house his troops from the harsh winter. This is widely considered to be a great hindrance to the war effort and stopped the American war machine from moving forward. | 6 | 16.853325 | 20.577324 |
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