Like when H.G. Wells described WWI as the "war to end wars", were there conflicts so gruesome, maybe because of new types of weapons, that people were totally tired of fighting?

I thought erroneously that it's as simple as the French revolting against the King and demand for liberty. You know, ala American Revolution. But it turns out it's not that simple. It's complicated and chaotic. So what's the whole thing all about?

The Qing Dynasty "just" ended a bit over 100 years ago, but it feels like the Manchus didn't leave any cultural significance over China (or maybe I missed it: sub-question: can someone tell me the things that laymen would think that it's Han Chinese culture, but it's actually from the Manchus?).

I'd expect them to force the Hans & other ethnic groups to sacrifice their own respective culture & assimilate to the culture of the Manchus, and also adopt the language of the Manchus. Because that's what most rulers/colonizers/conquerors all over the world do (did).

I just finished this film and really enjoyed it. However, I know it's not a documentary and liberties are always taken for the screen. So, I'm curious about the real trial and what Sorkin's film gets right and doesn't.

I recently read a book "How to Hide an Empire" by Daniel Immerwahr and he briefly mentioned how American soldiers did not care about the well-being of the Philippines while they were liberating them. In the Battle of Manilla, the Americans dropped tons of bombs on Filipino structures. At the end of the crossfire, 100,000 Filipinos died.

Elsewhere, I heard that the American soldiers in Europe were told to be careful about not destroying structures. Whether that's true or not, how reckless were the American soldiers in the Philippines? Are there other prevalent examples?

Looks ships/ people could have settled in other areas.

I'm unsure if this delves more into the psychology of combat veterans or fascist ideology, but thought it was an interesting question to ask - given that they had seen the horrors of the advent of industrialised warfare (especially that of the First World War), I'm curious as to why they advocated for violence typically as part of fascistic tenets (as I'd have thought they'd likely go the opposite way).

I’m reading a book in which a character (late 1800) sleeps in a barn and wakes up at dawn to go hunting. This made me think, he wanted to wake up early, but how did he do that? So my exact question is: how were people able to wake up at a certain hour before things as alarm clocks were invented? I guess that during the medieval period clocks already existed, but most of the vulgus and people who lived in rural area could not afford to have one. Or even before that, let’s say the Roman period, how did people in general managed their time and routine without a precise time reference except for the daylight?

Did waking up at a certain hour became a thing in our culture after the clocks became mainstream?

I'm trying to understand how certain men might have been grouped into battles together. For example, were they assigned to different battles by company, regiment, brigade, or some other level of organization? Would they have been grouped purely as a function of distance to battle, or by some other factors like experience or demographic characteristics (region of enlistment, etc)?

Japan has gone through at least 2 periods of rapid social and political changes to modernize in history both under Shotoku Taishi in the early 600s and in the late 1800s. Both of these periods were done in response to a major power China and the west respectively. What about japans culture made this possible? Why wasn’t the emperor just overthrown by the elites as these reforms took power away from them?

Most discussions about Aztec warfare tends to focus on taking live captives and subjugating rival states into giving tribute. But is there any evidence of instances of straight up genocide, , total war tactics, or scorched earth strategies that would have permanently eliminated the enemy’s capacity for warfare? Or any instances of warfare that strayed from this norm?

Also looking for other Mesoamerican examples?

It just came to me a second ago because I been noticing a lot of my Facebook conservative people are suddenly “centrists” after accepting that Trump has lost when liberals are bashing Trump. One sentence that caught me was “you’re calling 48% of our nation stupid. This is how we stay divided.” So it got me curious about the Nazi party and their supporters. People keep forgetting that Hitler was elected. Did they pretend they didn’t support them? Did the other side punished them? Did the allies punished the whole country?

How do we know how to translate ancient languages that are no longer used like The language from ancient Egypt? And what would we need to find in order to understand other ancient dead languages?

They launched a lot of costly attacks against fortified German positions to release pressure on the Eastern Front, but why didn’t they send troops to Russia through the arctic sea or Persia?

Looking at a map, it seems like grouping it with Wisconsin makes much more geographical sense than grouping it with mainland Michigan.