I read that the Brazilian Imperial Army was underfunded at that time (right after Triple Alliance war) and, for that reason, high-command was upset with the Brazilian Emperor, basically, because of an Imperial government priority for a policy to strengthen National Guard militias in the Brazilian North-East provinces. That text says that was the main reason why Army military commanders joined the coup and the Pro-US Sao Paulo based coffee plantation owners that were conspiring to overthrow the Emperor, install a republican government, and take Brazil out of the British sphere of influence and into US Imperialist sphere.

That text also said that the Commander of the Brazilian Imperial Navy (who was pro-British as most of his whole force), presented to the Emperor a plan to retreat the Imperial Court to Salvador, and use the National Guard along the Navy forces to fight against the republican coup and reestablish the Brazilian Empire, but that the Emperor said that "Brazilian people would never be able to reach European level of civilization and that they won't be able to live in an enlightened Empire, guided by European traditions such as Victorian Britain or Prussian Germany, and they should have the republic and become servants of the US instead", and accepted to surrender the crown and to be sent to perpetual exile in Europe.

Another thing from that paper is that the full secret US support was one of the reasons why the first flag of the Brazilian Republic looked like the flag of the United States, and why they called the new Brazilian Republic, United States of Brazil. And that this divide between the republican south and the monarchist northeast was one of the reasons why pro-monarchist rebellions happened in the Brazilian northeast, including one where Brazilian Army and Police forces massacred 15,000 people in just one city called Canudos.

I lost that paper long time ago, and only found the notes I made but without reference to it. I tried to search on Google in English, Portuguese and Spanish but to no avail.

So, if any kind historian soul can please share any resource names about that time in Brazil (1870-1910) that discuss any of that, like armed resistance to the republicans, I would really appreciate.

What types of hardships if any did Germans in America experience back in the early 1900s? Like German people immigrating to American during this time as an adult or growing up.

I was watching Westworld and I saw a few black characters who were treated completely equally and I wondering if the nature of the Wild West led to some weird proto-equality?

Where do the first theories about civilization collapse come from? Who were the first secular doomsday preppers?

The title pretty much sums it up. In the study of history, are there any particular questions historians haven't found an answer to which are incredibly famous within the field and repeated over and over, with this implication that any historian who could find an answer would receive everlasting fame and glory within historical academia?

With all the unrest and civil rights & race riots issues going on today in America, I began to wonder what happened on the day that MLK was assassinated in 1968. Did black and other communities started riots or protests in the aftermath of his untimely death? How did people react across the country, both supporters and detractors of Rev. Martin Luther King?

The first Industrial Revolution, occurred from about 1760 to 1830 in Europe and the U. S. which led to incredible changes in everyday life, particularly in the unprecedented rise of the living standards and income, and let to its consideration as the most important event in the history of humanity since agriculture and animal husbandry.

However, at the same time that this was occurring in the western world, Imperial Spain still ruled its colonies in the Americas until the mid 1820s, after which they broke off in the Latin American Wars of Independence.

Now my question was, did these Latin American countries ever manage at any point after their independence to undergoe an industrial revolution and modernization efforts and lastly, what did industrialization in Latin America look like?

I don't know know much about this book besides what's on Wikipedia, but based on the description and what I know from my studies of Greek history, it seems like the book enters history only towards the end, when it begins to discuss the Parthian and Sassanid Dynasties. This makes sense to me, as these sections are closer to when it was written, and a lot of the Shanameh is based on material compiled during the Sassanian dynasty (from what I understand).

So what I'm really asking about is the material before these sections. Are any of the characters like Fereydun historically attested in any way? I don't mean him specifically, I'm aware that he's understood to be a remnant of Proto-Indo-European religion.

If none of these characters are historical, I find it fascinating that there's no historical memory of the Achaemenids, because that's how it seems. Is this the case?

Thanks!

There are many movies and tv shows that try to depict life in medieval times all the way up to the 18th century that have scenes where there are people (almost always at some sort of party) dancing together in a type of choreography, it kind of leads you to believe that this is a dance number that is widely known and practiced at the time. Is this depiction of dance numbers accurate? And if such dances were commonly practiced throughout history, how were the dance moves so widely known?

The 1931 Polish census has 60% being Polish with another 30% being Jewish. Less than 10% were Lithuanian. Vilnius was the capital of Lithuania for 600 years at that point. Why did Poles so greatly outnumber the Lithuanians in their own capital?

As far as I know these products are Central Asian Turkic. But other East Asians are not known for dairy.

Why so different?

Turkic:

1-yogurt

2-labneh/chakka yogurt

3-doogh/aryan/lassi/shineena

4-geimar/ashta/sarshir

5-booza ice cream

6-iranian bastani sonati

7-cacik/mast o khiar/tzatziki

Hey all, I have a question about the Gilded Age and the Long Depression, both of which took place roughly from the 1870s to 1890s. The Guilded Age was a period of economic growth, right? So how could it have taken place at the same time as the Long Depression?

As the question says. The historical reasons why that didn't happen. If you can also provide some good bibliography on that specific subject I will totally appreciate it.

Considering his Clan name, shouldn't he follow the footsteps of Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Liu Bei and Liu Yuan and proclaim another Han Dynasty of the Liu clan? The fact that he also defeated a Chu Dynasty(of the Huan clan) and owned Hanzhong could also add to his prestige and pay further homage to Liu Bang.

Social media and Reddit both seem to have a number of people claiming that American police departments and policing culture can be directly traced back to the slave patrols of the 19th century. But weren't slave patrols just posses raised by local sheriffs? The same as they'd raise to capture a suspected criminal? Was there a special connection between the slave patrols and the sheriffs?

I don't mean rebellions and resistance against conversion like with Charlemagne and the Saxons. I mean a ruler who tried to convert his realm to Christianity or Islam and was replaced by a pagan ruler.
I am curious because most examples I know of seem to succeed and the rulers earns greater legitimacy and is sometimes later proclaimed a saint.