I'm assuming people getting more wealthier on average helped, but it still would need more explanation imo. Perhaps mass production? If that is the case, was mass production of spices difficult before industrial times?

I was listening to a "forgotten weapons" video about the two and it was mentioned that the Sturmgewehr was rather more stable of a gun, though slower. While the AK was faster and more reliable but not as stable.

Now, I'm already aware that the Sturmgewehr was the inspiration for the AK-47, but I was curious why did the Sturmgewehr itself fade away into obscurity while the AK-47 blew up as a mainstream defining weapon?

Among the famous are Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (father of modern rocketry), Dmitri Mendeleev (creator of the periodic table of elements), writers such as Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, composers like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and many others.

Hi, I'm interested in learning about humanity's history of education. I prefer a book that emphasizes breadth over depth, but I'm also interested in books that delve deeper into a certain era of education. Thanks.

I remember reading about how Chola empire stood against the Mughals but a detailed explanation on how the Mughals didn’t manage to conquer the Chola empire would be helpful.

Can someone suggest works for other navies (during the modern/early modern period) comparable to Stephen Roberts and Rif Winfield's French Warships in the Age of Sail?

My understanding is that Tacitus's Annals is extant in a single manuscript from a copy made in a German monastery around 1000 CE. While historians disagree on the accuracy of the document in its details, it seems like there is a general consensus that the document is a mostly accurate copy of an authentic work from the period claimed.

Is my understanding accurate? If so, what is the basis for the assumption that the document's contents are an authentic Roman work from around 100 CE? How do we know it isn't an inventive literary work from 300 CE, or a derivative version of an authentic work so heavily edited and altered as to be unrecognizable from the original?

While I ask about the Annals specifically, my question really goes for any text that is not known from an edition produced close to its purported composition.

Economically, Germany was decimated by the Versailles Treaty. When hitler came to power my understanding is that he promoted large scale public projects, particularly infrastructure. Where did this money come from? And how did Germany overcome their debt and inflation?

It seems like the native people would have had a stronger negotiating position and easier road to independence if they had demanded it while the colonizers were occupied by a massive war.

Did they have a way and or practice of letting the inhabitants know they were now under new rule?

I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan, and there was a Shakespearean remake of Ghostbusters called Ministers of Justice by Jordan Monsell. I’ve been considering trying to make my own Shakespearean remakes of the other two (soon to be three) movies, maybe the game and the cartoons. I was wondering if there were any sort of parades in Baroque London? Since I’m Ghostbusters 2016, Stay Puft appears as a Macy’s Parade Balloon ghost, I wanted to do something similar but more accurate for the script Any help?

I was just thinking about how I had seen plenty of images and statues of dogs in pre-Columbian art, but I can't recall ever seeing a cat. Were cats domesticated in the Old World by the time humans had begun to migrate to the Americas? Would these migratory bands have even been able to keep cats, given that they don't travel well? If cats didn't arrive until after European contact, do we know anything about what indigenous people first made of them?

Hi, I’m a secondary school student doing a history project. The topic I chose is the Nanjing Massacre and I was wondering if you could recommend any good books on the subject or about the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in general (preferably secondary sources written by historians or primary sources). Thanks

Political commissar( I believe it is what they called?) of the Soviet Union is famous of shooting their own generals and officers during ww2. How they know when a officer should be executed, is there a doctrine for them? Would them suddenly feel pity and let the ones should be executed to escape secretly? And to what extend a officer or general would do to avoid getting shot? I have seen something about it is hard to organize a army while trying to not get shot for the russian officers , why is that?

Not sure is this a correct way of asking or not, please tell me if my question is too simple to be asked here or it is a bad question.

I’ve been thinking lately of the tragic consequences of nuclear weapons being developed right at the end of WWII - tragic not only in that that were used but also because their invention triggered an enormously costly arms race between the superpowers.

Does anyone have insights into the relationship between (a) the set of factors that contributed to nuclear weapons becoming conceived and then realized and (b) the set of factors that led to WWII?

Obviously war triggered weapons research and all that, but more broadly was there something inevitable sociologically or scientifically about the industrialization process that contributed to this dual development? Could realistically WWII have happened the way it happened (up to 1945) without the nuclear sciences following suit?

From our vantage point they seem like two parts of the same progression but perhaps they are more coincidental than they appear?

In Hollywood time piece movies, sometimes actors do not say a person or child is X years old, but instead use phrases such as: he has seen 13 summers, or lived 9 winters, etc. Historically, was this a phrase that was actually used?

(Obviously) I'm no expert, but I've always been interested in Roman/Byzantine history and the crusades however I cant quite figure out why the templars ended up attacking Constantinople in 1204.

People often say it, but it doesn't seem right. Capital Punishment was carried out by beheading using the guillotine, and required a formal death sentence. Of course, there wasn't a death sentence for every person who died in camps. And of course, there was no law that allowed execution by hunger, untreated diseases and hard labor. As there was no court decision for every case.

Does it mean that the Holocaust was against the German law of the time?

I know the author of the Testament is just one man, Jerzy Braun, a member of Labour Faction. It was released as the official document of the Council of National Unity. But I've heard that major right wing forces did not participate in the editing at all and that some demands were made with some exaggeration, motivation on principle: "since the communists promise X, we can't be any worse". Is that true?

E.g. did really all political, non communist forces in Poland approve the 8th point: "socialisation of large capitalist property and organisation of fair distribution of social income"?

BTW, I'm Polish myself, but suprisingly I cannot find many information in Polish about the Testament on the Internet. That's why I'm asking here.