I just used london as an example. If you want to use another city in about the same timeframe I couldn’t be more happy.
Also I’d like to know how the scenario changes depending on mine and my victims social status. What if I am a nobleman and my victim is a beggar? What if we both are about middleclass? What if I am a beggar and my victim is the nobleman?
Was there a specific “crime solving task force”? Or would just ordinary soldiers be “assigned to my case”. Was there even something like crime solving, following clues, interviewing witnesses etc in the middle ages? Or would they just find a murder victim and go “well, shit happens. Put him in the ditch with the others.”
This is a question that has interested me for a while, not only because I’m running a dnd campaign in a medieval city. I really appreciate every answer I get. Also english isn’t my native language so I’m sorry for spelling mistakes and wonky grammar.
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Did Lesotho campaign against apartheid, keep silent? Was it economically reliant on South Africa? Was it under threat of being conquered? Did it collaborate with the South African government?
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It appears that the last time NEOWISE comet passed was 6800 years ago. Looking at this comet got me thinking of the last humans to see this comet back in roughly BC 4800. Does anyone have some insight on the state of civilization and/or humanity around the world at that time?
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I grew up in Shanghai and am Jewish and learned that China was very welcoming to Holocaust refugees until the Japanese government invaded and forced them back into ghettos. When China initially opened its doors, was this due to pressure from European powers? Thanks!
Edit: Sorry for my awkward phrasing. I’m a little rattled this morning haha.
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I am curious about mortality rates and patterns in these very methodical battles. It is my uneducated guess that soldiers in the front of tightly packed infantry formations had almost no chance of surviving the whole battle. How did ancient soldiers feel about this? Was there a prospect of higher glory in the first rows that made up for the higher risk? Were they confident in their skills and/or divine protection?
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It sounds rather cartoonishly evil
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Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
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I am writing a essay about the Chinese Communist party and how they won the civil war, I had the choice and chose this cause it sounded interesting. It is interesting but also incredibly intricate. If anyone had any recommendations on books to read, historians to investigate or any source primary or secondary in nature it would be greatly appreciated
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As discussed previously, our rules prohibit answers which consist entirely or primarily of a quotation. Such comments are removed, but as long as a good faith effort is made to demonstrate that it is a quote, we leave things at that. It broke the rules, it gets removed, the user might get warned, but just as a reminder to remember the rules next time.
When it comes to situations where quoted material is not presented in this way but passed off as ones own work, we treat the situation quite differently. The rule on this is brief, and to the point:
We have a zero-tolerance policy on blatant plagiarism, such as directly copying and pasting another person's words and trying to pass them off as your own. This will result in an instant ban.
Broadly speaking, plagiarism is the passing off someone else's work or ideas as your own. In academia, this is a pretty serious offense, and quite a few careers have come crashing down due to the accusation of it. Here on /r/AskHistorians though, in simplest terms, we are looking for the following, although it isn't necessarily exhaustive:
For the most part, as long as you are using quote marks or indenting the material, or else being clear where content was copied from, whatever rules it might break, we will not consider it plagiarism even if in some cases it might violate the integrity code at a university, but that of course doesn't mean you should do those things. It is always best practice to cite all your sources here, so you really should anyways though of course!
First off, it is just rude! Someone else put the time and effort into writing that, and all you probably did was Google for 30 seconds! Recognizing the work of others is important, and we don't take kindly to people who steal it and try and pretend it is their own, regardless of other factors here. If that is the kind of person you are, we kind of just don't want you here.
But there are of course other factors. The big one is that, as with more general mass quoting, the intent here is to have users who are knowledgeable and engaged with the topic post answers. If your knowledge is simply about how to Cmd-C and Cmd-V, then you shouldn't be posting. Period. You don't know the topic, you can't answer follow-ups, you can't engage in discussion on it. The fact you chose to break the rules in such a bad way is more icing on the cake than anything else.
As the rules note:
If you are the author of the original work being copied from, please remember that self-plagiarism is a thing, and we don't know who you are. Always cite your source, even if it is yourself.
It is great that you are Dr. Finklestein, the world expert on the history of Competitive Hog Wrestling in 19th c. Ohio, but to us you are just /u/Chris_BenOink , and you clearly just copied that from this paper that is the first hit on Google scholar.
We are going to ban you.
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You can find the rest of this Rules Roundtable series here
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also, was there a reason why Apollo, seemingly alone, appears in both pantheons?
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I understand many sources state Miyamoto Musashi often valued wooden swords in combat, and brought them to ensure victory. Why did he do this? What advantages does it bring over normal bladed swords?
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I faintly remember reading about the British knowing a ship or ferry that was going to be sunk, but allowed it to happen because it would give away the fact the Engima code had been broken. Did this or other incidents actually happen?
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During lockdown, I have been binge-watching multiple TV series, including Wolf Hall and The Spanish Princess. These cover different periods in the life of Henry VIII of England.
Anyway, Henry VIII is also infamous for his multiple wives, his paranoia and his megalomania. He is estimated to have ordered between 57,000 and 72,000 executions.
Did such massive atrocities against his own people run afoul of the Magna Carta (especially since a lot of the people he had killed were nobles)? Why/why not?
If Henry VIII did violate the Magna Carta, how was he able to do it? How was he able to justify ignoring and overruling the agreement that kept peace between the monarchy and the nobility? How was he basically able to rule the country not as a parliamentary monarchy, but rather as a reign of terror?
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I am talking ghost pepper type spicy. I assume ghost peppers and Carolina reapers have some genetic modification, were peppers this spicy before 1400? I am saying that specific date as I feel peppers that hot in those times would become fables and legends.
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Is there any credible information that states that Africans made their way over to the America’s before Columbus arrived in the West Indies ? Every time I see someone bring this up it’s some 3rd party alternative news site that never looks legit so I’m curious if Africans had the ability to sail to current Latin America or if that’s just made up Afro centrism trying to claim native accomplishments/ culture for themselves
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Octavian's sister seduces him for information, there seems to be some understanding this is wrong, but it's also presented as a logical tactic one could use. So, the show seems to portray that at least for the Roman elites, sibling incest was no big deal. Is this true?
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I remember reading through most of the articles and amendments until the 12th and feel that seceding was illegal but once I start googling the question people start popping up claiming to be saying that it was indeed legal once it happened and when Texas V White happened by 1869 the Supreme Court ruled seceding without permission was illegal, so it sort of makes sense how it's legal but the constitution doesn't seem to anything written saying its okay, rather it says states can be entered into the United States but nothing of leaving is mentioned.
The post I read about is from a History.StackExchange being answered by E1Suave. Where he states that at the time there was no law saying they couldn't and I guess he also meant it wasn't specified at all whether or not it was allowed thus giving them permission.
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A popular modern depiction of feudal society has the entirety of society arranged in some kind of layered (and rigid) pyramid structure, with peasants owing loyalty to the local knight, themselves owing loyalty to his liege, and so forth until we reach the king. How accurate is that portrayal?
Was fealty reserved for nobility? If so, in which manner did peasants fit in this system?
How transitive was an oath of fealty? Did an oath to your liege also bind him to his liege? Was loyalty to the king expect if you were not directly sworn to him?
If I have to give a location/period I'd say France in the late middle ages, but I'm interested hearing anything on the topic of feudalism.
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