How comparable is the historical support for the Holocaust (which appears to be undeniable among mainstream historians) to other 20th century genocides such as in Armenia and Manchuria? I note that both belligerents in those conflicts (Turkey and Japan) have a history of denying and downplaying their actions - how justified are they in doing so? Do they stand against the historical consensus, or do they represent a small but legitimate minority perspective?

Finally, are there any other genocides or similar events from modern history that everyone should know about?

Has this been solved yet?

That the US has been in war for many years during its lifespan as an independent nation os quite clear. This includes both world wars. But since World War II and the formation of the Steel And Coal Union, which eventually lead to the EU, most nations in Europe seem to have been hesitant in going to war, and have not been contributing with the same force or will to go to war as the US. (to my understanding)

This has lead me to question, how much impact the destructions on European soil have on the will of going to war for the European nations compared to the will of going to war for the US.

So I'm actually a classical historian myself and was discussing Solon's classes based on wealth in Classical Athens with my students. Under that system we can see even the to be one of the rare few to be considered in the richest class of Athenians could have a wealth of only 20 times the wealth needed for a family of 5 to merely eat and survive.

Now this is obviously a miniscule amount of wealth disparity compared to the modern day (for example here in Australia the Prime Minister gets paid 40 times the amount that the government believes is needed for a person to literally survive and nothing else, and he gets paid pittance compared to the owners, board members, etc. of large businesses).

Now my students asked how/when that disparity changed so much, I had to guess around the Industrial Revolution... but I'm not a modern historian or an economics historian so I'm hoping there's some experts on here that can help.

I assume they didn't have clocks, how did they know how to organize their time, including sleeping and social and work events?

For example, battles that were destined to be decisive, but instead ended up with a completely different outcome.

Sorry for the use of “olden times” but I really do mean anything set in the West from, say, the Middle Ages until the 19th Century. There’s rape everywhere. Accurate?

So I was on a comment section of a video about the Islamic golden age and there was this guy that says that Charlemagne receive a brass water clock by the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid in 807 ad

What he also says is that they (Charlemagne and the Frank's) though that the clock was which craft.

Did he receive a clock like that ?

Did they think that it was which craft ?

Also, how did Europeans reacted to such things as mechanical clocks, moving (statues?) like those in Constantinople (lions that roared and moved and golden birds that sing)

Thanks in advance

I'm aware that in the VERY early days of rome, they used a phalanx type formation in battle. However, when they moved throughout italy they found that the hilly terrain made it difficult to use so they dropped it in favour of maniples. The question is that Greece is also incredibly hilly in many areas. How did they deal with this issue and did they attempt to change much?

This question has probably already been posted here and discussed countless times, but I'm interested as to know what was it that caused Hitler to develop his antisemitic views? Was it something personal, or was it a more widespread sentiment among the German people in the time period between the two world wars?

I was looking into the history of tampons (I started thinking, "how the fuck did women exist before plastics?) and i found very interesting things about wooden sticks in Egypt padded with cotton, free bleeding hasn't been a thing.

I'm a man who just thinks about shit for too long.

The book and article I found made an explicit note that it wasn't really that much of a problem because, if you could get a period, you were more than likely pregnant anyway. So that got me thinking, if the vast majority of women were constantly pregnant, then... how is raping a city after a siege very effective?

Say 20% of the population isn't pregnant, between miscarriage, complications, disease, and the intentional killing of rape babies, wouldn't... it not impact the gene pool very much?

I'm talking about pre-industrial societies mostly.

We know that Nazi Germany had stockpiles of first-ever nerve agents, sarin and tabun.

We also know that preventive civil defence measures that all countries introduced against WW1-era toxins would have been useless against nerve agents.

The decision-making process that led to Hitler deciding not to deploy nerve toxins is also well understood.

What I could not find is any kind of analysis of the effects of a large scale use of nerve toxins actually be? For instance, if V-1s were used to deliver sarin and tabun, instead of high explosives, to London.

I am learning about the roman empire and am thoroughly enjoying it but as I was reading about how popular the gladiator contests were, I wondered why it has stopped being practiced but the Olympics have become a worldwide event

We know that Nazi Germany had stockpiles of first-ever nerve agents, sarin and tabun.

We also know that preventive civil defence measures that all countries introduced against WW1-era toxins would have been useless against nerve agents.

The decision-making process that led to Hitler deciding not to deploy nerve toxins is also well understood.

What I could not find is any kind of analysis of effects a decision to resort to using nerve toxins in the desperate late-war stage. For instance, if V-1s were used to deliver sarin and tabun instead of explosives to London. What would a single warhead with a tonne of nerve agents do? Would they disperse? Would they remain in one place?

We can assume a more concentrated initial campaign, as trying to achieve initial surprise makes more sense for nerve toxins than for high explosives. So, spring 1944, about 200 launches a day, 100 of which strike London each day for a week.

hey everyone, im completely stuck on an essay im writing, the question is "analysis wether the russian revolution was the beginning of the end if communism" i was hoping you guys could give me a good insight on NEP as im having difficulty finding anything :/ Thank you!

I feel like that there are many conspiracy theories about this. Perhaps this pollutes the historical debates that we could have on this subject ? I would also be grateful if you could suggest me French sources for this subject, if possible. Thanks !

So, I believe I once heard a story of how ancients would lock a group or an “army” inside of a cave for years only feeding them magic shrooms. After the whole cycle of them only eating these shrooms, they would let them out to fight, apparently these armies wouldn’t stop fighting until they bleed out, which means they would keep on fighting when missing body parts.

Now Im not sure if this is true due to the fact I couldnt find any info on the internet.. My question is, is this real? If so where can I find more info. Thanks :)