Did these two civilizations interact and if so how when and how did they look at each other?
In berber/amazigh language we still call europeans romans "irumyan" so there must have been interaction.
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While later Rambo films lean more and more heavily into the pure action-flick style, the original Rambo film, First Blood, shows a man who clearly has severe PTSD, and a very tough time coping with it. The police mistreatment exacerbates this and drive him to desperation, in part based on flashbacks of his treatment as a POW that the station causes him. Likewise later in the film this discussion with his former commander reduces him to not mere tears, but a bawling mess as he recounts how tough a time he has had since the war.
Did this have much of an impact in the discourse at that time surrounding PTSD and the trouble some Vietnam veterans were having reintegrating into civilian society?
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I always wondered why the French put so much stock into the Maginot Line. Were they unaware of how badly the blitzkrieg tactics would dominate them if they bypassed it? Were there any plans to deal with the German offensive should the wall fail, proposed or otherwise?
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I'm co-writing a story about the ghost ship and we're trying to figure out exactly what kind of ship it would have been and how many people would have manned it. It's a story set in a world where ghosts are real, so we're trying to figure out the best way to blend legend with history and trying to find out as much as we can about ships that would have been in the Dutch East India Trading Company during its golden era.
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Hello! I’m in the process of reading a fiction book by Tom Clancy called Red Storm Rising, and in it there is discussion about political officers in the Soviet military, as well as general “political reliability.” I am an American, and politics for us is something that many are able to, and do, ignore and remain willfully ignorant of. Could the same be true for the average Soviet, or was political education mandatory?
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Roman.Britain.campaigns.43.to.84.jpg
I saw this map earlier today and was curious about it. I know others were successful as well, like Claudius of course, but Agricola is clearly dominant in the picture posted.
I also always thought the Romans basically stopped at present day Scotland but this looks like they are going quite a bit deeper, and even sailing around the northern tip.
Are they any specific battles from these expeditions you’d recommend reading about?
Thanks!
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I found these numbers reading through wikipedia, but none of the linked sources that I looked through have much information on the transition period when Chiang Kai-shek’s government and troops left mainland and settled in Taiwan. I know that mass migrations typically put a strain on the regions being migrated too, so my question is whether this was the case in Taiwan? These could be technical, like a shortage of housing or food resources, or political, like resentment towards the newcomers and increased social tensions.
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This might be a very specific question, perhaps more suitable to an interior designer specialised in the period, but I was wondering what the practice was during the Empire/Regency/Karl-Johan era regarding tablecloths (western world). Did they use them? And if they did, on what occasions? How did they look like? Tables seem to have become so detailed for the upper classes during the period that covering them seems counter intuitive.
Thanks in advance!
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You can blame my mom for this one. We bought a ton of vinegar because we're having a stray cat problem and trying to drive them away from the place without too much harm, and apparently vinegar is a good cat repellent.
But that aside, when is the first evidence of vinegar ever being made?
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I want to read about Mao but it seems like the writings on the subject often have different perspectives. I want a biography with minimal interpretation of the events and little political leaning, something that’s really just about the historical facts of the situation and as unbiased as possible. Additionally, I want to know what other texts I should read, maybe books or writings by Mao himself. Should I read the little red book? Thanks in advance!
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Not a long winded question. Just curious why Napoleon wasn’t executed? I could see showing mercy the first time when he was sent to Elba, but after he escaped and raised the Grand Army he again was defeated and sent to St Helena. Would any historian mind taking the time to explain that to me?
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I have a habit of playing Crusader Kings 2 and listening to fittingly appropriate real medieval music that I find on YouTube and such when playing the game. Through following down the YouTube recommendations rabbit hole, I came across a song called D'un sirventes far. You can listen to it here. From looking it up, I discovered that the artist, Guilhem Figueira, was an Occitanian troubadour of Cathar background, who was exiled and who made his way to the court of Frederick II, and that the lyrics were harshly anti-papal. Wondering how he made it there unscathed, I soon found out that the Emperor was completely detested by the Roman Papacy, which made sense as to why a fellow like Figueira found himself there with comfort.
But this made me wonder, and especially so considering the era and how we often think of it... how on earth did Frederick II maintain his reign as king? How would his subjects accept his reign, given the unquestionable and unmatchable power and influence of the Papacy? Additionally, were there other occurrences like this throughout medieval Christendom? Are our perceptions of the all-powerful and unquestionable Papacy of medieval Europe incorrect? And of course, what was Frederick II's beef with the Pope, and how did it all start?
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So I was reading on the jacobites and then look at James II. His Wikipedia says that he had a loving relationship with his daughters. But then i read that anne hated James and his Catholicism.
What was James relationship with his daughters before becoming king? And before the glorious revolution? And after it?
Did he feel in anyway betrayed by them?
And what did his daughters think of him?
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I teach American history at a small private school outside of Boston. I am the author of Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth, Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder and editor of Interpreting the Civil War at Museums and Historic Sites. You can find my writings at the Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Smithsonian, New York Times, and Washington Post. You can also find me online at my blog Civil War Memory and on twitter [@kevinlevin].
The subject of Black Confederates is one of the most misunderstood topics in American history.
Here's the book blurb:
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans’ gains in civil rights and other realms.
Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.
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I'm a french history student and I had a hard time trying to find something about american memory of World War II. In France this is an important subject (around the collaboration and resistance), studied in highschool and widely developed as a concept in university.
In american popular culture, this is a very common subject as well, from Saving Private Ryan to games like Call of Duty. I've read a lot about the importance of the Constitution, the Founding Fathers even the Civil War but not much about World War II.
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I googled Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette after learning of his existence through the Hamilton musical and noticed in his Wikipedia article that he was commissioned an officer at age 14 with the rank of sous-lieutenant. The article clarifies that his duties were largely ceremonial but I'm curious if this was always the case.
So was this normal? I found this previous answer which is fantastic but applies primarily to the navy.
How did this work in practice? Were lower-ranked soldiers expected to follow the orders of their teenaged superiors?
What was the purpose of commissioning such a young officer?
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Was this by nomination of a member of royalty?
Obviously these titles are inherited but how did they get there in the first place?
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I recently read up on the history of classical Greece. One thing that came to my mind was that Athens seemed to be needlessly aggressive, confrontrative and expansionist during the pentecontaetia. The impression I got from my texts was essentially that the mean Athenians enthusiastically bullied smaller city states, involved itself in foreign adventures in which it repeatedly lost and still continued on provoking Sparta and it's allies.
Sparta didn't want to go to war because they were always afraid of helot uprisings and it took some of Sparta's most important allies threatening to leave Sparta's alliance for them to actually do anything about Athens.
That seems to me like Athens continously and needlessly poking Sparta and its allies with a stick and trying to weaken Sparta whereever it could.
But why did Athens behave like that? They must have had some strategic gain from risking and provoking war with an actor (Sparta) which from the texts I've read didn't appear aggressive or expansionist at all.
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Before the radio, how did the orders get issued during large battles?
The dispatch messenger riding back and forth to a sub commander I guess was one common thing, but was there other means?
There had to be plenty of misunderstandings given that the situation had changed between the order was issued and it got to the sub commander. So did the local commander usually have a lot of freedom to alter commands or was the norm that it was carried out nevertheless?
Also, if I might convolut the question even more; How did the local section commanders get it through to the men fighting?
I'm here thinking of battles of thousands of soldiers, and fully understand that this is something that could vary immensly between ages and generals, but examples would be interesting to hear about. :)
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