Where did metal music originate from?

It seems like a strange but natural outgrowth of the rock culture. Is that where it came from?

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Witchcraft hysteria throughout Europe?

So, I'm working on a story, and I know hysteria happened in Europe, but I'm having a hard time getting close approximate years since I need to place his birth date.

When was the witchcraft hysteria in Europe? Did they also burn people at the stake for this? What kind of social system was in place during this time? To help, he's born in France, but I'm not sure if I wanna keep him there.

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Traveling through Germany, I've encountered many Roman style statues and monuments from around the 18th century. Plenty of them have exposed female breasts or male genitals. However, I've never seen female genitalia not covered in these statues. Why? Is it a modern style or it comes from antiquity?

Specifically, I'm referring to the ones you could find in Austrian or German palaces.

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Cats are the only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible - why not? Especially with the (narrative) time spent in Egypt?

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During Nazi occupation, how did taxes work? Did French and Polish people pay taxes to the German government?

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The Roman Plebian Council was an assembly of common people, but they routinely voted in patricians (noblemen) to be Tribunes of the plebs, a position that existed to protect their rights. Why did they do this?

For instance, Mark Anthony was a Patrician but became tribune of the plebs.

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Why did England's population recover so slowly from the Black Death?

So I've read that after the Black Death, England's population recovered very slowly compared to other countries like France. Is there any truth to this? Anyone know why this occured?

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Why does the Qin dynasty mark the beginning of "Imperial China"?

Wikipedia differentiates the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties from Qin and the ones after, where the latter are "Imperial China" and the former are "Ancient China". Why do they do so? What is the difference between "Ancient China" and "Imperial China"? It seems that both consist of absolute monarchies, and while Xia is mythological and Zhou devolved into the Warring States, I don't understand why the boundary between Zhou and Qin is so important that it warrants separating them into larger categories.

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China

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Cortes ‘turns off’ the sun

I once heard a story about Cortes, who tracked the cycle of eclipses and threatened to ‘turn off’ the sun to initimidate the local sun worshipping population.

How accurate is this story? Have their been any individuals who have used eclipses to intimidate a population?

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Saturday Showcase | December 28, 2019

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AskHistorians is filled with questions seeking an answer. Saturday Spotlight is for answers seeking a question! It’s a place to post your original and in-depth investigation of a focused historical topic.

Posts here will be held to the same high standard as regular answers, and should mention sources or recommended reading. If you’d like to share shorter findings or discuss work in progress, Thursday Reading & Research or Friday Free-for-All are great places to do that.

So if you’re tired of waiting for someone to ask about how imperialism led to “Surfin’ Safari;” if you’ve given up hope of getting to share your complete history of the Bichon Frise in art and drama; this is your chance to shine!

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What were the relations between the Vijaynagar Kingdom and the Mughal Empire?

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We know that, in ancient Greece there were no categories of sexual preferences as we have them today, like homo-, hetero- or bisexuality. But is there any account or source that speaks of comparable terms? Did at least one of the philosophers speak of a sort of difference of sexual preferences?

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When Romania switched sides during WW2, did fighting break out amongst the former allies?

And if so, are there specific examples?

Did Romanian and German soldiers sharing quarters suddenly begin fighting each other?

Did the news of the switch come as a surprise to all involved?

What was the relationship like between the Soviet Army and the new allied Romanian Army? Were there reprisals carried out against the Romanian soldiers for Stalingrad?

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Hitler's Speech in the 1936 Olympics.

Hey everyone, I didn't know where else to post for this question so I hope this is the right place.

I've been trying to find an English version of Hitler's 1936 opening speech for the Olympics, but unfortunately I couldn't find any subtitles, could anyone please give me a link to said quote or kindly translate it?

The reason for this is because I'm working on a sci-fi story and I would like to make a reference that this was the first speech to be picked up in space (and yes I know, by the time it travels it'll be nothing but garbled static). It's just a random little thing with no significance in said story, but I love references.

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At what point in history does the (biological) concept of "mammal" first appear?

Some of the characteristics can't really be known until the microscope comes along (non-nucleated red blood cells), but the superficial ones should be readily apparent. Is there some year in European (or Middle Eastern, or Chinese) history where it's commonly agreed that a bat, whale, elephant, and deer (or other examples) all share common traits that are absent in birds or frogs or snakes? As distinct from the idea that they all share a common lineage (which probably didn't happen until Darwin), of course.

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What were common green beret and other special forces operations like during the early wars of the Vietnam from the mid 50s until 1964?

What were the missions they were doing? Did they have to be secretive about their identify and have to be sheep dipped during operations? On paper at the time we know they were supposed to be advisors only, and JFK said they were only authorized to fire unless fired upon, but that's not all they did. For example there is a scene in Ken burns Vietnam documentary episode 2 where green beret Robert Rheault is talking (the man who was the center of the green beret affair for executing a double agent) played over a scene where we presumably see a special ops agent in a gas mask assaulting a village around 1963. Does anybody have more information about that mission?

I have a book about special forces in Vietnam but besides for the phoniex program,training Montagnard's and ARVN in anti insurgency, as well as some operations to disrupt the trail from laos and Cambodia there isn't much info. especially in the early parts of the war before the buildup.

What would be some typical missions and other goals a green beret would accomplishing during say, 1961 or 62?

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Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon were said in Greek myths to have drawn lots to decide the domain each of them would rule over. How did other gods (especially Hellenic gods) get their domains?

Many polytheistic religions have gods with their own powers, domains, etc. But I've found very few examples of myths of how one becomes "God of" something, especially for those that are born as gods and not deified.

Additionally, I know that Greek mythology changed over the centuries, and there are many versions of different myths. Did any gods "gain" domains? And if so, were they recognized as having newly gotten them, or were they only newly recognized for always having them?

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What is a historian

I'm a freshman in high school considering pursuing a history degree. I was wondering what it is you exactly do I've reached it a couple times but never got a definite answer.

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The Byzantines still believed to refer to themselves as Romans. However, an aspect of Roman identity is its founding by Romulus and Remus, descended by Aeneas, a Trojan prince who was the son of Venus. How did the Christian Byzantines reconcile their identity with their Greco-roman pagan origins?

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Why was the SR-71 Blackbird retired from service, but the older U-2 spy plane kept in service?

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Why were swords used in Medieval Europe?

It seems like swords are commonly associated with the medieval period within Europe and it doesn't really make much sense to me. I'm aware of mordhau, or "murder stroke" as it's sometimes called, but if most of the people you are fighting are armored why not use maces instead?

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Confederacy interest in the Caribbean

Did the Confederate States of America have plans to expand into the Caribbean if they had won? Did the U.S. prior to the civil war look to expand into the Caribbean? Was the U.S. southern expansion a cause for the civil war?

I ask because I vaguely remember reading that the U.S. wanted to expand into the Caribbean but the north was afraid that the new Caribbean states would align with the slave states and therefore the north would lose influence.

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How are William Lane Craig's four historical facts viewed by historians?

These facts(as he claims) are

  1. Jesus was buried in a by Jospeh of Arimethia

  2. His tomb was discovered empty

  3. He appeared to people after his death

  4. The disiples came to believe he had been resurrected

Are these ideas generally accepted?

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Why did U.S. civil war era cannons not have blocks behind the wheels?

Wouldn't blocks (or the things you put behind a tire to prevent it rolling back) not be used in cannons? I chose the period of U.S. Civil war to help narrow it down but I think it would apply to many cannons. If you wanted to fire artillery as quickly as possible, why not put some blocks behind the wheels to save time rolling it back to the original firing spot? I only ask because a U.S. Civil war game is adding artillery and there is no blocks present so you have to manually move the cannon forward to stay on target. Maybe they did use these and the game is wrong which seems likely. Thanks in advance.

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How much did the Roman empire's official adoption of Christianity influence the architecture, aesthetics and art of European churches?

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