Do we know of any ancient iterations of the Christ-myth theory?

Hello, I was curious if there were any anti-Christian authors from the ancient world (let's say 1st to 6th century) that claimed Jesus was not a historical figure. The only polemicist I know of is Celsus, but I don't think he claimed such a thing. Also, I heard something about Origen of Alexandria writing about the historicity of Jesus. I was wondering if his writing is in the context of responding to an ancient mythicist.

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Are these an early version of dog tags?

They’re from 1917, and that’s all I know

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Would Jesus' philosophy, embodied in the Golden Rule, have been particularly new or shocking to first-century Jews? Pagans?

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I have a friend who constantly jokes that "Vikings were just cold Phoenicians". To what degree is he correct?

I have a friend who always joke that "Vikings were cold Phoenicians" because, according to him, for the most part of their history, Vikings/Normands were a lot more occupied with trading than warfare and that they became a more war-oriented society only in the second Millenium C.E., but since they raided England we remember them as warriors, conquerors and pillagers.

Thing is, neither of us are historians and I don't know where to check these informations. I find his jokes funny, but I'd like to know to which grade they are true

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When arriving at Americe the colonists carried diseased that killed natives. Did colonists also die from diseases carried by native Americans?

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What was the cause of the Seven Years War?

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Why were there so little italian (30000) soldiers and no japanese soldiers in the Stalingrad battle ?

I am confused, why would it only be Germany (30000 soldiers in 400 000 is insignificant) who'd fight against USSR if the Axis was supposedly declaring war to fight TOGETHER. (I have little to no knowledge on WWII so please go easy on me)

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What did the fall of the city of Rome entail?

When the Roman Empire ultimately fell and the enemy breached the gate, what happened to the city? What did the sacking of a city in this time period entail? And for Rome did this affect the Christian seat at all, or was the fall of Rome long before it was the seat of the Christian faith?

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There is a claim on Texas Monthly that the Western cultural aspect of Texas (Cowboys, Mavericks, Rangers) was not the essence of Texas and it’s culture, before 1936, Texas was very similar to other Deep Southern states, and Western culture was an attempt to redefine Texas, far from the Confederacy?

Is there truth to this claim?

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/is-texas-southern-western-or-truly-a-lone-star/

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Psychological condition of slaves

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Psychologist and/or Historians of Reddit When the slaves were freed, were there any slaves that wanted to stay? Either because they were psychologically conditioned to be slaves; they did not know how to be free. I know there is a condition called stolkhome syndrome, this is when an abuse victim cannot leave because they are either scared to leave or the fall in love with their kidnappers. Can this condition be correctly applied to slaves? Any historians or psychologist that can be a little more insightful on this topic

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What happened to the German Democratic Republic's military equipment after unification?

Given that the National People's Army was very well-equipped and rated very highly by NATO analysts, what exactly happened to the weapons and equipment (I assume there were millions of weapons, ammunition, uniforms, etc.) after the GDR was absorbed into the German Federal Republic?

As an aside, does anybody have any recommendations for documentary films on the NVA or GDR in general?

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How did people time things like baking before clocks?

My partner and I were baking some pies for Christmas Eve dinner, and I thought I set a timer on my phone, but realized later I hadn't. We made sure the pies were okay and just kept an eye on them to see when they were done, but this got me thinking about how people would have timed things before clocks were available. Did people who were cooking or baking in ancient or medieval times just keep a close eye on things, constantly taste testing and checking for doneness, or did they use things like hourglasses or other methods to precisely time things?

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Tongue of whales?

I used to have a friend who spoke some of a language called the “tongue of whales.” I can’t remember exactly what it sounded like, but I remember it being very foreign, not like anything I had ever heard. She said she learned it from her grandma (who apparently spoke it fluently), and also said it was an ancient language originating from southern Germany (presumably around the Danube, not spoken today.

It is definitely called tongue of whales, or language of whales, but after looking it up I can’t find anything.

Is there any ancient language originating in southern Germany, rheatia, noricum, etc, that has survived today, and or is referred to as “the tongue/language of whales”

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I'm sitting around somewhere in the Urals in 1917. When do I hear about the revolution? Do I ever hear about the revolution? What's my reaction to it?

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Has radiation ever been used as a form of torture?

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I'm watching this colorized Netflix doc on wwii which is great. A lot of people, especially in the North African episode, are holding and firing their rifles upside down. Why?

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Tobacco was originally a cash crop grown and exported from the English colony of Virginia in the 1700’s. How and when did it end up in a country as distant and far away as Russia?

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Was White Flight (the movement of white Americans to the suburbs) discussed and understood in explicit racial terms by contemporaries?

For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Basically, what it says on the tin; were white families moving in the 1950s specifically to get away from non-white people? Or was that just the end-result of a swirl of circumstances involving property, economic incentives, etc.

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Does the elimination of people of African descent in the 1800s in Argentina qualify as a genocide?

The Argentine government sent people to die as soldiers in the Paraguayan war. It disproportionately affected the male population, thus reducing births. People fled and the black Argentine population was forced underground.

For me, this absolutely qualifies as a genocide. However, I get routinely shut down because people didn’t die as “innocents” and people claim that what happened in Argentina doesn’t fit the definition of genocide.

Can someone please clarify or point me to resources? Learning about black history is important to me and I’d like to know the truth, whatever it is.

https://www.ibtimes.com/blackout-how-argentina-eliminated-africans-its-history-conscience-1289381

Definition

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

  • Killing members of the group;
  • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
  • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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When the Puritans banned celebrating Christmas in England and Scotland, how well enforced was this? If a peasant village out in the countryside had a Christmas feast and Church service, would they actually get in trouble?

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Kamakura period weaponry

Hello all! I was wondering, since I'm starting to look at the kamakura period in Japan, more specifically the 1210s. I was wondering what weapons a samurai would've had available, I'm also interested in the swords. As far as I know, the tachi was what was available, the katana being a later invention, if I'm right?

Were there other swords that were available as either protection weapons or weapons used by samurai?

Secondly the same question goes for spears.

Any help is appreciated!

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When WWII started, was already WWI recognized as a world war so they knew they were starting another world war or it was like a "The great war 2" ?

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Child Labor Laws are enacted in the US in 1938 but a significant decline in child labor occurs almost forty years prior in 1900. What is the reason for this decline?

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When did Pumpkin Pie go from being a Christmas staple to pretty much only associated with Thanksgiving?

I've noticed in a lot of traditional Christmas carols they talk about eating pumpkin pie while engaging in typical Christmas behavior.

Since I've been alive (~30 years) I've only seen Pumpkin pie during Thanksgiving. Is it just a cultural/regional thing? Or am just misreading this?

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In the *Cratylus*, around the discussion of etymology Socrates says that "women [...] are the best preservers of the ancient language." Do any other sources attest to this aspect of Athenian cultural life, and do historians have any theories that could shed light on this statement?

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