Were Taiping church services similar to an ordinary Christian mass or were they completely different? On a related note, did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have priests or ministers? If so, what exactly did they do and how would someone become one of those?

I think the biggest reason for the collapse of the empire is the failure to integrate immigrants such as the Germans and Goths. When they weren’t integrated they did massive amounts of damage to the empire. If they had been integrated the empire would have had many high quality soliders, and could had even had better men become emperors such as Stilicho, Alaric, or Theoderic.

Why did integration start to fail? I’m looking for a macro answer here and not just “the guy who let the goths in was a jackass.”

Let me know what you think.

I'm aware of particular motivations behind various famous expulsions. The motivation of the Alhambra Decree in 1492 (as I understand it) was primarily to ensure that converted Jews did not revert to Jewish practice.

The motivation of the Edict of Expulsion of 1290 (again, as I've understood it) was the fact that the English Crown was deeply in debt and expelling your creditors is one way to get out of it.

I've heard the motivation behind the Code Noir of 1685, banning all Jews from living in French colonies and expelling the ones already there, was that Louis XIV was concerned about French colonies with small populations developing a non-Catholic majority (which is why it also required all slaves to be baptized Catholic).

(Obviously correct me if I've said anything incorrect here)

But there does not seem to be an obvious pattern from the handful of examples I'm aware of. For people who have studied this subject more broadly: Is there any particular pattern for reasons behind various Jewish expulsions? What were the most common motivations, and were any of the examples I listed particularly unusual in their motivations?

First of all, sorry for my english, it's not my native language.

As the title says, in the movie "The King" form Netflix, wich "kinda" depicts the rise of Henry V of England, when he becomes king, one of the gifts he recieves from the Doge of Venecia is a mechanical bird from Constantinople. I know these artifacts where created in antiquity, being Archytas of Tarentum a pioneer in "automatons".

Did this knowledge pervive to the very last stages of the eastern roman empire? Could Byzantines in early 1400 create such a thing? were this mechanical gifts a thing in late medieval Europe?

Thx!

During the 1800s, a lot of people moved out to the frontiers to start a new life and seek opportunity. Some established towns and cities, but others isolated themselves into distant woods and mountains. How did these people know what was going on outside their homesteads? Were they completely isolated, or did they rely on some forms of social interaction to survive?

Faced with the idea of a Union government, did some Confederates just nope out and move elsewhere? What about former African-American slaves - did they take the opportunity of their new emancipation to leave the country?

Ok, so we have one of the biggest operations in WW2. 100s of thousands of soldiers, planes, ships. How is it possible that Abwehr secret agents didn't know where all of that force would go to? I find that a little bit strange. Is there anyone who can elaborate on this?

I see so many working class people defending the ultra wealthy in this new gilded age and it is confusing the hell out of me. I understand that the right has done well cultivating a popular culture the supports the status quo. Was there a similar movement during the gilded age used to gain and keep the support of a conservative working class and minimize the impact of the labor movements on popular culture?

I've seen the point made Rome is an outlier in that we know so much about it compared to other peoples at the time. I see this chalked up to the Romans writing a lot down, but what about Persia and China?

They were equally massive and bureaucratic; I imagine they had similar educated elites. So why don't we have the same level of detailed information on them?

This question has been haunting my mind for a while. After crowning himself emperor, there must have been some confusion in the sister republics. Were there any problems because they were practically transformed into monarchies overnight?

I thought this was more or less undisputed, what I learned through school and a quick Google search listed motivations of crusades to be politically motivated for the church and it was sold as religious salvation for the masses.

Talking with a coworker he said something commonly untaught in schooling and hidden from the masses was that the west was under jihad for hundreds of years before the crusades. The crusades were ultimately retribution.

Is there any basis for this? I can't seem to find anything backing it up. Hopefully this doesn't violate any rules or something.

Hi all, I'm graduating with degrees in history and elementary education in december. I'm a 22 year old female in NJ. I originally planned to be a teacher, but I found out I hate teaching. So I never planned to use my history degree (my school required a dual major) I just took it because I love history. So I am in a bit of a pickle. I spent my 4 years at college convinced I was going to be a teacher and now I have no idea what I can do with a history degree.

Anything that's really in the history field requires a master's and I really just need a job when I graduate. I'm considering getting my master's eventually to do maybe something in archives or conservation. Anyway, when I went to college I didn't know that most liberal arts degrees need a master's eventually. I just can't go to grad school right now. I will take anyone's advice. I could really use recommendations on industries I could get into or jobs where a history degree could be useful. Please tell me I can do something useful with this degree. I'm interested in any jobs making at LEAST $30,000. The bar is low guys.

I know this sounds morbid... but I like to learn about history, even when the subject matter covers heinous atrocities like the holocaust. I’ve always been curious about this since the only footage I’ve seen seems to have been taken by the soldiers who liberated the camps (heartbreaking footage of things like the mass graves, piles of shoes, bones in gas chambers, etc) but I feel like this is definitely something the nazis would have documented and while I’m sure they destroyed some evidence of it, I’m doubtful they were able to get rid of all of it. So, does footage like this exist? Where would one who is interested in the history of the holocaust find such films?

From my reading of history it seems crazy to me that so many would fight and die for nobles, even though they would personally gain nothing.

My understanding of this is that, when Japan was setting up their education system during the Meiji Restoration they wanted to emulate British schools, which at the time were going through a big movement to adopt uniforms in order to instill kids with morals or something. Since this was that weird time at the turn of the century when everyone was dressing up their kids like sailors that was just one of the uniforms they used, though they later fell out of fashion. But when I went to confirm this I couldn't really find anything solid. So I was wondering:

1. Is my basic understanding correct?
2. What was this original movement call?
3. What happened to it?

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EDIT: It's been a couple hours and still no answer. I know it's an obscure question, but surely there must be somebody on the internet who takes an interest in Japanese schoolgirls

It is common opinion between scientists that Homo sapiens evolved around 200,000 years ago. It is also known that agriculture and sheep-farming were invented around 12-15,000 years ago.

What did happen in the 185,000 years before? Why have humans not developed pastoralism and agriculture before?

Any help or site/bibliography will be useful

Thank you in advance

I have really enjoyed learning about the second world war, but would love to learn about the first. I know Ferdinand was assassinated, but I wanted to delve deeper than that e.g. tensions between powers, wars that maybe encouraged it.

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I'm sorry if I come across ignorant. I am just eager to get a good prelude to WW1 and understand the factors that caused it before delving into the actual war. Thank you to anyone who replies!

I feel like I see this a lot in historical movies with people in political power. Someone (another King perhaps) comes into another Kings territory and threatens said King or someone of power yet doesn't get killed on the spot, why? Is this something only in the movies? If this did actually happen, why wouldn't they just immediately kill the person right there during the threat if they were going to war with them anyway at that point?

I saw the leaked picture of the political prisoner in China yesterday and the first thing that popped into my head was that the person looked exactly like concentration camp prisoners.

That got me thinking about how concentration camps where first made public. Where these camps immediately recognized as what they were i.e. extermination camps, or did people perhaps think that those might just be extremely malnourished prisoners due to the circumstances of war? Was there a public debate or were they made public immediately labelled as extermation camps?

Any insight is appreciated! I do feel very sick having to see a colored version of this in 20 fucking 19. I really hope this is not the first public "proof" of what might be a systematic erradication of Uyghurs in China but I also don't see how that picture can be put into a less horrible perspective.

Is there anything unifying? I've read that Brazil and Venezuela both see significant instability due to corruption within their governments despite radically different ideologies.

If this isn't allowed that's cool, but do we know much about the life of the different tribes and the way they interacted?

**Sorry about the title: I meant “and what books they burned and what books they didn’t.”

For a writing class, I’ve been doing a lot of research in to Nazi Germany as I'm thinking about writing a story that follows a group of young boys leading up to the book burnings on May 10th, 1933. I want to make sure I’m as historically accurate as possible, so I wanted to come here to see if anyone had any ideas or directions they could point me in.

I know that they burned Jewish literature, Karl Marx, pacifist texts, etc., but I read somewhere that they also burned Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Monmouth's King Arthur. Did they burn either of those two texts/would they have burned King Arthur for occultism or was it still considered canon?

Also, what would be the punishment for harboring said books? Were people actually punished, or were the books just taken away? To what extent did people care?

Any and all insight is super helpful!! Thank you so much!!