While the British had a long cavalry tradition, so I expect knew what they were doing quite well, on the flip side the British always maintained such a small Army compared to the Continent. As such this strikes me as a pretty interesting point in time since I would expect that they had a well established system c. 1900, but then in 1914 with wartime mobilization, how did it scale?
And additionally, how did the system in Britain proper compare to that out in the Dominions? Were British units always sourcing horses from 'home' or would local programs exist and be run in... South Africa, India, Canada, etc?
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I've heard arguments on both sides. I think I'm leaning towards thinking there was no need. Thoughts ??
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For instance what strategies would/do you take to rule out whether or not a story from the early Roman empire is a tale that was meant as a comedy, sarcasm, or parable and not a factual story.
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Basically what the title says. What I'm curious about is how average Japanese people responded on the individual level, what changes they would have noticed immediately, and within the coming months/years. What was the zeitgeist in the latter half of the 1940s? How did people reconcile the bombings and the surrender? Was their resistance to the American occupation?
This is already getting too broad but I'm also broadly curious about relief efforts in the two cities, and what life looked like for a survivor over a timeline of years.
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He had some pretty fringe and radical ideas back in the 90s...suggesting that human civilization is much older than we are being told and taught.
Fast forward to now and his comments are not so 'fringe' anymore.
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Thanks very much for having me, I’ve got to stop answering questions and get back to writing an article about medieval gardens and women's daily life. It's been so much fun - I really had to think fast with all of your great questions. I wish I could answer everything!! I'm on twitter @karrycrow (but not always posting about medieval!!)
I am Dr Karen Dempsey, a medieval archaeologist based at the University of Reading where I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow - basically a post-doctoral researcher. My current project is called Herstory. It focuses on understanding medieval castles, from a feminist perspective....in other words telling inclusive stories of people living in castles beyond war, power (or horses!!). I am particularly interested in medieval women, my work includes studies of the things they used loved and care about as well as they places they lived - castles. I am also interested in eco-feminism, female devotional practice (in the garden - sowing seeds as prayers anyone??). I am also interested in how modern communities engage with material heritage especially in relation to castles.
You can read more about me here https://medievalcastlesandwomen.wordpress.com/ or on my staff page https://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/k-dempsey.aspx
PROOF: https://twitter.com/karrycrow/status/1147140350823325696
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I would like to know more about the first world war, especially about the involvement of the USA on the eastern front. Were there any US troops in eastern front present, if so how many?
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Today we prove it using variables and ratios, but the ancient Greeks didn’t have those the way we use them. When the proof was (possibly apocryphally) presented to Pythagoras resulting in the prover being thrown overboard, how would he have actually formulated the proof?
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I'm looking for something in the manner of "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich" by William L. Shirir, but focused on the Soviet Union. It's entire history from start to finish.
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Most of the sources I've seen are copies of copies from the middle ages but do we have any actual sources that date to ancient rome?
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The central hypothesis of The City of God by Augustine of Hippo is that the Christianization of Rome did not contribute to its decline, but in fact bought a nation already on the precipice of collapse a bit of borrowed time. The book was written in response to contemporaneous fifth century accusations of the exist opposite: that the Christianization of Rome directly contributed to its decline and overwhelming by various Goth tribes.
I've only really been able to find contemporary sources like Ryan Reeves who explicitly comment on the veracity of this claim, but I think his perspective as a Christian apologist and theologian makes his observations a bit biased (though not necessarily wrong).
I've not really been able to find any legitimate or truly scholarly sources that have anything to say other than the acknowledgement that the spread of Christianity occurred during the decline of the Roman Empire so it raises the question: Did the Christianization of Rome directly contribute to decline of the Roman Empire or was it merely happenstance that it occurred during the same period of time?
I'm aware that many Romans viewed growing Roman inability to fend off the Goths as some kind of punishment for abandoning paganism, but my question is less about what people thought at the time, and more about how historians view these events 1,500 years later. Additionally, I don't exclusively mean Constantine's conversion to Christianity as "the Christianization" of Rome, but rather the entire process (which culminated in that event of course) from the first century death of Christ onward.
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To what extent had the "Anglo saxon invasion" happened before the end of the Roman occupation of England? Is it likely that given the trading links that the east coast of England had with the continent that the language and culture of this area might have been significantly different and more like the Anglo Saxons than those living in the west long before the Roman retreat?
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Credit to /u/sheehanmilesk for formulating the question originally.
I would like to extend the question to any late pockets of Hellenic or Roman religious practice.
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While the outcome of Petrovs' actions was the best it could have been, he literally had one job and he failed to do it. Did he face any kind of punishment from the Soviet army/state? Did he receive any commendations?
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In Western countries, we obviously have TV ads, radio ads, catalogs, newspaper ads, billboards, product placement, everything under the sun. I know the USSR didn't produce a huge number of consumer products like toys, but for those that were produced, how were they marketed?
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If Leif Erickson and his raiders landed in North America, I assume they would have wanted to stay because of the land and water outlets back home... Did they not find anything worth it to them?
Bonus question: Were they met by hostile defenders (I.E. Native Americans)? We're they repelled in such a harsh manner that they tucked tale and abandoned a potential conquest by coming back better supplied?
Was any of the Vikings, being in America, before any other European explorers even a legit historical happening?
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I’m watching “Untold Stories of the United States” on Netflix. In the documentary they state that the Japanese were beginning to initiate peace talks with the Soviets in hopes that they could cut a better peace deal with the US. The documentary also states that US intelligence was aware that the Japanese were effectively done fighting.
This is kind of blowing my mind. I’ve been told my entire life that an invasion of Japan was inevitable and we will suffer heavy casualties. This is the main point people use when justifying the dropping of the bombs. This paints the US in a different color and I’m interested to see if a historian has any input on the matter.
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