Jewish people have historically been discriminated against, most notably in Nazi Germany with the holocaust. However, I am aware that antisemitism was prevalent throughout Europe and the world for centuries leading up to the holocaust. So my question is where does this prejudice stem from, and why have Jewish people been historically singled out as the victims of discrimination?

Especially interested in the political thought that went into it, did people just stop caring for Communism and the government was too apathetic to stop it?

I'm writing a script for a children's production about music history, and I want to provide the audience with an authentic experience by encouraging them to uphold the concert etiquette of each music era. This particular section/question is related to early Italian opera.

Specifically, did the audience stand? Or were the people seated? Did they ever stand up during performances at any specific points?

Was clapping a thing? If so, was it in-between every song? After arias? Only at the end? Did the audience ever boo? Throw tomatoes at performers? (I know -- silly, but send help!)

Were there any specific do's and don't's? For example, nowadays it's inappropriate to clap between movements in a sonata.

I'm a musician myself with a degree in piano performance so I'm well-versed in music theory, terminology, and general history. Opera history, unfortunately, was never my forte. I tried referencing my old history textbook from college, but found no help there. Quick google searches yielded nothing specific. Just lots of general opera history, but nothing about audience etiquette.

Thanks in advance!

I've read a bunch of romanticized tales of Harmodius and Aristogaiton, but what was their real impact? Their goal was Hippias, and they failed. Harmodius was killed quickly and Aristogaiton died under torture.

Are they heroes or figureheads?

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My professor briefly talked about how The U.S. originally took over Hawaii, and I’ve heard several other people talk about how badly the natives were treated when that happened. That subject has numerous resources, but I’m curious about something I’ve never heard discussed.

How the heck did natives get to Hawaii in the first place?! Given it’s out-of-the-way location, it seems unlikely that early navigators would have been able to access the islands. When and how did Hawaii come to have natives? Anybody knowledgeable on the subject?

My quick research tells me that recurve bows and their advantages have been known since antiquity, so why did the bowmen at say Agincourt use huge longbows instead of the faster, more powerful recurve designs?

The carrack is regarded as the big breakthrough in shipbuilding, taking traders trans-atlantic and across the world. However, none of it's features (on the surface) seem impossible for earlier shipbuilders. masts, sails, wooden hulls, these are all things people would have been familiar with in ancient times, simply on a smaller scale; a single mast instead of three.

Are there records of people attempting to build such a large vessel and, if not, what changed that led to their invention? Their economics or their techniques?

I am curious to know what kind of impact of being a veteran of the legions would have had on the sociality of the individual. Were the members praised for their exploits such as in gaul? Or did the they simply re-trade and assimilate into roman civil society? To what extent did their previous service either benefit of detriment them in future life?

Many thanks.

Was the Weimar Republic that bad? And why give him such a lenient sentence?

I understand that much of Russias Eastern half was almost impossible to access until the trans Siberian Railroad, but upon its completion did this spur huge growth? Is there a reason why this vast territory is still massively underdeveloped? Is the geography of Siberia to harsh for massive development? Or is it simply due to the remoteness and lack of other developed areas that prevent it from being developed?

Hi all. My university is offering a course on Ancient Sexuality next semester, and I’ve decided to take it because it looks incredibly interesting. But now I’ve got the bug for learning more about the topic, while still having a summer to get through before I can start doing that.

So, I’m curious about what good books there are out there on the topic of ancient sexuality. I’m also curious about the medieval era, so if there are any recommendations for that period as well feel free to send them my way.

Any and all will be appreciated!

Currently reading Plato's Symposium for class and wondering if women ever got to have fun or meaningful sexual relationships. From what I understand it seems that love and sex involving women was generally seen as lustful and impulsive, while relationships between men were on a "higher level," for lack of a better phrase (obviously this is an account from a man's perspective, which biases it). Were women in Ancient Greece able to seek sexual and romantic fulfillment? How was this viewed by society?

Not too sure if this sub allows these types of posts but oh well. I am very interested in the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union, and was wondering if there are books that any of you would recommend that cover these topics.

Was sitting at a Korean BBQ when this question came up at the table: why did forks never become a traditional utensil in Asian societies, and why did western societies never come up with a chopstick variant of their own?

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I just heard that Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate describes sled teams of shaggy dogs on the plains. This was obviously before the proliferation of horses. What do we know about the use of dogs? Did this practice continue with horses or disappear? Did any of the woodland cultures use sled dogs?

So, I know that immediately following WW2, some leadership in the Allied powers wanted to rearm the German military to launch a military invasion of the Soviet Union. Since Stalin had vastly more tanks and soldiers than the Western powers this obviously wasn't a good idea, but was there any effort to try to develop nuclear weapons to effective use against the soviets? Since we lacked air superiority a bomb wouldn't have been effective, but did anyone think of developing nuclear tipped artillery warheads similar to what the North Koreans have aimed at Seoul?

The only end of world scenario I ever seem to hear about is the Norse Ragnaröck. But I've never heard anything coming from Greek or Egyptian mythos. Were there some forms of end of the world scenarios?

What happened to the Aztec government when the Spanish took over the Aztec land? during and after contact?

I'm struggling with how to conceptualize the polynesian waves of migration. Should I think of the voyages that made up these waves of migration as relatively infrequent/exceptional journeys targeting things the polynesians were "pretty sure" were out there or were these more like annual waves where some navigators made landfall, but a significant percentage simply perished out in the open ocean? Just seems like survivability rate when you're trying to discover a smallish island in the middle of the pacific might be relatively low.