I know about places like Dachau and Auschwitz, but I’ve never heard of camps in France? Are they jut not mentioned much, or did the Nazis just not set up any in France? And if they didn’t, why not?
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What did a traveling medieval army look like? I recently saw a post that Knights have heavier armor than modern infantry. Modern infantry also have heavy rucksacks that they live out of. Was this also common in the medieval period? Did the common soldier carry all he needed? Were there large wagon trains?
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I'll give it a shot.
Much of our understanding of historical empires comes from written records. So, how do we know that huge, Persia-sized empires didn't exist in prehistory? For the thousands—actually, tens of thousands of years before history, there's an enormous trove of archaeological, linguistic, and genetic information about human mass migrations. One late example is the Indo-European migration. Usually, these are explained as simple diffusion and not imperial conquest, but in the absence of writing, how can we know for sure that we're right?
My first thought was that "empires can't exist without writing", but apparently there are many counterexamples to this. One is the Inca Empire. It had other methods of record-keeping, so it didn't need writing. If we didn't have contemporaneous written records from the Spanish, I suspect there would be debate about whether the Incas really had an empire; many would just say they underwent a minor migration. Were there Inca-style empires anywhere in the world before the introduction of writing in Mesopotamia?
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The Sasanian Empire was one of the great powers of the world, and the arch-rival of the Byzantines. Why are the Taq Kasra ruins in modern-day Iraq one of the only bodies of architecture they left behind? In comparison to what the Byzantines or Achaemenids built, the Sasanians just don't seem to have built many impressive things that lasted until today. There is no Sasanian equivalent of Persepolis or the Hagia Sophia. Why is this, considering their power and wealth?
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Was rawhide used for protection? Would wicker armor do any good? Would some kind of very early gambeson be possible to construct with that level of technology?
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In 2015, Turnbull published an article ("The Ninja: An Invented Tradition?") that seemed to be a repudiation of his earlier work on ninjas. Here, he argues that the class of ninjas from Igo and Koga as stealthy mercenaries simply didn't exist as a separate category or class, even if stealth tactics were used in war.
I'm not very well-versed in the period in question, but I'm typically quite skeptical about historical texts that make claims that take such a strong stance on popular historical subjects e.g. saying "pirates, ninjas, cowboys, etc. were nothing like you think!" has itself become a brand of pop history wherein denying most of the claims of previous histories sets a historian's work apart from others.
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Hello,
In Mr. Gatto's work, "The Underground History of American Education", he references Prussian schooling of the 19th century saying, "At the top one half of 1% of the students attended, Akadamiensschulen, where as future policy makers, they learned to think strategically, contextually, in wholes; they learned complex processes, and useful knowledge, studied history, wrote copiously, argued often, read deeply, and mastered tasks of command."
What books detail this sort of learning or pedagogical teaching, and how similar is it to say Jesuit pedagogical works such as ratio studiorum, or Father Benedict Ashley's "The Art of Learning and Communication: An Introduction to the Liberal Arts"
Also is there any current institutions such as Elite private high schools like Phillips exter, or elite liberal arts or degree based universities that implement this sort of teaching style.
Thanks so much :)
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I know it was a common ingredient in many patent medicines but how common was smoking it and who was likely to be the typical user?
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Shortly after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan closed its doors to foreigners to avoid instability at home. As a result, Japan remained isolated or "frozen in time" until Commodore Perry forcibly opened up the country in 1862.
I was wondering if other countries had attempted to open up Japan before? China or Korea? What about the other colonising powers like the UK or France? Was the country simply ignored or were their attempts to open it up unsuccessful?
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I've been very interested in Viking/Norse history recently, and have specifically become interested in the Greenland Norse and their mysterious fate. I've read Collapse by Jared Diamond, but was left a little unsatisfied. I've also read Land Under the Pole Star by Helge Ingstad (as well as the later Westward to Vinland), and while I really enjoyed it, it was published in the 1960s so I'd like something that includes more recent scholarship.
Are there any good books on the subject? Failing that, any interesting papers?
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I have read about the struggles between the two generals, but did the common people get divided about it like democrats/republicans divide in the States? I ask because populists like Cataline (who carried Marius' standard in battle) and Caesar (who paraded Marius' image at his aunt's funeral and prosecuted the "murderer" of Saturninus) seemed to use Marius as a political statement. Even Cicero refers positively to him in his 4th Catalinarian oration (?). Was this meant to play at popular support? If it was, was it successful?
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What were the leading theories from 2000 BC - 1600 AD on what Saturn's rings were
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From my reading, I know that the broad historical consensus is that the Taj Mahal was ordered to be built by Shah Jahan for his wife. However, there is the conspiracy theory that the Taj Mahal was really a Hindu temple named “Tejomahalaya”, and that Shah Jahan didn’t actually build anything in its place.
My father, who believes in this theory, argues that since the Padshahnama contains no record of Mumtaz or the Taj Mahal (for which he cites the source https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-man-who-built-the-taj-140535404/), historians are lying about the Taj Mahal being built by the Mughals and that it must have been a regular Hindu temple appropriated by the Mughals. He also points out the supposed similarity between the Taj Mahal and North Indian Hindu temples, and says that the historian Stephen Knapp has “proved” that the Taj Mahal “couldn’t” have been built by the Mughals.
I am pretty sure this is a conspiracy theory, but unlike other conspiracy theories regarding India, I don’t know how to respond to this one. Is there any validity to such claims about the Taj Mahal, and if not, how would one go about debunking such a conspiracy theory?
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As I understand it, after the sack of Baghdad the Abbasid Caliphs resided in Egypt under the Mamluks, and after the Ottomans conquered Mamluk Egypt they usurped the Caliphate from the Abbasids. Do we know what happened to the Abbasid family after this?
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Some general questions about the period of castle warfare in britain. When were manorial estates replaced by castles and how long did barons usually spend building their castles? How many men were employed building them? Were castles ever attacked during construction?
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