I've been trying to read up on this field since i want to write my MA on the subject. I've realised that there is a plethora of explanations that all, more or less, contradict each other. Recently i've been reading the Political Marxist Ellen Meiksins Wood who essentially claims that most explanations (world systems theory, trade, demography etc) effectively needs to presuppose Capitalism in order to explain it and as such they fail as explanatory models altogether.
Is there a currently dominant view of 'how' and 'why'? I'm not sure if Ellen Meiksins Wood is a fringe Historian in this regard.
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I was always interested in weird historical tid-bits. One that I had always heard was that there were several other presidents before George Washington, but they couldn't hack it so to speak and didn't last more than a few months at most.
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Take the infamous "Vanishing Commissar" photographs, perhaps the classic example of Stalinist censorship. Among the various state instruments that existed during the Purges, which one(s) would have been responsible for image "corrections" like this? Did it fall under the aegis of the NKVD or one of the other directorates?
Thank you for your time.
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Might be a difficult question to answer but I guess another way of putting it is; do we know of any examples of early dog burials whereby the age of the dog is noticeably older than their wild counterparts? And if it can be answered- roughly when can we say their lifespans started to become longer thanks to humans?
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The Stamp and Sugar act are just some of many taxes imposed on colonists. Although one could argue that paying back the debt of the Seven Years War, or even traditional authority of the crown and parliament were justification for these taxes, but what changed the attitude of americans for them to no longer be loyal subjects but instead resistors of british rule and eventually revolutionists?
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I hope this is an appropriate question. I can't think of any group more equipped to answer it, and it's not one I've had much luck answering on my own.
I've become interested in maps - specifically maps from before many modern conventions took over (e.g. putting north at the top, using specific projections, etc). I like seeing the different ways of representing geography that have existed. But so far almost all of the early maps I've found are from Europe. I've found a few from outside of Europe, but only a few. IIRC they are all on this Wikipedia article on early world maps.
So that makes me wonder: Why? I can think of some possible answers:
Europe was just uniquely into making maps
European maps were more likely to be preserved
Bias in the sources - maps from elsewhere exist but aren't covered
Some combination of the above
But I don't know, so I'm asking you.
Are there no Ancient Egyptian maps of the world - or of the region the mapmakers inhabited? Indian maps? Mayan or Aztec maps? Malaysian maps?
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I would assume that it would be because of there being so much rugged terrain and not much to gain from it, but then again Switzerland is a sort of political capital of Europe, so you'd think it would be a good blow to deal.
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Just saw First Man. Amazing! Especially for someone who’s parents weren’t even born at that time. But if they were stranded were they given a “way out”?
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As fall approaches my neck of the woods and I look forward to putting up my lawnmower, I was wondering how people maintained their landscaping before the lawnmower.
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You could not be both a Nazi party member and a Wehrmacht soldier. Why?
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The history of Europe is quite known dating back to more than a thousand years, we know kingdoms, wars etc. Similar with Asia with the dynasties and kingdoms. Do we know anything about the history of Native Indians who occupied the Northern America other than that they crossed over from Alaska during the ice age?
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I'm mostly interested in the Holy Roman Empire around the time of Martin Luther, but I'd love to know information about ethnic politics within earlier or later periods of the Holy Roman Empire.
Did ethnicity matter much within this context, or were all non-Jews in the Holy Roman Empire treated basically the same despite their origins? Negative stereotypes of Poles and Italians are quite prevalent in Europe today, but did any noticeable chauvinism exist among German-speakers in the 16th century?
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My first thought was that; “it’s probably because we have 10 fingers and 10 toes.” but I guess that only sounds the most normal/resonable/logical to me because I’ve been used to think like it that way throughout my whole life. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it (as far as I know/can remember) would’ve been just as logical (or even more so) to have the tenth number be a single digit, so as you finished counting all your fingers, you by instinct knew that the next “11th” number would be the first double digit number.
Confusing, I know. Think about it. I could also be stupid and forgetting some very important at-the-time, (whenever that was: the invention of numbers and counting,) standarts that made it unresonable and illogical, but numbers are very old though! Or maybe we simply don’t know what went through the minds of whoever came up with numbers, and who succesfully spread the idea to everyone possible, before it was too late and the idea had become as normal and unquestionabler to us as water and bread.
A r/showerquestions question really, I know.
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