I was reading about Timur and was struck by the fact that he saw himself as an heir of Genghis Khan, an association with a decidedly nomadic and pastoralist tradition, yet he also patronized construction and development in the city of Samarkand. I was wondering if such a Central Asian state had to contend with internal political and cultural tension between city dwellers and nomads and whether the populations of Samarkand and the Steppes would have seen each other as essentially the same people in different living situations, or as fundamentally different folks with fundamentally different lifestyles and values.
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Yes, Maginot line, always being prepared for the previous war, thinking about a long WW1-style conflict. Still, the Allies equaled or outnumbered the Germans in men and equipment in May 1940, except in the air, and the first memo outlining the German approach and how to oppose it had been sent to Gamelin in October 1939. That's a lot of time to process the new facts, and by mid-to-late May, it should have been obvious that it's not 1916 anymore.
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I grew up in India and only learned that Zoroastrians still exist in Iran recently. All the stories I've heard about Parsis (including from Parsis), have a very "pro-Hindu anti-Islam" kind of feel about them, with the King of Gujurat generously saving them from brutal extermination at the Arabs hands, with the whole the sugar in milk analogy. I was wondering if there was a second side to this.
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I have a Caribbean historiography class and were supposed to find a specific topic to research and analyze with primary topics and everything. How do historians find out the specific topics or events they wanna write about? I kinda interested in communist Cuba, and American intervention but i'm not sure what to analyze about it specifically and from what angle to approach it. any suggestions?
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It’s kind of weird how during the island hopping campaign, the Japanese would fight to the last man and marines were forced to fight for every square foot of ground on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa but once a bunch of T-34s roll into Manchuria they just throw in the towel.
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Why?
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Over the past couple of years I've taken various classics courses that have briefly mentioned the Sea Peoples yet none actually went into any depth of who they actually were. Is this something that simply isn't known to us?
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In my AP US History class we have to read Zinn's People's History, which I have never read, but I've have heard from numerous reliable sources that Zinn is a bit of a hack. If I am understanding correctly, he intentionally wrote a piece that emphasizes his oppressor-oppressed narrative, or something like that?
Again, I've never read the book and, more importantly, I don't have the historical knowledge to critically engage with this book lol
We were assigned chapter 2 to read by tomorrow: https://genius.com/Howard-zinn-a-young-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-chapter-2-black-and-white-annotated
Some of these lines look kind of shady:
In the history of the world, there is no country where racism has been more important than in the United States.
Is this really true? I question how this can possibly be true, given the number of other countries that have existed. But again, I lack the historical knowledge to actively think critically about this stuff.
In his book "American Slavery, American Freedom", historian Edmund Morgan imagines how the colonists felt about their failure to live better than the Indians, or to control them:
The Indians, keeping to themselves, laughed at your superior methods and lived from the land more abundantly and with less labor than you did. . . . And when your own people starting deserting in order to live with them, it was too much. . . . So you killed the Indians, tortured them, burned their villages , burned their cornfields. . . . But you still did not grow much com.
Maybe those feelings of envy and anger made the settlers especially ready to become the masters of slaves.
Could someone explain this general idea in more detail, about how the colonists were not only economically but psychologically suited to be cruel slave owners?
African civilization was in some ways more advanced than that of Europe.
He states this, and literally does not elaborate at all. It's a believable statement in its vagueness, but I can't think off the top of my head of an example.
After this, he goes on to a few paragraphs where he argues that African culture was not inferior. Then, he makes another claim that sounds weird.
American slavery was the most cruel form of slavery in history because of two things. First, American slavery was driven by a frenzy for limitless profit. Second, it was based on racial hatred, a view that saw whites as masters and blacks as slaves. For these reasons, American slavery treated slaves as less than human.
To me, this sounds like it cannot possibly be true. "The most cruel form of slavery in history" sounds like a title that should go to some empire that had many more slaves and whatnot, and I don't see how wanting profit and seeing other peoples as sub-human is unique to American slavery. Then again, the fact that I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable about this doesn't make my hunch right, so if someone could explain this further that would be nice.
Only one fear in the American colonies was greater than the fear of black rebellion. That was the fear that whites who were unhappy with the state of things might join with blacks to overthrow the social order.
Is this true? I guess the logic of it makes sense, but could someone explain more.
TL;DR I got assigned Zinn for APUSH. I've read half a dozen threads in various history subs here that Zinn explicitly wrote with an agenda and if his book is to be used it should be done critically, but I feel like I'm not knowledgeable enough to do that instinctively so I ask for help. My teacher's no help because she's convinced that Zinn is a god and also spouts other stuff that I already know to be false (like "noble savage"; she literally uses the phrase without irony).
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This is a short and simple question that Google failed to answer me. How come the Commonwealth countries chose to opt for "Dollars" (e.g. Australian Dollar) as the name for their currencies instead of just using Pound (e.g. "Australian Pound")? They opted for everything else British; spelling, government, queen, military, even driving on the left side of the road. "Dollar" seems to have been uniquely American term at the time of these countries creation (1860-1910s), everyone else using Pesos, Thalers, Marks, Francs, etc. So what inspired AusCaNZ to adopt that name and sign ($) over "[National] Pound-Sterling"?
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I wanted to know how the communism machine was built. How did the ideas spread and implement and what were the results?
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I’m a high school student currently taking a 20th Century World History class and today we discussed the hyperinflation that Weimar Republic experienced in 1923 and Stresemann’s solutions.
We were told that Stresemann changed the currency, stopped printing paper money and managed to expel the French from the Ruhr area which drastically reduced hyperinflation.
However, how is it possible that by just changing the currency hyperinflation was reduced? Especially since the Weimar economy was barely changed so wouldn’t that mean that the factors that caused hyperinflation in the first place were still at play even after changing currency?
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Hi, I'm writing an essay on Islamic influences in Europe, focusing on the Caucasus region of Europe. I'm trying to find sources (ideally books) but I'm unable to find anything regarding pre-1500s (as in the beginning of the Islamification of the Caucasus). Everything I find is about soviet / post-soviet era.
Any help would be appreciated!
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The first two are from a display case in a school, and the others are from the new spiderman ps4 game. Images
Edit: this if from my high school yet none of the teachers know what it is.
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