I recently watched a video about soldiers suffing from PTSD of vietnam war, and it made me curious about the people from the past.
I know that at the old times the morality was quite diffrent from now, such as massacring and using people as slaves. But didn't they suffer form PTSD form doing that?? I think I would've if I saw a man getting brutally ripped by a lion in a colosseum.
It doesnt have to be the ancient times, records from any past are welcome.
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Of course it was known long before then, and was famously in Coca Cola and was part of druggists' medical supplies. But it wasn't cocaine the party drug and stuff on which criminal empires and fortunes were built until the 1970s and 1980s - why?
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I've moved into a Victorian house with these lovely intricate ceiling roses in a couple of rooms, but one thing that has bugged I have no idea how they are made? I can't see them carving them for every house surely, but they are far too complex to even multiple interlocking solid moulds. I could see how you could do it with lost wax and sand but then you have to somehow make the wax every time. These days you'd just use a flexible silicone mould, but obviously that wouldn't be an option. So what am I missing Reddit?
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The conquest in 1066 was not the first time england was invaded and ruled by foreigners, the vikings come to mind. So why did this conquest have such a profound effect on English culture and language that it represents a total epoch shift from Germanic to Latinish dominance and ushered in an entirely new era in English history?
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In modern times many government bodies utilize entrance examinations to weed out (or in some cases guide) applicants who may not be suited for the highest desired roles but could be more useful elsewhere. Was this the case in Imperial China, particularly from the Yuan to Qing periods? Would a new entrant to the civil service be told "You work in tax collection now, please go around Shandong and collect tax", or was there more agency?
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I don’t study history however am doing an assessment for an elective subject at university and require primary sources regarding nazi laws in the lead up to the introduction of concentration camps. In my search, stumbled across the Numbers Laws and was wondering if any different laws or even just official permission was given to the Nazi law enforcement to punish Germans if found aiding or siding with Jews? Potentially evidence of German punishment for being against the regime?
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As someone who can't read Chinese and finds English resources often lacking, I instead read Japanese sources on Chinese history. What I find peculiar in those and nowhere else, however, is the popular claim that Yang Jian and Li Yuan, founders of the Tang and Sui, were Xianbei rather than Han, which rests on the claim that their official genealogies are BS. I'm aware that the Japanese haven't been best buddies with the Chinese for a long time. They did have a historiographical tradition of emphasizing foreign rule in China, and vitriolic far-right historians like Ko Bunyu still enjoy popularity. Is this a case of that or do they have a point?
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So I have a question on the name of the city now most referred to as Troy. As I understand it, the Greek name for this place was Ilios (or something to the like), which is why Homer named one of his epics the Iliad. So why do we currently call it Troy and the Trojan war? Where and how did we switch from Ilios to Troy between Homer and now? Is this something modern or did this name change already happen in ancient times?
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Hello!
I'm just wondering how did cereals became staple foods world wide, when we're ill suited to eat them. They have tough bran our teeth can't grind, and we can't digest. Small seeds that's not practical to collect with our large hands.
Also it's very labor intensive to produce. Plowing, sewing, harvesting, thrashing(, grinding).
In contrast (starchy or not) root vegetables can just be sewn/planted than plucked from the ground and eaten directly, maybe even without cooking. Fruit or nut bearing trees that we can directly eat, that require little maintenance when the trees are mature.
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Specifically this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1918
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What was their defense for slavery in response to that line in the Declaration? How did they justify slavery with the U.S's own founding documents (I know the Declaration of Independence wasn't law, but it was still foundational)?
This question could also apply to segregationists and such.
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While I'm aware that "people of Asia" is a huge scope, I'd be interested in pretty much any account of any people in the continent of Asia's reception to the 'discovery' of the Americas.
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