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I would think if one of the tipping points was the future of slavery in new states and eventually in the South, this seems contradictory.

No, this isn't a homework question. I've been randomly traipsing through internet pages on nuclear development and came across a claim that this war that I'd only read one book on before (and from a US perspective on managing it, not on the war itself in detail) led India to develop a nuclear program. How true is that claim at least, if nothing else?

I've already listened to the askhistorians podcast episodes with 400-rabbits by the way

In every single piece of media i see in which they depict Romans against Barbarians they always show the Barbarians to be uncivillised, wearing little to no armour and or wearing animal pelts. I always imagined them to live in tribes with straw houses and stuff. But then i read up on how hundreds of thousands of Barbarians would unite and fight against the Barbarians. To me it doesn't make sense for numerous tribes to be so violent and uncivillised so i want to ask what were the Barbarians like? What armour did they wear? What level of cities or towns they built? What was there culture like?

In watching Ken Burns' Vietnam War docuseries it becomes obvious, after a certain point, that Vietnam is unique in its media coverage.

Reporters are delivering stories live during the fighting in Saigon, bullets flying around their heads.

One man is talking to the camera sitting in the rubble on a street and notices his leg is bleeding through his trousers.

Both a cameraman and an AP photographer witness and document an execution, and its broadcasted on the news and put on the front pages of newspapers.

It really begs the question, why were they allowed to get so close?

Is it just because the government hadn't learned how bad it is for national opinion to show the brutality of war in the media?

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What did the Tlaxcalan's hope to gain from the alliance and how did the Tlaxcala see themselves in the post Aztec order?

I know he was in the army and fought in the buldge, Louis E Fox from lynn camp wv. How do I go about finding specific information about the battles/service he was in? Thanks in advanced

When did roman numerals stop being used and how long after the introduction of Arabic numerals into Europe did the use of Roman numerals continue?
Is there a single person that developed Roman numerals?

Hey guys,

My girlfriend is a Lithuanian and we were discussing the post World War II order and the Soviet Occupation of her country. Our question is this:

How did the USSR decide which countries to absorb as actual Socialist Republics? Specifically, why didn't Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and/or Yugoslavia get subsumed into the larger Soviet Union?

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Germany had to have known the at the time, the US was already swayed towards the UK and that angering the US could only lead to bad things, did Mexico just have a strong enough military at the time to compete with the US? I also remember hearing theories that the message that Germany sent to Mexico was forged by the UK to further pressure the US to join their side, how sound are those theories?

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It's always said that Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, however according to Wikipedia movable type was first invented by Bi Sheng in AD 1040 during the Song Dynasty. Metal movable type, which seems to be the definition of a printing press, existed for 400 years in China and Korea before it was invented in Europe.

How different were Gutenberg's and Bi Sheng's movable type machines? Is this a case in which the real credit should actually go to the Chinese, a "Western bias" in history? If not, why?

IT was some event that happened that was important, and I can't remember what, anyone got any ideas? It wasn't military, it WAS social from what I remember, and it wasn't le revolution, but I do remember it be particularly important to the french, it was something that wasn't particularly well reflected in depictions of the era.

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I’d assume they had animals to graze the lawn but that seems like it would be a long process and it wouldn’t be thorough throughout the whole lawn.

During the final battle with the Bismark, the Royal Navy used an aircraft carrier, two battleships, three cruisers, and six destroyers. This seems like a bit overkill for a single battleship, even one like the Bismarck. Was this apparent overcompensation because the British believed that the Bismarck WAS dangerous enough to need all of those ships, or was it because they wanted to destroy the Bismarck quickly to take revenge on the ship that sank the "Pride of Great Britain's navy" and prove once more that Britain rules the waves?