So I was reading how China + India accounted for almost half the worlds population as well as production during/before the Middle ages. Even in technology (upto before industrialization) they were more or less at par with Europe.
Then why did they always lose to western invaders first to the middle Eastern (Islamic) invaders and later to European invaders?
Not only did they fall but it seems they didn't even put much of a fight.
(I'm sorry if I'm wrong at any point, I'm not very educated in this topic)
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It's a striking coincidence that these mysterious steppe people appear to have both invaded Southern lands from the North Eurasian steppes at exactly the same time in history, down to the same decade, AND have had a cognate name ascribed to them by independent scholarly sources in Europe, Persia and India, HUN/HUNNU/HUNA. And I have read previously that there has been debate over whether these people are connected to the Xiongnu (very similar sounding name) steppe clan confederation in what is now Mongolia and parts of Eastern Russia today by ancient Chinese scholars some 300 years prior to the invasions.
Is there any evidence that Attila's Huns and the "Alchon hunas" and "White Hunas " etc. of Central Asia, Persia and India are the same people, from the same confederation, spoke the same indigenous language, etc? And is there evidence of their being an offshoot of the Xiongnu confederacy of Northeast Asia? Have genetic studies been done on bodies believed to be Huns or Hunas from this time, linguistic evidence in some words, cultural similarities, etc. ? If these people are not the same, why are their names so similar? And if they are the same, what caused them to migrate south from the Steppes into Europe and Central Asia? Was there a climate phenomenon, or where they attacked by other steppe clans?
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Even today, all animals( that I know of) have a mortal fear of fire. How did prehistoric humans learn to not be afraid of it? And when did this change occur, before or after we had tamed it?
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On this anniversary of D-Day I've been looking at some pictures of the beach invasion and there seems to be some haze on the beach from sea spray and artillery which got me thinking:
Did Allied planes drop any kind of smoke screen between the waterline and the bunkers to the landing infantry? If so, did it work? If they didn't, why not?
And just for clarification (if even needed) I'm picturing a smoke screen as being similar to a napalm-ish line but of smoke not fire along the beachhead with the same obscuring effects that you'd see smoke provide in a online shooter video game, if that makes sense.
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Bells, pots, cubes, spheres, hammers found inside coal (generally) deposits dating hundreds of millions of years back. What could be the explanation?
https://www.apparentlyapparel.com/news/strange-artifacts-reveal-history-of-human-origin-is-wrong
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To start with, I don't speak Thai, but when I was there recently I was told that the written language has 44 consonants, 22 vowels, the vowels are placed in and around the consonants in non-linear fashion, and to top it all off, many of the characters look, to my perhaps ignorant foreign eye to be nearly identical. If this characterization is in fact accurate, how did it come about? How much of the script was invented natively? Did the script inherit these quirks from somewhere else? And when, historically, did all this happen?
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I've seen a lot of people referring to Alexander as Greek, even when his kingdom was known as Macedonian. What's the reason of this mixture?
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What is the Global liberal Order of the interwar period? I'm surprised by how little information I was able to find on what it was and what countries were involved. My teacher is asking me to find it's different strengths and weaknesses but I barely know (or can find) what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm unable to really find anything in my research, thanks.
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Were they going to sue for peace, try again, or just wait until they had an atomic bomb? Something else?
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In British royalty what is the difference between duke and Earl. Some titles use duke (for example duke of york) and some use Earl (Earl of Wessex). Is this due to different cultures in early medieval Britain such as the Saxons and vikings or are they different ranks?
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All articles i found only stated that he was the first to postulate it
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As tile refers too, in ww2 and maybe just before when japan invaded, sis the gators ever attack and kill a soldier? Would soldiers shoot and kill them, either for safety, fun or food?
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http://www.unz.com/article/tiananmen-square-1989-revisited/
I'm asking as a total novice. I've heard a bit about the incident, but only from mainstream news reports, and when I came across this article it threw me for a loop. There's a lot of seemingly well sourced information here that I've never been exposed to. I understand that any view of what happened will be colored by who authors the story (the references to the LA riots and Waco seem unfair at first glance for example), but is this article "closer to the truth" than the one typically reported in the media in the US?
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So Nietzsche is an incredibly difficult philosopher to understand completely as his philosophies are mostly ambigious and open for interpretation if they are implemented in the modern world and for the amateur viewer, Nietzsche appears to be a nihilist and an extremist and valued people who live as how they wish which on the contrary, he was a passionate kind of philosopher, one who values passion, chaos and willpower and lust over the rational side that started to exist since the Enlightenment era (known as the anti-Enlightenment. Bear in mind that it is not anti-intellectual but anti-rational as there is a difference)
Nietzsche's most famous philosophical concept is that of the Ubermench where in simple terms, proposes that people should live life as how they please without the regard of what the shared so-called "morals" or "values" told them as he mostly blamed Christianity for teaching people that mediocrity and being weak and humble was the new accepted norm and anyone who values personal virtues such as business and capitalism, self-passion and personal journeys for more personal discoveries, personal growth and so on, where frowned upon
(he also mentioned that in ancient times, this was the opposite. He believed that in ancient times, being strong and mighty and victorious were important virtues which is why we love the Roman Empire and Alexander the Great while Christianity appealed the lower classes as they had nothing to give except their humility and compassion which are two virtues that are very important in Christian philosophy. But I am not sure if this is an accurate depiction of history as this was Nietzsche's view on history)
Obviously in today's standards, in its own extreme versions, this is very undemocratic as it inspires people to live as they please and make lives as how they saw fit, regardless of the shared morals or virtues or laws (as Nietzsche described them as human-made limitations and illusions) and I later learned that after Nietzsche died, his philosophies were later altered by his sister who was anti-Semite (who to my surprise, anti-Semetism was an already accepted belief and norm during that time and had existed for at least 2000 years) which later had an effect on Nazi philosophy
So how did Nietzsche and the editing of his sister eventually influence the Nazi philosophy? How come nobody mentioned that Nietzsche's original arguments where not exactly synonymous to what the Nazis demanded?
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Specifically the period between frigait/ large sailing ships and the battleships of the early 20th century.
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So I was wondering, well, the question above. I purposely left it a bit more open to a huge area just because while I remember learning a lot about certain parts of some tribes, societies and empires cultures there wasn't a large mention of games for kids or toys. Any answers would be really appreciated!
Also, apologies if this is somehow too broad? I didn't want to leave it too narrow but sorry if this would need to be deleted for not being specific.
And thank you to everyone who posts answers here. I never bothered getting a reddit account until last night after having read lots of awesome answers and wishing I could upvote them.
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