Mongolians and Native Americans, to my knowledge, share a common ancestral home in the steppes of Asia. Both Mongolians and plains dwelling Native Americans have temporary dwellings in the forms of yurts and tipis, respectively. Did these designs evolve independently of each other or was one the precursor of the other? Or perhaps is there an older common ancestor of the two?

So I just finished the Science Vs podcast episode about circumcision, and that’s left me wondering about the historical and cultural context from which the practice arose.

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As I understand it, within the first years of contact with European, millions of North Americans died from disease, wiping out countless Nations. Treaties were created allowing land to be settled on by Europeans (and reserving land for the First Nations, now know as Reserves). Eventually Canada, USA and Mexico became countries.

Why does it seem like Mexico is different with respect to Reserves? Were there treaties created to allow settlements (and reserves), or where things handled differently?

I know the "positive impact of colonization" is a controversial issue; I even encountered said issue in high school, when a teacher of mine engaged in outright revisionism regarding colonial crimes in the Belgian Congo. I'm not looking for moral justifications to colonialism which I don't support, I'm interested in the raw facts from an utilitarian perspective.

Think of it that way: Hitler brought Germany the Autobahn. That's a simple fact. Of course the Nazis actually used to oppose them on populist and antisemitic grounds, but they changed their mind when they realized their war effort would require nation-wide networks of motorways to transport military equipment — so you can't just claim this was a logistical prowess with no dire consequence at the end of the line. But the fact is, the Nazis DID build these roads.

I would be interested in similar facts about colonial rule (particularly in Africa) regarding healthcare, infrastructure, government, education, etc. Additionally, assessment of the strings that came attached to that (similarly to what I did above) would be greatly appreciated.

Is there any relation between the Burmese Way to Socialism (Official ideology of Myanmar, 62-88) and the Khmer Rouge (official ideology of Kampuchea, 75-79)? They were both bizarrely distinctive strains of socialism with a largely rural basis that incorporated isolationist ethnonationalism and reactionary anti-modernism into their worldview. Both leaders changed their country's name to reflect a glorious past they constantly referred to. Yet... I don't know of any contact or exchange between the two regimes. Did I miss something?

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So, during WW1 areas in northern Schleswig-Holstein belonged to Germany and were much danish and after WW1 1920 northern parts voted to join Denmark with a voting landslide.

How danish people and men conspricted to military viewed WWI and did they support german war efforts at all?

Did they serve in seperate regiments or were they mixed to German units?

Were there any defections to neutral Denmark? Were there a stronger border guard to prevent that?

Curious as to the strategic value Poland held at the time. Was it simply location? Did they have a more formidable military than other nearby countries and therefore required surprise?

I understand the ancient Hebrews would use the blood from their sacrifices as fertilizer. However, I'm unclear as to how that process worked.

Was the blood simply added to water and spread on the fields or did they have an ancient approach to creating blood meal fertilizer?

What I'm looking for are the nuts and bolts for a screenplay I'm writing.

Is calling it the "Prussian Model" accurate or more an artifact of how contemporary sources viewed it? Was there any serious pushback against this system from other educational leaders? The founding fathers seemed mostly content to leave education in the hands of the religious schools. As an aside (and I don't want to break the 20 year rule, so please ignore if it does), does anyone have some sources on how much we are still seeing the legacy of the system? My own understanding of this topic boils down to "the system was designed to create obedient little soldiers who could calculate a ballistic trajectory and die for their country" and the legacy seems to touch on the common core's STEM emphasis. However, like many subjects here, I'm seeing glimpses of just enough to understand I have probably been oversimplifying!

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Ive recently had a discussion about the number of people murdered during the holocaust, and that discussion revealed some glaring inconsistencies in peoples opinions about the number of victims.

As a german I am most familiar with a number of around 6 to 7 million, usually split between 5-6 million jewish and 1 million members of other groups. Some people in that discussion however stated a total deathcount of 11/20 million, which were new to me personally. Now I have read up on the german and english wikipedia articles which state 5,5 to 6,3 and 11 million victims respectively.

The german article only speaks about jews, while the english article includes many other groups in its count. Now Im left wondering which of the many victims of WWII are to be included in the Holocaust, and which are not, in a academic historiographic sense.

Thanks in advance for any informed answer!

I was remembering way back in the day when I used to fly on DC-10s, there was this big protrusion from the ceiling of the middle seats with a big projector inside. The flight attendants asked everyone to close the shades so people could see the movies. It got me thinking about the latest in personal on demand IFE that’s so widespread now.

How did inflight entertainment evolve throughout history? Has technology impacted the way airlines paid or licensed the content?

In his book, A Brief History of the Samurai - A New History of the Warrior Elite, Jonathan Clements argues that, in the shadow of Occupation authority censorship of samurai narratives, ninja were more or less invented to fill the gap in popular entertainment.

With samurai still out of favour, writers and artists, particularly on the left, found a new working-class hero to lionize. Potboiler novels, comics and TV shows began to speak of a heretofore unmentioned underclass of assassins, the ninja. Considering the ubiquity of the ninja in twenty-first century popular culture, it is remarkable how fast they appear to have sprung out of nowhere in the 1950s and 1960s.

He further argues that

Any attempts to make a scholarly study of ninja lead down a series of false trails, with modern sources that end up only citing each other, and credulous populist works that claim any reference in an old account to shinobi (stealth, spies, assassins) was in fact a reference to one of several secret ninja societies that stayed in the shadows.

Is there a general consensus about the "realness" of the ninja among scholars of Japanese history?

(Clements also provides a longer argument criticizing other sources of ninja history in the notes and references of the book, which I can transcribe if needed.)

Hello friends, so I'm not European nor do I have any European blood so I'm really having trouble regarding this since there are many kinds as to how runes are written.

I've had a tough breakup and things are really hard on me right now. And I want to get rune tattoos to remind me of this.

The word is relatively simple. I just want one that says "no one" in runes tattooed along my spine.

I know this may be a long shot but if you could help me even just some resources, I would be eternally thankful to you.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Im running a dnd campaign based on pirates off the Gulf of Mexico, and such my friend stole a Galleon transporting large amounts of Tobacco.

They are looking to higher crew members, and I want to give them NPCs other than dude with a gun.