Having lived in both Australia and New Zealand and casually researching their colonial pasts, it seems as though the Maori were afforded a greater level of consideration than the Australian Aboriginals.

Is this a fair assessment? And if so, what might explain these differences?

Did the Jews and Christians living under Muslim rule during the Crusades join the European crusaders? Did they remain neutral, or fight against the Crusaders? Or am I wrong to assume they reacted in the same way, and some joined the crusades while others opposed them?

I was thinking about how we're approaching the year 2020, and as such the term "the twenties" will become more ambiguous, since it could then refer to either the 1920's or the 2020's. Is this something that occurs every century? For example, did the term "the sixties" refer to the 1860's up until 1960 rolled around?

My History teacher once told us this story. A tile or a similar object had fallen from a building and killed a man. The tile was tried for murder, found guilty and destroyed.

I have looked everywhere for evidence of this event really happening, but I can't find anything. Did my teacher make this story up?

Ww1 was fought in the trenches and Ive heard that it was an inneficient way to wage warfare. Why was WW1 fought in the trenches and Why wasnt there trenchwarfe in WW2?

Title. It's 98 degrees out right now, and walking two miles just about wore me out. And I'm not even doing any hard manual labor like farming or ranching. How did people back in the day (Native Americans, Spanish settlers, frontier cowboys,etc) survive in this kind of constant heat and manage to be productive?

I've been reading up on the PLO's history and Arafat's role in it. He seems like a self-interested leader more than anything, though some details involving his less-reputable behaviour such as embezzlement were only recently reported on and thus violate the 20-year rule.

I've heard mixed things: some view him as a hero who led the PLO for nearly 50 years, while others view him as only interested in keeping power and one of the major obstacles towards a Palestinian state (again, discussing things like the 1999 Camp David accords violate the 20 year rule, so I'm primarily looking for answers before the 1990s). I'm assuming the truth is more nuanced and somewhere in the middle, and would appreciate some historical perspectives. Thanks in advance!

I have scanned images from him being discharged from the army in 1945 and it says he received the purple heart. He was a cook and a sergeant. He never spoke to anyone back home about the war (I was born after he died).

It did say that for wounds received in action: "M T O 2 Feb 4" Does anyone know what the wound is?

I was thinking about this while playing AOE 2, during the crusades the Pope called for a freeing of the Holy Land from the Muslims.

If I was just a pious peasant and I felt the religious calling to go free the Holy Land, what were the steps I'd take to prepare for the crusade and more importantly how would I reach the Holy Land? I also know there were a bunch of different groups of crusaders in the Holy Land so which would I join once, assuming I found my way, I got there?

I heard it claimed that buddha and the monks used some plants as LSD drugs or to navigate states of the mind, the medicine buddha painting is also depicted with a bowl full of such a plant and this ties to the vedic-hindu concept of soma.

Is this all just a misinterpretation?

I'm a Dutchman living in Germany, and in US media, I often see typical German names (especially the ones ending in -berg and -stein) used as stereotypical names for Jews, both in fiction and reality. Of course, in the Netherlands and Germany, that's not the case as they're all very German names. Is this an after-effect of WWII? And if not, how did this happen?

Thanks for your time!

How did the perception of slavery change throughout roman history and was there ever something like an Abolitionist Movement? Asking about the Roman Republic as well as the Empire.

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I've been listening to some live sets from BBC Music's Big Weekend this afternoon. Hearing bands (and people introducing them) exhort the audience to "put your hands up!" or "make some noise!" is so familiar as to make it seem like it's always been done.

(Incidentally, I'm not quite sure what to call this specific kind of shout-out. Does it have a specific name?)

As we know, everything starts somewhere. So what is the history here? When do the call-outs we're familiar with in popular music today start, and where do they come from? What did Elvis shout to audiences (other than "thnkyouvrymch") to get them excited, or Little Richard, or the Beatles?

More broadly, what is the history of interaction with the audience?

(I've limited this to popular music, but only to focus the question - I am interested in other genres and older styles too.)

Voltaire wrote about africans that: "If their understanding is not of a different nature from ours, it is at least greatly inferior. They are not capable of any great application or association of ideas, and seem formed neither in the advantages nor the abuses of our philosophy"

Voltaire, Kant and many other philosophers of the enlightenment were outspoken racists, so how did their ideas affect racism?

PS. i want to mention that im reposting this question a couple days after the same question got no answers. I added this text to increase my chances, so thanks for any kind of reply!

I guess ROC didn't wanted to be replaced. They had the "Veto-Right", which means, that the ROC could block any resolution. So, how could the UN replace Taiwan with Peking?

I mean this not only on a political and administrative level, but also on a social and eventually economic level.

Edit: I don’t intend to say that Germany is or ever was a bad place. I actually am German. I just wonder why this was such a widespread phrase that seems kinda unexplained.

Did Rhodesia have aphartreid (I hope I spelled it correctly) or some other kind of institutional racism? For example, could blacks vote and was there segregation?

Why had Rhodesia lost the bush war? Was it a political or military defeat? And why did the country transfer into a dictatorship under Mugabe?