That seems like a very long time to maintain a majority, with many divisive political issues occurring in that span. How was the Democratic Party able to maintain its majority for so long?

The possibility of finding Cleopatra's tomb makes me giddy, but as someone who majored in anthropology/archaeology, I know to take it with a certain degree of skepticism.

I think Kathleen Martinez is an amazing and inspiring personality, as I read about her. But I'm worried that she is getting our hopes up too much. I'm excited about what she and the team have found, because honestly, even if they don't find the tomb, they've found a wealth of information.

My question is how historians and archaeologists are following this? And what they think of it?

As far as I know of the Janissaries, they were christian slave boys taken and forcefully converted to Islam and served has elite soldiers for the Sultan. I also know they belonged to the bekhtashi order which was a shia sufi tariqa. My question is why would the Sunni Sultan forcefully convert these kids to Shia Islam? Especially since they were at war with the Shia Safavids for a large chunk of their reign?

Just curious lol.

I'm doing a bit of research on what the medical profiles of a person might have been roughly a thousand years ago. I figured I'd get a broad view of the history of medicine first and then start narrowing things down. There's apparently a lot of books regarding the history of medicine and I'm a bit overwhelmed. Can someone point me somewhere to start?

I know this isn't history related,but I would be quite thankful if this post won't be removed.

In feudal Japan, samurais could commit seppuku for various reasons : their lord died and they wanted to go with him, they dishonoured their title/family/lords... Like the tea ceremony, the making of a katana or the Bushido code, it was more and more codified through the years. What was the pinnacle of this codification ?

I heard, I don't know if it's true or not, that at some point after cutting their bellies, they had to write a haiku with their own blood and that the samurai responsible of the beheading should not completely cut the head but let it hang a little to the neck. Is all of this true, or is it just a rewriting of history like the romantic period rewrote "my ancestors the Gauls" in France ?

I realise that this is a very broad question, but I am curious. How did Indian musicians and intellectuals respond to the differences and challenges posed by the European musical tradition? Further, how did Imperial domination shape the interaction?

Hi,

So, I want to embark on a research on the effects of climate on the political and economic development of the state. I assume, as a part of my research, I would have to turn to history as well. What I have noticed is that the most of violent revolutions the world went through in the last millennia coincided with the Little Ice Age (1600-1700s), during which average harvest per acre of land fell, paving way for famines and battered living standards. Angry and hungry, the mobs revolted. This is just one example of how the changes in climate have come to shape world's history and politics. I wonder if there have been other some historical examples where the effects of climate on the state affairs have been evident. Maybe somehow the state/community structure has been different in warmer countries compared to the colder ones? Or, are there any theories/books on the relationship between the atmospheric temperatures and the way people behave?

Thanks!!!

My understanding is that the US poached many scientists from Nazi Germany after WWII (namely, Wernher von Braun) to help US nuclear science and aviation, as well as to prevent them from falling into Russian hands. Did the US poach scientists from Japan as well? And was Russia competing for them as well?

I mean like black, not olive colored or brown like middle eastern. I mean like actual really dark black skinned. And if so, did he get any flak about it?

Follow-up: How would, say, a Finnish or American volunteer be taught German? Or were they expected to already know?