I've been getting into documentaries and it was said that the British had incredibly disciplined and elite soldiers, but also that they would often have terrible victories in terms of how many casualties (using losses in the title may have been confusing) there were against the rebels

Side question - were the scottish part of the GB army or just closely allied?

Hello everyone,

Is there a specific terms for the oral storytellers of Ancient Greece? Like bard, but Greek.

Side question: is there a Latin version of that word?

Thanks!

What did they actually believe them to be?

As the qustion asks, how informed were Allied troops of operations across the continent. Did the Allied Powers try to keep their soldiers informed of victories to keep morale high?

This should be very self explanatory, if i remember correctly the celts had been present over most of western europe, including Ireland and Brittany, im aware that the bretons, Cornish, and Welsh are celtic, but what seperates the irish and scots from the celtic family?

French revolution took place in 1789. We already have a detailed account on this. But can anyone elaborate what was happening during 1789 outside France? Is there any important event that we should know of? P.s. Also If you could recommend me some books on events happening around French revolution.

I'm taking a sociology course right now and in my reading I come across mention of the Soviet Union's collapse and the country that now occupies that land. What I'm wondering is what is the Soviet Union that Russia isn't? As a sidenote, what is Soviet Russia?

First of all, apologies for misspellings.

Now onto the core of the question (Spoilers for the Danish novel 'Ternet Ninja' ahead). I've just finished a novel where a ninja doll is possessed by a ninja from the late 16th century. In the backstory to this ninja, he was charged with protecting the children of his village, but failing, he committed seppuku, as dictated by bushido.

I know that the author is passionate about eastern culture, especially the samurai, but I still have reservations about the historical accuracy of this background story, since it was my understanding that ninjas (shinobi?) were considered to be honourless and therefore not living by bushido, while I also thought seppuku was exclusively for samurai.

Am I entirely off on these assumption, or is the author misinformed?

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Some years ago I heard in a history podcast associated with how stuff work about an empire in the far east (maybe India) that collapse due to poor water treatment. Sadly, I cannot recall much else. Do any of you know about such empire?

In The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895), Brooks Adams made a dubious but interesting claim, and a prediction. He argued that centralized capital (wealth accumulated between ruling families) seems to have gradually moved in one direction from Sumer, to the dynasties of Egypt, followed by Greece, the Italian peninsula, various parts of Germany, then Britain. Then, as it teetered between London and New York in 1900, Adams predicted that American capital would overshadow the British Empire within the first half of the 20th century. This proved correct, and since then a further Westwards shift in capital has occurred from New York to Texas/Western USA.

I can spot some obvious objections to the theory. First it should be said that Adams had absolutely no explanation behind why this occurs and was merely spotting a trend. The reason he ignores Asian centers of capital like Ayutthaya and Beijing is that he is describing the movement of a specific zone of capital that has shifted among a particular ruling class from the Middle-East, across the Mediterranean, to Western Europe and eventually North America.

All this in mind, there are notable setbacks, like how the collapse of Western Rome spurred an Eastward power shift from Italy to Anatolia, or the seeming arbitrary direction of the power shifts in 1600-1900 multipolar Europe.

I think it's likely Adams was seeing a pattern where there wasn't any, but when you consider the most well-known empires from the Middle-East to the Atlantic, the way they seem to shift in one direction through time is too interesting not to talk about. Is there anything more to this?

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, i searched and Checked the FAQ but nothing like this turned up.

Was the dreadnought kept a secret by the Royal Navy or did they display it for the world to see? When did the Germans find out such a ship was being built or was built? How did the Germans find out?