I've read about the great migration of the Goths spurred by the Hunnic invasion and the huge lengths they traveled. However I'm interested if a wandering "horde of barbarous" Goths could be distinguished from a Hunnic warband? Did the Goths set-up temporarily like Legionnaires establishing ground or did they lack even the most basic planning?
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Kia Ora, first time poster, no idea how to format or anything. I have a walking stick in my family given to my great-grandfather in World War I. The story behind the walking stick is that each carving is a generation. We know the story could be Tainui or Ratana/East Coast Iwi based for the past three generations beforehand, but then we get to these carvings: https://imgur.com/a/4zu8A The carving starts with the bottom symbol in the two symbol image (forgot to flip before uploading), before going around to that single carving, and then to the top carving of the first image. They could be initials, they could be anything else. I thought I'd ask you guys to get your opinions on it! If another subreddit would be better, please say! I'll be searching for information on it when I begin my bachelors in Maori History next month and have more access to resources.
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Medieval Backpacks! Did they exist, what were they like? In absence of wagons or horses/pack animals, what kind of personal baggage (that can be worn) did people utilize. When traveling, when marching, when hunting etc. I imagine hunters would carry encampment tools in bags to set up camp. Same with marching soldiers/mercenaries. Carrying supplies to set up camp etc.
Do those side satchel bags you see a lot in games/movies/tv exist as well?
Any time period is fine, but I'm looking for 15th century.
Thanks!
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Was it only underground and illegal or was there something sanctioned by the government?
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I also saw this article on the internet. It describes and compares the fighting power of the U.S. and German Wehrmacht during WW2. Is this a fair assessment?
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I sometimes hear that the south left the union because of states rights, and i understand like some tariffs and stuff like that, but most of the tension/conflicts between the north and south was over things like Bleeding Kansas, Missouri Compromise, the acquisition of mexican territory that led to probs about popular sovereignty, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, etc. which all led back to the discussion of slavery. So where did the narrative that the civil war was fought over state’s rights come from?? I get that back then people regarded slaves as property and they had the “right” to take their property wherever they wanted, but is that it? Is there something that i wasnt taught in my AP US History class?? Or is it just a thing that ppl say to make the south seem less racist than it actually was?
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Hello friendly historians!
I am reading a book about spacecraft when I came across the line "The airspace over the continental United States was never penetrated during World War II despite the efforts of the two largest air forces ever assembled" [1, pp 1].
I'm not super familiar with WWII, but as a casual observer I am not aware of any effort to penetrate the airspace of the continental US. Are there particular events or strategies that the Axis forces implemented to try to penetrate the airspace of mainland USA? If not, what do you think the above line means?
Thanks!
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So that he can become King Arthur
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Without electronic equipment that reacts as fast as rounds move how would they have measured muzzle velocity and bullet velocity even in old black powder firearms?
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While the story of Aeneas feels suitably epic and romantic, the story of his descendant Romulus is decidedly less so. The mythical founder and first king of Rome was a bastard born of rape who murdered his own brother. Even if this had actually happened, it seems strange that the Romans would continue to tell what appears (to a modern eye, at least) to be such an unflattering story about their founding.
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Here's the post was he really respected at the time? If not when did he become respected enough to be referenced on Reddit today/is he just referenced as a silly story from history?
Similarly, were people just more accepting of such behavior at the time? I just cannot image someone getting away with this in recent times and still carry the title 'philosopher'. Are there any examples of similar figures in the past 100 years? 50 years?
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I Love ancient Rome and would like to get a S.P.Q.R tattoo but my friend said it was linked to Nazism, is this anyway true ?
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Did they have massive exercises to train and practice strategies on like modern militaries? Or did the commanders just give them their orders and hope that they were skilled enough?
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They would be relatively old, but doing the math I could see the possibility of a Civil War veteran being at a leadership age in the military.
As a follow-up, there would be media and others alive across these two wars. Was there discussion of the Civil War when America entered the fray for WWI?
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An article posted in r/history about Mormon archaeologists has this to say:
Smith's account of buried wonders was one of many in the United States at the time. As white settlers moved west, they encountered mounds filled with skeletons and artifacts, including beautiful pottery and ornaments. Newspapers, including those in Smith's hometown of Palmyra, New York, buzzed with speculation about who the "mound builders" were and how they came by their refined culture. Many settlers, blinded by racism, concluded that the mound builders—now known to be indigenous farming societies—were a lost people who had been exterminated by the violent ancestors of Native Americans. The Book of Mormon, with its saga of righteous, white Nephites and wicked, dark-skinned Lamanites, echoed these ideas.
I'd love to know what some of the other popular theories were, and how widely these beliefs were held. Did most Americans not believe that natives could have done these things? Also, the narrative of the Book of Mormon has always struck me as odd, outlandish, and hard to believe, but would this explain why so many people were taken with it?
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We often see people repeat the inaccurate myth that the only substantive strategy the Soviets had was to send wave after wave of barely armed soldiers into German machine guns until the Germans caved in.
But we also see the Japanese Imperial Army recieve the same treatment. In shows like 'The Pacific', we see Japanese soldiers, while in superior numbers, charge wave after wave into entrenched USMC positions, dying by the thousands.
Did the IJA ever do this as a matter of offical doctrine, even when they were in a clear numerical advantage? If so, why? They did not lack in heavy and light machine gun support, so why do this?
Banzai charges were a thing yes, but i was under the impression they only happened as a last resort. I just have doubts, considering how pervasive the inaccurate Soviet version of this myth.
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In going back over modern European history, I've realized recently that the revolutions of 1848 were almost completely left out of my education, which I'm trying to amend. Can anyone recommend reading for a good starting point to understand the political and economic consequences and their aftermath? I'd like to have a much better orientation toward this critical episode.
Relatedly, were these revolutions more nationalist in character or socialist (I'm sure it varies geographically)?
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