As an Asian people, why did the Japanese generally treat military and civilian POWs from white European, American and Antipodean nations better than POWs from and the civilian populations of the occupied nations/colonies within Asia itself?

While I'm sure there are flaws to totality of the credit due, I've read frequently enough about how many works of Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle, were essentially forgotten about in Europe during the Early Middle Ages, and only "rediscovered" by Western thinkers due to the work of scholars in the Arabic world who had saved the works and eventually retransmitted it back into Europe. Again, I'm sure there are flaws to this narrative as it seems far too neat and tidy, not to mention the tinge of "DARK AGES", but nevertheless, I feel it safe to say it isn't wholly wrong, and that at the very least we can posit that Ancient Greek philosophical works were available and read in the Islamic world during the medieval period, aka "Islamic Golden Age". So as such, I'm interested in how these works influenced Islamic scholars of the period, and how it came to affect their theology.

Additionally does the switch in calendars interfere with historical dating prior to the switch?

I'm not sure if this question would be suited better to r/askscience , but I wanted to ask here first. I was kind of daydreaming of what I would do if I were suddenly transported back to Native American territory, and if I'd be able to have as complete of a diet as I do now.

When Germany and Japan invaded other nations, several resistance movements sprang up immediately and persisted for years until the war was over. Polish resistance, French resistance, Russian partisans, Filipino resistance, occupied Chinese resistance, Korean resistance, etc.

... where was the German and Japanese resistance when the Allies occupied their country? The Axis powers seemed to basically just lay down and surrender in 1945. Why didn't civilians and former military personnel rise up - bomb Allied transport trains, disrupt Allied communications, sabotage supplies, incite riots in cities, and such?

Today's Venice is a famous premier tourist destination thanks to her unique city scenes that are full of canals. In fact, tourism is the main driver of the Venetian economy today. However, before Venice became a tourism-focused city, she had been the center of one of the most powerful maritime empires in the Mediterranean until the 19th century.

How did Venice decay from being one of the most powerful maritime entities to being a backwater that now relies solely on tourism? I read that the Venetian Republic was powerful because it held a trade monopoly between the East and the West until the rise of Ottoman Empire took away this monopoly. Is this loss of monopoly truly the main reason behind Venice's fall?

Also, whether the rise of Ottoman Empire was the reason behind Venice's fall or not, why did the same cause not lead to the fall of Genoa - a comparable but less-powerful maritime republic? In fact, Genoa today has even gained more importance as Italy's largest port while Venice never regained her former glory. I am curious why the two Italian maritime republics had two vastly different futures.

tl;dr version: Why did Venice lose her maritime importance, and why didn't the same cause lead to Genoa's fall as well?

Title. Whenever there is talk about Bushido, at least one guy points out that Bushido was more or less invented during later times to serve nationalistic purposes or something. So, how would Samurai be expected to conduct themselves during the Sengoku Jidai, both in an outside combat?

My grandfather spent around a year in Russian occupied territory after the end of WW2 as a former Italian Military Internee. A good part of that time was spent painting for officer's clubs, with subjects ranging from country scenes to portraits of Lenin.

While my grandfather was not a renown artist, this made me wonder - as I suppose there must have been others, like him, painters, carpenters, smiths, etc. who left a material trace of their passage - if there was ever an attempt to collect those items or link them to the people who made them.

My question is inspired by WW2 events but I would appreciate also informations on other time periods, or areas.

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Military bases? Trade? Environmental factors?

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Did any of the soldiers or media point this out at the time?