I came here from a thread on /r/Europe that was talking about King Leopold II. One poster in that thread from Nigeria was talking about how difficult it was for the British to control Nigeria, and how he was wondering how ever King Leopold II was able to control an area 4x the size of his country. So what I was wondering was:
The Congo Free state was a huge place, how could King Leopold control all this land, especially as a private venture?
Did he ever control all of the Free State, or was he just focusing on the vital money making parts?
Was there any large scale resistance against his rule in the Congo from the native tribes? Did any tribes rise up in rebellion against his rule?
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Also what happened to the "roman people" of Italy after Rome fell? Did they immediately lose their roman identity?
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just curious
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I've done a fair bit of googling on this and can't find an answer. Are they too ancient and/or apocryphal?
Edit: Just heard on the history of Rome podcast about the sack of Rome destroying basically all the primary documentation. Welp.
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As far as i understand it seems as though he personally owned the Congo, and Belgium itself had no control over it until they took it from him. How is this possible? Did other countries recognise his ownership?
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Just watched Troy again after some time and Achilles isn't a huge fan of obeying orders of Agamemnon. Why was he fighting for him from the beginning?
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By this I mean Pre-1500s.
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Was it entirely under the charge of the Meiji Oligarchy or did Meiji himself actually have de-facto power to change the course of the freshly-minted Empire?
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Were Queens just figureheads controlled by their husbands or others, or did they act mostly on their own?
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I've cited a quote from Wikipedia for this.
For some context, he was on a mission and, having ran out of ammunition, spoke to fellow pilot Theodor Weissenberger over the radio;
Theo, I have run out of ammunition. I'm going to ram this one. Good bye. We'll see each other in Valhalla.
This has piqued my curiosity for many reasons. Was this a genuine belief, or more of a grandiose way to farewell a friend? Was some kind of belief or reveration for Norse mythology at all unique to Ehrler, or was it more common in the German people at the time?
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Currently there's a queen, Margrethe II, but her successor is Crown Prince Frederick.
It just seems odd that for half a millennium not a single king of Denmark has decided to stand out from the crowd of Fredericks and Christians and take a different regnal name.
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To make this a little less ambiguous, I'm referring to just before Jesus' time, or in the environment he grew up in
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Which offers more protection from bullets, etc, American helmets from WWII or American helmets now?
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How did (say) the average Hakka speaker come to the understanding that they were a member of the Han ethnic group in the Chinese nation, speaking the Hakka dialect of Chinese, rather than a member of the Hakka nation speaking the Hakka language but oppressed by a Qing "prisonhouse of nations?" Did warlords in the early 20th try to mobilize people on these lines? What were the plausible rivals to the "Five Races Under One Union" view that prevailed, and how did it?
(Sorry if some of my premises are confused or if this is an overly broad question!)
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I know both these civilizations were from the ancient world but who were they exactly and what significance did they have in Egypt? Were they alive at the same time or did they both come from different time periods?
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Has there been a similar occurrence to the Cultural Genocide experienced by the aboriginal population in Canada? How long did it take, and how was it recovered from?
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That could have ended the war.
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In China, the top 3 surnames have a population larger than that of Indonesia. In Vietnam, roughly 40% of the population has the last name Nguyen.
However, this is much less the case in most western cultures. Smith, Jones and Williams were the most common last names in England in 1991, but they only add up to be 2.75% of the total population.. In Spain, the numbers are higher, but they are still nowhere near the prevalence of the Asian surnames..
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