My English students are writing research papers on the blues as cultural expression, and one of them asked me this question. It seems like something as culturally rich and vibrant as music (particularly its deep relationship with the black community) would have been a target for hate groups to disrupt, mock, or otherwise suppress. Parker from 10th grade says 'Hi,' and thanks in advance!
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Most social movements that I've read about are against governments and their actions, but is there any historical precedent for movements against private industry?
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It seems this must have been somewhere fairly significantly after the founding and spread of Christianity.
Assuming this was some sort of pre-schism Catholic action, why did the Orthodox and protestant offshoots not revert back to the original schedule?
What peaked my curiosity is linguistics - I'm currently studying Greek. The Greek/Italian/Spanish words for "Saturday" are "Sabado", which is a mangled version of the Hebrew word "Sabbath". From this it seems logical that this change would have had to take place after say the founding of the Byzantine empire, or the spread of Christianity through Rome (eg, the people/leaders would have had to be christian already in order to rename their days of the week to use "Sabbath" - whereas the latin (and English) world for Saturday is obviously pagan from Saturn).
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I haven't been able to find a lot of information about this, as most information doesn't have credible sources and generally seem based on popular info or myth, so please link sources, thanks!
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I know there weren't opinion polls until very recently. But is there any way to estimate when a general opinion of a country is one way or another? I'd love to see a map that shows the date of when each country switched from "majority believe in witchcraft/spells/etc" to "majority do not believe in witchcraft/spells/etc."
To be transparent about my motive: I've heard the argument a few times that "the first countries to adopt universal human rights and to permanently abolish slavery were ones where Christianity was the majority. Therefore Judeo-Christian values are important for morality." But this seems like correlation not causation. And I was trying to figure out if the majority of these countries shared other beliefs that most now agree are crazy.
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This source also suggests that
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/amp/
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In the process of revising for an upcoming exam on Rome and I was curious. I'm assuming that 'working out' as we think of it today wasn't something that happened, yet I'd guess that their day to day activities would be far more physically demanding than ours. Plus the military campaigns must have been really strenuous. How was their cardio? How strong would the average Roman have been?
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Nowadays obviously a lot of artists are very vocal about moral grievances like war or political opression and openly demand changes to be made. Has this always been the case, given that in the past (mostly looking at the period of 1600-1900) the only way of advocating a certain opinion for artists would be through paintings or their music (as newspapers were mostly under state control)?
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Im aware that the byzantine empire is the roman empire but this way its easier to differenciate the two.
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This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.
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Far from the stereotype of being secluded in an ivory tower of babble, historians have a long history of traveling the world, going to war, negotiating for international peace, and--yes--punching Nazis.
For today's "Tuesday" Trivia, tell me about your favorite real-life Indiana Jones and Henry Jones, Sr. (who is, BY THE WAY, a medievalist...you know that's right).
Next Week: Doggies!
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My grandfather was an MP in Northern Germany from 1947-1948, and he made a scrapbook about his times in the then-newly established Danish MP-brigade. He glued his leftover "money" inside the scrapbook, which contains Danish kroner, German mark, and this one British pence, and I don't know the use of them. I see the "For use only as detailed on the reverse" but I'm unable to see the backside.
Why was this needed, and why couldn't they use normal money? The Danish kroner I have is also only for military use, and they were from Denmark and probably had Danish regular kroner as well.
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Not sure if I can ask this question here, but I'll try anyway.
I love history, and I'm about to graduate from high school, but I'm not sure whether I'll be able to make a career out of it. I'd like to hear your experience: what do you guys do for a living? Did you specialize in anything? How hard was it to find a job? Hope you guys can help me, and sorry if this kind of question is not allowed!
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I would like to know the motives behind the Marquis of Pombal's 1761 decision to abolish slavery in Portugal. Was it due to altruistic reasons or was there some monetary incentive behind it? The Brits abolished slavery thanks to Wilberforce's efforts and the declining value of the slave trade, so was it the same case as with the Portuguese?
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Around Caesar's time, if possible.
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Futures markets are useful. People whose livelihoods depend on volatile commodity prices can ease their souls by hedging in futures markets. People who want to get rich and have an appetite for risk can use futures markets to speculate.
A futures market does not require sophisticated technology. You don't need a full-blown electronic exchange. Wikipedia says the first futures exchange was in the 1730s in Japan, when the medium of exchange was rice. (However, futures contracts existed at least a century earlier during the Dutch tulip mania.)
Before this time how did farmers, butchers, importers, exporters, shippers, miners, blacksmiths, and others who relied on commodity prices mitigate their risk? Are futures markets older than Wikipedia indicates? Were there informal insurance markets? Did they "self-insure" via high savings rates? Or did these people just get wiped out every few years?
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In The Prize, author Daniel Yergin says that Chinese were drilling 3000-foot wells in their quest for salt for centuries before oil drilling began in Pennsylvania. And I know that in some places, pre-industrial societies obtained salt via evaporation. So mining salt in horrible conditions is not the only option.
But salt mines seem to have taken on an almost iconic status as a hellish work environment to which one would be sent as a punishment little short of death. Were they more dangerous than other mines (or other forms of penal labor)? Where, if anywhere, was being sent to work in salt mines really used as a form of punishment, and for what crimes?
A subreddit search turned up a few interesting things about salt, but nothing relevant.
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