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Preferably in economic terms, although others would definitely be appreciated too!

I got to know that while east Berlin has a relatively dense tram railroad network in the city, West Berlin does not because it was mostly dismantled during the cold war. Both parts inherited the tram network built before the partition of Germany.

Why did West Berlin so? Because busses are more flexible for a little political enclave?

I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a comprehensive text covering history between the British and Irish 1900-2000?

I was taught WW2 history with Stanley Payne's A History of Fascism where he lays out the tenets of fascism in the beginning. Saying its a negation of communism and liberalism, Will to power, Stress on masculinity, Labor/management cooperation, Nationalism, etc.

I know it's not a strict doctrine and there's different variations but every historian tries to highlight key themes.

What do other historians use? What are the key tenants of fascism?

What motivation did they have? How much money did they make from any patents they developed? What kind of government/private contracts/prizes were out there for inventions involving fight? Did they just want to be the first?

What was he trying to accomplish.

I know we have evidence of rulers and such from ancient times, but what writings/evidence do we have into the lives of common people?

A friend mentioned letters to a son in Egypt, but I can't find anything using google.

My history teacher said, that for the next lesson (tomorrow) we have to find out where did the Cold War start. He said there were two places. I searched the Internet but I found nothing. Please help.

To elaborate i mean for example strong catholic states, like Austria,

wouldn't they try to "cleanse the land of heresy" in places where they adopted Protestantism

Or do i have something really wrong?

I hope this question isn't insensitive. Obviously slavery is incredibly immoral, I'm just curious about what the reasoning would have been at the time.

It seems as though the Navy shelled the crap out of islands in the Pacific, but why didnt they do the same before the Normandy beach invasion?

What would they do for amusement? How was their day spent? Where did they sleep? What did they eat? When they reached a harbor what their activities be when they were in port?

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I've heard no, but I wanted to see if this was indeed the case.

or some other form of semi dictatorship. any info would be nice.

I know the concept of "Roman citizenship" features prominently in accounts of Roman history, especially when the relation of the Romans with subjugated people is described. This means that the Romans had an at least implicit idea of what constituted statehood. How was the Roman state formulated and how did one acquire participation therein? Did the Romans treat their statehood by the tripartite definition we use today (territory, people, effective power) or was it a cultural or ethnic conception? Did the Romans generalize their concept of a state to form a category that included other polities that we recognize as such today and that they would have known of? I.e. could a Roman have spoken intelligibly about Rome and the Persian Empire being both "states", in the same way as we know that Italy and Iran are both "states"?

Or rather, specifically, how long did it take to build the roman empire, well before it fell?

I'm looking for a ballpark figure, to work out the timeline of my story's history. Right now I have it at around 10-20 years (including the war that occurs in my timeline), given it was a hostile takeover.

Is this reasonable?