I thought Socialism and Communism is the same thing. More government control over our lives. How could he hate one with such a passion and dedicate his life to the other when both are so similar?

Prior to 1903, airplanes were the stuff of science fiction, then the Wright Brothers come along and have the first "flight" which was little more than a glider riding the wind current for an extended distance. Within a decade we have fully motorized propeller planes engaged in battle in World War 1. How was the technology able to evolve so quickly from nothing to not far off from the technology still being used today?

It is estimated that a minimum of 18 million Africans were enslaved by Arab slave traders. What ever happened to these slaves and why don't you see their descendants in Arabia today like we see African-Americans in the Americas?

Just wondering if there are bread crumbs of some sort that connect social, cultural, economic, political etc forces to culminate into such powerful Art movements like Dada, Abstract Expressionism, and then Pop?

Bonus if someone wants to speculate what's next (besides graffiti)?

[deleted]

Hi guys, I've got a question. Are the "The great courses" dvds worth their money? Has anyone of you tried them and could tell me wether they are as awesome as I expect 300$ stuff to be?

Can some one recommend me some books about WW1 written like the style Anthony Beevor wrote The WW2 book. Thanks in Advance!

i just want to know until when did humanity knew that sex is the cause of pregnancy

I was researching Lucrezia Borgia, and I found it interesting that according to most sources, she had at least one lover (Pietro Bembo) while married to her third (very powerful) husband, Alfonso d'Este.

So my question is, was there some kind of unspoken understanding that married women from patrician families occasionally had affairs? Yes, there were some like Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo who, when suspected of adultery, were pretty much left at the mercy (or lack thereof) of their husband, but I doubt punishment-by-death was the norm.

Was it not a big deal merely because no one knew about their affair when Lucrezia was alive, or because the benefits of a political alliance allowed her husband to overlook infidelity? How much does socioeconomic class come into play here?

Any thoughts?

Howdy, I remember someone telling me about a quote from the Cold War. The quote is: "If we get blown back to Adam and Eve, I want them to be speaking English." Of course, this quote is most likely paraphrased, so I'm wondering who said a quote like this one and what the correct quote is.

We at the Central Committee of the AskHistorians subreddit are pleased to announce the new representatives of the people who have been democratically chosen by the will of the popular masses. We ask for your acclamations of their elevation to this high and lofty status in light of the need for democratic centralism in the face of the bourgeois imperialist threat.

These are the new representatives of the people who will fight against the boaxing of soaps, will send trolls to inglorious exile, and will purge low effort replies which betray the soft, bourgeois nature of their authors!

The Central Committee has granted leave for the regulated expression of mirth in this thread.

/u/chocolatepot : Expert in the History of Western Fashion.

/u/snapshot52 : Expert in Native American Studies and the vile wiles of Colonialism!

/u/AsiaExpert : Expert in being an expert in all matters related to China, Korea, and Japan.

/u/tenminutehistory : Expert in our glorious Soviet Motherland!

So I am reading Adrian Goldsworthy's book Roman Warfare and currently on the chapter where he describes the early roman triplex acies in detail. He mentions how that roman heavy infantry often carried two pilum, one of which was significantly heavier than the other. I was under the impression that a legionnaire threw both pilum as precursor javelin before switching to their gladius. If pilum were designed to bend once they made contact with an enemy shield to render it useless what would be the point of having one being made heavier than the latter?

Tell me about crime-fighting and law-keeping in your area of interest!

I hope this is the right place for this question.

What are Arabs? or native people of the Arabian Peninsula to be specific? Whenever I try to apply to something I find 'Arabs/Middle East' Ethnicity under 'White' race. Are Arabs also white? I know Asian-Arabs and Afro-Arabs exist and they belong to different races.

More specifically, I'm talking about a dedicated place the common people can go to have food prepared fully for them, which they eat at the establishment. Though I think it would also be neat if it turns out there were class restricted resteraunts in Roman times or something.

Hi all. I was curious about royal houses in Europe throughout history, and I'm having a hard time finding a listing of what color combinations belong to which royal houses. Does anyone have a link to a list of the royal color combinations for each house, or if not, can anyone tell me which royal house(s) claim yellow and pink as their definitive coat-of-arms/royal colors? Thank you very much for any time and effort put in. :)

For example, in English it's Germany, in German it's Deutschland, in Lithuanian it's Vokietija, in Norwegian it's Tyskland, in French it's Allemagne, etc. Why is it so different everywhere?

I always thought of myself as relatively historically literate so this bit of American History came as a bit of a shock when I recently learned of it. Over about 75 years from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century, 200,000 (mostly orphan) children were taken from American cities and sent across the country via train to be put up for adoption. Is the account I heard even accurate? What actually became of them? I read that one went on to become a Supreme Court Justice but Google yielded no results when I tried to ascertain which Justice rode the Orphan Trains.

This Quora answer suggests it's sorta incest right? Or am I being moronic here?

Rome and Greece are Mediterranean civilizations. Yes, Rome annexed much of Europe into its empire but through war - Western Rome fell in part due to Germanic groups fighting against that occupation, and the Romans weren't able to occupy all of the British Isles.

So, when did European powers outside of what we can consider the 'core' of Rome start to identify with Greco-Roman history? Was it immediately after the fall of Western Rome, due to the influence of the political elite and religious (Papal) power that Rome created in these areas? Or did it take time for that identity to be claimed?

For example, Thirteen (and not Ten-three), compared to Twenty-three, in English, Dreizehn, compared to Dreiundzwanzig, in German, Treize compared to vingt trois, in French, even dekatreis compared to eikosi tria, for greek.

This isn't found in most other areas of the world: In mandarin, 13 is essentially "ten three" and 23 is "twenty three", and Japanese, sanskrit, Thai, Swahili, Somali, Sotho, among others, follow this sort of method, to some degree