Hi! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but this has been bugging me since I've seen it. I haven't heard much of this in older martial arts movies but I have in newer movies.

I have been reading about the Civil War and the brutal consequences America had to face from the war. So I read an article where one say that Civil War was absolutely necessary for the country to be the greatest superpower of the world today. However, some say that the problem of slavery could have been solved because it was declining over time, also because only a minority of white Southerners had slaves. So, I have been wondering if there could have been any way for the Civil War to be averted but still be united as a whole country. Any thoughts?

Both times seem to be described by major powers building up militaries and preparing for a supposedly inevitable war. Did the threat of nuclear weapons cause Cold War leaders to avoid total war at all costs? Wasn't this the case with many new technologies going into WWI as well?

My question is inspired by listening to Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon. He talks about how the size of ancient armies and how their casualties were nothing compared to WWI. But according to Wikipedia, 50-70k Roman troops died in one day. And in WWI, 22k was close to the one day max. So was WWI really not that extreme compared to ancient battles?

I'm not American, and I've been wondering that. I glossed over the Wikipedia (sorry...) page but there was so much background American history that I couldn't really grasp it.

So why and how did that happen? I also accept suggestions of good sources and webpages to read abou it.

Thank you in advance!

I'm curious to see how the meanings of some english words have changed over time, but cannot find any sites that list historical definitions. For instance, what was the official definition of the word "civilian" in 1900 versus today? Surely that would have been in an old edition of the Merriam-webster dictionary, so it must be recorded somewhere.

Do any sites exist that let you look back to historical definitions?

I read the following comment on a facebook page:

Liberals from the 1920s and the 1930s were the ones who decided to tolerate nazism in the name of "free speech". Too bad that today's liberals haven't learned much from History as they tolerate parties such as GOP, UKIP, FN or AfD.

It seems far-fetched that liberals in the 1920/30s would have the same paradigm of free speech which we currently see. Is there any truth to this idea? Were there any attempts in liberal (not leftist) circles to 'censor' or otherwise use direct action against the NSDAP, its leaders, and/or its members?

For the sake of geography (if attitudes varied with geography), consider liberals within Germany itself, within the UK, and within the US.

In WWII most soldiers had either bolt-action or semi-automatic rifles. In subsequent wars, things like AK-47 and M-16 were introduced. How did it change things?

I come back to this subreddit asking for more information regarding slavery throughout history. My Jewish friend learned I was doing a history presentation and he mentioned that the Jews were enslaved by Egyptians, I thanked him for the info as it meant more content for my presentation. I began looking things up and many websites had all said that it never happened and I just cannot find the truth to the question.

Further to this, are there any examples from this period in English or European history of a Peasant rising to (much) higher ranks?

I wonder if the city of Rome during Republican and Imperial times had some kind of "bad district", the typical area that you would avoid during the day and definitively never go in the night, just like it happens in modern big cities.

In case that yes, which district it was? Where was it? Why was it that bad?

I also wonder if they were language-based or ethnic-based guettos like it happens in modern times, as I suppose ancient Rome had immigrants.

What was the normal, regular life for the middle class in 110BC? What was their daily life? Did they had jobs? What were they eating? What was the entertainment? Etc.

Did the locals that survived tell them it was a single bomb? The days of and shortly there after how much information was known to the Japanese? How long did it take them to really figure out what was going on?

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I would prefer things focused on WWI, WWII, or Cold War era, but if you have any recommendations for books from other eras I'd love to hear those too!