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In the movie Pompeii (2014), there is a scene in which upper class Roman women were inspecting male sex slaves. Similar scenes have been depicted in the TV series Spartacus.
In history, female sexual slavery is well known. Similarly, has male sexual slavery existed in the ancient world? Which civilizations practiced it? Did commoners participated in the buying of male sex slaves?
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I am asking whether if there has been a stateless society of more than a million people because most non-state societies I have read such as tribes, bands and chiefdoms seem to have number in the thousands but has there any evidence of stateless society having a larger population much more than that?
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“The Souls of White Folk” is an excellent read and you can get to it by clicking the link on this page:https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1681-web-du-bois-the-souls-of-white-folk
Here is the paragraph the quote comes from for context:
"Let me say this again and emphasize it and leave no room for mistaken meaning: The World War was primarily the jealous and avaricious struggle for the largest share in exploiting darker races. As such it is and must be but the prelude to the armed and indignant protest of these despised and raped peoples. Today Japan is hammering on the door of justice, China is raising her half-manacled hands to knock next, India is writhing for the freedom to knock, Egypt is sullenly muttering, the Negroes of South and West Africa, of the West Indies, and of the United States are just awakening to their shameful slavery. Is, then, this war the end of wars? Can it be the end, so long as sits enthroned, even in the souls of those who cry peace, the despising and robbing of darker peoples? If Europe hugs this delusion, then this is not the end of world war,—it is but the beginning!"
I learned very little about World War I in school. Thank you very much to anyone who can comment on the historical accuracy of all this.
I wanted to share some other paragraphs from this essay supporting this same idea in case you're interested:
First:
"Whither is this expansion? What is that breath of life, thought to be so indispensable to a great European nation? Manifestly it is expansion overseas; it is colonial aggrandizement which explains, and alone adequately explains, the World War. How many of us today fully realize the current theory of colonial expansion, of the relation of Europe which is white, to the world which is black and brown and yellow? Bluntly put, that theory is this: It is the duty of white Europe to divide up the darker world and administer it for Europe's good. "
Another quote:
"Thus the world market most wildly and desperately sought today is the market where labor is cheapest and most helpless and profit is most abundant. This labor is kept cheap and helpless cause
the white world despises "darkies." If one has the temerity to suggest that these workingmen may walk the way of white workingmen and climb by votes and self-assertion and education to the rank of men, he is howled out of
court. They cannot do it and if they could, they shall not, for they are the enemies of the white race and the whites shall rule forever and forever and everywhere. Thus the hatred and despising of human beings from whom Europe wishes to extort her luxuries has led to such jealousy and bickering between European nations that they have fallen afoul of each other and have fought like crazed beasts. Such is the fruit of human hatred."
And a third quote:
"The fateful day came. It had to come. The cause of war is preparation for war; and of all that Europe has done in a century there is nothing that has equaled in energy, thought, and time her preparation for wholesale murder. The only adequate cause of this preparation was conquest and conquest, not in Europe, but primarily among the darker peoples of Asia and Africa; conquest, not for assimilation and uplift, but for commerce and degradation. For this, and this mainly, did Europe gird herself at frightful cost for war.
The red day dawned when the tinder was lighted in the Balkans and Austro-Hungary seized a bit which brought her a step nearer to the world's highway; she seized one bit and poised herself for another. Then came that curious chorus of challenges, those leaping suspicions, raking all causes for distrust and rivalry and hatred, but saying little of the real and greatest cause. Each nation felt its deep interests involved. But how? Not, surely, in the death of Ferdinand the Warlike; not, surely, in the old, half-forgotten revanche for Alsace-Lorraine; not even in the neutrality of Belgium. No! But in the possession of and overseas, in the right to colonies, the chance to levy endless tribute on the darker world,-on coolies in China, on starving peasants in India, on black savages in Africa, on dying South Sea Islanders, on Indians of the Amazon-all this and nothing more. "
Thank you and Happy New Year to you.
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Can't seem to find anything on it, or rather, I don't quite know what to search.
As seen here on an American uniform, and here on French uniforms, it looks like a blanket, tied across their chest. I've also seen it on Imperial Japanese uniforms.
I'm assuming it's the soldier's personal items rolled into a kit, and the "blanket" is just that. But is there another practical purpose of it? Surely it would not stop projectiles.
Is there a proper term to call it?
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I just realized how close North America (Alaska state of the US) is to Russia. Why didn't the Russian travelers discover the new world first? They didn't have to sail the ocean like the british for example.
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I know the south shifted Republican after the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 but West Virginia is more of a mystery to me. It started out as a state that rebelled against the south and slavery, it's fairly far north and yet seems to have fallen to a similar pattern.
So my question is what made it a solid Democrat state since the 1930s to a solid Republican state by the 1990s? Was it a cultural/economic shift or something else?
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To preface, I came across a video talking about how a character from the show Bridgerton (yeah, I know, very historically accurate) would have been seen as beautiful due to the beauty standards at the time. This character is Penelope, who is overweight and kind of the butt of jokes, and generally seen as very ugly. So, would someone that was naturally skinny due to metabolism or something else be perceived during these beauty standards? Even if the person was known to be wealthy, would they still be seen as poor and ugly?
I am mainly asking about the Western European (I hope this is the right region) beauty standards of fat being beautiful and the implications of that beauty standard on thin people. However, if a different region, or time period, had similar beauty standards, please add them into your answer :)
Also, if my question would be better suited in a different subreddit, please let me know...
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Nobody had pulled it off before him. Was everyone just sort of okay with it?
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I heard this story from my Western Civilization professor (Who heard this from a tour guide at a castle. I apologize as I do not recall what castle it has been some years since I took that course) that Henry VIII defecated his bed every morning and made his servants clean him and the sheets. While I would like to believe the story for the comedic value, I’ve never seen anything online that confirms or even hints to it
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From what I understand Neanderthals went extinct 40,000 years ago, and aboriginal Australians were around 40,000 years ago - and their culture and rites and stories haven’t changed much.
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Are the nazi item posts ( My grandfather fought against the nazis and brought home this knife, etc.) that I constantly see on social media actually evidence of war crimes that were committed in the ww2?
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It has always struck me as odd that such a minor character should end up with such a catchy, sweet song. It seems a lot more like the sort of song that would go with a successful romantic plot - but this is probably about half of his screen time. Do we know why they did this? Was it to help mislead the audience into thinking Eliza would marry him? Did they just want to give a showpiece to the actor?
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Title says it all. The Wikipedia article was unsatisfactory, regarding the reasons for the creation of the aforementioned constituent republic of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
Honestly, this whole state is a riddle to me, so I‘d love to hear any fact about it.
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Before Hiroshima, what idea did they have of how far along the Allies were and how?
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I've heard that historians complaints around the film were that the film doesn't so much take dramitc license to make events seem more dramatic/ridiculous but that the film actually presents an almost toned down version of real events.
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An example of where I've seen this sentiment expressed is this Hoover Institute video interview about a projected coming demographic/societal collapse of Europe. But I've seen the basic idea expressed several times over the years, but never with any good sourcing.
Is this an idea with any validity? What might a collapse of civilizational self-confidence in the western Roman empire look like? What signs would there be?
Was the sack of Rome something that could have been prevented with a more self-confident, muscular policy?
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Like the title says, this is something that I've been curious about lately as a lot of documentaries and podcast are about serial killers who were mostly active in the 70s and I was wondering why the 70s as such a "special" decade for those sorts of awful crimes?
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It's my understanding that most kingdoms in the early middle ages lacked the requisite logistics to maintain large scale professional armies. So my question is when an army was necessary how would a king go about seeing his drafted peasants trained into something more than just a mob of armed men? Additionally how would they go about procuring men? I assume each vassal lord would be required to supply a certain number of soldiers to the king but how would they go about raising those men? To my knowledge there weren't widespread census information that could be used as lists of men in each village that were eligible for service, so it seems it would be difficult to find (and force?) men to serve especially if they were unwilling to leave their families for long periods of time to go fight a foreign war. With that in mind how would religion work as a motivator for service in the army? Any info you can give on any of these questions or about early medieval armies would be greatly appreciated.
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What popular history says is that Ignaz Semmelweis was discredited by the physicians of the time. But it's all the truth? Or some important portion of the obstetrician believed in his studies? And his studies were well-grounded in the scientific method at the time, or they lacked something? I know that germ theory wasn't accepted at the time, but, even if he could not give the ground of the effectiveness of the method, the method would be simply discarded? Nowadays, I believe, there is a lot of drugs and methods in medicine that even their inventors do not know why they work, but they are used nevertheless
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Meaning the rough equivalent of General during the Roman Empire was a Legate. However Legates where usually Senators from Rome (the city itself). Maximus never seen the city before the events of the movie. So could have a provincial man been so high ranked in the Legions ?
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What sort of drug cocktail should a soldier expect in the event of a Soviet invasion? What will the effects be?
Will their be any long term (permanent) side-effects?
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