Did they enact a tax from the local farmers? Were they the centers of local government?
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It is a well-known quirk of pre-modern theories of motion that objects can only have one kind of motion applied at any time. An arrow would therefore first move forward in a straight line, and then stop its forward movement and drop straight down. This is ofcourse not actually how arrows or cannonballs behave.
Does anyone know of medieval drawings or descriptions of ballistics which show the correct arch-like trajectories projectiles follow?
This would show an interesting conflict between philosophical knowledge at the time, and military knowledge.
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Since the atomic bombs desttoyed these two cities in 1945, and radioactive fallout can last thousands of years, how are people able to live in these two cities - especially near Ground Zero so quickly after the end of World War II?
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I'm reading a history of Christianity by DiarMaid McCullough, and it led me to wondering how the Christian belief spread towards the first 100.000 people. I can imagine what happens when a belief system reaches a critical threshold, but how does it get there? Why this specific belief system, and not any of the local or less-local competitors? (Any insights on how it went from 100K to 1M or so are also welcome of course.)
Many thanks for your insights!
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So I lately read a bit about the yugoslav wars and how the croatian army for example did not have very good equipment at the start of the war. Did organised crime in the balkans improve the situation for them for example?
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And did they keep any of their old gods without turning them into Roman gods?
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Posted this in /r/askhistory before and was redirected here. I'm not sure if it's within the scope of the subreddit rules. I'll delete my post if it's deemed not suitable.
On wikipedia I ran into an article about counterfactual history. The general idea is to do some sort of thought experiment about what did not happen, in order to better understand what actually happened.
This seems to be a search for relations of cause and effect, and mostly a search for those that determined the way things worked out.
Are there any historians who seriously work this way, and if so, isn't their work mostly speculative? I'm not sure I see the use of such a practice.
Thanks in advance :)
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On the first episode of Generation war, which takes place in 1941 Berlin, I found these two people in the background wearing bright brown uniform. The only uniform of this color I know of is SA (Stormtroopers) but they didn't exist anymore around 1941, as far as I understand. Here is another closer look of the uniform.
Sorry if this question doesn't belong here, but I don't know where else.
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Re: that time period
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My understanding is that there were several river routes through Eastern Europe to reach the Black and Caspian Seas (involving portages and such).
Did a lingua franca develop along these river routes? If you were to take the Volga Route from start to finish is there a single language that would do you the most good?
I have read that many languages along this route have gone extinct, evolved, or diminished tremendously in recent centuries. What languages would you have encountered?
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Some are vertical , others are horizontal, and I was just wondering if there was a symbolic difference between the two, or if it was purely aesthetic?
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They were a group of militant warrior monks in Japan during the Warring States period that were a massive destabilizing element from about 1500-1587. Also, any other recommendations would be welcome.
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We were studying the story of Lazarus in class, and I noticed something strange. On traditional icons representations of the rising of Lazarus, we can see Jesus stepping on the clothes of one of the sisters.
Like this
http://www.easterngiftshop.com/media/ecom/prodlg/Lazaruscst03Flyer.jpg
http://www.janvanbiezen.nl/icon/lazarus2x.jpg
https://patmcinerney.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/image235.jpg
Does it have a specific meaning ?
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During the last years of the Qing Dynasty, China was dominated by foreign powers which set up spheres of influence such as these.
At the end of WWII in 1945, however, all spheres of influence have ceased to exist and the Chinese once again had control over their whole country (whether Communist or Nationalist, and ignoring USSR's temporary occupation of Manchuria).
My question is, how and when did Britain, France, Russia and Japan gradually give up their spheres of influence?
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As far as I know, the word "holocaust" means basically "animal sacrifice" and before Shoah was used only in that context. Why on Earth somebody thought that it should be a good name for genocide? Isn't it a little bit demeaning?
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A big part of antebellum American politics was ensuring that the admission of a new free state was balanced by theadmission of a new slave state. Lots of plans were floated for acquiring new lands that could become slave states, including purchasing Cuba. But eventually geography and climate would have left the Southern plantation economy with nowhere to expand to. Did Southern politicians have a plan in mind for this eventuality? Specifically, did the consider splitting an existing slave state in two, in order to get the extra senate seats?
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