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This guy. He seems to have gotten into a feud with a Portuguese commander named Francisco de Almeida. The wiki page of the Battle of Diu states that de Almeida sought to avenge the death of his son at the hands of Mirocem. The Portuguese won the battle, but nothing is said of Mirocem's fate.
Any other information on Mirocem is welcome too. Kurds generally aren't a seafaring people, so it was quite a surprise to see one as admiral of the Mamluks.
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From what I thought was right before, the Franks settled in Gaul and the Alemanni conquered a lot of central Europe/ northern and central Italy/ Frankish Gaul and made the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne. Now I'm learning that Charlemagne was ruler of the Franks, but that means the Franks made the HRE. But the Franks made France right? So why did the French hate the German peoples if the Franks (future French) made the HRE? And how do the Alemanni fit into this?
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Have history course work with it's question relating to 'Stalin being responsible for the Korean War', and wanted to know if there were any good books on this topic - specifically outlining the responsibilities of certain countries in the outbreak of the Korean war.
Thanks
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I think of polenta as classically Italian, but since it's corn-based, it could only really become popular with the rise of corn, tomato sauce from tomatoes, potatoes for the Irish, etc. Is there any food writing from prior times regarding what might be considered the national dishes of regions prior to these crops?
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Did Hitler or Mussolini ever use the word fascism in a positive or neutral way or has this word always been used in a negative way?
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As an average Midwesterner (in the United States) with average language skills, how far back in time could I go and still be able to communicate in the English language?
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I'm from Europe. In my school we only learnt about the Spanish side never from the side of the natives.
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I know he was a really great figure, and want to know more about him. I'm looking for a biography of him that captures everything about him. The good and the bad.
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I keep seeing people in the history subreddits (askhistorians, history, badhistory) make statements along the lines of "feudalism didn't exist", or "feudalism was invented by the Victorians."
So, did feudalism exist? What does it mean to say that it didn't? If feudalism did exist, what would that entail? If feudalism didn't exist, what were some of the ways in which political power organized in Europe between around 1000 AD and around 1450 AD?
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Did they have treaties of friendship or alliance? Where they clients of the Byzantines? Were they enemies?
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I've found posts that danced around this subject but couldn't find a straight answer to this particular question so I'll ask it here.
When Dante describes images like centaur guards and Charon the boatman, did he actually think stuff like that might exist in Hell or was it all for entertainment value?
Whether he did or not, he included pagan imagery in a pretty serious story about Hell, wouldn't that be kind of heretical?
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*Meant to say early World War Two. Apologies
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The way I understand things, after WWI the armed forces were pretty well liquidated as terms of surrender. So that would leave a lot of former soldiers without jobs. By WWII Germany was mobilizing its forces. Could these former soldiers re-enlist if they so chose - or were they called back to service? How easy/difficult would it be to return to the armed forces after being out of the service for so long?
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Are there still communities of their descendants in the Middle East or North Africa? Here's the quote for those curious:
"On the eastern and southern rim of Europe, Islam remained a threat until the end of the seventeenth century. Even when the activities of the Ottoman fleet were curbed after the battle of Lepanto in 1571 (chapter 7, p. 331), north African corsairs systematically raided the Mediterranean coasts of Europe to acquire slave labour; in fact they ranged as far as Ireland and even Iceland, kidnapping men, women and children. Modern historians examining contemporary comment produce reliable estimates that Islamic raiders enslaved around a million western Christian Europeans between 1530 and 1640; this dwarfs the contemporary slave traffic in the other direction, and is about equivalent to the numbers of west Africans taken by Christian Europeans across the Atlantic at the same time."
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation (p. 57). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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I don't know if this is an acceptable request here. But the best people to answer it would be historians, so here goes anyways.
I've had a growing fascination with warship designs of all types from the dreadnought and battleship eras (approx 1905 - 1950). But as i've read more and more about ships that were built and served in a navy i've also become interested in the ships that never were built. So, i'm looking for blueprints, online sources and perhaps even books about never-built ship designs (although my budget is strained atm, i prefer online sources).
so, hit me with whatever you've got, destroyers, cruisers, battleships, aircraft carriers, weird hybrid ships, you name it. Nationality doesn't matter either, i don't care if it's Japanese, British or Swiss, i want to see it!
I've also posted on /r/warships, here it is
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