I am looking into the impact of the annexation of Hawaii on sugar prices in the US. I've been searching for days for the above dataset but cannot find it. Would any of you know anything about it?

Or what were some battles where one side surprised the other with new technology?

Edit: I think I have to watch The Last Samurai...

My limited understanding is that there was some concern about Scandinavia and a German advantage in arms. But from what I have read, French military doctrine called for offensive operations at every feasible opportunity.

Was the German military advantage so great that the British and French dared not attack?

(in Western medical literature etc)

I've been hearing a lot about them recently, but the other day I realised that I know surprisingly little about this minority. Could someone enlighten me on who they were and if a Kurdish nation was ever formed in the past?

It just seems like that would be a huge amount of knights. In a country of merely 700.000 people, substantially less than most european kingdoms as I understand it, that would be more than 2000 knights with castles of their own. For larger kingdoms, like France, that number becomes several thousands. Not to mention there were probably household knights who didn't own land but were servants of, say, a Baron.

All I'm thinking is that, damn, that is a LOT of nobles for a king to keep track of, isn't it?

I mean by that, not only knights or other persons going the the Latin States in order to take part in the fighting, but rather individuals who would settle there, maybe as a religious belief ?

To make it clearer : were the Crusades seen as an opportunity for some Europeans to settle in the Holy Lands, for religious motive ? Was it such an incentive, or the will to settle there never existed ?

Thanks all !

[deleted]

yes, this question is inspired by a facebook meme

I'm not dumb per se, but I'm not great at reading dense material, so please try to help me out with sources that are accessible and digestible.

The oldest known Sumerian tablets, from Shuruppak and Abu Salabikh, are typically dated to the 26th century BCE. I'm referring to the tablet caches in which we found the oldest known copies of the Kesh Temple Hymn and the Instructions of Shuruppak. It's my understanding that the accuracy of clay tablet dating depends heavily on the context in which they were found (e.g. whether they were found with other items that could be radiocarbon dated). These tablets include some of the oldest texts known. How confident are we in our dating of these specific tablet finds?

It seems like the best time to have done it would be before they had a chance to set up their government on the island.

Just got done watching 300, and a few times these huge, disfigured, and demented human-like things that appeared to be bred and raised for the sole purpose of killing things came on the screen. I'm sure the idea of these creatures are at least partially rooted in history, but how much? Or are they just completely fictional?

Maybe it's good ole American anticommunism but I've always just assumed that Moscow's objection to the Soviet Union and those new satellite states in their sphere of influence denying the package that came with the Marshall Plan just had to do with Stalin's hubris and stubbornness, or perhaps some sort of nationalist-slash-Marxist-Leninist stand against the U.S. imperialists who were only offering the package to subvert the influence of popular Western European Communist Parties in places like Italy and France.

What was the real reason why? What was Truman's administration offering that would have been un-negotiable to Molotov and Stalin?