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Before the Yuan and Ming Dynasty, China appeared to be constantly divided into multiple kingdoms...and then mostly reunified then disassembled just like the Chinese claim in their Dynastic cycle.
I know that northern groups like the Manchurians, Turks, and of course the Mongols would carve out parts of China for themselves and adopt their customs and administrative systems.
Were there any other cultural or ethnic groups that would take advantage of a favorable political situation and break their own state away from the Middle Kingdom? Or would most of these groups have been considered Chinese at the time?
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What kinds of people participated in these raids? Were they societal outcasts? Were they members of the nobility looking for honor and loot or were they just regular Norse folk looking to get some extra money on the side?
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Additionally, what was the likelihood of a commoner rising into the bureaucracy through the exams?
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So I was on a Japanese stream waiting for DragonBallSuper to start but there was still some time left and some news debate was going where I assume discussion about America, China and Japan was going on. They also focused in on a book release "THE HUNDRED-YEAR MARATHON China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower Michael Pillsbury"
During this time they showed footage of a old Chinese leader shaking hands with various American politicians/diplomats
Now the handshake seemed rather odd, it looked like the old man was in visible pain as his hands were being held too strongly by everyone,extremely strong/tight grip handshakes were being done as far as I can tell and the old man didn't looked a bit shocked and in pain
They(TV Debate) were focusing on the handshake so that's what I could make out of it maybe it was something completely different
But anyway the footage was extremely old I think one the men that I saw in the video was either Henry Kissinger or Nixon (I'm not from the US so forgive me if I don't recognize them )
So what was the invent? Who was there ? Am I interpreting it completely wrong ?
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I want to apply for a reenactor spot at a nearby fort, but they say they are looking for "costumed reenactors"; does this imply that you already own a costume or will it be provided?
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Hopefully this does not fall on the wrong side of the new specificity rule. I think this is a pretty specific question, so I'll try to define my terms:
By "ethically" vegan, I mean cultures or people that had ready access to animal-derived food and goods but who consciously declined to utilize them because of ethical considerations regarding the commodity status of animals. Cultures that had no ready access to meat or animal products (if any existed at all), I would not count as being "ethically vegan". And by "vegan" generally, I mean people who make an attempt to eliminate (or at least severely limit) their usage of meat and goods. For the purposes of this discussion, I'd define someone who simply doesn't eat meat (but, for example, eats fish or food made with milk or eggs, or doesn't check to make sure their beer isn't filtered through animal products) as Vegetarian but not Vegan.
The Wikipedia article for veganism mentions several ancient Greek philosophers who were vegetarian based on their beliefs, but the article does not mention whether they were vegan (nor does the preview for the paywalled source it cites). I would assume that they would still possibly eat eggs and use contemporaneous leather products (otherwise, I would expect the article to say so) and possibly things like vellum (if that was invented by then; I'm not sure).
So given these constraints of (what I would consider "modern") veganism, were there any historical cultures that adhered to these ethical restrictions?
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I am primarily curious about physicists or mathematicians, like, say, Poincare, Lorentz, Heaviside, etc. I would like to put voices to the faces and achievements.
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Were they given out to whole units of men so that there would be a lets say, 200 man group of men armed solely with 2handed axes, or was the use of axes distributed more sparsley among smaller groups of men in the entire army, who would be mixed in with units of men armed with spears and or swords?
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Did regular taxes cover it or would the dominant political figure/family have to foot the bill? Or was it more of a group thing where the merchants and nobles all chipped in when the need arose?
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What caused and how? was the idea of Isolationism explored to other countries? How about the exchange? They refused to have economy for the warring countries. But was that really benefit to themselves? Did the treaty they sign for this policy affect the world to be more peaceful?
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I am rewatching The Tudors, and there is an episode where King Henry is in a jousting accident. Plans are made to declare Princess Elizabeth as Queen in her minority, with Anne Boleyn as Queen Regent. At the time, Anne is pregnant. Had Elizabeth been declared queen and Anne given birth to a boy, would the coronation be reversed because of primogeniture?
And yes, I know The Tudors is dramatized, so this question is purely hypothetical. But it also could have happened to Mary Queen of Scots, as she was extremely young when she ascended, and her mother was still of childbearing age. I'm sure there are other examples.
For a twist, could this have happened in places other than Western Europe as well?
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There are obviously going to be a lot of industrial-era Britain questions arising from the new Assassins Creed game coming out, but my question has to do with another historian's assessment which was recently posted on Kotaku.[1] . Agree, disagree, clarifications? I thought this would be a good way to broach both historiographical issues, like making judgements about how "accurately" we can judge the social climate of a particular time.
P.S. Admittedly, as an undegraduate with majors in history (aiming for modern-era intellectual history in grad school) and philosophy, I found a few thing suspect, like his statement that Marx stuck to to electoral means to attain socialism (presumably Marx must have reneged on the whole "revolutionary overthrow of capitalist property relations" at some point after Kapital and Critique of the Gotha Programme) and that the class struggle was "overstated." Excuse me if I am crass, but I don't think industrial excesses and worries ended with the Second Reform Act just because the franchise was extended. I can't speak to the game's emphasis, since I have not played the game yet, but it seemed completely false to me to say serious class struggle basically ended in 1870.
Are my suspicions valid?
Edit: Forgot the article: http://kotaku.com/what-the-new-assassins-creed-gets-wrong-and-right-ac-1739489922
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Interested in early Canada. I'd love information on what life was like for settlers, information about Canada (it's very hard to find any good maps of settlements/towns in Upper and Lower Canada), as well as Aboriginals. I also have an interest in Aboriginal and Settler mythology.
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In a comment a few years ago concerning the remains of the Roman Empire, /u/Tiako said:
A very amusing comment in The Fall of Rome and End of Civilization is that the last Roman territory in the West to fall was Wales, when it was conquered by the Frankish barbarians in 1282.
What's the story of this last holdout in Wales?
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From 1950's to date. Single child policy introduced in 1978.
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