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The Archaeological History of the city of Jerusalem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Zg6pakKZs
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For example I have a very limited knowledge on when the dark ages were (or what they even were) or when the industrial age started etc. I would love to learn about where humanity started and how it progressed to this point. Personally I would also like to learn about history not limited to European history such as where Africa was at the same time as Europe and how they lived their lives. Thanks in advance for any replies.
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I'd like something with a good explication of the historiography and archaeological evidence surrounding the Minoans, as well as a good summary or survey of "everything we think we know about" the Minoans.
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Cities like Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan; not to mention Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan. Is there a reason they lie so close to their respective borders, something to do with former Soviet occupation, or is it merely coincidence?
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What was the Ottoman response to Europe's debilitating conflict?
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Can anyone please explain to me how the US became a world power between 1880 and 1945? What were there multiple events that helped the US become the super power it is today? If so what were they and how exactly did they help to empower the US to where we are today?
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Did it weaken Poland so it could not win another fight?
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Ideas resembling socialism and communism have been around since the beginning of man, but at what point did the color red become almost exclusively associated with communism and socialism? Was it associated with any other ideology before?
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I noticed that the historic Empire of Ghana was located in present day Mali and Mauritania. Why is the modern country of Ghana located so far away? Or is there even a relation between the two besides a common name?
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Hello Canadian Historians! So the recent federal election along with some courses I'm taking have inspired me to brush up on the history of politics in Canada. The reading list did not really touch on anything. Any book recommendations would be helpful, but an overall general history of politics in Canada would be ideal to get a holistic sense of Canadian historical development of politics. Thanks!
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Historians, as a budding History major (because I love it), I have quite the embarrassing dilemma.
I have extreme anxiety when reading and analyzing primary sources.
When I read primary sources, I often have no insights popping into my head. I try my best to think of any significance to the reading, but most times, I just can't do it.
Whenever I go to discussion sections in my university, I always hear these deep comments from my fellow classmates and it always makes me wonder why I could not notice that before.
I have read multiple guides, and have received some handouts on how to read primary sources from my professors. They help a bit, but I can't help but face the fact that even if I answer all the questions that I'm supposed to ask, I still can't make a good conclusion or analysis.
So historians, any advice for me?
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I've heard many times of the absolutely horrendous experiments that were performed on the victims of these concentration camps, but was any useful medical/scientific data actually taken from these experiments?
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I know he was an exceptional general, at least that's what I've heard. But what exactly made him so exceptional? Or is it mostly just hype?
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Surely through time and geography the concept of crime and punishment have been diverse. How did the model of assigning people sentences in prison as a punishment come to be the standard across most of the world?
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It seems like the non-religous population is quite high in East Germany and the Czech Republic, supposedly due to the socialist policy of atheism. Why is this not the case in Poland? how was Poland able to stay to prominently Catholic?
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During the Cold War*
And if it is wholly a fabrication, where did the story originate from.
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For example, this long list of Germanic Wars has tons of different events that starts of with "Sack", "Siege", or "Battle".
Why do we categorize them differently?
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How common were tanks that were not the "standard" tank like the Sherman or the T-34? What were they used for?
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I know this is a rather broad question, but I'm as interested in variations with time/society as the answer for any particular time or place. But my wonderings are prompted by thinking about bronze age Mediterranean/middle eastern city-states (specifically, early Rome).
Anyway, my question concerns the real estate within walled cities. Is it more correct to imagine that walled cities were more like citadels enclosing the "guts" of a city state (though not most of its nominal inhabitants), or that they were much like modern cities in that the population lived and worked within the walls?
Looking at maps like Timgad, it seems like every un-labeled city block would have to house ~200 people to get the population to 15000. Would there have been dense, multi-story, multi-family houses to cram people in? Or would only the wealthiest citizens live within the walls in single-family homes. Would the rest of the nominal population have been farmers living in surrounding areas?
My impression was that most of the e.g. Roman citizenry, particularly the Patrician class, were landowners and farmers, and I've never taken that to mean they had a house in the city. So would there be a disconnect between "citizens" and "inhabitants" of a city?
Anyway, if anyone has an interesting insights/descriptions of what urban life in these ancient cities would have been like, I'd be fascinated to hear it. For some reason, when I imagine what such places would have been like, it's hard to come up with a coherent picture.
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Rome, Istanbul, and Alexandria are still large cities, and the first two are some of the most significant in Europe. However, Tunis has a population of only a million people, not much larger than the estimated maximum Carthaginian population of 700,000.
What happened?
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I was under the impression that the holocaust was mostly Himmler's idea. Is that also wrong?
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