What happened to Bangladesh's GDP between 1975-1976? I was looking on Google and noticed that Bangladesh's GDP fell about 9 billion dollars (about 50%) between 1975-1976. I tried googling for possible events but I found nothing to explain the fall. I noticed they had had a civil war but that had been a couple years before and there was already a small dip in GDP at that time period (very small compared to the 1975-1976 fall).

I don't know much about Vespucci, only that he was Italian and the Americas were named after him. Is there a specific thing he did to have the new world named after him?

I'm worried this question may verge on a what if, but I'm going to ask it any ways. I know that roughly speaking France, England and Germany started with with their primary armies and reserves, and during the course of the war as these got depleted they drafted, recruited and generally kept finding new sources of soldiers. How tapped out were these countries? If America hadn't entered and the war kept going several more years, what were the plans on both sides to find new soldiers to replace losses? Theoretically could the sides continue to field armies of the same size?

I know there were all sorts of other things going on, supply shortages from the blockade, changes in tactics, technology and everything else, but I am only interested in manpower for this question.

I don't know if this is more a history or economics question but...

When the Soviet Union split up what happened to the debt they had, did they split it up? Did lenders lose money?

Similarly when Germany united did the East German debt combine with West Germany's? How did this work out?

Any answers are appreciated.

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Both the Greeks and the Romans seemed to produce tons of it, why? Was it affordable for everyone? Popular outside the region?

If the UN was established after WW2 with Allies, one of which was Soviet Union, establishing it, how comes soviets agreed to headquarter such an important organization on not a neutral ground i.e. Switzerland? Why no major branch of that organization was in Soviet Union (i.e. International Criminal Court in Netherlands, World Food program in Rome) etc..

I understand that US may have been paying and is still paying a large part of its expenses but from soviets' perspective they should have not allowed it..

1 year History student here. Is there any point in reading the classic texts from Herodotus,Thucydides, Julius Caesar? From my own experience I found that reading the Norse Sagas helped quite a lot in getting a deeper understanding of the topics at hand. Which other classic sources would the historians here recommend?

Donald Trump's presidential campaign brought this question to mind--have we had presidents with no experience in law, politics, or military leadership? What gave them their popularity in spite of their inexperience, and were they effective leaders?

Reagan came to mind due to his background as an actor, but he did at least serve as a governor before becoming president.

I've read that king Hrothgar was at least somewhat historically founded, and the hall of Heorot might have truly existed. What happened to this particular people group following the dramatic time of the Beowulf poem? who succeeded Hrothgar to the throne? Did they migrate to England? When might they have done so and under what circumstances? I am interested in their activity in the century after the Beowulf poem is set.

I have been reading Machiaveli's "The Prince" recently and came across a part where after talking about how in the old Roman Empire the Emperors had to satisfy both the people and the armies, now most princes just had to satisfy the people. He mentions two exceptions though: the turks and the kingdom of Sudan where, according to him, soldiers enjoy more power.

What was the history and political landscape\structure of this particular kingdom ? Machiaveli mentions how it's very different from European monarchies and how it was very old, which sparked my interest.

Thank you for the answers !

In the years around 1960, George Sansom published the three volumes of A History of Japan. Are they still OK for reading about the basics? If it matters, I'm not likely to go any further into Japanese history -- I just wanted to read something with some meat but that's an overview of a variety of topics.

Did the revolts in Africa and Asia against the former colonial powers after the WWII differ from eachother? What underlying causes caused the characteristic differences in the rebellions?

My thesis is that the revolts in Asia were less violent, mostly due to religion, Gandhi-movement etc (although the Vietnam war contradicts this thesis). But I'm searching for more factors.

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The Bill of Rights was not part of the original constitution but was later added as a compromise to ensure the constitution would be ratified by the required number of states. Do we know who wrote the second amendment? And do we know exactly why the "right to bear arms" was considered essential at the time. Was there s specific state or interested party pulling for this? Was there an opposition to it? I'm aware of the popular explanations, but is there more context to it than that simple narrative we so often hear (i.e. The British attempts to remove weapons from colonial subjects prior to the revolution)?

The Epic of Gilgamesh mentions lions and monkeys living in Mesopotamia and the areas around it, which I find difficult to believe considering its current environmental state. Could such animals survive there in today's conditions, or was Mesopotamia's environment a lot different thousands of years ago?