I'm making an educational game combining history and world cultures and need to find a reputable source for historical world events (art, invention, war, etc) from 5000bce-present.

There seem to be a lot of news mediums that go by the name of times, such as ever famous New York Times, times of india, india times, korea times, irish times etc. Is there a historic relation between the term and news? What is there to it? Thanks.

I can't find a single thing from my European side, my mothers, the family name is Förg, if anyone knows anything or can point me in the right direction I would appreciate

Hi,

It's not a secret that the US government was sympathetic, at first, with the Viet Minh and helped train them and gain power.

In theory it all stopped in 1945.

I knew of an old officer in the French Foreign Legion who fought in Indochina, he was totally not pro-conspiracy theories at all but swore that some of the soldiers he encountered were really white and that for him it made no doubt those were american soldiers.

Is it possible that the US continued helping the Viet Minh and therefore waged a secret war against one of their allies?

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It's just my personal opinion, but the ruins seemed underwhelming and conveyed loss of what was great more than anything else. With the bricks eroding and constant measures needed to prevent further deterioration, what is to keep a restoration or reconstruction from occurring? Assuming it could be done correctly, a treasure could be reborn.

In many ways the contemporary high end fashion like the Lounge suit, Tailcoat, Morning Suit and Smoking jacket all find their origins in the 19th century. But when looking at the start of the century we see a very big difference in styles. Clothes vary more in colour, are often tighter around the body and give a merrier impression.

Could anyone tell me what brought about this relatively sudden change in style?

Greetings wise historians! When I first found out about this site I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that it was 12,000 years old. If it was built by a hunter-gatherer society, that would imply that a fairly large group of builders were fed, clothed, brought water and generally cared for by the rest of their group/tribe. Furthermore, I think they would have probably been the fittest men available (given the size of the rocks that make up the temple), ergo the best hunters around. This, to my mind, implies some form of food storage. If one adds to this the relative small number of individuals comprising a hunter-gatherer group, the conclusion that there were probably a number of groups contributing to the building process sort of imposes itself. Then there is evidence that the site was in use for a number of millenia.

All of this, if we take human nature as it is today as a constant, would require some kind of centralized authority, one with sufficient charismatic authority to maintain the momentum of a building process comparable to the one of the cathedrals of Europe. But then all figures depicted on the pillars of the temple are zoomorphic, usually found in shamanistic societies. Centralized and highly organized societies usually have anthropomorphic deities, who have human personalities, desires and motivations which in turn make the existence of a powerful priestly caste possible and necessary.

What do you make of this puzzle? Were the builders part of hunter-gatherer groups, united by an unfamiliar type of complex shamanism, or were they part of a much more complex, maybe sedentary, society whose ruins archeologists haven't found yet?

Sorry for the length of the post, but I was wondering about this for a while.

I mean I like those topics as much as the next guy, but it gets old after a while. Also, it seems 80 or 90 percent of questions about those topics are repeats anyway.

By people of old I mean: Ancient to middle ages and until nationalism got popular.

I've heard in passing that a lot of the major events leading up to the dissolution of the USSR/Warsaw Pact (Fall of the Berlin wall, 1991 USSR Coup, etc) caught the Western intelligence agencies by surprise. If that is the case (which it may not be), how did they respond to these sudden shake-ups in their greatest geopolitical foe? I'd actually really like to see primary sources from members of these organizations if they are out there.

Everything I've read about Ancient Rome and the Legions is that one of the reasons they were so unstoppable was their use of the Spanish gladius. It was shorter than most swords used by Gauls and the other barbarians so it can be used in quick deadly thrusts that are difficult to block and more likely to puncture armor than a giant sword swing.

So why then do we always see knights in the Middle Ages wielding big heavy swords? They're doing exactly what the untamed barbarians of ancient times did. Was there a collective forgetting of the battle tactics of Ancient Rome, or did something change e.g. in armor that made long swords superior?

I'm just wondering, how did the Japanese not figure out the Navajo language, it seems like it would be fairly easy to figure out if you could listen to a few transmissions from the codetalkers. Also, was the Navajo language so insular that no one outside the US could speak it? And do people outside the US know it today? If anyone knows a history of Japanese attempts at decoding the US codetalkers, that'd be great. Thanks!

For instance, the native North Americans. Is it just anthropology + archaeology + whatever literate cultures have written about them? Or is oral history ever considered reliable enough to take into account?

During the gold rush for example, was it faster to go around Africa directly to California or across the Atlantic and then overland to California? Or maybe another ship around South America? I've been thinking about this lately and Google hasn't been much help.