So I am sure most of us have seen the ads where people often imagine the future. They generally start off by saying "By the year 2000 we will have flying cars, jetpacks, moon bases, underwater cities, interplanetary travel, robots, food pills, and other technology in the world of tomorrow!" Yet that world of tomorrow never came. I was wondering, Why did people think that we would have these things by the year 2000? Why were their predictions so wrong?

I know that the slave owners would rape them creating biracial children. But were two slaves forced to procreate to give out more slaves to own and sell? I just can't imagine wanting to have a child knowing the horrible outcome. I understand that mistakes happen, but I'm still just curious.

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I'm very interested in the topic of European global domination from around 1500 to the 1900s due to the superior weaponry and technology. I recently read Guns, Germs, and Steel and I really started to wonder how much the European technology impacted their imperialistic endeavours

I'm just curious as to the means of the construction, the bricks that make up castles are pretty large, and they seem like they would be decently heavy, so what kind of methods did they use to actually construct Castles?

I don't know if this really belongs here, but I tried a couple other subreddits and they seem...dead...but here it goes! I recently changed my major to history and want to get my foot in the door. When I asked my professor about where to start he said either a museum or a library is a good start. Well there are little to no museums out here and im not gonna hold my breath on my library calling me back. So my question is if there are other places that I can use to get my foot in the door? Hell I'll even take a suggestion to the correct subreddit at this point Also, if it helps, I want to do something where I work in archives, or hell even archeology.

Is it true that there were cylindrical dum-dum bullets recovered from wreck of the whydah? does anyone have more information on how these bullets worked and how they would have been fired from a smoothbore weapon?

Obviously this is a fairly broad question, as I'm sure that conclusion wasn't reached at one moment, but what are some noteworthy occurrences of people not just looking into space, but really understanding that we could GO there? Its a surprisingly difficult question to google and get a focused answer.

From what I understand Germany wasn't the country as it is now until the early 1900's. Would he not have identified as Prussian?

This is under the assumption that Django takes place before the American Civil war so pre 1850.

Were they speaking contemporary French or 'Iberian' languages? Thanks.

I can't imagine their work would be exactly like that of modern librarians, but what did they actually do? Could they go to some sort of school to train for the position? How were they chosen?

Specifically I am looking for a book for volume of books that give a relatively in depth story of world history framed in the context of economics, politics and war starting with the antecedents of the Thirty Years war through to the end of the cold war.

Any books that drill down on a specific facet or time period would be stellar as well. In the meantime I intend to do an in depth search of the subreddits' booklist, but i figured I would pose the question here as well

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What exactly happened with Scandanavia? When I'm looking at historical events, it seems to me that they basically just decided to convert quite randomly and before you know it, the entirety of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland are Catholic. Why did they convert so easily and were there major Catholic missionary efforts that caused this?

I'm writing an essay about whether Truman was justified in dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagisaki, I know a bomb like this had never been used before and therefore nobody could really know the consequences of such a thing, but was Harry Truman under the assumption that the effects of an atomic bomb would be similar to dropping a fire bomb?

I read about Selim I going to war with his brother, Ahmed, and his father, Beyezid II to seize the throne, ultimately succeeding, and that this was a fairly common occurance. Was there any level of love between these family members?

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As a way to legitimize their rule over Christians and to preserve peace with Romans?

I know the song by They Might Be Giants is made about the name confusion