Please don't take this question to be anything more than it is at face value. Not looking to incite hate in this thread, just looking for some answers. I know Muslims from centuries ago are remembered for their tremendous academic achievements (specifically in mathematics), while today it seems Islam is only known for terrorism and oppression to the layman.
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I would like to know the opinions of r/AskHistorians on the subject, and see where the historians on Reddit stand.
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I know of the left wing volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil war and I know of the Condor Legion and Italian involvement, but did many right wing volunteers fight, on any of the sides, or did any British Union of Fascists guys go and try to start International Brigades for the Fascists?
Also in general, best single volume on Civil War? Hugh Thomas or Beevor or someone else?
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Could anyone shed some light on this? Had some discussion over on the Christianity board over whether the five pointed star is an evil sign or is misinterpreted over time.
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I remember reading about the mongols sacking Baghdad, from which it has not yet recovered, and am wondering who really did the most damage to the region. Was it the crusades or did other factors contribute more strongly?
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I was wondering if there are examples of national holidays or celebrations in the 18th century that were not the result of religious practices. While nationalism is mostly a 19th century phenomenon the Treaty of Westphalia is also often used as a starting point. So to broaden the question; Where there celebrations or initiatives for celebration on a national level in Europe before the rise of 19th century nationalism?
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Hi!
Since I remember (I'm 25yo), some muslims in the other part of the world (I'm from southamerica and I have never ever met a muslim in my entire live) are fighting with bombs and hate speech against occident.
I think some history teacher in high school told me that Jihad ("Holy War") didn't mean a physical war, with weapons and victims, in Quran, but after the cristhians killed a lot of people on crusades, some muslims started some kind of vendetta against occident and Jihad became what we know today.
I'm very sad because of the misconception that I have about muslims, and I'm sure that the whole occident world has an altered concept of what is Islam about.
Like many countries in the occident world, politicians find a great source of power in people's hate and fear, and I think that this is what is happening in muslim culture: since middle age, dictators, kings, and religious leaders keep building a murder rage against "the christian world".
Anyway, my questions are:
Is it true what my teacher told me, that Jihad in the modern sense of the word, started as a reaction to cristhian crusades?
Are the political and religious leaders in the muslim community taking advantage of the events that happened in middle age, or the occident media is purposefully manipulating our vision of Islam (as many conspiranoic states)?
thank you
PS: I found this post asking a similar question but reversed (stating that crusades started as a reaction to abuse agains cristhians in muslims dominated countries): https://np.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lz2ix/i_saw_this_article_about_the_crusades_posted_on/ But the comments on there don't answer my questions.
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No heaters, no artificial fiber clothing to layer, etc.
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Were the Slavic, Iranian, and Chinese peoples conquered by the Mongols shocked by their willingness to kill large numbers of people?
If so, did the violence the mongols brought somehow normalize/legitimize the use of violence in these cultures? Here, I'm specifically thinking of rulers like Nader Shah and Mohammad Khan Qajar.
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Because after looking at this I noticed one thing. That most of Britain's countryballs were split between hemospheres!
So were background colours split between red (northern) and blue (southern) for British colonies?
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Also, I'm not entirely sure what period cavalry this even refers to.
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Just been reading about the post WWI germany a lot lately and wondering if there are any similar situations where a peace treaty offers such humiliation to the people of a country/kingdom/etc. that it can be directly traced to further wars.
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I think most Americans are under the impression that most of the Middle East has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, but is that true? I used Israel in the title because it is a relatively young country, but most of the countries there are almost the same age (or at least they have undergone a drastic restructuring in the last 100 years). So what was this area of the world like before, say, 1900?
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This seems like a common issue these days. I understand western and east asian politics and history no problem, but I completely missed out on Middle Eastern recent history. I'm looking for one or two mostly unbiased books that I could read to catch me up on this region.
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In the U.S., war bonds were a huge propaganda machine. It let citizens contribute directly to the war. I've tried searching for other similar programs in other countries but I just get results for the U.S.
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I realize this has been answered before in a different way, but I'm simply wondering what it actually entailed. When they went 'over the top', were they setting up skirmish lines and just having a shoot out with the other side? Were they attempting to actually get into the other trench and start shooting people? How did they rack up so many deaths in a short period of time?
Was there a specific strategy in evading casualties when doing these human wave charges?
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I was watching Aladdin the other day, and I was thinking that a woman in that region of the world could never get away with wearing what they have women wearing in the movie (they're dressed like belly dancers) in public. I'm not indicting disney for their historical accuracy because obviously it's just a light-hearted cartoon, but it did make me wonder: what did women wear around the time of the abbasid caliphate or the caliphates around that time? Did they adhere to the ideas of modesty that we attribute to modern states that follow a very rigid form of islamic law?
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