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I know it's anime, and I'm no historian, but from what I've read, it seems like a pretty accurate representation up until Guts starts going OP on everyone. Is this more or less how siege warfare would have worked? Is there a film that gives a more accurate depiction maybe?
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Were they more medieval or were they closer to the Revolutionary War? Were rifles the most commonly used weapons or was it still bows, and maces? Were professional armies used or was their mass conscription?
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I keep seeing this "Punch" character in a book of 1780-90's engravings from London. Is this supposed to be Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain? They all feature that same distinctive hat, the weird tasseled thing on his upper back, and his face is usually misshapen with a protruding nose. Though Walpole was nicknamed "Punch", I don't see much similarity between these caricatures and images of Robert Walpole I can find online.
Walpole's career was waning 40 years prior to when these prints were published. So I am confused: are these prints from an artist that had a hate-boner for Walpole, or was there a contemporary figure named Punch, or something else?
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Hello AskHistorians.
A friend mentioned today that the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest (Vancouver, BC here, but I'm hoping for a more broadly regional answer) frequently raided other groups and took captives as slaves.
I've not had much luck with google, so I'm wondering if anyone can give me an idea of the extent of these practices, and what work captives were put to.
Thanks!
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I've recently become interested in Israeli history, but I have some problems understanding almost anything related to Herzl. The particular event I'm referring to is when the British Government suggested that a Jewish state be established in what is now Uganda; obviously, this didn't happen, but it raises a lot of questions about what Herzl's actual role/status in the movement was.
Ari Shavit's "My Promised Land" seems to cast Herzl in a very different light from a different collection of essays I've read, specifically Anita Shapira's "Israel: A history" and it's very difficult for me to tell Whether or not Herzl actually thought Uganda was a good idea. It seems like there is some disagreement about his motivations and whether he wanted any Jewish state, or only a Jewish state in the holy land.
It also makes me question to what extent he actually lead the zionist movement vs. was a figurehead for it, and whether or not he could actually force it through or was just appearing wishy washy on the proposal because he knew he couldn't.
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I was just eating a burger and thinking about by all the different ingredients and then lengths a pretty historic man would have to go through to create one. Even French fries are somewhat complex. Diced fries dropped into melted fat with salt. So is there any evidence of when this started in human or other apes?
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I ask this question because I have been reading about Napoleon. In his Ulm Campaign I read that Napoleon captured about 60,000 Austrian soldiers.
Were they sent to POW camps? Prisoner exchanges? How did other nations like Great Britain, Austria, and Prussia treat their prisoners of war?
Just curious, because this was a so called era of 'chivalry' in warfare.
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I am planning on doing some summer research that will cover Hegel, Marx, Weber and then Adorno. I would like to do some background, historical readings on both the French Revolution, and also what sets up the conditions for the writings of Hegel and Marx, Weber and Adorno. I am 100% fine with reading history books that cover philosophically heavy material and anything else.
Thanks for any recommendations!
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Noam Chomsky recently made several claims about the lives of black people living in the United States and how for most the country's history African Americans have had little freedom, even after the civil war. From this article:
“African-Americans had about two decades in which they had a shot of entering [American] society. A black worker could get a job in an auto plant, as the unions were still functioning, and he could buy a small house and send his kid to college. But by the 1970s and 1980s it’s going back to the criminalization of black life.”
“It’s called the drug war, and it’s a racist war. Ronald Reagan was an extreme racist — though he denied it — but the whole drug war is designed, from policing to eventual release from prison, to make it impossible for black men and, increasingly, women to be part of [American] society.”
“In fact,” he continued, “if you look at American history, the first slaves came over in 1619, and that’s half a millennium. There have only been three or four decades in which African-Americans have had a limited degree of freedom — not entirely, but at least some.”
My question is, how accurate are these claims? Thanks in advance.
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I always hear this term, "洋人" ("Yang Ren"), in Chinese period films and television shows whenever the Chinese are referring to Westerners. Where did this term originate, why is it "yang ren," and for how long was this term used until some other term took over as the main definition for Westerners?
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The Wiki page on Royal Badges of England - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Badges_of_England - lists, among other things, "the Cornysshe chawghe" as being a badge device for Henry VI. This is probably incorrect, since it seems to a be a reference to a Cornish person, one John Trevilian, who was an esquire of the body and usher of the King's chambers in the 1440's.
See here, "Letter Containing Intelligence of the Proceedings of the Court and Nobility, at the Commencement of the Year 1454: Accompanied by Some Remarks", by a Frederic Madden. https://books.google.com/books?id=V7hPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=Cornysshe+chawghe&source=bl&ots=S6swG5uTmD&sig=1rhjgTxdlvELPRfOHhAsjhQCXzk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z6OLVPiEPIHugwTQoIGQCQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Cornysshe%20chawghe&f=false
Madden, who wrote this in 1842 as a scholarly work, claims that Trevilian was mentioned in connection with the following satiric verse:
"The Cornysshe chawge offt with his trayne
Hath made our Egull (ie the King) blynde "
All spellings and asides as in the original, which is quoted by Madden.
In the footnotes, Madden specifies that the "trayne" is a "fraudulent device", which I regard as a flat out tease.
So what the heck is going on here? Does it have anything to do with Royal Badges? What does the word "chawge" mean? What was Trevilian's trayne? How was Henry blinded by it? Who wrote those verses and what was their point?
Thanks in advance for your infos!
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I always hear this term, "洋人" ("Yang Ren"), in Chinese period films and television shows whenever the Chinese are referring to Westerners. Where did this term originate, why is it "yang ren," and for how long was this term used until some other term took over as the main definition for Westerners?
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The director has spoken a little about how interested he is in Marco Polo, but I'm still curious as to how accurate the series is, both in terms of visual aspects and story.
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Other than (perhaps) skeletons, are there ways men and women leave different archaeological records? Say, if you excavated a set of quarters, could you tell if men and women lived mixed, or in separate housing, if it was an entirely homosocial environment (like maybe a monastery or something)? In what ways might eunuchs or other genders be recorded (or lost) in a site?
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