I know this seems like a massive question but I'm interested in the change of opinions of the people. What changed to make the breakup of Yugoslavia so violent? They had been fighting the Austro-Hungarians for a unification of all the South Slavic people I understand many times. Ottoman Empire too maybe?

let's say I am a young person between ages 19-25 looking for a job just out of college in Poland or somewhere How is my everyday life affected by the communist system. what would be considerate a good job to get. are men and women treated differently because of their gender. and what do I do for FUN. ?

More specifically - is there a term or a tradition of thought which has a concept or a conception of the "West" which incorporates Islam and the territory more or less until the borders of the Oxus, a la Alexander.

It seems to me that in many areas (cosmological, theological, to some extent technological...) the Indo-European "Alphabetical" cultural zone has for long periods of history represented a unified space of exchange, relative to which the zone defined by Asian scripts like Chinese Hanzi, and Asian religious traditions represent the real Other, so to speak, and I'd be curious to know whether anyone serious has developed or conceptualized this thought.

In school there is always more emphasis on the European Theater of WWII than on the pacific one. So I asked myself the question why is the Pacific War still relevant today because considering the fact that east Asia has outnumbered the West in population it is probably good to know if the war still effects for example relationships between asian countries. I know that WWII also started the debate about atomic warfare but what is their more?

I realise this is a rather broad question, but I'm not entirely sure where to look to find the answer. I understand that Ireland and the rest of the Other Island in the British Isles acted as seperate economic systems in this period so if it seems one Isle has been self sufficient but not another I'd like hear about that as well.

Thanks.

I'm looking to buy a book about the cathars and their beliefs. Any recommendations? I'm specifically looking for titles written by acknowledged (academic) historians, not new-age 'mystics' or hack 'journalists'.

Thanks!

edit: Dutch titles are fine too, but so far I haven't found anything interesting.

I know a lot about Socrates, like for example reading Plato's Symposium where Socrates introduced what we called "Platonic Love." I've thought about and noticed why we don't call it "Socratic Love" in the first place - what we know about Socrates really is just what we read from mostly Plato's works. At this point I can hardly tell if the Socrates we know really is just Plato using his mentor's name or that there is no difference between the real Socrates and Plato's philosophy.

Can anyone confirm that Socrates is as described in all of Plato's works, or is there a distinction between Plato's Socrates and the 'real' Socrates?

It's kind of odd how Roman identity never went from a city based empire to a larger geographically region oriented empire.

I am a practicing buddhist and someone mentioned it to me. I am quite ignorant of the history of the two countries but thought it was very relevant to how the general thinking on the current issues is being done.

I would simply be interested in a short summary of the relations of the two countries throughout history. Thank you!

EDIT: Wow I was being hopeful to receive such detailed and rich answers but this exceeds my expectations by far!! Thank you all very much!!!

Also, were there any Arab nomads travelling around there?

How much would an average person from these regions be able to understand/speak Arabic?

I hear some people claiming that the french canadian accent comes from the colonial accent. Is it true? How can you determine this, it's not like there are recordings from that time.

Is it pay?

I was curious, and I figured it would be a surreal experience to scroll through he names of all the people who died in the horror that was WW1. I would prefer to find a British list, but if there are others from different nations, that would also interest me. I couldn't find anything on my own searches.

It seems to me that letting each soldier fire his musket as quickly as he was able to reload would increase your army's firepower. Firing in volleys essentially means that everyone has to fire at the rate of the slowest guy in the line/platoon.