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What were the causes of the feud between the Federalist and Republicans during the American Revolution?
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I'm trying to understand how large/wealthy the slave owning class was. What would be a modern cost comparison? Would it be a couple thousand dollars, or would each one be a substantial investment, such as purchasing a brand new car? Could only the truly wealthy afford them, or could any successful professional, such as a doctor or lawyer, have a few slaves of his own? And how did the price change between the pre-colonial era up to the Civil War?
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Hi was any or all players on both teams given a glasspaperweight with "intercontinental final 1988" etched on the face as i have one and would like to find out about its history? Can send images if needed. joe
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I've been reading this document and I've been wondering a few things and was hoping reddit might be able to give me some answers!
Why have historians associated this text with the first intermediate period? I can't find anything that directly links it to that period. Is it possible to interpret it differently?
Did any of the events Ipuwer describes happen during the first intermediate period? Like do we have any evidence for any of the events?
Can we really read this text as a historical text that describes the conditions of the first intermediate period?
Lastly how has this text affected how we view the first intermediate period? would it still be viewed as a dark period if we didn't have this text?
Thanks in advanced!
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I read that the eighty monks of Canterbury Cathedral each struck him with a rod three times, and that each of the Bishops and Abbots struck him five times with a rod. This sounds like a very grim scene, unless it was a light tap. Is there any record of how hard they struck him, or was this a common enough practice that we have a good idea of how hard they struck him?
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Hello Historians! I was hoping you could help me understand what effect the intelligentsia in Germany at the time of unification (1871) had on building a national German narrative, if any. I have read through the various pertinent wikipedia pages, but I was hoping someone here would be able to shed more light on this topic.
Thank you all so very much,
What I have read so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire#Wilhelmine_era
Rash, Felicity, German Images of the Self and the Other Nationalist, Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1918
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I am in my history of the Great War class, and my professor gives a figure that 292 out of 5,584 years have seen peace. However I remember seeing an article somewhere on this site that greatly reduced those years. Can anyone back that up? Or are my professors statistics correct?
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I'm trying to find cases that William P Van Ness handled before he was Burr's second in the Hamilton-Burr duel in 1804. I know he practiced starting in 1800, but other than People v Croswell I haven't been able to find anything else. Any ideas?
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The Atlantic slave trade is well documented, but I'm trying to find more information regarding the nature of slavery BEFORE the Europeans began participating in it extensively. It seems like there are a lot of conflicting viewpoints from various historians regarding the extent to which contact with Europeans was driving the slave trade, or if the European slave trade market served as an outlet for trade that was already going on.
As a follow up to that, to what extent were West Africans willing participants in the slave trade with European partners? Or was it more of a case of domination of the Europeans that led to the burgeoning slave trade, rather than a mutually beneficial economic relationship?
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I noticed they were listed as belligerents in this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_1500%E2%80%931799
What role did Mysore play in the American Revolution?
Also, does anyone have a recommendation for a historically accurate biography of John Paul Jones?
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By this I mean: what happened to that ethnicity? (Roughly) the Franks were an ingredient in modern French people, the Saxons were a people that melted into the modern English, were the Goths that for Spain/Italy? It doesn't seem that way. I know the Goths didn't mix well in Italy, keeping separate even in what laws they followed, so maybe that had something to do with it? I know the Franks didn't inherit an empty Gaul, it had Romanized people's there, and they mixed (very basic interpretation). Were there not enough Goths? Were they not around long enough?
What happened to Gothica?
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In a conversation with a friend of mine, he told me that there were several plots to assassinate Hitler during WWII (both before and after Normandy) that were abandoned. The rationale was that Hitler was a terrible strategist and keeping him alive would help to ensure Allied victory in Europe, but if he was assassinated he would be succeeded by (potentially) a much more competent general. Is there any truth to this?
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Coming from /u/eternalkerri's comment on another thread, I'm curious as to the general level of literacy among the founding fathers, especially compared to what would be expected of them in their time (for example, would European nobles have viewed them as intelligent, well-read men, or as having meager educations?). Is there any evidence that they read/wrote/spoke in more or fewer languages than European leaders of the same time, and what the causes would be for that? It seems easy to assume that Europeans would have more use of various languages in their daily life and duties, but would the American founders be more developed in the classics? Did the same apply to other colonial groups?
Also, is there any evidence that the founders would've intentionally adjusted their language to either sound more formal and authoritative, or to sound more casual and 'commonfolk'? Did this differ from practices in Europe? If not, is there evidence for when this practice started?
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It seems like there would be low opportunity to obtain wages.
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I'm specifically curious if there were any Dharmic (Buddhist, Hindu, etc.) religious movements along the Silk Road that may have used Arabic as the primary language to disseminate information to adherents.
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