I know that there WAS a coup, but it was small and never had the support of higher leadership. What caused the general military to accept the "unthinkable" and surrender rather than revolt? I'm under the impression that there was a constant fear of a coup.

Why has the idea survived so long? To what degree can modern technophobia be traced to a societal reaction to the invention of the atom bomb?

I was doodling while waiting for a train last week and was thinking about how easily I (as a British person, anyway) recognise 'whoosh' lines as indicting movement of a drawn object, or 'wobble' lines as indicating vibration. I understand arrows showing straight or curved lines of movement in diagrams.

But how far back do these indications go? Are they universal? If I drew a cartoon of a ball bouncing, would the 'whoosh' lines that obviously show the bounce to me also indicate the bounce to people in the Middle Ages? The Ancient Greeks? If not, what did they use to show these things, or is it a modern concept?

Furthering the thought, I don't think I've ever seen any 'whoosh' or 'wobble' lines in Fine Art, and the only art I can think of that tries to capture or indicate movement is all fairly modern, sort of Picasso onwards. Is that right? It seems strange that a ubiquitous thing like movement wasn't drawn or painted for so long!

Basically the title. To me it seems easily possible that there's been genocides that haven't been recorded or that any knowledge of a society has been lost/erased. Is this as possible as I think?

It seems weird to me that Britain would let go of Palestine, knowing that it would erupt into war, without trying to come up with a compromise between the two parties...

In other words, who is writing and informing us of what's going on in the world around, say, 500 AD? Is this the "dark ages" yet? At what point do the sources become quieted and what are we looking at in terms of types and quality of primary sources contemporary for the period?

Apologies if this is an ignorant question, I'm an ignorant guy.

I kind of started wondering after more and more people are saying we are "heading for a new Cold War" with Russia. So what i'm asking is, back then, when did people start to realize that this was a cold war? How long had it been going on?

I would think that Germany would have a draft, I am just wondering what is was like compared to the USA.

Othello was black and married a white woman, I feel as if that would stir controversy in Victorian England,

I've often seen Sumerian cuneiform tablets said to be humanity's first written language. I have also seen it said that the reason we know so much about it is because they inscribed their words onto clay tablets, preserving the writing into modernity. Why is this ancient Sumerian language said to be the first written language and not the oldest known written language (or what we believe to be the first)?

What is the actual historical evidence that shows that this was truly our first written language? How does this evidence preclude another, older, written language that may have been lost because the evidence was not well preserved?

I am really impressed, by many of the answer in this subreddit, so i was hoping somebody could help me out here.

Because of the hard political situation Kurdish people are in at the moment, it was always hard for me to find objecitve information on the kurdish History which is not influenced by turkish, arab or kurdish Propaganda.

So, could someone help me here? I would also appreciate it, if somebody could point out some sources so i can study myself on this topic.

Thanks in advance

I mean, I know that Argentina has claimed the islands as long as it has existed, but specifically, in early 1982, were there any signs that military action was possible/probable, or did it come as a surprise to all concerned on the UK side?

Odd reason I'm asking; I write a blog on Formula One history and at the start of the 1982 season, Argentine driver Carlos Reutemann suddenly quit the (British) Williams team with whom he had come within an ace of winning the championship the previous year. No reason has ever been given, but the rumours were "political" fallings out with team boss Frank Williams, though whether of the international or internal variety is never specified.

Reutemann quit shortly after the Brazilian GP in late March and the Argentine invasion took place on the weekend of the following race in the USA; the Argentine GP itself was due to take place in February but had been cancelled due to the economic situation.

Over the past several months, I have been listening to Mike Duncan's The History of Rome podcast on my commute to work. I've really enjoyed. While it seems to me (layman who primarily knows Rome through the HBO show, I, Claudius, and whatever public school taught me) that Mike Duncan goes through a lot of work to explain some of his sources and where historians disagree. How well is it regarded by actual historians? Well, or is it primarily for a layman audience?

Bonus question: As I mentioned, I'm almost done listening to the podcast as it ends with the fall of the Western Empire. If I wanted to "keep going," as it were, where could I go? Not necessarily with the Eastern Empire, specifically, but the European region in general. Just as I primarily started listening to the HoR podcast because there seems to be little no casual coverage of the beginning and end of the empire (everything always seems to focus on the Julio-Claudian dynasty), I also have never really seen anything regarding the transition from the Roman Empire to medieval Europe. It doesn't necessarily have to a podcast (or one "thing"). Just something fairly accessible, but detailed, for someone casually interested in the "story" of history.

Edit: Thanks for the recommendations! I'll definitely have to check these out. I never even thought about listening to lectures posted online.

Title.

Also what are various improvements in firepower and when did they take place? Like When did firearms start being able to piece top quality plate armor at all? And what improvement caused this increase in power? When did they start being able to do it at 30m? 50m? 80m? 100m? And what were the improvement?

I've read about some alleged "sudden disappearance" from the Mayans; though it's been claimed that it didn't happen, they just gradually disappeared. Another small mystery was the Mayan blue... but are there any other mysteries that are less known?

Thank you!

I hear that it was a way to control people, or that was a way to make writing Chinese easier. What was the real reason?

Are there any photos of Hitler with his victims at Auschwitz or any other concentration camps?

People sometimes wonder if we will suddenly be sent back to ground zero if shit hits the fan. Even Albert Einstein has said that "[he doesn't] know with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones."

It occurs to me that as long as there are people who still hold the knowledge to pass down, modern society will be able to "reboot." But, I guess I could be wrong. Have there ever been any instances in history where catastrophe set back the technological and societal clock for a civilization?

After a conservation with my 88 year old grandma she mentioned remembering signs posted outside houses in the Midwest with the words "small pox". Is there any truth to this? Thanks!