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Like when the US won the US Mexico war and got land, what happened to the Mexicans living on the new American soil that was once Mexico?
Thats just an example but what normally happened.
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For simplicity's sake, let's limit the question to Ancient Roman times.
It just seems very difficult to manage an invading army the way it's presented on movies. Soldiers going crazy, running into random houses and grabbing loot, not maintaining communication with each other, and such.
Or was it more methodical; ie going block by block, district by district? And did commanders have control of their troops during a sack?
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Hitler made so many mistakes in WWII that there would need to be multiple books written in order to go in depth with each mistake made. So is there any truth to the theory that Allied leaders wanted Hitler to remain in power?
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This question has been asked before but received no valid answers. I am quite interested in the answer, though, so I hope I break no subreddit rules by asking this question again since the previous post is 11 months old.
Question: Did/does monarchy offer any advantages for pre-modern states over democracy? Did any ancient writers living in Republican Rome or in non-monarchic cities of Greece ever advocate for monarchy over democracy?
Edit: Thanks a lot for all the responses!
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I'm currently reading Kevin Shillington's "History of Africa" where all three words are used interchangeably, and so does my professor.
Might be a trivial question, but this really bothers me.
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More specifically, let's say I was just some average guy and I was drafted. What would be the chain of events that led to me fighting in Europe? How would I be contacted by the military and informed that I was drafted? Where would I be sent for training? How would I be transported to Europe?
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I feel like in a lot of sci-fi and action movies that are produced outside of the US mention Interpol a ton and in the US we really don't seem to care about them unless they're mentioning a terrorist that we're interested in on their most wanted list.
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According to the article I read about it (I don't have access to the publication of the study itself) authors examined the bones of 14 Norse burials in England and found that 6 of them were female, some of which were buried with weapons or shield, which indicates that the method of identifying skeletons' sex by burial goods may be inaccurate. The authors suggest that this may mean that a large fraction of the overall Norse invasion of/immigration to England were women.
I've looked through previous AH posts but haven't found anything addressing this find, and many posts reference Judith Jesch's 1991 book Women in the Viking Age, which seems to at least mostly agree with the idea that raiding and warring was an overwhelmingly male activity in Viking times and that women warriors were probably uncommon.
My question is especially focused on what this means for the field of Norse/English history--first off, I should ask if the findings are largely considered valid. If they are, does this challenge the methodology of sexing remains by grave goods, or is it thought that the invasion of England may have been exceptional in its inclusion of women warriors?
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Very recently I watched a bunch of documentaries about the Nazi era. Whenever the treaty is brought up, they inevitably say it caused the rise of fascism and Nazism. It's commonly held to be the primary factor; the debt forced inflation and their military was broken apart because the Allied Powers thought Germany couldn't be trusted. My query is this: well, didn't it turn out that they really couldn't be trusted? I mean, didn't it turn out that once they militarized again that they did in fact use their military force to attempt a take over multiple continents? Were the Allied Powers really too paranoid and angry at Germany and it was the Allied Powers who were responsible for the atmosphere which gave way to all those dastardly deeds by the Nazis? Hitler from my reading was an anti-semite and nationalist d-bag before he became the political figure whose mustache has become shorthand for evil fascist leader. These are the things he instilled most into his version of Nazism and the German Empire isn't it? And if these elements of his psyche existed before The Treaty of Versailles, how can the Allied Powers be blamed for the rise of Hitlers fascism? It may be a great oversimplification, I'm no expert, I watch and read a lot about this era because it seems like such a foreign time to someone my age, and I am obsessed with understanding how and why such a crazily over the top regime with such categorical crimes against humanity so out in the open. I have no affiliation politically with this topic so please be nice, I'm just examining an less common belief and want to learn.
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What circumstances led to their enslavement? Did they serve until death?
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I would have suspected more folks choosing a prison sentence over being killed in such a lousy war.
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I felt the need to add the serious tag even if it isn't required because I can only imagine the kind of responses I'm going to get from this.
Have female breasts gotten larger, on average, over history?
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Also if possible were there any key factors to them being accepted into the UN in 1955?
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When Augustus and Marc Anthony started publicly speaking denouncing each other, Anthony said that Caesar's will naming Octavian his successor was forged and that he had a sexual relationship with his uncle. Is there possibly any truth to these claims?
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I've often wondered how the Harlem Renaissance of the early 1900s was able to produce such a wealth of culture and intellectual discourse... Only to completely fall apart after 1930 and never manage to right itself again.
What happened that Harlem was once a mecca of culture for black people in the US, whereas nowadays it's considered one of the poorest and most worst areas of the nation (subjectively if not objectively).
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In the Republic Era, how did the conquered regions felt about Rome, and did Rome bring "civilization" and "progress" there? Did the Romans built aqueducts, roads, bath houses, patrols, etc in every region? Or just the wealthiest ones? And how did the conquered feel about this?
I'm mainly interested in reading recommendations about the subject, thanks!
context - I'm currently in my first year of Uni (studying History, obviously) and I have to prepare a 20 minutes top presentation along with a 5 pages paper about a subject based on the development and expansion of Rome in the Republic Era. I tried to look in my uni's library but the librarian didn't seem to know any books about that, and I searched and only found books about the Imperial times.
Spoiler (Spoiler tagging doesn't seem to work in this sub)
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Take this map from somewhere on the internet. There are so many strange and eccentric borders here. It looks more gerrymandered than Florida's central congressional districts, with exclaves and enclaves all over the place.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/HRR_1789_EN.png
What I want to know is how did the German prices administer such bizarre boarders? How did they originate? What was crossing boarders between principalities like? How often did boarders change within the empire?
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