In Europe the Depression along with WWI resentment helped fascism rise to power in several nations and communist parties across Europe had many new adherents.

In the US we often talk about how Roosevelt 'saved Capitalism' especially with his Second New Deal which stole the thunder of more radical leaders like Charles Coughlin and Francis Townsend.

My question is are these statements of Roosevelt 'saving capitalism' overblown? Did Roosevelt's implementation of Social Security and other Second New Deal actions really prevent a political or social or economic revolution against capitalism?

Any anthropology specialists here? I heard of women having several husbands or tribes where the children where taken care of by the whole village and there was no concept of couple. How far back does monogamy go in Western civilisation? I guess church has to be involved here.

I've heard several arguments that the post-modern era began during such periods as: WWI, the mid-20th century with the rise of mass consumerism, the 1980s, and the post-cold war era.

What defines the post-modern world other than it being "after the modern world"?

They were also promised additional territories populated by Romanians in Hungary in 1916 , when Romania entered the war , but the Entente didn't keep its promise

Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, etc.

We seem to have based our years starting from 1AD, because Jesus. What event (or events?) was the foundation for Ancient Rome to start counting their years from? If not an event, what was their rationale for what year it was?

The fact that I just watched Pocahontas with my niece may or may not have inspired this question.

I'm in my sophomore year of college and I've applied for a travel study program through my college. The class is going to Istanbul. My goal with college is to come out with an architectural history degree. I've traveled to South America and North America. I'm wondering if It's worth my time/money to compile a portfolio of the historic landmarks I visit with photos I've taken. If it is, how can I boost the value of my portfolio? I don't want to go to Machu Picchu and take pictures of the temples when I missed the irrigation system. Does that make sense? Should I be building a portfolio? and What should I include?

It really seems from all I've read so far that they just got to the Sahara and thought "nope" and didn't really explore. A lot of Roman maps either cut off the African continent past the Sahara or connect it to an imaginary landmass that included Sri Lanka. Did any of these famous ancient civilisations actually have contact with the rest of Africa? EDIT: I guess one thing that got me thinking about this was the reaction to Mansa Musa when he came with his gold from not really that far south in Africa. If the wealth of a king so close to Morocco perplexed people so much, I just wondered what kind of relations they had in older times.

Which infantery tactics (or other reasons) made Pike and Shot obsolete and what replacedit? What was the last major battle where one or both sides deployed in this formation?

Which army had the best medical treatment for injured personnel? Did the Germans have more advanced medical treatments than the Allies? Were injured personnel less valuable to the Soviets?

The rise of Christianity, that's what's been on my mind as of late, and what the motivations might have been for something like the destruction of the Great Library. That Christians are villains that hate science, as depicted in the movie Agora, seems more like a contemporary commentary under the guise of past events.

I believe that you don't take a happy person, add religious belief, and end up with a desire to destroy. That desire was there already, and there are reasons for it. Having a villain might work for a movie, but what was it really like back then? Were there were economic reasons for the unrest, was slavery a factor, was it a lashing out by the disenfranchised, the unemployed perhaps? Was the Great Library a symbol of something, perhaps?

What really happened?