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Ancient could refer to any BC civilization from any time period before 1 AD. But I'd be especially curious to see who people like Herodotus would have considered "The Ancients." I'm currently reading "Herodotus Histories" and the way he talks about prior civilizations got me thinking.
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So far as I can tell, the Indian Removal Act did not legally expropriate property other than land, so technically Cherokee slave owners were still legally slave owners after losing their land. I know in practice legal niceties weren't followed in the execution of the act, but there is a tantalizing unsourced sentence in the introduction to the Trail of Tears wikipedia page that says some slaves did in fact embark on the "Trail of Tears".
I'm guessing many must have been left behind. Were any set free? Would they perhaps been sold off in a hurry to white settlers (that would seem a likely self-interested choice of a slave owner in response to any impending relocation if it were possible)? Were any simply "stolen" and illegally assumed to be the property of some encroaching white settler?
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Making bread is a fairly complex process - how long have we been doing it this way? Do we know who started putting yeast in bread and worked out the need to leave it to rise before cooking? Do we know what led to someone thinking "I have some of this yucky, grey mold stuff. I know! I'll put it in my food!" or was it likely an accident?
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I've always assume that England held the naval might during this period but There's also the Spanish, Portuguese, French and the Dutch to consider.
Did each of the nation build different classes? IE: were there any English built Treasure Galleons? Were sloops, frigates, and cutters pretty much made by every nation? Or were there noticeable distinctions?
Who held superiority throughout the period? (Starting with the spices trade in India to the first steamboat)
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I've been looking into the Battle of Britain recently and after looking at British Intelligence in WW2 and am curious to know whether Bletchley Park gave much help to British Air command in the summer battle, otherwise how did the RAF know Luftwaffe positions and formations?
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I dont know why this is so hard for my mind to come to grips with but I'm having a hard time understanding what has caused such a seemingly major shift in thought. I mean many its just the fact that we are taught that slavery is so evil so its hard to imagine any body born in this time period seeing it as bad. So I'm just wondering is there anything I could read or watch that would help me understand their shift in thinking.
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I am a paratrooper preparing to drop into Normandy on June 5th 1944, the day before D-Day. What equipment am I issued by the US army, and what equipment am I likely to have that is not GI?
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I know taxes started right away (or close to it with Washington marching troops out to PA to collect whiskey taxes). But what about during the revolution? And was there actually enough tax income to complete the Louisiana purchase less than three decades after we became a country?
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Or leaning toward the Soviets?
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For instance in the show spartacus, or movie 300, everyone is fighting 1 on 1 and I never really saw people just running around and taking advantage of an enemy engaged in combat and just cutting their head off from behind in almost an "unfair" manner, if that makes sense.
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A lot of reddit/the general public complain over the lack of the use of hard power by supranational organizations such as the UN and EU and NATO. This got me thinking; is soft power projection a relatively recent phenomenon due to the invention of nuclear weapons or if it has its roots in previous diplomatic practices.
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Hi,
I've become a bit stuck on an an essay I'm writing entitled 'What Characteristics, if any, set British port-cities apart from other European port-cities between 1750 and 1914?'
I am really just after a point in the right direction.
Many British and European port-cities witnessed economic growth and an increase in population leading up to the industrial revolution. The two major reasons for this appear to be either increased trade or increased naval presence. For example Portsmouth, Britain and Rochefort, France both owe their development to naval dockyards. Whereas Glasgow, Britain and Genoa, Italy underwent huge economic and urban development as a result of shipping trade.
All port-cities have their own characteristics but finding those unique to British port-cities is proving to be difficult.
Of course I am still doing my research and I am not asking you to do my essay but rather if anyone knows of any sources or has any ideas that I can develop I would be very grateful.
I am an undergraduate History student and have so far made use of the following sources,
R. Lawton and W. Lee, Population and Society in Western European Port Cities C.1650-1939, (Liverpool, 2002)
G. Jackson, This History and Archaeology of Ports, (Tadworth, 1983)
Thanks
EDIT 1: Thank you to those who have contributed answers. These have all been very helpful and I feel confident going forward.
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How did coal become such an important source of fuel? I know it was important during the industrial revolution and such, but who thought of burning rocks? How did mining coal begin?
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On March 27, 1964, the second-largest earthquake in recorded history struck southern Alaska. “Suddenly 114 people were killed, thousands were left homeless, more than 50,000 square miles of the state was tilted to new altitudes, and the resulting property damage disrupted the state's economy,” wrote USGS geologists in a paper that followed the event. Twenty-five years minus three days later, the massive oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. The resulting 11 million-gallon spill is today considered one of the world’s worst ecological disasters. This week, Alaska is commemorating the anniversaries of two of its worst disasters with events across the state. Here today, we have a panel of experts ready to answer your questions about the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Good Friday Earthquake. The panel:
• Angela Day, doctoral candidate and author of Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster
• John Cloe, Alaska historian
• Sara Bornstein, Alaska State Library historical collections librarian
• David P. Schwartz, geologist with the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif.
• Gary Fuis, geophysicist with the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif.
• Andrew Goldstein, curator of collections at the Valdez City Museum
• Cindi Preller, tsunami program manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Region
• Joel Curtis, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Juneau
• Toby Sullivan, director of the Kodiak Maritime Museum
• and James Brooks, editor of the Capital City Weekly newspaper and author of 9.2: Kodiak Island and the World's Second-Largest Earthquake.
Panelists will be rotating in and out throughout the day as their schedules allow. If your question isn't answered immediately -- don't worry! Someone will get to it.
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We all know things have been, shall we say, "tense" between the Us and Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution. But what were relations like between the US and Czarist Russia? I guess I'm asking what try were like between 1776 and 1912.
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