It seems that by the 800s, the Catholic Church had to start making proclamations in vernacular languages even in places where Romance languages were spoken, as the languages had diverged so far from Latin and even from Vulgar Latin.
But what about the city of Rome itself? Did the language spoken by the common people and even by the Church's officials stay as "Latin", or did it have a different name by the year 1000 (like maybe "Roman", analogous to "Tuscan" or "Venetian")?
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I'm not really sure if this is the right place to post this, but I've been wondering why, in Rome or Vienna for example, many of the ruins of old buildings are 5 or 6m below the current ground level. Can anyone help me out?
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The parts about Athena and Aphrodite I understand. But Hera offering Asia to Paris, I was wondering was there anything that explains why she offered Asia.
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People have brought up counterclaims in response to my assertion that "by the time of your source the war in Europe and Asia had been raging for years already and civilian bombing carried out countless times. While the Allies sure did some nasty things, they were far less than that of the Axis - saying otherwise is historical revisionism"
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/08/30/who-made-that-firebomb/ "is the AN-M69 Incendiary Bomb. This was a cluster-based napalm weapon developed by the Standard Oil Company, specifically designed to destroy Japanese civilian houses. Standard Oil’s development of the AN-M69 started in early October 1941 — almost exactly two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor."
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The work was funded by the Office of Scientific Research and Development. What makes it disturbing is that the engineering is very explicitly directed towards the destruction of civilian life.
The effects testing, done very carefully by both universities (Harvard again, along with the University of Chicago), corporations (Standard Oil, Texas Company), and the military (Ordnance Department) are also pretty grim. Some 80 million pounds of napalm were produced and used during the war.
USA did the pioneering and perfecting of mass burning of millions of civilians Each B-29 could carry 40 clusters in their bomb bays. So that’s 1,520 AN-M69s per plane, and the raids could range from dozens to hundreds of planes. You can do the math, there. Over 40,000 tons of AN-M69s were dropped on Japanese cities during the war. It took about 125 tons per square mile to completely burn out an area of a Japanese city. The AN-M69 had, a once-classified postwar report announced triumphantly, “the highest fire-starting efficiency per cluster, or per ton, or per bomber of any incendiary bomb” developed during the war. Some 80 million pounds of napalm were produced and used during the war.
I note that a somewhat similar thread has been posted, but it doesn't have clear examples and explanations of Axis behavior (both Germany and Japan) pioneering civilian bombing.
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I recently read a case trial bringing up the subject, "Under Investigation for the Abominable Sin: Damián de Morales Stands Accused of Attempting to Seduce Antón de Tierra de Congo." in Colonial lives: documents on Latin American history, 1550-1850 by Richard E. Boyer and Geoffery Spurling.
I was wondering which terms were used to refer to homosexual behavior besides "abominable sin" or "sodomy". Also, I'm curious about how this was done in all of the Atlantic Empires, Africa, and the Americas.
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I have found very little on the subject online. Book recommendations are welcome.
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Be they stitched into uniforms or flown from flagpoles, Canada must have had a lot of old flags. How did they get rid of them? Were they disposed of respectfully, or were the majority just thrown out?
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Can you describe the sport and how you play? Was it popular? What kinds of injuries were caused and were they a part of the game itself?
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Did they have celebrations and whatnot? Did nations differ in their celebrations? edit: Yep I fucked up XD I mean 1000 AD
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I've wondered for a long time why Communism (and/or Russians in particular) were historically associated with the colour red. The best I can find is that the Russian army used red in its uniforms. But that itself raises the question again - why red? I realise that the idea of camouflage is fairly recent, and so obviously they weren't going to be outfitted in khaki, but why red? Aren't red dyes relatively expensive (relative to undyed material)? Relatedly, is the association of The Good Guys (tm) in video games etc with the colour blue purely a reaction/opposite to the red?
Sorry for my long-winded rambly question. I couldn't see it on the FAQ but have wondered about it for a long time.
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It's my understanding that when Schliemann excavated Troy, he was considered something of a Homeric fundamentalist. In other words, while he was off looking for "Homer's Troy," most everyone else in the world thought he might as well have been looking for physical evidence of a fairy tale.
On the other hand, there must have been some knowledge of the physical location of Troy, which Schliemann was able to find with the guidance of Homer and local wisdom, among the Byzantines whose territory included Ilium for so many centuries. The knowledge of Homer was fairly widespread among the educated, too. The area was fairly occupied, with Kallipolis and Dardanellia right in the neighborhood.
My question is what did the Byzantines know about the historical Troy? Are there any indications that they knew about the significance of the site later excavated by Schliemann? Were there any pilgrimages there a la Alexander the Great? Was there any effort to appropriate the legacy of the historic Troy?
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