Because the Soviet invasion occurred right alongside the dropping of the bombs and that makes me wonder how it was so coordinated.

Did Asia experience an age of rampant piracy comparable to what is commonly called “The Golden Age of Piracy” in the Caribbean and Atlantic?

If so what kind of tools or tactics did these pirates use and was there a usual target? Like Europeans or certain nationalities of traders targeted more than others?

Not sure if I should be asking this in this subreddit or a more economically focused one, but what is the difference between the ending of the gold standard that FDR passed in 1971, when Nixon ended the convertibility of US dollars to gold?

The descriptions of the turtleships seem to vary pretty wildly, but assuming that the description of the metal plates with spikes lining the top of the ships is accurate, wouldn't it be possible to find the remains of some of these ships off the southern coast of Korea?

Have there been any attempts by Korean archaeologists to find any of these remains? Considering Yi Sun-sin's status in Korea, I'm surprised that all I can find online are replicas that were built.

Let me try and explain what I mean. We live in a world that is constantly changing with technology. But what about people from the middle ages? In the absence of ever evolving technology, did they view their world as static and unchanging? Did any scholars or philosophers share their thoughts on what they believed what the future would hold in say a thousand years from their time? Did people from that time see progress from past civilisations intill their current time and ponder what the future would be like.

NB: apologies if this question is not well suited for this sub.

Were either people aware of what the other believed in, and how similar or different were these beliefs? Could Christians living in the Arabian Peninsula at the time of the First Crusade be considered heretics by the Crusaders?

I have heard multiple times in my life that Ho Chi Minh was primarily a vietnamese nationalist and an anti-colonialist and was not that much of an ardent socialist. To what extent is this true?

I'm reading a book (not a scientific one mind you) on greek mythology and there is the foundation myth of Athens in it. It pretty much what I know (Poseidon's horse versus Athena's tree). There is this curious detail at the end where it is said that the men of the Athens had all voted for the horse and all the women had voted for Athena. Since the men lost, it is said in the book that they conspired to remove the right to vote to women. Is there any sources where i can verify this claim?

I apologize for the slightly awkward wording, but I know that the concept of "race" as we understand it is not something a Roman citizen would define it as.

I'm assuming it was a lucrative business prior to electricity and lightbulbs becoming a common occurrence in households, so what happened to those businesses and artisan candle makers?

This question stems from the Italian movie 'Life Is Beautiful'. In it, the main character, a Jewish man named Guido, and in turn his Jewish son, are forced out of their homes and placed in cattle cars destined for an unspecified concentration camp. Guido's wife however, is not Jewish, and hence not among those marked for death. However, as her husband and sons train is leaving, she stops it, pleading with a German officer to be put on the train with them. After some persuasion, the officer relents, and she is allowed aboard. How realistic is this? Could they really just put anybody who wanted to go on board?

Basically once the US navy gained dominance why did they still attack islands like Iwo Jima? Could they not just bomb the airfields to be useless to the Japanese and then wait for their food to run out?

Maybe I’m missing something but it seems that once the islands were surrounded, there was very little ability for the Japanese to get food.

Why not just wait a month or so?

What was the pressure to capture these islands so quickly? Do you think this was a smart strategy or somewhat of a waste of lives?

This question isn’t regarding the main land and the use of the atomic bombs / strategic bombing. I’m primarily interested in the defensive islands themselves that the brutal battles were fought on.

Joseph Stalin was a Georgian by birth and remained proud of his Georgian background. However, he learnt the Russian language (although he spoke it with a very thick Georgian accent), read a lot about Russian history and felt a great affinity towards the Russian people and Russia. Stalin's friends described him as 'Asiatic' and he once told a Japanese journalist, "I am not a European man, but an Asian, a Russified Georgian". What did he mean by that?

As far as I know, Georgians have never been considered to be a type of Russians, so why did Stalin associate himself with Russians and Russia? Why were the Russians so willing to allow a Georgian to rule them? Stalin was a Great Russian nationalist which seems odd since he was a Georgian.

And, before anyone mentions it, this is not the same as Adolf Hitler who was an Austrian leading Germany and considering himself to be a German because back in his heyday Austrians were considered to be just another type of Germans like Bavarians and Prussians and there was a lot of support in Austria and Germany for union between the two countries to create a Greater Germany. It was only because of a historical war in 1866 between Austria and Prussia which resulted in the Prussians being victorious and unifying Germany that the Austrians and Austria never joined the German Empire when it was created.

Was Stalin's Georgian background well known in the Soviet Union?

sorry if this has been asked before but after the war and he didn't kill himself what would happen to someone who killed so many people? would it be a normal court case? because if so, if he killed 6,000,000 people (i think its around that?) would he be charged with first degree murder for all of them thats a minimum of 25 years for each and 25*6,000,000 = 150000000 years served concurrently. or is the system different for war criminals?

If I read /about wars in history I think about how brutal the fights face to face were. Did they society knew PTSD and if yes, how they treated it?

This is my first time on the sub so I’m sorry if this isn’t the proper place to ask this kind of question. But today I learned a little bit about Mayan hieroglyphs being cracked in the 70’s. I have to know if there is a book with pictures of them and their translations together. I’ve looked around a bit but haven’t found anything that seems like what I’m looking for. If anyone could point me in the right direction I’d appreciate it!