Was the tulip bulb speculative bubble, that occurred in the Netherlands in the 17th century subject to the same dismay by professional investors that we see with crypto currency today? Is there a lot of parallels with todays bubbles, or was this localized to the wealthy?

I recently learned that Haiti was the first country to recognize Greece as an independent country in the year 1825.

This made me curious, as I had assumed Greece was always its own independent country. Why would Greece be fighting for independence, then?

So, I did a quick Google search and learned about the Greek War of Independence. Apparently, it was fought between Greek revolutionaries and the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s, and Greece won. That's about all I know.

I figured that, rather than scroll through Wikipedia for a really long time, I would ask a historian for some facts and look at Wikipedia after. So, what I want to know is why the war broke out, and why the Ottoman Empire was so invested in keeping Greece under its thumb?

It would also be great to see some links to other sources where I can learn more about this topic. Feel free to take your time with a response.

Maybe some of us are familiar w the meme. Maybe some are not.

But in either case, the testicles of a man are a very strange body part, one which doesn’t immediately make its purpose known (unlike the other thing)

So I’ve been wondering - what did western societies think abt testicles before modern medicine? Did we used to think that pee or semen was stored in the balls, or were balls ever thought to have an even higher purpose than storing bodily liquids?

Or, perhaps, were functions of the testicles well-known (among scholarly circles at least) pre-enlightenment?

This isn’t a troll question, and I searched to see if this had been asked before, but I don’t think it has.

I'm a curious novice to history. What were the territorial ambitions of the Ancient Egyptians? Obviously cultures have different priorities but if the Romans conquered "all" in 300 years why were the Egyptians so satisfied to stay relatively close to home for 3000 years?

They are so inaccurate that they seem useless. At the ranges you have a pistol be viable you might as well use a bayonet or melee weapon. What’s the point for anything other than prestige and dueling?

Lever actions provide for a much better fire rate. It’s a lot easier to press the lever back then it is to reach forward and pull the bolt. The only drawback I can see is a little less range and some more malfunctions. Was this enough of a drawback or were there other reasons?

I mean, wasn’t most of the modern USA formed by the British and a mixture of European migrants? At what point did the distinct American twang appear?

Is there any historical manuscripts talking about him or the Mongolian empire or army? Such as the brutality of their army?

This may also be true of emperors from other dynastic periods, but if so the question still stands. Also, I am referring to texts written in English. Would be interested to know if other languages have similar syntax.

Also, what would my options be between being poor vs having wealth?

Clearly the tensions subsided somewhat as the raids and invasions themselves subsided, but in what we know of the conscious of the people at the time. When did we no longer see each other as a threat? And was the shift sudden (perhaps due to more pressing foreign or domestic threats) or did the tension slowly die out over centuries?

Years ago during my college studies, I came across a story of story of a female leader decapitating an enemy. She then used his head as a wine stopper, which complexly demoralized his army. It may be a retelling or even the original version of the Judith and Holofernes story. I can’t for the life of me remember her name but I feel it was something close to Thomasina. Any help would be appropriated

I'm struck by the idea of the 19th century anti-imperialist who happens to be a member of the imperialist nation (Mark Twain for the United States, for example) but I realized recently that I can't project my image of the anti-imperialist back to the 1700s (I'm not talking about local resisters to imperial rule, who might be anti-imperialist by default, at least with regards to their own polity or people). I know there was intellectual resistance to facets of imperial practice centuries earlier among intellectuals in Spain but not necessarily empire per se. What about England in the 1700s? Was there any idea that "forcibly civilizing" and/or wiping out other people and then extracting their wealth might be a bad idea, or that it might threaten the moral integrity of the imperial power's people?

Hello all,

I'm looking to locate comprehensive sources of research on the folklore and religions of all the native american tribes, more specifically things like their deities, culture heroes, religious and spiritual practices, etcetera - most of the stuff I've found online is directed at kids, which simplified way too much and only gave the most famous examples (Coyote, the Wendigo, etc).

What books and scholars should I be looking at or emailing in order to get as much information as possible?

We're given so much reading and I have no idea how to get all the details. The web says to understand the big picture first and then go into the small stuff but how do I do that? I'm not even sure if the unit I'm reading will show up on Google. Should I read the pages once and after I've gotten a very very broad understanding of what happened I read it again and pick up on the other things?

Hey! So, I'm not referring to imperialism / neo colonialism era. And obviously I'm not also asking about a guy who had white-saviour complex, once that's nothing but another tactic to justify colonization.

So, is there any record from the 16th and 17th centuries, that registered at least one white person genuinely disturbed by the whole processing of colonisation, or anyone who went loud about it or something - even if it wasn't their intention - ???

Also, how did pink become associated with the stereotyped image of gay men?