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Jan 24 |
answered | Has the existence of a matriarchal society really been discredited? |
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Jan 18 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jan 18 |
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What was the first known war in history? added 3 characters in body |
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Jan 18 |
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Which is the first genocide? The absence in this case is compelling - no cave paintings depict battle. There are modern hunter-gatherer cultures, like the Kalahari Bushmen, that do not engage in warfare. We have a lot of archeological evidence on early man, to the point where we can confidently identify Neanderthal religious rituals... but we cannot confirm war before Cemetery 117. |
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Jan 18 |
answered | What is the state of the art historical analysis of claims that Carthaginians discovered America? |
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Jan 18 |
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Which is the first genocide? Prides of chimpanzees do not write, and so their tribal warfare cannot be historical. The Wikipedia article mentions the Assyrian empire in passing, but does not offer specifics, and I'm not convinced there's not something older in ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Chinese or Indian literature. This is a good question worth investigating. |
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Jan 18 |
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Which is the first genocide? I'm not certain this is true. The earliest archaeological evidence of warfare dates only to 11,000BCE. Before then, hominids were pretty good about giving each other space - the economic cost of war in a hunter-gatherer society focussed more on gathering meant it was easier just to go someplace else rather than fight and kill other humans. It wasn't until the introduction of systematic hunting, and the tools it required and the resource scarcity it caused, that we learned to wipe each other out rather than just move away. War is technology, not instinct. |
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Jan 18 |
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What was the first known war in history? The answer was incomplete - added a link to an article about the Sumer-Elam war. |
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Jan 18 |
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What was the first known war in history? added 149 characters in body |
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Jan 10 |
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Why is Thailand considered an Axis power in WWII? OK. Here's a book on 20th Century Dictatorship - books.google.com/… |
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Jan 10 |
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Why is Thailand considered an Axis power in WWII? "Despite the bitter civil war, and repeated threats from fascist movements, Finland became and remained a capitalist democracy under the rule of law. By contrast, nearby Estonia, in similar circumstances but without a civil war, started as a democracy and was turned into a dictatorship in 1934." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Finland |
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Jan 10 |
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Why is Thailand considered an Axis power in WWII? How do you mean? They declared war on Britain, and gave material and military aid to British enemies while seizing British property (sawmills, mostly). This is all covered, with references, in the wiki articles referenced. (Questions on the legitimacy of colonial empire aside.) |
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Jan 10 |
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Why is Thailand considered an Axis power in WWII? @ Anixx - Finland remained a democracy throughout the interwar and WWII period. That's probably why it wasn't called "Fascist." The KMT definitely was Fascist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Shirts_Society |
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Jan 10 |
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Why is Thailand considered an Axis power in WWII? They needed "rehabilitation" to avoid heavy reparations and gain political concessions from the US. From the Japanese Occupation wiki page - "As a result of the contributions made to the Allied war efforts by the Free Thai Movement, the United States, which unlike the other Allies had never officially been at war with Thailand, refrained from dealing with Thailand as an enemy country in postwar peace negotiations." |
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Jan 10 |
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Why Did the US Drop Nuclear Weapons on a Weakened Japan An interesting perspective - if you can provide a link to an online article or a book discussing the Russian point of view, I'll +1 it. |
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Jan 10 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Jan 9 |
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Historical examples of significant no man's lands between states in perpetual conflict +1 - Yeah, The Wild Fields is what I thought of immediately when this question was posted, though english-language information on that time and place is tough to come by. (There's a book on the conquest of the Asian steppe by Russia called "Taming The Wild Field" which is different than the actual Wild Fields and complicates web and book searches.) |
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Jan 7 |
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How big were the biggest elections during the ancient era? You're going to need a cite for that. |
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Jan 7 |
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How big were the biggest elections during the ancient era? The Athenian Assembly could only hold 6000 at a time, and those were often paid - otherwise there'd be too many empty seats. Before they started paying, the typical assembly was seldom more than 5000. Cite: books.google.com/… |
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Jan 7 |
answered | When was grass seed first imported specifically for aesthetic reasons? |
