My partner is Filipino and the Philippines has been colonised three separate times so we were wondering if there’s a country that’s been colonised more than that.

Are there any genuine, properly-documented examples of modern people discovering "lost knowledge" in recovered ancient texts that is both true and new to modern science?

I’ve noticed when I talk to people about their ancestry, many people have a story about an ancestor coming to America with $5 in their pocket, changing their name at the entry port and starting a life in the US. Not to get political, but obviously the landscape for immigrants trying to gain entry to the US these days is much different than it was then. What were some of the events that caused the US to tighten its policy and stop allowing so many people to come here, with such lax rules?

Indians,Chinese,Greeks and Egyptians had one of the earliest civilization and as an Indian i do know about some discovery made by Indus civlization but I really wanted to know more,even discoveries by other civlizations too.I am 17M excuse me if my question is bad

I don't know if this is too recent or not

Edit: This is a post about history, not recent politics. Hitler never have his own reality TV show and he didn’t own any casino. Also, United States didn’t suffer from Treaty of Versailles like Germany did after World War I. This is not about recent politics

Why is the killing of Greeks by the Three Pashas called genocide but the Nazis straving 10% of Greeks to death not? The Holodomor is called genocide and that also involved taking all the food out of Ukraine just as the Germans did in Greece. Likewise Pol Pot straving his own people to death is called genocide. So why isnt the Great Famine in Greece?

If you steal someones heart medicine you intend for them to die, weather your primary motovation was for them to die or to sell it on the black market.

Sorry if my title seemed a bit dubious. Specifically, I am looking for specific periods in human history that we don't have much knowledge of. The immediate example which springs to mind is the Bronze Age collapse, but I would definitely appreciate more examples.

All criminal groups can be said to be violent but the violence of Latin American cartels goes beyond what one would think of as "regular" criminal violence, the violence of the cartels is less similar to the muggings , brawls and drive-bys one would think of when the word criminal violence is said but it's more akin to the violence of militias, rebels and terrorist groups one usually sees in parts of Africa and the Middle East.

From Pablo Escobar assassinating government officials and setting off bombs in Colombia to Mexican cartels performing ISIS-style video executions and having pitched battles with government forces. As I said above this type of violence is not usual among criminal groups, even groups like Triads, Yakuza,Russian Mafia, Italian mafia don't commit this type of violence.

So I wonder what factors made LATAM cartels so violent was it due to neighboring the US ,was due to government corruption etc.

Hannibal captured tens of thousands of Roman soldiers which I assume the majority were Roman citizens. I know Hannibal sold his prisoners of war into slavery when Rome refused to pay a ransom such as after the Battle of Cannae. My question is how did this go about? Did Italian merchants come to Hannibal's camp and offer to buy Roman slaves? Did Rome allow their own citizens to be purchased into slavery? Was it legal to buy from the Carthaginian Army?

I found a burial mound but it isn't like the other mounds around the area (it's not an animal mound or earthwork circle mound), I think this is a pyramid (or used to be)I don't think I am talking about the Hopewell(mound builders) But anything you can tell me about the difference between them or how they interacted,and I really want to know the reason for each mound) it would be very helpful thank you, Any help would be greatly appreciated

Louisiana was pretty big, larger than France. And I hear that Spain and later Mexico had little control over its northern lands due to the Comancherias. But was that the same case with Louisiana? Did they control it in all but name?

Humans have always used storytelling as a way to teach lessons and forge bonds, and a lot of our early oral traditions & literature relied on allegory and metaphor to deliver its message.

But when did we start valuing accurate information in biographies and historical accounts? Was there a movement within different cultures to use more rigor in how we represented history?

I’ll start: Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope.

Everyone knows Stalin killed millions. Did he help Russia win WWII, make their victory harder, or not really be that relevant?

Only in recent years did I learn that the Qin Dynasty is pronounced like “Chin” Dynasty. I also learned that China’s modern name is based on the Qin Dynasty and the people calling that territory by a variation of that name for a long time.

I always get so caught up in what I am reading sometimes that I forget to remember that I am learning about it in English, which uses Latin letters. Because of this my mind might have written it off as “that’s just how their people decided to spell it,” until of course I remember that China doesn’t use Latin letters, so it wouldn’t likely be their doing to spell it that way.

So who or why is it then that we spell the Qin Dynasty with a Q but China with a Ch? Should it not instead be either Chin Dynasty and China, or Qin Dynasty and Qina? I’d like to learn about the origin of this.

It seems that when ever I read about history of the 20th century Berlin, there was a crazy year after another. Which one would you rank as the craziest and why? Older ones are fine as well, I just don’t know enough about history to refer to them.

I am studying the late Helladic period and this word came up a few times.

As a ‘05 baby I wasn’t around to feel the shift in the American world that was caused by 9/11, but frequently in comment sections I hear the phrase “the day the hope died.” Speaking from experience, it does seem like everyone is just surviving anymore in America, there feels like there is little to no hope left in much of anyone. This being the case, what time in America was the most hopeful for the future? The roaring 20’s? The 50’s coming off of WWII? The love and funk of the 70’s? The start of the technology age in the 90’s? When did we seem the most hopeful that we were going in the right direction, maybe even felt the most connected to one another as the fellow human being?

Conversely, when do you think “the hope died?” Did people nail it with 9/11, or was it even before that? After maybe? It seems like such a devastating and sobering time.

I recently learned that Newton was very knowledgable about the Christain religion and wrote to that effect too, although his writing were never made public. It's just fascinating to me that one of the most, if not the most, infuential scientists of all time was also religious and deeply believed in the existence of God. What does history say about Newton's religious beleifs?

Ive heard some people describe it as a borderline genocide and that it was worse for england then all of the viking age had been. So how bad was it?

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People easily talk about things like the Franks, the Saxons, Romano-British, the Slavs, Magyars, Huns, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Danes and Norse, the Pictish, the Bulgars, and similar.

But we hardly ever do something like call the wars between France and England in say 1204, let alone 1336 or 1415, as something akin to a conflict between the Franks and the Saxons (led by a line of kings from the Danes), the way we might say something akin to how the Romans under Justinian and Belisarius waged war on the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Bulgars.

What is the transition point to you and why? Multiple answers will be appropriate for different regions and nations.

A relative of mine was an Irish Catholic who was killed in World War I, as part of the British army and Irish Guards. A couple of years later, his brother and father were part of the Irish Republican Army. I know not to essentialise identities but it does seem like a peculiar contradiction to me.

How come so many Irish Catholics enlisted in the first place? And how did Irish Catholics in the British army react to the Easter Rising? Were they unable to do anything if they were already part of the army?

Is it Egypt?, Iraq (Babylon)?, Greece?

I saw once that is said that the Roman emperor Augustus Caeser visited his grave once