History questions not worth their own thread III

[r16]

@r16:
It's sad because you made the effort to write such detailed posts, but I'm struggling to make sense of them.

today's garbage says the German attack from the Meuse was known before it took place and it was not cowardly Petain who failed . Writing such things in full clearity are certainly beyond me , English being a second language and all

 

[Plotinus]

But wasn't George III just as disliked as his predecessors because of his perceived lack of Englishness?

No, George III was extremely popular because he was perceived as an ordinary Englishman. He was nicknamed "Farmer George" because he was in the habit of walking around and going up to ordinary people for a chat. Of course later on he spent more time talking to trees, but that's another matter. It would make no more sense to dislike George III for being unEnglish than it would to dislike Elizabeth II for the same reason.

 

[Lord Baal]

@r16:
It's sad because you made the effort to write such detailed posts, but I'm struggling to make sense of them.

I feel the same way. I think he's saying something about Petain and De Gaulle being in cahoots, some sort of conspiracy on Petain's part to keep De Gaulle out of harm's way by "sending him away" (which is horsecrap, since De Gaulle fled for his life to England just hours ahead of the German advance) but I'm not sure. I really don't know what he's talking about, unfortunately. I'd like to respond, but...

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Personal union didn't constitute an extension of imperial dominion. After all, the Kings of Great Britain were Electors of Hanover for the best part of a century, and nobody's ever thought of claiming that it was part of the Empire.

No, but such thinking did lead to the Hundred Years' War.

 

[bombshoo]

Did Budapest serve as a capital of Austria-Hungary in anything other than as the place of governance for Hungary itself and in ceremonial sense? Was anything of governmental importance that did not relate directly to Hungary in Budapest?

 

[Dachs]

Did Budapest serve as a capital of Austria-Hungary in anything other than as the place of governance for Hungary itself and in ceremonial sense? Was anything of governmental importance that did not relate directly to Hungary in Budapest?

There were no common institutions in the post-Ausgleich Habsburg Empire save for the Foreign Ministry and part of the army, both of which were administered from Vienna.

 

[madviking]

What was the religion(s) of the peoples of the Arabian peninsula before Mohammed?

 

[Dachs]

What was the religion of the peoples of Arabia just before Mohammed?

Depends on the tribe, mostly. There were plenty of Jews (or at least, people who had a religion awfully close to Judaism) about, along with various varieties of Christian (monophysitic, miaphysitic, Chalkedonian - although Chalkedonian Christianity didn't do particularly well). There were a mess of other cults, some polytheistic or animistic, and some about which we know very little, like the cult around the Ka'aba out of which Islam itself may have developed. At any rate, it was a region in religious ferment in late antiquity.

 

[madviking]

Depends on the tribe, mostly. There were plenty of Jews (or at least, people who had a religion awfully close to Judaism) about, along with various varieties of Christian (monophysitic, miaphysitic, Chalkedonian - although Chalkedonian Christianity didn't do particularly well). There were a mess of other cults, some polytheistic or animistic, and some about which we know very little, like the cult around the Ka'aba out of which Islam itself may have developed. At any rate, it was a region in religious ferment in late antiquity.

Any particular reasons Judaism, Christianity, or another other major religion of the era wasn't so wide-spread in the region? Is due to the nomadic nature of the peoples?

When Islam did take root, did the Muslims force convert the nomadic peoples or was it a more gradual acceptance?

 

[Dachs]

Any particular reasons Judaism, Christianity, or another other major religion of the era wasn't so wide-spread in the region? Is due to the nomadic nature of the peoples?

It's never been clear. But then again, there's never been a particularly good answer for why certain religions spread and others don't.

When Islam did take root, did the Muslims force convert the nomadic peoples or was it a more gradual acceptance?

This is somewhat controversial; I don't believe there's an acceptable answer, other than to cautiously say 'it varied', and leave it at that.

 

[Tee Kay]

From what I know, mostly good diplomacy, sealed by things like marriages or promises of loot.

 

[W|M]

Why did the Hapsburgs inbreed so much compared to other royal houses?

 

[madviking]

Habsburgs*

To keep the bloodline pure. AFAIK that's all there is to it.

 

[Tee Kay]

The Incans were the purest of them all!

And at the opposite end of the scale is the House of Osman.

 

[madviking]

What did the Osmanlis do?

 

[bombshoo]

There were no common institutions in the post-Ausgleich Habsburg Empire save for the Foreign Ministry and part of the army, both of which were administered from Vienna.

That's what I thought. I was actually hoping for something more unexpected and cool.

 

[Tee Kay]

What did the Osmanlis do?

Very little inbreeding.

 

[Dachs]

Yeah, they loved their diplomatic marriages. Very Byzantine of them.

 

[xchen08]

Why did the Hapsburgs inbreed so much compared to other royal houses?

I might be wrong, but I think it was the constant effort to maintain the close alliance between the Austrian and Spanish branches of the family. Take Charles II, for example. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather all married nieces from the Austrian Hapsburgs.

So blame Charles I/V for splitting his empire.

 

[Lord Baal]

I might be wrong, but I think it was the constant effort to maintain the close alliance between the Austrian and Spanish branches of the family. Take Charles II, for example. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather all married nieces from the Austrian Hapsburgs.

So blame Charles I/V for splitting his empire.

Everything I've read has led me to believe in this. In fact, I seem to remember that Charles II's wife was also a Habsburg. Imagine if that union had led to a child. It's like the Habsburgs were playing a game of 'how inbred can we get.'