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That makes a lot of sense. Funny enough when I first read the name of the dynasty some years back I pronounced it in my head as Alouette (as in "Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette, je t' eplumerai").
Cheezy the Wiz
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The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy pretty well covers the military aspects of the period, but gives attention to necessary cultural things as well.
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1. Why was the source of the Nile not sought out in "ancient times?"
-Why did "civilization" not spread down it?
2. Why was Bohemia apart of the HRE? Even in the later years.
3. Why did the Norse nations not expand overseas between 1500 and 1900?
-Why did "civilization" not spread down it?
2. Why was Bohemia apart of the HRE? Even in the later years.
3. Why did the Norse nations not expand overseas between 1500 and 1900?
Yared
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Spoiler Sweden :
Spoiler Denmark :
They did, actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_colonial_empire
Of course, they were nothing compared to the spoils of England or Spain, but still.
They tried.
Sweden colonized an area by the Delaware River (on the Christina).
Denmark still has Greenland, and in 1917 sold the US the Danish West Indies (US Virgin Islands). It also held trading posts and surrounding towns in India from the 17th Century centuries when the British acquired them mid-19th century. The same goes for India. And as Norway was part of Denmark at the time, it was involved too.
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What was the origin and meaning of the flag of the Confederation of the Rhine? Horizontal tricolour of green, white and blue.
I asked this before, and have not gotten an answer yet. What is the etymology of the name "Thebes," and why is there both an Egyptian and Greek city bearing that name?
I asked this before, and have not gotten an answer yet. What is the etymology of the name "Thebes," and why is there both an Egyptian and Greek city bearing that name?
Yared
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Can someone explain to me when, how and why Austria and Hungary joined to be Austria-Hungary?
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They did not join, they divided. The Habsburgs were at one point simply the Emperors of Austria, and their empire stretch across Central Europe to include Hungary (who they took from the Ottomans). In 1848 there was a revolution, and the Habsburgs managed to keep their empire by offering a compromise deal. The Habsburg monarch would now be the Emperor of Austria, and the King of and Independent Hungary. Since, the Emperor/King was nearly an absolute monarch, this of course meant that rule changed very little, but now the Hungarians were equal parts of this Empire rather then being a subject people.
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Certainly. The 16th century was the prime of Ottoman expansion. At the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the King of Hungary was KIA without heir, the Jagiellon dynasty is extinguished, and the Ottomans annexed most of Hungary. The nobility didn't accept their conquerors' authority however, and elected Ferdinand I (then-crown prince of the Habsburg dominions, including Austria) as the new King of Hungary. That's how Hungary became part of the Habsburg crown, though it was still de facto ruled by the Ottomans until they withdrew in the 17th century due to stinging military defeats.
Fast-forward to 1805. Napoleon's decisive victory at Austerlitz results in the dissolution of the Holy Roman Emperor, so now the primary title of the Habsburg emperor becomes "Emperor of Austria" (though he actually first started using this title in 1804, in response to Napoleon being crowned Emperor of the French). Political authority was mostly centralized to Austria, though it was less populated than Hungary, resulting in social friction between the inhabitants of the Austrian Empire once nationalism starts becoming popular. After Waterloo, Emperor Francis and Fürst von Metternich establish the "Concert of Europe" at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which suppressed liberal and nationalist desires in favor of traditional monarchism. This was not a popular decision but it was accepted because Europeans were too sick of war to challenge it.
Hence, when the German Civil War in 1866 results in a Prussian victory, the Hungarians take advantage of the dip in popularity for the monarchy and demand political autonomy -- though they accept a continued union with Austria for military reasons. Franz Joseph agrees to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and there you go. The reason why the Hungarians accomplished this was because they formed a very large part of the population of the Empire. Critically, however, the minority Italian, Slovenian, Serbian, Bosnian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Slovakian and Romanian peoples don't receive the same benefits that the Germans and Hungarians do, which was one of the primary causes of World War I.
Yared
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Aha, okay thanks
Thanks to you too
Was there ever a royal family that ruled (as much as possible, as you say the Austrian Emperor was an absolute monarch) the "autonomous" Hungary?
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Prior to the Habsburgs yes.
During the Austro-Hungarian period no. It wasn't just the same family, it was the same person. However, every other part of the government was independent. The Hungarians had their own ministers, own government agencies, even their own army and diplomatic corp.
During the Austro-Hungarian period no. It wasn't just the same family, it was the same person. However, every other part of the government was independent. The Hungarians had their own ministers, own government agencies, even their own army and diplomatic corp.
Yared
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Okay, thanks.
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Not in my dimension.
The Egyptians did explore it once, and wrote a legend about it but I forget exactly what they claimed they found as the source. Romans and Greeks attempted but never got past the Sudd swamps in the White Nile. I guess what you mean by "Civilization" would not include most of the people living in the southern forested part of the White Nile, but there were three major civilizations that lived along the Nile. Egypt, Nubia, and Aksumite, the last two didn't develop civilization due to it spreading south from Egypt. Civilization didn't spread south of Nubia, because the southern area of the White Nile was mostly forest and as far as I know most of the kingdoms in Nubia didn't show much of an interest in expanding south.
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Wasn't that mostly because of the freaking desert?
Cynovolans
Not in my dimension.
No Egypt and Nubian kingdoms were in the desert, south of that is savannah and jungle where civilization turns to Nilotic pastoral society.
Quackers
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Does anyone know how Khrushchev changed the bureaucracy after Stalin's death?
I know that its not original and wikipedia covers it, but I would want explained religion in Rome during Principate and Dominate. I read something but I have problem differ whats important and whats not
imperial cult - why?, how it was succesful,...
persecution of jews and christians - why it was that hard persecuted and why it was succesful?,..
pagan religions - how common were eastern religions with Bhaal or Istar, what were kinds?,...
imperial cult - why?, how it was succesful,...
persecution of jews and christians - why it was that hard persecuted and why it was succesful?,..
pagan religions - how common were eastern religions with Bhaal or Istar, what were kinds?,...
Actually there wasn't: the most known names for ancient Egyptian cities derive from the Greek name for them. Think of Heliopolis ("Sun City"), Memphis, Abydos, etc. Also, for instance, pharao equals Per‘o, Prah, Par‘o, or, after a vowel, Phar‘o ("Great House"); Greek Pharaó; Latin Pharao. It's also true for such names as Babylon, Persepolis, etc.)
According to Wikipedia:
The name Thebai is the Greek designation of the ancient Egyptian niwt "(The) City" and niwt-rst "(The) Southern City". At the seat of the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, Thebes was known in the Egyptian language from the end of the New Kingdom as niwt-imn, "The City of Amun." This found its way into the Hebrew Bible as נא אמון nōˀ ˀāmôn (Nahum 3:8),"no" in Hebrew meaning city with "no amon" or "City of Amon" referring to the Egyptian deity Amon-Ra, most likely it is also the same as נא ("No") (Ezekiel 30:14). In Greek this name was rendered Διόσπολις Diospolis, "City of Zeus", as Zeus was the god whom the Greeks identified with Amun, see interpretatio graeca. The Greeks surnamed the city μεγάλη megale, "the Great", to differentiate it from numerous other cities called Diospolis. The Romans rendered the name Diospolis Magna.
Which unfortunately doesn't quite explain how the Greeks came up with Thebes...
Your first question I cannot answer, as I didn't know they actually had a flag. (Although the combination of white over blue usually suggests either water, sea or waves, which in this case might refer to the river Rhine.)
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