Quackers
The Frog
What would happen if Dachs asked a question in this thread? It would be like dividing by 0 
History questions not worth their own thread
- Thread starter philippe
- Start date
- Status
I have plenty of questions. I think I've asked some in this very thread before!
Actually, here's one that's been bugging me: does anybody know of any good, preferably relatively unbiased, and recent accounts of the Xinhai Revolution and subsequent warlord period? If possible the book(s?) in question would cover from about 1911 into the twenties, maybe up to 1936.
Actually, here's one that's been bugging me: does anybody know of any good, preferably relatively unbiased, and recent accounts of the Xinhai Revolution and subsequent warlord period? If possible the book(s?) in question would cover from about 1911 into the twenties, maybe up to 1936.
As far as I know, the Indian opium flooded the market making it more widely available in greater quantities allowing a wider segment of the population to smoke, and those who already did to smoke more. It didn't create presence of opium, but changed the scale of that presence.
God, I could have answered this question last week, but I threw out all my university readers on Sunday. My opportunity to show off an prove my dominance over Dachs has failed through my own cleanliness.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
God, I could have answered this question last week, but I threw out all my university readers on Sunday. My opportunity to show off an prove my dominance over Dachs has failed through my own cleanliness.
Which is in itself a superiority?...
My superiority has undermined my own superiority. I knew that this day would come. I just thought that there would be time to prepare, to steel myself for the inevitable. Now, alas, all is lost.Which is in itself a superiority?...
Yes, that's a perfectly logical sentence...
Does anyone know anything about Native American history? Specifically I recall once hearing there was some sort of link between the Iroquois and the Cherokee, does anyone know any more about this?
Huayna Capac357
Deity
I'm pretty sure they're in the same linguistic family.
Anything known of their early prehistory? Did they originate in a given known area?
holy king
Deity
i guess the lack of written records and maps makes this hard to determine.
Huayna Capac357
Deity
I, as an amateur, would say, based on the place where most of the Iroquoian languages are, that it originated in New York somewhere. But I don't know for sure.
Cynovolans
Not in my dimension.
Cherokee oral traditions say they migrated from the Great Lakes region. Artifacts discovered support that they were Iroquois speaking people that migrated south during the Mississippian period.
So, when I have been telling people that before me, the last ancestors I had who were born in upstate NY left the area hundreds of years before, I wasn't talking out of my rear. That's reassuring.
Cynovolans
Not in my dimension.
Maybe not exactly New York, but yeah around the region.
Quackers
The Frog
What was Richard Nixon's personality like?
Listening to the White House tapes and watching Futurama should give you a good idea.
Before the invention of cars people used sleighs (and sleighriding was a 'popular' pastime) and horse-drawn carriages (which have higher/bigger wheels than the average car or even truck) and naval transportation to get to another town. Clearing and maintaining roads was, in general, a local rather than a national task. I'm guessing the national car association doesn't have a pre-modern precursor. But the topic is no specialty of mine, so...
Yared
That Guy
What's the history of oral hygiene?
(I'm talking way back)
(I'm talking way back)
- Status
Similar threads
