Why did Europe become a feudal society? Why did the Cultural Revolution fail? Why did the Irish Rebellion of 1798 fail? Why did the manorial system fail? Why did the Weimar Republic struggle? Why did the Iraq War fail? Why did the French absolute monarchy fall?
After the Axial Age, the West moved toward continuous disunity, but China had successfully maintained a persistent unity pattern. Conventional case (history event) studies are subject to selection bias and theoretical frameworks, which is not objective n
slavery disappeared from Europe. At a time when it was possible for elites to reduce the entire rural population to serfdom, it did not seem necessary to have a separate class of slaves as every previous society had had. Feudalism also created a power vacuum in which independent cities special...
As Varoufakis aptly points out, feudalization does not mean that capitalism will suddenly disappear. On the contrary, feudalism can long coexist with sectors managed by capitalistic logic. This process does not happen quickly. Rather, it is a slowly growing trend which, alongside the ever present...
‘Ukraine’ was not used as a place name at all during this period – in both Russian and Polish it meant ‘borderland’ or ‘frontier’. Its use as a name referring to the territories around Kiev only began in the 18th century, when these lands really did become a borderland during ...
of the French monarchy, prompting them to urge the French to restore Louis XVI to power. As a result, the Legislative Assembly declared war on the allies. During Napoleon’s rule, Britain, Russia, Austria, and Sweden feared his ambitions to conquer all of Europe and allied against France....
Mrs Thatcher said that China would never become a world superpower because Ch 28、ina did not have such cultural spirit. I think this is the true saying. China has not been rich, and the road to wealth has not been found. But how to spend money after being rich has been designed so ...
because in Europe, when all ethnicities are white and Christian, languages become pivotal to distinguish different nations since by appearance they all look similar. I propose a theory that could explain the invisibility of German Americans, using factors including contact, population ratios, political...
How did Europe’s musical theatre go from Greco-Roman roots toThe Beggar’s Opera? How did New York become the next center of musical theater? Greek and Roman history Greek tragedies and comedies What we know as Greek mythology was of course, for the ancient Greeks, religion. The first...
I’m also widely known to be a Ukrainian apologist. This particularly concerns my second passion with local politics, a field also dominated by hacks in Ukraine, and my relentless, Russian/Ukrainian-language, campaign against popular perceptions of Europe as a magic land of magic, where everythi...