/u/-Harboringonalament-'s posts
I've been told the US was built on slavery, but the most developed parts of the country are in the abolitionist north that focused on immigration and industry, while what little was built under slavery in the south was burned to the ground in the Civil War. What exactly was built by slavery?
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I'm a Christian. Pastors often quote me Emperor Julian as proof early Christians were multicultural, tolerant, and diverse. Yet I also know early Christians were very intolerant to heterodoxy and prone to mob violence and riots. What is the true history here? How should I balance the claims?
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There is a running gag among my welsh friends that Wales was the last Roman Rump State and that the last kings were Caesars. From what I can tell there does seem to be a line of succession back to Rome. Do any sources discuss this? Is this a recent claim or one that Wales historically has made?
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A number of musicians tell me that nusical scales are a relic of colonization, and there's different scales elsewhere. However, I am trained in a science and know the ear has a set logarithmic scale. I have always doubted the claim as I'd assume cultures would orient to this log. What's the history?
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How reliable is Bartolomé de las Casas? He was a rival of Columbus, and yet our only surviving documents of Columbus come from versions he penned.
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Lincoln is remembered as the president who freed the African slave. But, he also saw to the transcontinental railroad, which was built on effectively imported Chinese slaves. Did anyone in his day catch the odd contradiction of this? Did he get criticized for freeing one group but not the other?
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