Chronicles of the Past
Why did the Ottoman Empire failed to industrialize? While the industrial revolution swept through Europe in the 1700s and 1800s, the Ottoman economy remained dependent upon farming. The empire lacked the factories and mills to keep up with Great Britain, France and even Russia, according to Michael A. Did the Ottoman Empire ever industrialize? In …
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How did Isaac Newton do his research? Isaac Newton’s Telescope and Studies on Light Through his experiments with refraction, Newton determined that white light was a composite of all the colors on the spectrum, and he asserted that light was composed of particles instead of waves.Mar 10, 2015 Where did Newton do his research? Newton …
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Why does Brazil have so many Italians? Italian migration to Brazil began in 1875 when Brazil began to promote migration to the country in order to increase its population and therefore created ‘colonies’ mostly in rural areas for Italians and other Europeans to migrate to. Between 1880 and 1920, more than one million Italians immigrated …
Why did Yugoslavia leave the Soviet Union? Although presented by both sides as an ideological dispute, the conflict was as much the product of a geopolitical struggle in the Balkans that also involved Albania, Bulgaria, and the communist insurgency in Greece, which Tito’s Yugoslavia supported and the Soviet Union secretly opposed. What happened between the …
In ancient Greece and Rome, men swam for exercise and to train as warriors. They also went to the public baths. Usually, they wore nothing at all. Did Romans have swimsuits? While the modern bikini’s design has been traced to the Roman subligaculum and strophium (briefs and breastbands, i.e. a “two piece bikini”), they were …
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Who used the scorched earth policy against Napoleon? desperate Russians The desperate Russians, however, adopted a “scorched-earth” policy: whenever they retreated, they burned the places they left behind. Napoleon’s army had trouble finding supplies, and it grew progressively weaker the farther it marched. What are the natural resources of Kamchatka Peninsula? Kamchatka’s natural resources include …
How accurate is clavells shogun? The scholars agree that “Shogun” is basically a Western romance fantasy and facts are embellished, but overall, they seem to agree that as a historical fiction, Shogun is a fairly accurate depiction of feudal Japan in the 1600. Is shogun by James Clavell a true story? Clavell stated that reading …
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Did the ancient Romans use bows and arrows? The normal weapon of Roman archers, both infantry and cavalry units, was the composite bow, although Vegetius recommended training recruits “arcubus ligneis” (with wooden bows), which may have been made in the northern European self bow tradition. Did the Romans have arrows? Roman Arrows. While many arrow …
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What was the voyage of the Russian Baltic Fleet in 1905? In May 1905, the Russian Baltic Fleet’s 29 warships and their auxiliaries steamed northwestward through the Yellow Sea towards Vladivostok. They had endured a grueling seven-month journey that would soon end in the waters between Korea and Japan, near the island of Tsushima. What …
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Why didn t armies just go around castles? Later castles were designed as strategic reserves. Everything valuable (people, crops, animals, chattel, etc.) were withdrawn within the castle. That means that the attacker can’t just go around the castle, the attacker has to go around the entire cultivated area—because the defender has laid waste to the …
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