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Scholars debate whether there was an intent to starve millions of Ukrainians to death or not. [12] While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, [a] the topic remains a significant issue in modern politics with historians disputing whether Soviet policies would fall under the legal definition of genocide.
Historic recurrence is the repetition of similar events in history. [a] [b] The concept of historic recurrence has variously been applied to overall human history (e.g., to the rises and falls of empires), to repetitive patterns in the history of a given polity, and to any two specific events which bear a striking similarity. [4]
In mainland China and Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, the number 4 is often associated with death because the sound of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words for four and death are similar (for example, the sound sì in Chinese is the Sino-Korean number 4 (四), whereas sǐ is the word for death (死), and in Japanese "shi" is the number 4, whereas ...
Genocide denial is the attempt to deny or minimize the scale and severity of an instance of genocide. Denial is an integral part of genocide [1] [2] [3] and includes the secret planning of genocide, propaganda while the genocide is going on, [1] and destruction of evidence of mass killings.
Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of violence. [1]
This Tokyo residential section was virtually destroyed following the Operation Meetinghouse fire-bombing of Tokyo on the night of 9/10 March 1945, which was the single deadliest air raid in human history; [42] with a greater loss of life than the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki as single events or a greater civilian death toll and ...
Eyewitness sketch of the 1894 Sasun massacres. Traditionally the Ottoman millet system offered non-Muslims a subordinate but protected place in society. The nineteenth-century Tanzimat reforms abolished the protections that members of the Armenian millet had previously enjoyed, but did not change the popular perception that they were different and inferior. [17]
Certain historians also argue that the purpose of history is to explain change and causes of events, concerns which, in their view, distinguish the historian from the chronicler. [ 18 ] History is sometimes used for political or ideological purposes, for instance, to justify the status quo by emphasising the respectability of certain traditions ...