British Politics

The discipline known as history started in classical Greece with the writings of Herodotus and Thucydides, in the 5th Century BC.

It could be argued that they deliberately painted the Persians in a poor light, but both men at least made some attempt at objectivity.

 

How many slaves are there today, and who are they?

The word “slavery” conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships – depictions that seem relegated firmly to the past. But more people are enslaved today than at any other time in history. Experts have calculated that roughly 13 million people were captured and sold as slaves between the 15th and 19th centuries; today, an estimated 40.3 million people – more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade – are living in some form of modern slavery, according to the latest figures published by the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation.

Women and girls comprise 71% of all modern slavery victims. Children make up 25% and account for 10 million of all the slaves worldwide.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200

 

Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagon all benefited from slave labour they should be shut down sold and the proceeds sent to Israel as reparations

 

Pffft, they had it easy. History for them was more like, 'what happened yesterday' we've got loads more to remember now.

 

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As there are no written records from 40k years ago, that would qualify as the prehistoric era

There might have been historians of a sort as all cultures had story tellers, but these would have been in the oral tradition.

Because of the lack of recorded history, the study of cultures that old would be the work of anthropologists and archaeologists, not historians.

 

Is NHS as good as some people say it is?
Wife attended an appointment at hospital breast clinic. They said they would send a letter to GP. GP said they were waiting to receive letter from hospital. Hospital said they were waiting to receive a letter from GP requesting letter!

 

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No, it's ****e and a huge waste of money.

 

Yes there is no history from 40,000 years ago apart what is told in THE BIBLE you thick bus driving ****er.

 

The early books of the Bible are generally considered to date from about 3000 years ago you thick bog unblocking ****er.

 

Pics?

Edit: Wtf am I saying

 

Might have been, but as none of it survived there is no recorded history from that long ago.

 

*shed building

 

Days until Brexit

 

Aborigine cave art and stories isn't far off that timescale iirc

 

Aren’t your sheds provided with ****ters?

 

Teaching History is a complete waste of time.

 

The top one is Australian, the bottom one from Santa Cruz in Argentina. Both are dated from approximately 13,000 years ago

 

Trying to teach you anything is a complete waste of time.