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  • Re: question on Roman Sex Slavery

    [quote] [quote][Rape] wasn't seen as a crime amongst Southern African Bantu for instance, before the White legal systems introduced this to them as such. [/quote] Says who? The invading Europeans? What exactly qualifies as rape? And rape of who?[/quote] Your statement has got some clichee-like undertones...
    Posted to History (Forum) by Torsten on Wed, Jun 27 2012
  • The Development of Societies.

    Why do some societies develop more quickly than others? Why are some cultures, despite all the reasons not too, stagnate in their devopment compared to others? For example, European colonizers vs the Native Americans or the technological height of our civilization compared to these uncontacted tribes...
    Posted to History (Forum) by djussila on Sun, Feb 6 2011
  • Commercialism degrades culture?

    After his lecture on Montesquieu, a professor at Hillsdale College posed the belief of Montesuieu's that the aristocracy is a bastion of culture- and that with commercialism, the aristocracy disappears along with its "high culture." He pointed to modern entertainment, with television as...
    Posted to History (Forum) by tmeyer on Wed, Sep 23 2009
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