You know what I mean, right? Think 15th-17th century art, especially in European royal portraits. Did people really look that way? Many portraits seem almost cherubic in nature.

I know "Native American princess" is a trope, and women were obviously part of the high-status families and clans in Mayan and Aztec society, but did women hold positions of secular or religious authority?

Hello historians, the question I would like to ask you guys are about the wood sea faring ships / transportation before humans switched to metal ships. What was the likelihood of a ship to sink when traversing open ocean? Was it common? Or were ships usually fit to sail with no problem

I’d imagine most historical battles were pretty chaotic. And most people fought in very similar clothes (knights in gray steel, foot soldiers in whatever roughspun or armor they just had/found.

How did fighters know friend from foe, avoid killing their own (or even their leader?) in the midst of battle?

Tavern maid or waitress, how much were they paid? (Estimation is fine) In America (British control in New York) before and after the revolution, and what were their duties? Thank you! I tried googles couldn't find anything. It's for a book. So any details about them, please inform me or send me to a place to read on it.

What distinguished her from the Pharaoh's other wives?

I know some other languages didn't survive also (like Aragonese) but Mozarabic was relatively different from Spanish, had tons of Arabic loanwords and was spoken in a peripherical region of Iberia. So why?

The Dulle brothers, Secretary of State and CIA director respectively, who convinced Eisenhower to launch his invasion, had both worked with UFC, and along with other government officials, were on UFC payroll, albeit often indirectly. While this is far from the archetypal defense industry collaboration with the armed forces situation, it is still a collaboration between a large company and the armed forces at the detriment of foreigners which arguably continues to this day, with the legacy of the later Civil War. Did Eisenhower or any of his associates ever acknowledge or express regret for this? I understand this is a pretty charged question, but it is confusing, given how famous Eisenhower is for his warning, and how little the average american knows about Guatemala.

Thinking about this crazy year got me thinking of what it will look like in our textbooks. How long does a textbook writer wait to write about current events? What is the process? Are there rules of thumb like "shouldn't teach the target audience something they would have remembered happening"? Is something more likely to show up in a textbook in less time because "decades" are published together?

Many European nations such as Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands would go to war with Napoleon, yet were openly supportive of another Frenchman King Louis XVIII replacing him.

Why was Napoleon seen as a threat yet Louis XVIII wasn’t?

Was it because Napoleon was seen as a revolutionary against the monarchies and aristocracy, while Louis XVIII was one of them?

I'm an AP US history studentvand the other day we learned about King Philip's/ Metacom's war. Unfortunately, due to the nature of my online class I was unable to ask clarifying questions about this topic.

My history teacher (and textbook) stated that Metacom was winning against the colonists, and was quite close to destroying Boston, but was defeated (or maybe assassinated, I'm not clear on that) by the Mohawk tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Why did the Iroquois side with the colonists over Metacom? I understand that they aren't the same tribe and therefore may not feel particularly inclined to be allies, but siding with the Europeans seems like it could only be a bad idea to a group of Native Americans, given the colonists history of slaughtering and stealing from other tribes.

Follow up question: was Metacom realky that sucessful? My teacher made it sound like he had won the majority of the battles and was close to burning down Boston, but if that were true I think I would have learned about the near defeat of Massachusetts in some other class.

Thanks for any help you can provide to an intrested AP student.

Heinrich Himmler, J Edgar Hoover, and Lavrentiy Beria were all such horrible people and in charge of their country's elite police forces. Were they really the best choices for the job? There were no saner choices for the job?

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Is this evidence of

-An African migration to India

-Indians having reached Africa through a maritime route

-Africans having reached India through maritime routes

-trade between a land route between South India and Tropical Africa?

Seems rather stupid.

Can anyone recommend me any book to start studying the ancient history? I really wanted to learn more about the first civilization, but never was quite sure where to start. I would be really thankful for any kind of recommendation)

I recently read a novel where Churchill had a lookalike who was used to pretend he was in one place, while he was actually somewhere else. I also have vague memeories of a film from the 50s about a body double being used for a General during the second world war.

I'm just wondering if body doubles were used, and if so, how successful it was.