With the incredible death toll from the Black Death, I understand this fundamentally changed the relation of labour, with labourers now able to claim higher wages as there were far fewer of them. I considered whether the trans Atlantic slave trade was a reaction in part to the pandemic, as it led to a demand for labour that wasn’t just cheap but free.

Forgive my pessimism but I find it very hard to believe that such a powerful force would allow for such an act to be passed when it seems like it would only hurt their economic prospects.Was there some way that they managed to benefit from the passing from the act?

Also I would really appreciate it if someone could provide me with sources that would allow me to learn more about this decision. All I have are Wikipedia pages, and though they're nice they don't provide a lot of detail.

EDIT: Sorry for the redundancy in the title, just noticed it after posting

I was thinking that if a similar event happened now a days, they would be hit with oodles of wrongful death lawsuits.

Did anything like this happen when the event happened?

I'm watching the show Deadwood and I was wondering how Bullock made money as sheriff. At the time that the show takes place, Deadwood was not part of the US and the town was just a loosely organized series of shops and services. Seth Bullock becomes the sheriff for the camp and I was wondering if they collected taxes at all for services like a sheriff, or was he paid for services rendered. Or, as he still ran his hardware store, was the job solely a volunteer job.

Sorry for the somewhat confusing title. I’m doing some worldbuilding right now and I want to invoke the feeling of ancient cultures that believed that gods/spirits were everywhere and magic was omnipresent, but humans couldn’t necessarily tap into it easily. Examples maybe being the Celts with the various types of fairies, Indigenous people’s belief in the consciousness of the land, etc. I understand how these cultures functioned from an academic perspective, but what I really want are written accounts of people living everyday lives and mentioning how this belief in a larger magic system/life force affects their actions. I hope that makes sense!

I know the British colonies were drafted in the two world wars, but were they drafted more often, and If so what were the arrangement

Are there any historical or contemporaneous examples of Russian Roulette being "a thing" or is the act merely folklore?

It permeates pop-culture as quintessentially Russian. Why is that? Were Russian really going around blowing their brains out for sport?

Sorry if there is a simillar question

So, when the Franks, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, etc migrated to their respective regions They adopted the language of the people they ruled over. But that is not the case in Britain.in Britain the local languages was gradually replaced by the Anglo Saxons.

Why did the Language of the Germanic Tribes that Invaded Britain gradually replaced local language of the Britons? What made the Anglo Saxons situation unique, compared to the Other Germanic Tribes that conquered parts of the Western Roman empire?

Narrowing a question I made yesterday.

At the time of the crusades, all (Western European) participants were Catholic. I'd be interested in knowing if perspective on the crusades shifted with the Reformation. Did later Protestant historians appraise the crusades differently? And did this interpretation differ from the perspective of historians in Catholic countries?

What was tax collection like in medieval England, and what was the Sheriff's role?

Logically wouldn't taxes be on the order of the king or local baron? Why was the Sheriff singled out in the legend?

As far as I understand, there are two surviving accounts of the Viking voyages to the American continent and both have some mythologized elements. However, I have read interpretations of the geographic location of these voyages (and, by proxy, guesses about which tribes made contact with the Vikings).

The combat in the sagas also mentions Native Americans using arrows to kill the Norse. With that in mind, can we make educated guesses about what this combat actually looked like?

Historians talk about nationalism as a modern phenomenon but by our own standards would ancient civilisations like Rome be nation states or nationalistic?

Only Romans, themselves an ethnic group due to a shared language and customs/culture could vote or hold power and the empire existed to benefit the Roman people so there was an element of national chauvinism and national exclusivity there. And people like Cato the Elder seem to have a lot in common with 20th/21st century nationalists.

I know Rome had an Empire but would that exclude it from being nationalist anymore then Hitler or Mussolini having an empire would make them not nationalist?

Maybe the question is convoluted. The term was clearly taken from the Germans but morphed into an actual first year of elementary school while in Germany is spans multiple years and it mostly run by churches. How did this change develop?

I just don't get it. If Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II and King George V we're cousins and Kaiser Wilhelm was Queen Victoria's favourite grandchild (at least that's what I've read) why would Germany not be on the Allies side? If Tsar Nicholas was a good cousin of George V why would George V not let him come to London at the time of the Russian Revolution?

I live around 1100 ad in middle europe (e.g modern day England, France or Germany) and the Winter ist coming. How do i as a Farmer/Worker/Noble prepare for the coming cold. What do i do and eat during the winter and where does my food come from?

Nowadays, "Vanilla" being the baseline type is so ubiquitous it's become part of general language, but how did a flavor originally derived from a Mexican flower gain such ubiquity?

My impression is that line infantry became obsolete some time around the mid-19th century due to advancements in artillery, rifle technology, machine guns, and industrial/increasingly mechanized supply chains that would eventually lead to the trench warfare of the western front of WWI.

However, I feel that there is a gap in the public perception of warfare in the decades preceding WWI. How did battles play out in conflicts like the Franco-Prussian War, Boer Wars, Spanish-American War, Russo-Japanese War, Mexican Revolution, the Balkan Wars, and the non-western fronts of WWI?

If the above list is overbroad, I would still appreciate specific descriptions of individual conflicts, or of whichever wars/battles are most useful in understanding the transition from line infantry to industrial warfare.

It bugs the mind to think that places like Ulster, who only a few centuries ago started to adheer to protestant schools of thought, after a brutal campaign against their own kin, whilst Scotland, who hath been on the eyes of the anglo saxon lords for a considerably longer period of time, with raids deep into the heartland starting with King Edward up until the ascenscion of James the I; son of the deceased Queen of Scots, and a believer of Lutheran values, and with the already meager and decentralized Scottish Catholic base crippled with the deaths of powerful nobles such as Hutly and Knox's successses in contributing to the enactment of the Scottish Reformation, how's it still remain in fact, that the Scottish populace at large overwhelmingly cling to the Holy See? Was there a lack of fidelity by the Nobles to enforce Lutheran values onto even the folk of the Scottish lowlands, or is there perhaps a more intriguing and or insidious reason?