I recently learned that 85% of Argentina’s population is white. When I mentioned this to a friend, they said that 50% of them are descendants of Nazi’s who presumably fled to Argentina after WW2. How much truth is there to this?

I understand that the north is Siberia, the west is desert, and south is mountains, but was there ever a time a Chinese leader tried to expand beyond these lands? If they didn’t , why not? Was China rich enough in resources that there was no reason to?

Glass has been around since the ancient Greece, maybe even earlier. However this kind of glass always had a taint of color and probably also during the European middle age. But when did we start making transparent and colorless glass as we know today?

All accounts of the battle (that I could find) tell of an axe wielding Viking that held the bridge preventing the Anglo-Saxons from crossing, cutting down roughly 40 of them by himself before meeting a rather unfortunate end. This seems like a very notable feat, enough so that he may have had a reputation as a skilled and courageous warrior among other Vikings prior to the battle. Have historians been able to come up with potential candidates for who this may have been?

How often did this actually arise? Was in just propaganda in many ways? Was there ever an army that actually taught this idea?

I understand that it’s necessary to have a certain amount of sodium in the diet to be healthy, so I got to thinking about sodium intake in ancient times.

I’m aware that elsewhere in the world people have been mining and trading salt for quite a long time, but in pre-colonized America, how did they get their salt?

It was claimed recently that from almost 500 AD – 1,700ish AD, European nations were far behind India when it came to running a very advanced administrative apparatus, extracting tax, maintaining large bureaucracies, a large standing army (the standing armies and navies in India were supposedly 100 times larger than than European armies since the fall of Rome).

Basically India ran a large, diverse and prosperous state unlike Europe which lagged behind in all aspects.

To me this doesn't sound true, given the recent estimates on GDP per capita, the fact that Europeans colonised India and that nothing similar to the Domesday Book exists for India.

How true are these claims?

You sometimes hear teenagers complain that they were "born in the wrong generation," and artists like The Beatles, The Doors and Jimi Hendrix remain popular among young people today. Is this a relatively new phenomenon, or were there kids in the 1960s who, for example, listened to ragtime and complained that rock 'n' roll required no talent?

Good Day Everyone. During a conversation with a holocaust denier. In regards to them trying their hardest to provethat The Nuremburg Trials were a sham, they brought up the Number of people killed in Auschwitz are different from the Offical Count (1.1 million) and from Rudolph Hoss, who was he longest-serving commandant of the Camp (3 Million) Why is there a decrepency in thes two figures

How accurate is the Indo-Aryan migration theory? What are your views on the new archaeological evidences found in North India that completely debunk this theory?

I am quite familiar with Roman history, but despite a great wealth of books and podcasts, I have never found a clear explanation of how a roman citizen became a senator. In Latin class I learned about the elaborate system of election used for the magistries in the republican era, and for a long time I believed that membership of the senate was a benefit conferred on those who held senior magistries. But I think that is actually wrong, particulary since the size of the Senate was generally fixed. I've also often seen references to the "Senatorial Class", in a way that implies that it is a separate group to the actual senators and it's membership is defined by property. I understand that the senate's nature, power, size and composition changed dramatically over the course of the republican era and the principate, but no one ever seems to explain how a citizen actually became a senator.

Is this true? Why didn't they stop, did people not know the end was nigh?

I would understand if this gets deleted, but the thing I wish to know is why Africans were more prone to forced to go to USA as slaves than South Asian people which was if not more, equally colonized as Africa...

I’m a historian myself, I studied renaissance, the style, architecture, etc. But after a trip to Tuscany I’ve realised the extensive use of dark green (marble?) and I wonder why? Is it due to the existence of local supplies?

Hello! I am interested in reading more about the institution of military slavery, which produced such famous soldiers as the mamluks and janissaries. I have read “Slave Soldiers and Islam” by Daniel Pipes.

Is there any more recent research on this issue? I would also be interested in sources from Middles Eastern scholars.

I am mostly intrigued by social history (how these people lived and their relationships with other people) but military/political history is fine as well.

Thanks in advance!