I have to write a 15 page seminar work on Native American Religion. I´m going to write about the general definition of Native American Religion, common misconceptions and differences to religions of the old world. I´m also going to write about, how the religion has changed over time and about the future of Native American Religion.

So if anybody could recommend books on any of those topics it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a huge fan of this sub but I really do not know how to recognise a false historical claim. There's been a lot of this circulating in India more so in recent times and a lot of people including my family and I fall prey to it. I wonder if there is any way to combat this and anyway to recognise if a false historical narrative is being pushed.

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Looking at the Axis Powers, I've always wondered what benefits Germany and Italy accrued from their alliance with Japan and vice versa during World War II. While Germany and Italy were able to support each other militarily, Japan seems far too geographically removed to really be of much help once the fighting got started, at least directly.

I know that the German aircraft-carrier, Graf Zeppelin and her three planned sister ships were modeled after the IJN's Akagi, and that at least one German u-boat was transferred to the IJN during the war itself, and that there were talks of campaigns in the Middle East to make cooperation easier, though that ultimately fell through.

Was their alliance almost exclusively about them fighting the same enemies rather than helping each other fight the same enemies, or is there a lot of support and benefits to this alliance that I'm unaware of?

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I remember being fascinated by the story of the French Revolution in AP Euro, can anyone recommend any good books on the subject?

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I am trying to find out any information about my grandfather's family. He was from a small town outside Lodz, Poland. He and his father survived the Holocaust but his mother and brothers did not. I emailed Yad Vashem who sent me some general information and a few documents that they found in the main Holocaust database. Does anyone have any ideas for where I can turn to next? I am looking for any information I can find.

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I have heard of a Swedish soldier in the vietnam war but is it true and what happend to him?

And how did they manage to live (if they did)?

Ny understanding of the western mystery traditions was that they really started within the syncretic religious atmosphere of Greece/Egypt during the hellenistic period, but I was watchimg netlfix' midnight gospel and Damien Echols said that their true roots can be found in what is now present day Iraq and were brought to Europe by the Knights templar? Never heard this before. Any ancient historians out there who can clear things up for me?

I live close to the Natchez Trace Parkway. I understand that the route was originally a forest trail for herds of bison, then indigenous people, then settlers. Considering that, I'd like to learn more about the origins of our transportation routes from sea-to-sea. Are there any documents or books covering this in a comprehensive way?

I've been reading several Near Eastern general history books and they all end around 500 BC. My understanding is that the Hellenistic states weren't all that different from earlier Iron Age empires. Was there really a substantial difference that warrants such a sharp delineation between the ancient period and the 'classical' period in Near Eastern history?

Every time I use a porter potty or even one of the bathrooms at a national forest I always think "how in the world did societies deal with solid waste before plumbing and sewer systems.

I've read and heard that people would simply toss out the contents of their chamber pots out of their windows onto a street. I find that amazing, the urine wouldn't be such a big deal since it most likely drained into the dirt surface. But the solid waste I assume would have been a massive issue, were there just piles of doodoo throughout a city or town? Did a poor soul have the job of wheeling around a cart of solid waste and picking it up as he came across it?

I know this isn't a "sexy" askhistorians question but TIA to anyone who offers some historical info on this.

I remember reading somewhere that the Portuguese found Brazil due to exploration of islands around Africa. This discovery was independent of Spain and Columbus’s discovery prior. I’m looking for that source now and can’t find it.

If not, which I'm assuming they're not because the slave owners were the upper Rich class and they didn't fight in wars, why were the Confederate soldiers going to war? What did they have to benefit making sure a bunch of rich people were allowed to keep slaves that they weren't even benefiting from?

By this I mean, many cultures adopted a variant of the Phalanx and used it as far away as the Phoenicians of Carthage, the Iberian Peninsula, along with the Diadochi Macedonians in the former Persian Empire. For a period it seemed the cutting edge of Ancient Western Warfare, until being defeated by the more tactically flexible Roman Legion several well documented times.

However, following this it seems that the Legion formation and organization was monopolized by Roman administration, and was not effectively adopted by other polities or cultures. I've heard of Imitation Legions being organized in the Ancient Hellenic Near East, but they seem - at best - to be a footnote that did not seriously affect the expansion of Roman power into the Levant, Asia Minor and the Near East, nor the eventual rise of Sassanid Persia in the former Macedonian Empire's lands. Why is this?

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A question that’s interested me for a while (in the title). I know enough about the music itself as I’m a musician but I don’t know that much about what was really going on during that post-renaissance period.

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