How were these animals chosen over other similar species - buffalo, deer, horse, goats, sheep, ducks/turkey etc? Obviously some dishes highlight these other animals, however they aren't nearly as prevalent nor as factory farmed nearly as much as Chicken, Cow or Pig.

I’ve been watching a few history videos that talk about the Statue in passing, and this question popped into my head. We know now the statue is green because of oxidation, and I’m sure educated people back then knew why as well; but was the average person thinking something was wrong? Did it happen so gradually that no one really questioned it? Did we know that it was going to turn green eventually and they even planned for it? It took about 30 years. What there a “clickbait” type article in the paper every once in the titled “10 reasons why the Statue if Liberty is turning green. You won’t believe number 3!”?

I say black people as I'm not only referring to African-Americans here.

I don't think that it can be argued against that music made by black people dominates the airwaves, kind of. Since I've been a kid in the 2000s, hip hop RnB and rap have been the most popular genres among my peers. In my experience, almost every millennial listens to one of these genres at some point or another.

Some of the biggest and most popular musicians are black and the music charts has a lot of rap and RnB influences. Hip hop is even getting integrated into popular rock and even country songs.

Even ignoring rap music, black people have been very prominent in "pop" music, disco, even rock dating back to the early stage of the 20th century. Many of America's most famous and influential artists have always included African-Americans.

At very least, we can say that black people disproportionately dominate music. At under 15 percent of the US population, black people have done incredibly well with music. Reggae originates from Jamaica with around 2 million people. Reggae is known almost worldwide (everyone knows Bob Marley). Soca and Calypso Island music is also gaining popularity extremely fast, at least where I live. The black Caribbean Islands have a pretty tiny population. Even in very white countries such as the UK and Canada, black artists have done extremely well.

So why is this the case? I personally like many types of music but I mainly listen to what I call the main 4 black genres of today: RnB, Reggae, Rap, Soca. I also happen to be black, but I don't think that's relevant. Any answers?

For instance, was the Roman citizen informed of the military conquests of Gaul or an English citizen the results of the Battle of Hastings? Was there some sort of newspaper? Did they even care?

I was reading about the Second Spanish Republic and Spanish Civil war and I was kind of surprised. I was reading through Wikipedia with the conception that the "good guy" Republic was subverted by fascists and nazis and that was the downfall. What I read was more like the Republic was an incredibly oppressive regime especially towards Catholics that pushed Spain into total anarchy.

I feel like I am missing a lot of the story and I want to know more information.

How did the Second Republic come into existence?

Were they hardcore Marxists? Were they in fact super oppressive towards Catholics or is that Francoist revisionist propaganda?

Did Spain actually fall into anarchy prior to the civil war or is that also propaganda?

What was the ultimate trigger that caused the civil war and why was it such a bitter and bloody struggle?

Hello! This semester I am taking a class that focuses mostly on the 15th - 18th century politics within Western Europe. Whether that be with economics, religious upheaval, royal families, etc. One reoccurring theme that I have been noticing in my textbook is either the expulsion of Jews from one country, or the welcoming of Jews in another country. Maybe I haven't reached the point in the textbook yet that explains this constant persecution, but why are the Jews so regularly discriminated against within western European countries? Or within other regions as well? I've always understood that Jews were regularly discriminated against for centuries, but it never really clicked in my head to ask why?

Edit: understand--> understood

From about 1200 a German knight order occupied what are now the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). They kept the overall control of these countries for several centuries and much of the population converted to Christianity.

At the same time, the Hanseatic League rose to power and became the dominant economic force in the Baltic Sea for several centuries. Its origins also lie in Germany, and its members played an important role in shaping the main cities in the Baltics (Riga, Tallinn, etc).

When I read up on either the crusades or the Hanseatic League I find a lot of information. What seems to be missing are connections: are there any links between both, and what are they?

I had a baby boomer history teacher in high school that told us that people born in and around the time of the post WWII nuclear tests have a noticeable degree of nuclear materials in their bones. I believe he said it was some isotope of Cesium. Is this true, and if it is, how widespread was the phenomenon and what are the details behind it?

Recently my mother brought out a box of my grandfather's papers that she'd never gone through before. My grandfather died in the 1990s when he was in his late 80s, and he was a fairly prominent British doctor in his day. In the box is an envelope marked 'photographs given to me by the wartime heroine lady doctor who ran a hidden hospital in the woods in yugoslavia and walked the children over the mountains to safety at the end of the war.' The envelope holds around fifty or so wartime photographs. Two or three are fairly graphic war shots, others are more everyday snapshots of children in the woods or walking on a long trek. I assume that my grandfather was only given copies of these photographs but I would hate it if I was hoarding the only copy of images that might be very meaningful to someone. I've done a reverse search on two of the photographs and nothing came up but my technical skills aren't great so I might have been doing this wrong. Could any kind historian advise me on the best way to proceed? Thank you.

To be more precise I’m curious about how the archbishop and the other members of the state where chosen, how the burocracy of the state worked and kept itself afloat and if there was any difference in the internal administration from each archbishopric or if they where all governed in the same way and had a similar approach to foreign policy. (the time period on this question is quite broaden as I'm also curious on how these goverment changed overtime, so it goes from the middle ages to the modern era.)

Majority of history's most respected and major humans kept diaries, most of ww1 generals including but not limited to Sir Douglas Haig (the butcher), or Abraham lincoln and other such statesmen and important people.

Point is in the question, writing diaries has for the most of history been a common thing to do, a norm which everyone did, at which point and why did this common practice become "unmanly"?

Sorry if this is not a right kind of post to this sub

Edit: I see that a lot of people do not know what I am talking about, and fair enough, it is quite a fringe element, so to speak.

What I am talking about, is a "sub thing" (so to speak) within toxic masculinity where certain things are deemed not appropriate for "real men", and that if a man would do any of those things (such as keeping a diary, showing feelings, crying, having dolls or actively playing after childhood) he is gay/weak/insert a slur here.

What I am most intrested about is the diary keeping, because it has been so common in history.

As far as I know, some of these people usually seem to make a difference between a diary and a journal, latter being appropriate for men, and the other one not.

As far as I know (I may be wrong), the preservation of ancient Greek ideas (or at least Aristotle's) was, among many others, a major contribution of Islamic culture. Apart from that preservation function, what would (for example) a scholar from Baghdad or Cordoba think about the works, beliefs and other cultural details of Greeks and Romans?

Thank you very much in advance.

Modern libraries are organized by subject and then alphabetically by author’s last name in most cases, but what was it like to walk into an ancient library? How were the documents organized? Were they on shelves where you could walk up and pick it up to read? Or were they all locked away like a special collections section at a university? How much did this vary from culture to culture?

I picked up a book from the library recently called The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen, and it seems like a pretty interesting read so far, but I was a little surprised to realize I was reading a book written in 1980, when they still called Saint Petersburg Leningrad and where fascism was still in living memory. I realize that old books can't be updated when new discoveries occur, but are there any special steps historians take when dealing with these sorts of documents?

Hi there!

I've been listening to a lot of medieval music/minnesang recently (Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Codex Manesse). It occured to me that it's all interpreted very consistently. Usually there's a hurdy-gurdy, occasionally fiddle or harp or other sparse instrumentation. The songs are sung with a similar inflection and ductus, often arythmic. They sound very quiet, pious and subdued to me.

My question: Is there a reasoning behind this? How much do we even know about how these songs were sung? Was there any kind of codex for proper singing and instrumentation? I mean, what stops so many interpreters from playing, say, faster or in a different rythm etc.

I'd be curious to know where this is coming from.

So far I've known that Marie Antionette's saying: let them eat cake is not even something she said, however: the story I've heard is that this was another noblewoman saying: " Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" with brioche being wrongfully translated as cake.

what I've heard is that brioche was a sort of bread made from white flour with eggs and sugar (sort of like wonderbread), in fench laws they had maximum prices for normal bread but not for brioche, in order to curtail abuses a baker had to sell his brioche at the price of normal bread if he didn't have bread left. is any of this something that happened? to me it sounds plausible and a whole lot more possible then "those stupid nobles just didn't know a thing about anything"

I have a few mundane questions about the Norse people during the Viking age:

Did they actually have tattoos?

Where were some of the non domesticated pests and predators that were around Iceland at the time?

As far as boat warfare, I know gun powder was not around during that time, but was there any forms of boat to boat warfare?

I have heard conflicting stories that Valhalla was for the fallen not the slain in battle. So basically anyone went to Valhalla. Is this true?

Not having a queue hairstyle was punishable by death during the Qing period - if so, how would one maintain their queues? Were there barbers even deep in the countryside, or would you need to cut your own hair? Would people need to go to the barber once a week to maintain their queues? Was the no queue law strictly enforced, or was there considerable leeway in regions of China? Anything related to the social history of the queue hairstyle would be welcome!