I get it that the question itself isn't clear. What I mean is, many people refer to it as La Hispaniola. But if you ask Dominicans, they might say it's Santo Domingo (also the name of their capital) or maybe Quisqueya (supposedly from the native Arawak peoples' name for the island, but probably false). However if you ask Haitians, they might call the entire island Haiti. What's the proper name?

I’ve heard a lot of people tell me that Jesus isn’t real. Why do they think this? What are the arguments against?

I was recently play RTW(yes I know it is inaccurate) and I was wondering how chariot combat worked back in the bronze age. Did they use swords, bows, both, How many were usually fielded, how expensive were they, etc.? I know this is kind of a vague question, but I don’t really know much and would love to learn more.

Someone recently posted this, which got me wondering:

"Mark Twain on Teddy Roosevelt:

“[Roosevelt] is naively indifferent to the restraints of duty and even unaware of them; ready to kick the Constitution into the back yard whenever it gets in the way; and whenever he smells a vote, not only is he willing but eager to buy it, give extravagant rates for it and pay the bill not out of his own pocket or the party’s, but out of the nations, by cold pillage.” (February 16, 1905)

“Roosevelt is the whole argument for and against, in his own person. He represents what the American gentleman ought not to be, and does it as clearly, intelligibly, and exhaustively as he represents what the American gentleman is. We are by long odds the most ill-mannered nation, civilized or savage, that exists on the planet to-day, and our President stands for us like a colossal monument visible from all the ends of the earth.” (April 3, 1906)"

What is the context behind these criticisms?

Did they restart? Say “well that was fun” and leave with their honor? (Dueling with guns, if that wasn’t obvious).

Hello Folks!
I was wondering if there is any archive were any creative Pirates used some kind of bait to get their victims, maybe something like leave a woman on a wooden plank and wait for a good will merchant ship to rescue her then ambush them?
I swear I googled about this but I didn't found anything.
Also I'm talking about Pirates in general from all time, from Chinese Pirates, Caribbean ones or the actual times.

If I can get any info in this I'll really appreciate it!

England was repopulated almost entirely by tribes from Denmark and the Low Countries, and the Vandals alone populated the arc from the Pyrenees to Tunis. I always understood them to be too socially incomplex to support giant populations like in the Mediterranean. Was that just wrong? What am I missing?

I know that priest usually went with them during conquest but didn’t they go against a lot of the the Catholic Churches beliefs? Like greed, murder, rape, pretending to be gods to trick the natives, and lying. Did the church excuse them or did they somewhat dislike them? I know they went also spread Christianity so did that give them a free pass?

I’m watching a documentary on tanks on Netflix, and they discuss how tank designs were being patented and sold prior to WWII. Once the war starts, are adversaries obligated to respect the patents of other countries or could they design the exact same tank if they got hands on the blueprints? Same with other advancements I’m just watching the tanks one right now so that’s what spurred the question.

Hi folks, I'm 18, Italian. History is one of those things I started loving two years ago, asking myself questions that went beyond what my history poor school program provided. I literally fell in love with something that to me wasn't a subject anymore but looked more as a different way to see everyday's things. Then I found out about Reddit and about this sub and signed in. Read a few posts here and there and this passion grew reading questions that I had never thought of before.

I'm now ending my fifth and last year of high school, and making myself a culture about history (and that may be way too general) is one of the many things I promised myself to do once I finished my studies.

I have way too many things to catch up with. All my knowledge is really blurry. What do you suggest me to do to learn more? Books, mindsets, really whatever you think helped you sharpen you knowledge and would help me with mine.

What were the roles of non-commissioned officers during the days of line infantry? For example, during the American Revolutionary War (whether colonists or British), what would be the roles played by corporals or sergeants as opposed to the commissioned officers who were behind the ranks of soldiers?

One result on google tells me that the estimated GDP for the Roman Empire was $570 per capita - how valid are these estimations, and are they useful in any way for historical research? As that is around the same as for the Democratic Republic of the Congo now - which is one of the poorest states in the world - and in my mind that just seems ridiculous, and I'm not sure whether that is because I have some bias when trying to compare the two, or because it is fundamentally fruitless to try making these comparisons.