What did the ancient gladiators diet consist of. After looking for ways to get jacked and tired of eating chicken and rice, I always wonder what those gladiators ate to make them energized and ready to fight ? Do you think eating like a gladiator would make me ripped ?

The story in question is The Hammer of God.

In my Chinese history class, one of the things that was emphasized was that people in medival China could believe multiple contradictory things about the nature of the universe. Also the nature of knowledge in Bhuddist tradition is more uncertain and less willing to delineate the inherent nature of things.

I was wondering how Mao reconciled (or surpressed) this kind of thinking with the teleology of dialectical materialism that says that the inherent nature of people and capital is knowable and we should make decisions based on that knowledge

More specifically, why is Edward the first (died in 1307, killed lots of Scots and Welsh) considered to be Edward the first when you have older kings like Edward the Confessor with the same name? Was this deliberate on the part of the new Norman kings, even though they were taking on the pre-existing position of King of England?

I know part of it might be older folks looking back through rose tinted glasses and touting this time as an era "when real men played the game", but I feel like there is this weird moment where all of these sports went through a period of much more physical play-style than before or since.

• The NFL play style was dominated by defense, and many teams such as the Steelers, Raiders, Cowboys, Giants, and Bears, seemingly won their championships on the back of legendarily tough defenses. This was also an era when a lot of NFL defensive players openly bragged about knocking guys out of the game and delivering huge hits, and it was an era that produced some of the most intimidating players such as Dick Butkis, Jack Lambert, Jack Tatum, Lawrence Taylor, and the entire '85 Bears defense.

• Association football (particularly in England) went through a period when the game was very physical on the pitch. During the '70s you had the famous Dirty Leeds team that were notoriously physical, and the 70's and '80s saw the rise of hooliganism with took the physicality from the pitch and saw it reflected in the stands. Why did fans suddenly become so violent during this time?

• The NBA during the 70s and 80s was a much more physical game if you ask anyone from that time. There seemed to be a lot more fights on the court during this era, and oddly enough even when fights broke out players would sometimes not get ejected. The 80s saw the rise of some particularly physical teams such as the Celtics, 76ers, and especially the Bad Boy Pistons.

• Hockey is probably the one I know the least about. I know that fighting is just part of the game in hockey, but I remember reading that the '80s saw the highest rate of fights per game of any decade, and many see it as the era in which the goons were the most prevalent. Why did that happen?

American football might be the hardest one to judge because it is an inherently violent game, but the other ones seem to have experienced it. It just seems odd that all of these sports would go through a period of intense physical and violent play right around the same time as one another. Is it just a simple case of people being overly nostalgic for how the game was when they were young? Or is there actually some larger factor at play which led sports to be a bit more physical around this time? Or instead, has the extent of violent play just simply been exaggerated?

Did the Japanese people consume freshwater fish during the Sengoku jidai? It seems unlikely to me that they would ignore such a resource, but parasites are more common in freshwater fish than in ocean fish, and I haven't been able to find anything definitive in the histories I've seen.

I think this question falls in line with this sub but let me know if it doesn't I'll be happy to remove it. Thanks!

How much was George Patton’s reputation a considerable factor in the deception operation, Fortitude? I’ve read conflicting opinions about whether the German high command considered his whereabouts an indicator of where the allies were to land in Western Europe. On the one hand, I’ve read that German high command had more respect for Patton at the time, than any other Allied Commander, meaning his whereabouts were key to the deception campaign. To the contrary I’ve also heard that German high command barely cared or knew who he was at all at the time, and that his reputation and where he supposedly was or was not had little effect on the outcome of operation Fortitude.

What’s the thought on this?

Looking to settle a debate. I am of the understanding that, while the Nazis were successful at recruitment in the early years of the Third Reich, through the duration of the war, the majority of the Wermacht were conscripts. There were 18+ million men that served in the Wermacht, certainly most of these could not be volunteers, no?

As an aside, how "voluntary" was the service of the average grunt who ended up volunteering?

I’m attempting to write a creative document based off a prompt for Valentine’s Day in my AP English course. The prompt details response to a breakup, and I’m including mine to be QUITE dramatic. (Involving murder and such from the perspective of the non-deployed partner named Sam West. The letter is addressed to Alec Scofield if anyone was curious of the names) I’m having a lot of fun writing this but the lack of evidence to use in my story as a sort of idea giver is a little disappointing. I want to make a letter styled book out of it someday. Thanks for any replies.

Given the ongoing but minor arguments about whether the country ought to be referred to as “Czechia” or the “Czech Republic”, I was wondering if the name Bohemia, which unlike the other two has a history of use before the 20th century, was ever considered at the time of the Velvet Divorce. Of course, Slovakia had never been a part of the old Kingdom of Bohemia, so it makes sense that Czechoslovakia did not adopt that name. But once the Czechs and Slovaks separated, was there any suggestion of reviving the Bohemian name?

I have always perceived Lee and Rommel to not be necessarily bad people, but these two fought for countries and regimes with objectively bad and evil practices. The moderators on r/historymemes did a poll on who people thought their favorite historical figure was and Rommel was in the top 10, dispite being a Nazi general. How does the history community see these people today?

I enjoy watching the tool restoration and metal forging genre of videos on youtube. Very frequently, these videos involve the use of sandpaper to shape and work out pitting on the surface of metals and wood.

How old is sandpaper as a technology? Did it exist in Europe in the middle ages (say in the 1200s or 1300s?)

If not, what methods did carpenters have for finishing the surface of wood? What methods were there for cleaning and maintaining metals like iron or brass?

I have a similar question about files. I can imagine the process for making a rough file. But did Europeans in the middle ages have a process for making a file with an emeryboard texture?

The way involved all five European great powers of the time plus many of the middle powers and spanned five continents, affecting Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines. So why wouldn't it be considered WWI by historians?

Have wondered this for quite some time. Schools occasionally teach alternative calendar systems but I’m yet to encounter alternate popular year naming conventions throughout history, wondered if anyone could shed some light?

Is this normal for a treaty? Either way, why do two officials have to sign a treaty? Is this some sort of fail safe?

Thanks in advance

I know Ynys Mon was an important religious place during pre-roman times in Britain, but just how important? I have some piece of trivia bouncing around in my head that says that Ynys Mon could see visitors from as far away as beyond Britain like it was some ancient Celtic Mecca. Is this true? How important was it? What do we actually know about the place?