I've been trying to dig online and I can't seem to find a decent source. When Zeus and his brothers received the gifts from the Cyclopes what is the significance of this story? Was it magic itself that they wielded or actual items?

And how/when did it become a standard part of comics iconography?

I have read countless times (also in the works of famous historians like Hastings) that the Luftwaffe was very close to wiping out RAF resistance during the BoB before infamously deciding to start raiding land-based objectives. Is this true? Is there any evidence to support this claim? How many serviceable aircraft could the RAF field at its ‘lowest’ point?

I'm currently planing my bachelor thesis and based on my pasts courses and studies I came upon the plan to analyze the usage of Camels in the german colonies (or more specifically in german South West Africa).

Ideally, I want to take a look at how they were used and how their use was influenced by the experience in other colonies and how the experience of their usage was disseminated to other (german) colonies and Germany itself and if/how it influenced them.

I did have a course in which we touched upon the book "Tools of Empire" by Daniel Headrick, in which he discusses how severeal technologies were essential tools in the european colonization that allowed and furthered said colonization process. Considering this, I'd want to try and see if animals (in my case Camels) could be considered "tools" as well and see what role they played in the colonization process.

I'm not sure however, if there is enough existing literature to do this in a BA thesis of 30-50 pages. I'm reasonably confident, studying in Germany, that I can find some sources regarding Camel use and in fact I already found some during a cursory online search in the Bundesarchiv. However in regards to animals and their role in colonialism, I had less luck, at least in regard to german literature. I admit, I haven't started doing a thorough search for english literature but I'm not sure about it - there are papers on the usage of horses in North America, but for Africa, I haven't come up with much yet.

So I wanted to ask, if anyone could either give me some pointers as to books or just whether or not the whole approach is feasible in regard to the existing research and the frame of the paper.

I could of course always change some of the specifics and take a look at animals other than camels (horses or cows come to mind) or at other places (probably british colonies, as I am limited to german or british papers due to my language abilities) or I could change the timeframe (I did specify the late 19th century due to the focus on german colonies).

I already asked a professor of mine at my university who specializes in animal history and colonial history if she'd be willing to supervise me, but I'd really prefer to get some outside advice as well.

So any thoughts, questions, advice or hints are very much appreciated.

I'm looking to get into Archaeology once I'm through high school, but I can't really decide on what part of history I want to primarily study. Right now I'm kinda stuck between Europe during the Dark Ages, and Ancient Greece.

On the Six Day War wiki, it says a squadron of Israeli aircraft on route back to Israel on radar was used to trick Jordan into thinking it was Egyptian aircraft on its way to attack Tel Aviv and Egypt flat out said to Syria they were inflicting "crushing victories" against Israel which was the complete opposite of what was happening. How were Syria and Jordan so easily fooled into being dragged into war?

Title explains it. From my own personal knowledge, hitler was also against Catholics and Christians, so why did he specifically attack jews?

In the begining of the third Reich he talked to Zionist theoricals and Palestine Authorities at the time(still ruled by the UK). Was he trying to really move the Jewish people to Israel or it was just another lie he told to earn people's confidence?

Someone suggested this place is a great resource to find out answers to the questions like this. I’m coming from another sub that was talking about anti-Semitism and how it’s on the rise and they gave a lot of examples of history of anti-Semitism but it was generally all European . growing up but that’s what I’ve heard too, but Jewish people spread out throughout Asia and Africa as well and I want to know what their treatments were like in those lands

I'm interested in finding out what terminology would be used for ordering archers in a Medieval battle. I know it's anachronistic to use 'fire' and 'ceasefire' and all. And I've seen and read people using terms like 'loose'

I've read these terms were used by English Longbowmen

"Ready your bows!"

"Nock!"

"Mark!"

"Draw!"

"Loose!"

But what would be the order to tell them to stop shooting?

I'm not sure if this question suits this subreddit, but there we go.

It is obvious that christians, jews and muslims have common elements in their religions because they all are abrahamic religions. However, religions that never met still have elements in common. When I visited Peru I was told that some pre-Incan cultures believed in a Flood as the Christians before meeting them.

What other common elements are between religions/mythologies that never met? And how can it be explained?

Any recommended book on this topic? Please, scientific work only, not the kind of conspiracy ones.

Vikings are known for making pre-columbian contact with the indigenous people of the New World in places like Newfoundland, Canada. But there is also evidence of the Inuit peoples making contact with the Vikings in places like Greenland as well. Sometimes in the context of low intensity conflict, and sometimes in the context of barter and trade. The Vikings are even mentioned in the oral traditions of the Inuit people of the North.

I was wondering if there was any actual evidence of indigenous people going back with the Vikings to their homelands in places like Iceland once they made contact. I have heard stories of some missionaries sending bishops to places like iceland and even "vinland"(which is possibly the Americas) at the time.

My understanding of the diary of Anne is that Anne’s parents had a room, the other family had a room, Peter slept in a hallway, Anne’s sister slept in the parents room and Anne shared a room with the dentist.

Is there any reason why it was this way? It would have made much more sense for Anne to sleep in the hallway and make the two men of the attic (Peter and the dentist) share a room.

The quote:

Since Latin was the language of the Western Church and Greek was the language of the Eastern Church the bulk of Roman philosophical thought and scientific thought was preserved and disseminated by Catholic monastic orders where as Greek philosophical thought was originally preserved in the Byzantine Empire by Byzantine monastic orders. Arab exposure to Greek philosophy came about initially from geographic proximity to the Byzantine empire and late by conquest of Byzantine lands. It was the Ottoman invasions, ironically enough, that drive many of these monastic orders, along with their manuscripts and knowledge of Greek back to places like Italy where they were reintroduced to Europe. I am not discounting Arab influences on the Italian Renaissance but the modern narrative of the Renaissance being primarily Arab in origin is more a product of 20th century anit-Orientalism pushed by people like Edward Said than on any measured historiography.

I'm trying to get a sense of some of the style and logic of popular "commonsensical" or everyday parables/legends/sayings that would've been widely known in Italy during the late medieval to late Renaissance period, along the lines of the story of St.Augustine and the seashell- any help on good sources or places to look would be greatly appreciated!

Some cursory googling led me to find that Norman as a word derives directly from north Man, so I got curious. What was the region known as before the norse settled it?

Games and movies and such make it seem like bringing in wanted criminals dead or alive was a normal part of the Old West. Was it really that common for independent freelance bounty hunters not associated with any organized law enforcement to just run around looking for wanted posters?

Despite my resistance, my friend chooses to believe that the USSR’s totalitarian rule is what allowed the war to be won (due to the necessity of an “iron-fist rule”) and that, although he acknowledges the “bad” that occurred in the USSR, he believes it was a “necessary evil”. My immediate thought was that the USSR found victory based on sheer numbers and that many died for no reason other than to throw numbers at the enemy. So it got me to thinking, “just how much of an effect did the USSR have in joining the war, and was their totalitarian rule actually something that helped them?” Just the same, I don’t have have clue how totalitarianism “assisted” the USSR at all. He mentions that Russia was “behind” and needed a push to industrialize. But again, I don’t see why so many had to die in order to reach such a thing.

Why are there North and South Koreas? What happened? Why is South Korea more Western and “progressive” and North Korea, well, North Korea? What is the current consensus of historians?