I have heard rumors about this many times, everytime the city is different, the general is different, but the structure is the same:

Either Madero, or Villa or Zapata or someone took a city, the city had an important chinese population, something happened, either riots, or the chinese were siding with the government, or racist people just saw they had a chance and they took it, but in every version of this story they slaughtered the chinese people in the city and carried on like of nothing had happened, not letting anyone record it in any way.

It seems like a conspiracy theory, but I've heard it enough times to suspect there might be a bit of truth at the source of this, and I seek your help to figure out what it is.

We are all familiar how the Germans and Nordic countries were considered Aryans, the Britts & French lower class and the Slavs, Jews, Romani, Poles and Russian Subhuman.

My question is how did the Nazi regime view the Hungarian nation? Did they qualify them as asian heritage, did they connect them to the Finns, or were the Hungarians left out of the equation altogether?

What was the infrastructure involved? When/how did the first ISPs come about?

So I've read that the Māori arrived in New Zealand around the 1300s, while the Australian Aboriginals arrived in Australia around 50 000 years ago. Is there a reason it took so long for New Zealand to be inhabited?

So I’m currently writing a story that I’ve been kicking around in my head for awhile. A large part of it is based around the use of different weapons from the corners of history.

The issue with this I’m having is that, while some weapons are super easy to distinguish (let’s say, a Khopesh for example), a lot more of the terms used for weapons are more... ambiguous. Longsword and shortsword for example are two terms that have been used throughout history to describe a variety of weapons identified in a variety of different ways from what I’ve read. There’s also a lot about weapons being different based on hilt type, handle, etc etc etc.

So I’m just kinda wondering a few things here, and open to general random info bits as well

1. Does anyone here know a good resource I could use anywhere online that is clear and relatively easy to understand on the subject?

2. Any tips, advice and the like that would help in identifying different weapon types?

3. What was the unique purposes behind certain distinctions? What, if anything, makes this weapon or specific weapon part/type better or worse then similar weapons?

4. Since the story I’m writing is open to tons of weapon types, not just swords, what are some unique weapons from throughout history that aren’t relatively well known? I feel like I already have a bunch of ideas for swords, axes, hammers and the like, but I’m curious if there’s anything super unique or rare that could be interesting.

In general I’m looking for anything on historical weapons of any type. I know it’s a pretty vague request but I’m pretty open to anything, as even if it doesn’t fit what I’m looking for I’ve always liked interesting history tidbits

So for example, is there are 86 settlements in a kingdom, roughly how many different noble families would there be between a timeline of the year 1200-1600.

Obviously I don’t think there would be 86 different families, but say the king had 4 sons, would the three sons who don’t inherit the throne become dukes of other settlements?

Are all the leaders somehow related to the king?

How many families on average weren’t related to the king and how did they get their position?

I hope my question is clear! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Specifically a fancy (were they always white?) dress worn for the wedding day and then never again. I assume at some point in the past a woman would just wear her best dress like men wear their best suits, or maybe buy a new dress that would then be her best dress, but still suitable for fancy parties, church, etc. But a modern bride on a budget will try to thrift a wedding dress, or have a friend or family member’s tailored to her before wearing a cocktail dress. When/why did this happen?

It was highly contested by the Confederates. Could they have had a heavy slave population???

​

NOTE: I condemmn all forms of human bondage, up to including sexual slavery.

Are there any good books that give an overview of the history of people fighting in wars in which they hold no direct stake, like Orwell fighting in the Spanish Civil War?

I was hoping someone could clear up this question I have about the Governors that the English sent from their mother country to the colonies. I know Governors sometimes didn't even go to the colonies and instead made decisions from afar but I'm unsure of whether or not they played a role from the very beginning, began appearing at different times depending on the location, or if one specific event caused them to start being put to use in colonial government. Thanks!

It is well known that Heinrich Himmler was probably the most stringent eugenist of the entire Nazi Party, even more so than Hitler himself. His concept of what constituted a true Aryan was extremely austere and made no exceptions, and Aryan features (including appearance) were an important factor for entering the SS.

In this context, if the Nazis won the war, what was his plan for non-Aryan races that hadn't been targeted yet, including allied ones, such as Japanese and Bulgarian? Are there any documents or diaries showing his plans for that situation?

Looking for someone or something to help provide me with details, or to fact check some ideas a friend and I have come up with (for a piece of fiction). We want to remain as accurate to history as possible, within reason.

It’s a pretty straightforward question but I feel like the answers will be anything but, the question came to mind while replaying Battlefield I earlier today I wondered how terrifying or shocking t must have been to actually see a tank for the first time, let alone being told to take one down.

In documentaries online I saw how they were used to go over trenches, mitigating the one defense that the soldiers would have previously been used to, and cover vast distances in weeks.

I know that modern soldiers still face off against tanks, and the psychological trauma they can bring, but I imagine that knowing they exist, and seeing them in action in media, would at least give you some advantage compared to what the first soldiers to face them would have to drawl with.

I was idly wandering about nuclear weapons proliferation and what happens when a nuclear armed state collapses. This got me thinking about the fall of the Soviet Union. This is (as far as I am aware) the only instance of a nuclear armed state ceasing to exist with all the disruption that comes from that. In the disorder that followed the collapse was there ever a risk of nuclear materials going missing and what steps were taken to prevent this (and by whom)?

Or was it more of an affair of ‘were the empire now and you’re pretenders’? I’m aware that the Byzantines influence in Italy had been damaged due to several factors (I imagine the iconoclasm controversy was a huge factor in this) so it makes sense that the Papal States would lean more towards Charlemagne instead of the Byzantine’s, but did this coronation give Charlemagne any legitimacy in viewing the Byzantine Empire as apart of the Holy Roman Empire?

I know that one of the "very frequently asked" questions is about contact between ancient Rome and China, but to what extent was this different in the middle ages? I figure with the Silk Road and figures like Marco Polo that there must have been some contact or at the very least awareness. Do we have evidence of Chinese goods in Byzantium (or vice versa) or even of slaves from China in Byzantium (or vice versa)?

I've been told that slavery prior was that slaves could buy their freedom or were treated like family by their masters.

I’m reading a book published in 1927 (Ghengis Khan, by Harold Lamb, p 159) that makes a reference to the Second World War. Is this a reference to what is now commonly called the First World War, or is it something else?