I’m only passingly familiar with Shogunate Japan and found this place intriguing.

Most people had horses, they were extremely common. But so were trains and stagecoaches. Did they have other people ride them to their destination? Did they tie their horses to the stagecoach or put the horses in a car on a train or what?

I was reading some excerpts about the trials of 1936, and it looks like all of the accused admitted the creation of a anti-Stalin, Trotskist group that assassinated Kirov.

Was it true? Do we know today? Or did Stalin orchestrate everything? And if so, why did they all admitted their guilt?

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I am unsure if this post fits this subreddit:

I have been digging around and collecting various maps of the Holy Roman Empire. It’s frustrating to me to see maps that just say “small states” or “Holy Roman Empire” instead of the various entities within it. I understand that the Holy Roman Empire was very messy and convoluted, but I am seeking as detailed a map as possible. Where can I find maps of the Holy Roman Empire that go beneath the surface and show a great amount of detail?

I'm reading A Concise History of Spain by William D. Phillips Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips (2nd edition), and when talking about the conquest, conversion and assimilation of al-Andalus they state the following:

The converts from Christianity to Islam came from two quite different categories. At the top were members of the Visigothic royal house, high nobles, and influential families [...], who saw political advantages in joining with the new rulers. But members of the local elite were few in number. Far more numerous were the lowly Visigothic or Hispano-Roman Christians who converted to Islam. They typically occupied low positions in the social hierarchy. (emphasis mine)

Nothing more is said on the motivation these last two groups could have had for their decisions. So why didn't the local elite follow the example of their higher ranking countrymen? And on the other hand, what advantages did the lower classes get from conversion that the local nobility didn't get, or chose to forgo?

We always hear about the gladiators of the Roman Empire, but what was the sports scene like during the Byzantine Empire? Did they have large-scale sporting events, like Romans and the Greeks before them?

Between the tribes of Arabia and rome what was it like? Did they trade and what did they do? Also did Rome attempt any serious incursions in Arabia?

I mean by the international attendees who were in Germany experiencing its atmosphere firsthand for the first time.

Long time lurker, first time poster, thx y’all!

Watching the movie for the first time, Tom Hulce does such an amazing job. But I'm curious how accurate his mannerisms and immaturity are.

After specifying the city where the publisher is located in, would I need to include the country? I faintly remember my instructor mentioning that if we only said London he wouldn't know if it's London, UK or London, Canada. This is what my citation looks like

Swope, Kenneth M. The Military Collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty China, 1618-44 (Asian States and Empires), 1st ed. Abingdon, Routledge, 2014.

Do I have to specify any country or is this acceptable? Thank you so much

I've recently become interested in universities and what people did that they would call 'research' and how's that changed over the years. Strangely, I've only really found sources for greek universities and the like.

The Achaemenid Empire must have had some form of formal school or teaching. Whether by tutor or institution. If it helps, I'm fine with anything between 650 and 375 BCE and any part of the non-greek Empire. I want to know specifically what would Persians consider higher education.

The logistics of this have always confused me.

How do you know how big to make the volume of the wall's interior?
What happens when the city tries to grow outside the wall?
Were most cities simply built in and around enormous castle grounds, using the walls a sort of panic room?

Since walling off a city would become (quadratically?) more expensive as the city increased in size, surely it'd be cheaper just to build a ring of small towers around the city and keep them filled with soldiers?

Were there any pillaging raids on the baltic sea done by Slavs in early medieval times?

When researching for worldbuilding, I'm mostly looking for cultural details rather than historical records. This can be difficult since most of the recorded past is simply an account of events. Certain cultures, of course, have more cultural information available (i.e. English, Roman, Egyptian, etc.), but Finland's history is already pretty sparse.

In any case, I'm looking for cultural details: common dress, religion, technology, lifestyles, art, outside influences, and any other pertinent details you fine folk can think of.

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I read The Ashes of Hiroshima by Frank Clune, in which he visits Japan in 1949, shortly after the Atomic Bombing. He treats claims that the H-Bombs released radiation as a ridiculous conspiracy theory and dismisses people trying to present evidence that they did.

It surprised me since nobody today seems to find this idea controversial.

How common was this attitude? Was it really not known that the bombs were radioactive? Was this a secret actively being suppressed by the USA at the time?

If I understand it correctly, the RAF went to a lot of effort developing the equipment and training a specialist crew for what seems to have been a successful mission but afterwards made no attempt to hit any of Germany's other dams. Why is that?

I understand that the plain Native Americans used tipis and the people of the Eurasian Steppe used yurts, but what dwellings did other nomadic people use?