I came across mention in passing that implied there was a lot of debate and controversy about 'Potlatch', but it didn't expand on this, and Wikipedia doesn't really say too much about that, exactly, either.

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Iranians spoke Persian and managed to keep their language after the Arab conquest, but Egypt couldn't keep Coptic expect for some small Christian communities. What other languages where spoken where Arabic is now spoken? What was spoken in Irak, Syria, Lebanon...etc?

My grandma is a holocaust survivor however she remembers very little/was very young during her time both in the Warsaw Ghettos and Auschwitz (she was born in 1938 in Warsaw). Only recently has she even been willing to talk about it due to the considerable trauma that it causes.

I know a considerable amount about what life was like inside Auschwitz however I have many questions (both general and specific to my grandma) that I would like to ask to see if people can shed light on exactly what her personal experience would have been like.

1. How/why as a young child (4-6 ish years old) would she not have been immediately killed on arrival?
2. One of her most vivid memories was sitting on the edge of a big vat they used for a toilet with her being terrified of falling in - I've never heard of any other accounts of something like this at Auschwitz, were these ever present or was it potentially a memory error?
3. Were all prisoners (during the liberation of Auschwitz) sent on long death marches? Again I struggle to understand quite how she would have lived during one at her age
4. She (as far as I'm aware) does not have a tattoo of an Auschwitz number - what is likely the reason as to why?

I have other questions/would love to discuss it with someone in more detail but I figured I would start with some small questions.

If people are interested in her story I can potentially explain (although it is fairly vague and patchy)

How much more difficult would it be for a banker in Britain in say 1850 or 1950 to stow away money in Switzerland compared to today?

In these notoriously late-dining countries the sun also rises late, so morning and evening activities happen at about the same solar time as in other places, resulting in late mornings, late lunches, and late nights in terms of 'official' time.

I vaguely remember reading there was a historical reason for this in Spain, and that the custom was imported to the colonies, but have not been able to recover the source where I read this.

I find I quite interesting that wooden ships were pretty much phased out completely in the world stage by the 1870s and 80s.

From ~500 AD to today, why hasn't anyone occupying Rome actually rebuilt or used it?

Has it been unused since?

Why did they not try to bring them into the fold through promises of land or something. It would have been a very strategic ay giving Germany access into the oil feilds of the Soviets and into the Ally controlled middle East where also more oil could be found.

It was published in 1984 in Spanish, and tells the history of the self-proclaimed King of Andorra, Boris Skossyreff. I was wondering if anyone knew of an English copy or pdf that might be floating around somewhere.

I’d add the third crusade to the question too.

This is the impression I’ve had for quite some years now. However, reading about incidents like the siege of Acre, for example, the crusaders seemed not any inferior to Saladin’s forces.

What were the differences between the two sides, in terms of military technology and strategy? Which one could be considered superior?

Hello!

I'm reading a book called The Latin Hegemonies of Medieval Europe by Constantine Cyprios, talking about all the Latin states established after 1204. In the chapter about the County of Cephalonia, the author states that Matteo Orsini, the count, came to be at odds with his suzerain, the king of Sicily. The author claims that in order for this to be solved, Orsini turned to the Pope who solved the issue in Orsini's favour. Afterwards, the author states that to please the Pope, Orsini was made to organise a crusade to Palestine called the Ionian Crusade. I have searched the internet for this and found nothing. Can anybody give me any sources? Thanks a lot!

I'm trying to recreate Elis City, but I'm having trouble with certain temples about which there is very little information, especially for the time period concerned, 510 BCE till beginning of the Persian war.

I am assuming that there would be a statue of Aphrodite herself, a marble one perhaps, since Praxiteles and Scopas was born much later. Beyond that I'm not sure what it could possibly look like. It seems the city utilizes Doric order columns in some stoas, so it's possibly a doric temple?

Any help would be appreciated.

Was this a true depiction of how people went about after the disaster. I understand information was suppressed during the soviet era and the people were dependent, for the most part, on what the state told them. But were they this genuinely ignorant of the potential deadly hazards they were exposed to? I did some search on this sub and I couldn’t find any topics regarding this issue.

During ww2 I know that Africa had been involved in the war but did the middle east like Iran or Afghanistan take part of the war or were involved in any way like battles or aid or something like that?