For example how likely would it be for a German squad to get its hands on a few extra mp40s or pistols and for those to be carried by the soldiers, or a British soldier to capture a pistol or sub machine gun and carry it in combat? I've heard of American units getting a few extra BARs or a British tank commander getting a luger and keeping it loaded 'just in case', but I have no idea about how common it was or if the germans did the same.

I am doing a few scale models, some come with soldiers but sometimes weapons snap or get lost, and some dont get used and end up as spares. Basically just want to know how far I can get away with giving non standard weapons to soldiers while still being fairly historically accurate.

I’m aware that feudalism can be summed up as a single definition, however Japan and Europe were practically different worlds prior to the late 16th century. Because of this limited communication it’s doubtful that their social hierarchy is an exact model.

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At what point did people start putting ice in water and soft drinks? Where did it start? How and why did they do it? How and why did it become normal across the US?

I am well aware of the significance of horse ownership and its role in establishing and determining class in Greco-Roman antiquity and throughout the medieval period. For example, the Solonian reforms categorize men who are able to provide 300 bushels of grain a year as hippeis (cavalrymen), which is the second highest social rank, for their ability to purchase and maintain a horse. This is not unlike the later Roman equites, and the much later milites (knights) of the medieval period, through not necessarily classed by wealth, held a higher social rank as members of the nobility.

However, I am not as well versed on the role of horse ownership as a determiner of status or class after the sixteenth-century, especially in the New World.

Did horses cease to be symbols of status in, for example, the colonial and post-bellum United States? If so, why? I would assume the vast expanses of new land made feeding and maintaining horses much easier, and perhaps a significant increase in New World horse populations —as a result of the new land —lowered initial purchasing costs.

This is a question I have had in mind for some time because horses appear to be commonplace in film and television —admittedly, not reliable sources of information —set during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, such as the westward American expansion and the ‘Wild West.’

Thank you all!

Hello all! I am looking for some suggestions on books similar to Frederic Lane's "Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice" that discuss money and banking during the same period in the Tuscan region and or Florence. I am well aware of the importance of the Medici bank but I would like something more broad that discusses the general economic/banking history of that region and would prefer not to focus too much on the Medici family.

Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greeks all of those contributed much to mathematics, Like the proof of the Pythagorean theorem and the existence of irrational numbers, and of course, writing the 13 books of the Elements by Euclid.

But suddenly, mathematics is almost dead under Roman rule, what happened? why did it happen?

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There were still jews living there during the crusades so it would make sense that a few jews would keep living there up to modern times.

In my mind they all seem rather similar, but you don't really see the pulp mags much anymore. Did pulp evolve into comics? Just set the ground work?

Also, I always imagined Pulp mags were fairly popular. Why did they seem to disappear?

Do we know the route she took or what her entourage was like? Were there politically or otherwise important stops / incidents along the way? Did the French come to pick her up and therefore were responsible for her welfare along the way or did the Kyiv princes “deliver” her? Were any gifts sent either way in relation to her betrothal? I’m curious about any detail.

Basically the title, what was the general mood of the populace in the Philippines during the Latin American Wars of Independence and in extension the Napoleonic Wars and why it did not join. Not even Wikipedia has entry on Philippines during that time, only "The two exceptions to independence were the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, which with the Philippines, remained Spanish colonies until the 1898 Spanish-America War."

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The term fascism comes from the latin word fasces, which is a bound bundle of wooden sticks that was a symbol of the Ancient Rome society which Mussolini aimed to recreate.

Nazism, however, is short for national socialism, so it appears (to me, at least) to have a broader meaning.

So, why is now fascism a wider term than nazism?

How did Ancient Greeks deal with malnutrition if their diet is only bread, cheese, figs, meat, fish, eggs, wine? Also, if you follow their ancient diet today(also including multi-vitamin tablets to avoid malnutrition), will it be a good Diet?