Honestly, I was debating about asking this in relation to medieval warfare as well, but one of my favorite operas is Berlioz's Les Troyens, in which the women of Troy kill themselves rather than submit to the oncoming army. It's a dramatic scene but I don't know if it was Berlioz's invention or not.

Regardless, there were obviously horrific consequences for the women of falling cities. Most art seems to involve heroic men falling by the sword and helpless women being dragged away for rape/enslavement, but I was wondering if there would be any expectation for women to take up arms. It seems rather silly to keep one half of your population standing by while the other half mans the ramparts. Would women have been expected to take up arms and fight? Would they be hidden away, as depicted in many movies/TV shows/etc.? Was suicide a preferred option? Or was it survive at all costs, even if that meant submitting to rape and enslavement?

I'm sure various women did all of the above at one point or another, but I'd be interested in societal expectations of what they "should" do.

Did early Italian immigrants eat it?
At what point were there Pizzerias in New York?

At what point was it something non-Italian-Americans would be familiar with?

At what point was it something they'd eat regularly?

I'm super interested in Celtic mythology, art, culture and tales, but I'm having trouble differentiating between historical sources, random Irish folk stories from the victorian era and neo pagan made up stuff.

Any good books for a layman about Celtic stuff?

(I know 'celtic' stuff spans most of western Europe over several centuries, but specifically British stuff is where most of my interest lies)

Was Scotland involved in the Northern Ireland conflict?

My understanding is that Zoroastrianism was the largest and most popular religion in the western world until the rise of christianity in Rome.

Did the Byzantines of the post 4th crusade Byzantine Empire(so 13th-15th centuries) really know their lineage? Did they understand how important Rome or even the earlier years of the Byzantine empire. Did the average citizen know some of the history of Rome, did they feel a real connection to it beyond sharing titles? This could be for all social classes.

Traditional Southern cooking in the US makes use of a lot of local ingredients: shrimp, corn, okra, crawfish, catfish, sweet potatoes, collard greens, pork chittlins, etc. But what do we know about the cultural influences that went into Southern cuisine? Did French and Spanish cooking influence much beyond their colonies in Louisiana and Florida? Did Native American and African cooking styles inform what Southerners ate and how?

And what caused this one-side viewing through centuries in Western world?

Was wondering why many pagan religions (in Eurasia and the Americas) were 'easily' converted to these Abrahamic religions: was it due to any sort of government policies at the time, or was it more simply due to the structure of these faiths?

This sounds like holocaust denial of a different sort. He brought up something and said “and don’t say _________” but he has since removed his post after I responded “uhhhhh...yikes” so I don’t remember what that was.

It seems that the peasantry in Medieval Europe were often malnourished and in general subject to the whims of their local lord, with hours upon hours of manual labour almost every day. Were there any groups that tried to just live away from it all in the forest?

Why didn't the soviet union just keep their part in the occupied austria? They could do something like west germany which could help them to expand the iron curtain. So why would they leave austria peacefully?

I just watched Roman Empire, excuse any misinformation I interpreted from the show if it's not entirely accurate (I enjoyed it though).

Just wondering after they said he got something the history books described as brain fever (possible meningitis or poisoning?), they went onto say he woke up after 3 months! Do they mean he came to his senses after 3 months but was still functional enough to eat/drink because without IV he couldn't have survived a coma? Can someone clear this up for me, google isn't satisfying.

Were any set up specifically under the guise of being refugee camps?

Obviously reptiles such as alligators, crocodiles, Caymans, and the likes do not exist in Europe. They probably did have some knowledge of crocodiles, though, from the nile.

So, when the Spanish first started colonizing the Americas, did they learn about these creatures the hard way (getting eating by them), and ere their any other examples of them learning about dangerous creatures the hard way?