I know the Manchu Qings overthrew the Ming Dynasty and replaced it with their own dynasty, but why did the Chinese people hate them so much? I've heard most people say some of the hate was because they were Manchu and so they were 'foreign invaders', but Manchuria is part of China, right? So how could they say the Manchus were 'foreign invaders'?

Did they organize house parties for their friends and acquaintances? Get together and read poetry? Hold prayer sessions? Drink alcohol? Mix with men? I'm effectively wondering what medieval upper-class female sociability was like - how such women made friends and what they did with them. Do the sources let us access women's lives in ways that would allow us to answer these questions?

And of they did so (at any scale)... was it socially correct in the eyes of other britishmen?

The Wikipedia page about the Aussie dollar provides intriguing details about the naming controversy, and Menzies' proposal to use the name "Royal", but does not mention any proposals to simply retain the name "Pound".

I am aware that the UK decimalized later, so Australia couldn't follow example to keep the old name... still, it seems a pretty obvious option! Was there significant anti-British sentiment at the time?

I was looking for documents relating to the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. I have an idea for a book but I wanted to start on solid ground and was looking for documents. Any pointers?

Did a revanchist culture of retaking Haiti ever developed within any of the French governments after the Napoleonic Era? If not, why is that?

I'm aware of some of the mores regarding homosexuality in Ancient Rome, like how freeborn males could engage in homosexual relations/sex without a loss in masculinity or status so long as they were the penetrative partner (I'm sure this was likely inconsistent and hiding it would be rather easy).

But what about a Roman Senator in late Republic Rome that was exclusively homosexual? Between let's say the end of the 2nd Punic War and the start of the First Triumvirate. I know that huge public figures like Sulla apparently preferred men, but what about a Patrician statesman that exclusively preferred men? Would this have been bizarre or totally acceptable?

As I've been looking into roman baths, particularly the large public ones, I've been puzzled by the floor construction. On top of the masonry supports are the base tiles, which seem to be a couple inches thick generally. Above this a slab of concrete several inches thick is poured, and finally the finishing layer is added.

The end result is a fairly massive piece of masonry construction, and it seems unnecessary. A thinner floor would be sufficiently strong and heat the baths more efficiently. So, why did the Romans build the floors as they did?

I began wondering today if trees were too ubiquitous back in the day to receive much attention. Like, is the concept of an arboretum a fairly recent concept, or have different cultures had similar spaces for trees in the past?

This was mostly a shower thought that I got and was curious about. This is probably not the best place to ask this question but considering this is still part of history, I thought it wouldn't hurt.

Through looking at historical written records for the Chinese Character, we know for a fact that it started out as Pictographs with some of the pictographs changing into modern-day Chinese Characters while some of those pictographs stay the same like the Chinese Character for Horse. I was curious as to how the Korean and Japanese Language formed since they seem to borrow similarities from the Chinese language in some aspect like how certain words are spoken that still remain eerily Chinese.

Do we have any written record of Korean and Japanese language dating back to their "origin"? How much influence did the Chinese Language have on both languages?

While some Nazi Defendants were put to death and others served prison sentences and eventually got out of Spandau Prison, Hess, who served much less of a role in the Nazi war machine, was sentenced to life.

Hello historians, I want to know how do you do research for a specific event or a region in history? What is the methodology? What journals do you generally follow?

I'm not a history major but I love history. And I would love to learn how to dig it out the facts and make my own interpretations.

Thank you.

The Taiping Rebellion was one of the bloodiest wars to have ever filled the world, but I can't seem to find any information on what happened to the actual belief system, leader(s,) followers, etc after the war was concluded.

What were the group's practices? How did they expand into such a large territory? What happened to all the believers?

Hey history fans,

So just curious if there was any cases of mediaeval knights or mediaeval peasants having ptsd

It seems like you only hear about PTSD after WW1 aka shell shock, but humans have been fighting in wars for as long as we've been around so i imagine there must be a case of it before ww1

I was reading a bit about manumission laws in different states, and it got me wondering what the lives of freed slaves were like after manumission. In some states it was required for the to leave the state and in others they were allowed to stay.

What I'm asking is how freed slaves would go about establishing their lives. Was it typical for their former masters to give them supplies or were they typically on their own? How would they exit the states like Alabama when freed?

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So I went on a historical 18th century ship reproduction and the crew was telling me that the ship could only dock because it had a modern motor. They said that historically it would just anchor off the dock in the water and would get supplied/people brought aboard via barges and boats coming out to it.

I was hoping someone could expand on this for me. Why would ships not dock at a port? Was this just impractical? Was it done at times if needed? I figure the boats needed to be launched from a dock/shipyard at some point so it wasn't impossible for it to do so.

Mint is the most widely used flavor in toothpaste, mouthwash, and breath-fresheners in western culture. Why did mint take off, as opposed to basil, cilantro, lemon, or other "fresh" flavors?

Why does so little footage exist of Operation Overlord? I've heard loads of footage was actually filmed during D-Day but lost forever when a clumsy officer dropped a full duffle bag into the English Channel.