To be more specific, George Smith in his epic translation of ancient akkadian language that references the biblical deluge. How did they do it when this language was thought to be extinct?

I have always been curious about the extent of support there was in Colonial America at the Continental Congress. I assume there would be many who wanted independence but no a bloody war, some who would fight, some who were happy to stay part of the UK, and those who did not care one way or the other. How would these groups break down as a percentages of the colonial population?

So I've recently I've been looking into the practice of a general debt forgiveness. From my understanding on occasion the state ,during the late republic period at least, just forgave all personal debt. How well did this work? I'd imagine it'd have some interesting consequences on inflation rates around election time if there was a high level of personal debt going around and perhaps a more radical populares was high in the running. The video I was watching implied it helped to boost the productivity of some of Rome's poorest as debt rose too high. Was this the case?

- Also taking into account any laws/regulations that prohibited the freeing of slaves, giving anyone the benefit of the doubt about their willingness to free their slaves.

Coming from the point that the first (and as I know the great majority ) spearheads were firmly attached to the shaft and not supposed to be unattached casually, were any of them different? Was it a point where the spearheads (or even the whole shaft) were able to be disassembled for any reason? Like ease of travelling or shapening on the go.

My friends and I were discussing HBO's Chernobyl and I suggested some of the history books I have read about here. However, I didn't find any of them translated into Spanish. My friends do not feel comfortable reading in English, so I came here to ask for your help in finding some Spanish language sources.

Thank you in advance!

As a Kurd I think majority of Kurds are convinced that the Medes are their ancestors but majority of historian reject that claim, this made me to search a little bit about this topic.

Lately I've found some Syriac Aramic sources that kept mentioning the Medes as a people till Islamic invasions, even in Bible the Medes aren't extinct people as mentioned in Acts 2: 8-11 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?  Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia

• Isaac complex in 410 AD mentioned Diocese of the Medes.

• Aqaq complex in 486 AD mentioned Abraham the Med. It's believed name of the town of Batnaya in Nineveh plain came from Beth Madaya which means home of the Medes.

• Babi complex in 497 AD mentioned Median bishop.

• Grigor Complex in 605 AD mentioned Median bishop.

• Joseph complex in 554 AD mentioned that Aqaq is Bishop of the Medes.

• And finally Tertullian an early Christian author in 2nd century mentioned that The Medes are believer of Jesus.

I have more sources that mentioned The Medes, mostly mentioned them in the geography that Kurds live in today, another confusion thing all these Syriac sources above have mentioned Kurds too, so The Medes and the Kurds were living at same time, a Kurdish historian Soran Hamarash believes that The Medes were elite ruling family of the empire, so even after the fall of their empire they kept ruling small kingdoms for centuries later, it's just like today as we mention Ottomans but in fact Ottomans were only elite ruling family and the rest of people were Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Arabs.. etc.

I want to know why they kept mentioning the Medes although their empire fall centuries ago, did the Medes survived or they just referred everyone who lived in Ancient Media as Median?

Sorry for my English, it isn't my first language.

Austria (just austria not the whole empire), Switzerland, Luxembourg, etc.

Aside from the more obvious associations with english writings like that of John Locke and Thomas Paine, I've seen 18th century woodcuts connecting Magna Carta to the contemporary grievances of the American war. The language used by English radical groups like the Levellers and the Diggers seem strongly related to the rhetoric of revolutionary american politics. I've even seen connections made to the 1381 revolt and the legal reforms of Alfred the Great.

How far was the American War of Independence and Revolution a continuation of (actualisation, even?) of a tradition of English dissidence and radicalism?

While watching the John Adams miniseries, I noticed that he did things that would be unthinkable to Presidents today, such as stumbling around a dirty slum with no security protection. Wouldn't somebody notice and say "Hey, that's the President! Let's mug him!" or something?

I'm writing a story and I would like to know how does the King pass on orders to his army. I want to walk readers through the process along which the King's orders leave his mouth and reach the ears of the soldiers who would be actually carrying over the order. How does this order pass through and finally get executed?

I just read the entire Declaration of Independence (for the first) and realized that I have no idea what most of the complaints are about. E.g.,

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

I have not heard any stories of seas getting plundered by the Crown or towns getting burned.

Is there a good book that goes through each claim and details what motivated it?

Looking at the book list "The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution" is somewhat close, but its Table of Contents is off.

As in, when was such a state reached where people acknowledged that only a spark was needed to ignite an inevitable war?

Had a question about the fur traders hauling keelboats on land as seen in movies and books. Why and when did they do this? How far could they be traveling on land like this?

Really appreciate it.

Every time there is a question about sailors' diets one of the food items noted is always "salt meat" without much elaboration. I've never heard someone use that term outside of these questions, and when I google it none of the meat products listed are things that seem like they would survive long without refrigeration.

What exactly is salt meat? How long would last? Is there an equivalent product to it that is still available?

So I have become interested in the history of the Mali empire, and know little about it. I was surprised learning that it was one of the richest empires in history, yet had many buildings made with mud, although it also had buildings made with stone and other materials.

Without much knowledge these are the potential explanations I came up with:

1. Heat: Stone and even wood probably are good at retaining heat, which in an equatorial region could make living quarters an oven without some additional engineering. On the other hand, mud allowed for better heat transmission from the inside towards the outside, making mud a more desirable material for building.
2. Unnavailability of materials: Maybe wood and stone were not abundant in the region and were a hassle to transport. Why bother moving tonnes of stone when you have a perfectly good and maleable construction material right next to you.
3. Lack of military incentive to use stone and other sturdier materials: In europe, it was usually just town walls and castles that were made of stone (with the exception of cathedrals), because they served a military purpose. The rest of the constructions (houses, storage...) where often made of a combination of other materials like cow dung, timber, mud... Depending on the military situation of the Mali empire (number of enemies and whatnot) there would have been little economic incentive to build constructions in stone over mud.
4. Religious/cultural: Maybe they liked the way mud looks more than other materials, kind of like "Our father's and the father's of our father's built this way and we are not here to break traditions".
5. I am actually uniformed about the prevalence of mud based architecture in the Mali empire and as a matter of fact each construction was made of solid gold and the Mali empire is, in fact, El Dorado.

Am I right about any of these? I would like to be educated on the subject.