I've been to Vienna before and afaik there's no walls. Now some small towns still have city walls in austria afaik but most big cities don't. How did the transition to modern cities happen? Is the answer really boring and the state just tore them down, filled the moats and sold the land as prime real estate?

I generally know about the history of the American revolution and the time around it and I've often seen sources touch on the 7 Years War and how big it was but I haven't seen anything that talks in depths about it. Any good books or podcasts?

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Whenever monarchs wore crowns of rare metals and such, were the crowns ever redesigned or reshaped to fit the next person who took it up?

If so, were such changes frowned upon for potentially damaging the crown just because the new owner could not cope with the minor discomfort when they're expected to rule over all?

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Granted, not all Roman camps had 3 or 4 gates, but my impression is that most of them did. So what for? Doesn't having that many weak spots defeat the purpose of the fortification? What was the pragmatic reasoning behind such decisions?

Hello historians,

Just a quick question.

How well known was Franz Ferdinand at the time of his death?

It’s my understanding that his death was worldwide news, but would it have meant anything to the common man? Would the average person in Britain have even have known who he was before reading the newspaper report?

I can’t seem to find a clear answer online, so any clarity would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Including Libya.

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While in the post-Roman west of Europe languages based on Latin, or Latin topolects/sociolects became dominant to the point of all but entirely replacing the Celtic and other languages previously spoken, there is no trace of Latin in present day North Africa. Did just not that many people speak it in the first place?

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Additionally, if they could / did, how did the emperor resolve this issue?

I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask in the first place, but I figured I'd shoot my shot since it does not seem to be against the rules. So here are my questions:

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How is your job? What exactly do you do? How did your semesters look; what did you do in them? Would you recommend it?

I've been looking around and archeology sounds inredibly fascinating, but I'm not too sure if I don't have a really romantized view of it. Please tell me about your personal experiences, both good and bad.

Thank you

Both conflicts were protracted (12+ years and 19+ years), both taking place in unforgiving terrain that benefits the communists, and both seem to have had a similar ratio of combatants although the scale of Vietnam was larger.

Was it as simple as the North Vietnamese having an organised military? Or is there more nuance?

As always, thanks to anyone replying.

and what was the cultural perception of them (including alcohol)?

So I know this eventually happened but I can’t find any source material telling how exacly this happened. I know that Harald plundered few castles in what I belive to be Sicily and then he served in army under John II. But why?

Why didn’t the armies in WWI use repeaters, they seem much better than the bolt actions used by most troops, was it cost or something else?

Wouldn’t it be better to remain loyal to the Orthodox Christian Byzantines than the Muslim Ottomans?

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'most of medieval material culture — knights, castles, tunics, pointy shoes, roses, rhyming poetry, princesses in towers wearing conical hats with veils, wizards with robes covered in holy symbols — is originally Persian'

It's talking aboat how most Medieval European fantasy tropes originated in Persian culture. I wanna read the original stories.

After watching Peter Jackson's documentary earlier today, I went on a bit of a binge on YouTube into WWI footage. The American films seem to give significant weight to Americans joining the war with respect to the eventual Allied victory. Would the War have actually been winnable if the United States had chosen to remain neutral?

Thanks to all the historians who are active here! I find all of your answers enormously fascinating.

Asking this at r/AskHistory too.

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I just watched "The Highwaymen" on Netflix and one scene showed adoring fans swarming the car of Bonnie and Clyde when they stopped to purchase medicine in a small town. Did this really happen? It seems strange that you would do that to wanted outlaws....if you were fans of them, wouldn't that give them away to law enforcement?