I know many people survived by not catching it, but was there a chance that if you caught the plague you might fully recover and go on to live a healthy life?

In this week's In Our Time: History podcast, as an aside, Dr John Hines suggests to Melvin Bragg that the current trend in thinking is that the Frisian language moved from England to Germania, rather than vice-versa. This point isn't elaborated, as the discussion was about the interaction between the Viking and Anglo-Saxon languages in England, but it raised the question for me of what the links were like between the Anglo-Saxon settlers who came to England and their source communities. Was there a strong ongoing cultural interaction between the two groups? Are there some other ways in which this interactions continued to manifest itself?

I'd like to watch some lectures on African history. I know that's a pretty general topic, but I don't know enough to ask about specific countries. I looked it up on youtube but what comes up is just a bunch of documentaries and I'm not confident that they're good sources.

Very obscure question, but I recently discovered that the famous comedian George Carlin was arrested after one of his shows, for performing a comedy bit where he examines the 7 most crude swear words, and he rattles them off several times throughout the performance. I’m under the impression that he was arrested for breaking obscenity laws, but the judge later threw out the case. Why was he initially arrested? Were obscenity laws stricter in the 1970’s? Any more background information would be very helpful.

I know today we have computers, but what first put us on the path to accurate, consistent machine manufacturing? Was it a direct consequence of the industrial revolution, a related event, or a separate happening altogether?

Hello all, I am currently working on a project that goes through Aztec history. Before reading all of the European sources that come from the conquistadors and others I would like to get a good understanding of who they were from there own perspective. Some questions I would really like answered is how they viewed rival warring states such as the Tlaxcalans and if there style of warfare was truly much more about injuring enemies to capture and sacrifice than it was to kill enemies and win battles. I would also like to know how they missed certain labor saving devices like the wheel while simultaneously achieving the most advanced architectural feats in the Americas. Lastly, how did they consider themselves. Any source suggestions or DMs on the matter would be helpful.

I'd assume mostly coastal, but was it more from Normandy and Brittany, or maybe from Aquitaine? Or am I wrong altogether and colonists were drawn from across France?

Were bludgeoning weapons from older times such as War-hammers, clubs/great-clubs, maces, and flails effective as weapons, and more specifically, were they lethal and feared by those who had to fight against them?

[deleted]

I’m a carpenter and framer, and love this sub. Any short answer will do. Love you all!

I can’t seem to find much in the way of newspaper articles or really anything else. Does anyone have knowledge of what the world thought about the bombs?

They certainly couldn't just have driven them across East Germany, right?

Looking for a good book that contains any detailed information available on the 1355 chevauchee carried out by Edward prince of Wales. Any suggestions.

Given the extent that it enlarged the boundaries of China and acquired the territories that later became the Tibetan and Xinjiang Autonomous Territories as well as Inner and Outer Mongolia, the Qing Dynasty seems rather expansionist compared to many other Chinese Dynasties. What was the reason for this?

Does anyone know if when the small number of Norse/vikings that landed in North East America had any contact with the local Indigenous Native Americans or Not ?....

I have read accounts giving two contradictory answers this far. One was a yes & the other No.

Any answers appreciated...

As follow ups-

What goods were being exchanged on either side?

What common language did the merchants conduct business in? Did they mime it out until someone was roughly bilingual, or did they just use French, or what?

Was anyone outside of those two countries aware of it, i.e., did any Spanish or Swedish privateers ever target that route? Was it valuable enough to keep as a state secret the way that Portugal kept their spice routes under wraps?

Was there any obvious or at least detectable influence either culture had on the other?

During the period of the age of sail theft was very common and boats were costly so how did you lock up your boat to prevent theft or did you just end up having to leave someone to look after it