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I've literally not heard of any ocean liners before or after that sunk via iceberg BESIDES Titanic. Sounded like unnecessary hubris to me. Were there ships sinking fairly commonly at that time?

I’m sure I have some terminology wrong, but the first stages of humans, cavemen, homo erectus, what have you... how did they know to cook their meat/food? My roommate thinks they stumbled upon cooking by accident, I tend to think it’s from a higher level thinking/evolving somehow. Perhaps we’re both right. I’m sure it’s been asked before, and yes this debate stemmed from us cooking dinner and asking “I wonder who was the first guy to set a chicken on fire and eat it.” But thanks for indulging us. A brief google search only gave the history of cooking. I’m less concerned about when or even why, but how. How did they know to put their food on fire?

Based on the wikipedia article about Baltische Landeswehr, it was the unified armed forces of the Couronian and Livonian nobility. They lost to the independence movements in the Baltic by Latvia and Estonia, but I can't find any clear explanation of what was the actual goal of the Baltische Landeswehr. What was that they were trying to achieve?

I'm currently reading through Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English and he seems to have taken a lot from Gildas's account of the time between Constantinus's withdrawal and the arrival of the Angles et al. but he also mentions a great plague that hit them prior to their invitation.

My question is: Is this plague given any consideration by historians and is it thought to be the cause of the invitation/invasion? It seems to make a lot of sense considering what I think I know of great cities being abandoned across Britain and people pulling back to an agrarian lifestyle in small villages by the time the Angles et al. arrive. It sounds very similar to the stories I've heard of great Incan cities being abandoned by the time the Spanish reached western South America 100 years after their plagues had decimated the population.

To the historians of reddit, I’m currently a high school student in Australia with a love for European medieval/renaissance history. It’s been my life’s dream to one day become a historian and work in this area. I’m very prepared to work and live in Europe if finding work there would be more rewarding. I’m planning on studying history at university and completing a post graduate course. I’m prepared to work very hard to enter this field and want to know what my chances of succeeding are. I would also consider curatorial or archivist positions if I found they suited me better.

Could anyone let me know the challenges or likelihood in pursuing this career pathway? As I said, this has been my goal in life for as long as I can remember and would hate to have to rethink my options because of low chances of success. Also what is the average wage for historians in both Australia and Europe and are there different levels of work for historians?

If anyone could answer any of these questions it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

I'm considering buying 'The miracle of Dunkirk' but not sure about how informative and interesting it is, and it got me thinking about this question. What are the most historically accurate books spanning any arch of ww2 in your view?

I'm trying to make sense of Polybius's description of the Punic Wars. Sometimes he seems to favor the Romans, but then he turns around and criticizes him; he seems to really like Hannibal, but still seems to use "Punic" as a kind of insult. Have historians been able to untangle what Polybius really thought? Or are Polybius's true thoughts still unknown?

Ive heard much about how the waffen ss were the best trained fighting force in the world at that time, so were they really that effective? Or were they equal to the Wehrmacht? Also what made them so formidable?

The Soviet Union was an expressly multinational project born out of an incredibly unequal society, in which an ethnic Russian elite imposed near-complete dominance over its imperial subjects. What was done by the Soviet leadership (mostly ethnic Russian but including some important Caucasians, Balts, Jews, and Ukrainians) to reduce the power of Russians over non-Russians after the Revolution? And to what extent was this project successful?

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Just for an example, would someone who lived in 1427 know that it was 1427?

Not many people talk about the descendants of the founding fathers taking part in the Civil War. Alexander Hamilton had multiple grandchildren fight for the Union, James Madison's Grandson was responsible for keeping Britain neutral for Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson's Grandchildren were high ranking officers in the Confederacy, and Robert E. Lee was married to George Washington's Step Sons Grand Daughter. This is interesting due to the fact that the Founding Fathers had fought to form this country only two generation prior (Which would be like the current millennials and their grandparents for perspective). Is there any information on what these descendants of great men thought of their role in the Civil War? Were they used as tools of propaganda?

This is, of course, assuming that it happened more or less over the same period. If that's wrong, please correct me!

That is to ask, in the ports in which those missionaries and traders were acting, were there any outbreaks that occurred as a result of the Europeans presence?

Also - this might be its own question - Was Japan affected by the Black Death, and if so to what extent?