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As a baldie if I started wearing a wig there would be, let’s just say, a “reaction”. And it wouldn’t be a favourable one. But I’ve often wondered why, we wear lots of different styles of clothes, hats and even make-up but wigs are something looked down on.

My guess is that it’s a leftover from the fact the aristocracy wore them for fashion, so when the plebs became more equal they looked down on stuff the aristocracy did.

Is there any historical period where wigs became “bad”?

I tend to think of conspiracy theories to be something that happened recently (in the grand scheme of things), probably because the internet and mass media has helped people share them. But I was thinking that it would make sense for people in ancient Rome and other places to have conspiracies as well. So, were there conspiracy theories in ancient society, and if so are there any good examples?

I read somewhere that the baby boomers were the first generation to really be “coddled” by their parents, if you will. I don’t know if this is true, but it was my understanding that before a certain point, no one really cared about what children wanted or even needed. If this is true, around what time did people’s viewpoints on childhood change? What were children’s lives like before this point?

We always hear of Europeans coming to the Americas ending with hella slaughtering, enslavement, or other forms of violence. Were there any quests that were all for good intentions? Like someone who was woke and wanted to experience the new culture and land?

I watched a short documentary on them in Spanish class and it basically said that aliens were the best explanation. I'd like to know more.

How is it that China, India, France, Pakistan and the UK have stockpiles no bigger than a few hundred warheads each, but the USA and former USSR/Russia are estimated to have thousands? Even during the cold war they built and maintained absurd numbers (tens of thousands) of warheads while the other nuclear powers had more or the less the same they have today. Was it matter of money or the fact that some of smaller nuclear powers felt shielded by the umbrella of either the US or USSR's arsenal? Specifically, why was the massive proliferation of nuclear weapons in the cold war limited to the US and USSR only?

Recently I was chatting with my sister-in-law about her wedding last spring. She mentioned how her parents dancing at the wedding might’ve been the first time they’ve ever danced together. I questioned if she thought they had a first dance at their wedding. Her answer was that she didn’t think that Jews in South Africa in the 80s did a first dance at their wedding.

This kind of shell shocked me. Obviously different cultures have very different procedures for weddings- but I had always thought that the first dance between a couple would be special in any culture.

Where does the American idea of the First Dance come from? Do other cultures have something similar that happens between a couple when they come together for the first time after the marriage ceremony?

I am currently taking AP European History, and my teacher gives us tests using the AP multiple choice format (excerpts followed by a few questions regarding the reading). I used to think history was my strongest subject, but I’ve been struggling to succeed on these tests, as the answer choices tend to trip me up on little technicalities. I’m not extremely worried about the AP exam, because my raw scores on these in-class tests would equate to a 4 or 5 with the College Board’s curve. However, my teacher does not put a curve on his tests, which is unfortunate for me. I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips on how to extract the most from an excerpt (most of the time these are primary or secondary sources, maps, etc.) and be able to choose the option that best answers the question.

Sorry I’m bad at history but in the ancient wars like Rome etc. both “teams” seem to always have a perfect setup in a huge open battlefield that spreads for miles, atleast in all movies. Did they agree upon a location in which to battle beforehand in like a wide clear open space? Or these were mostly wherever they met up in middle and sometimes the battle was actually in a mountain valley type of situation?

I was wondering this, as it's common knowledge that the Europeans brought new diseases to the natives and killed a lot of them through their new sicknesses. However, we were never told if the opposite also happened and natives gave new kinds of diseases to the Europeans that were brought back to Europe

I'm more interested in the Nazis, how many of their soldiers who fought in WW2 were conscripted from nations the Germans conquered?

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I have a toddler and I’ve noticed how fixated most toddlers are on things that go: trucks, planes, trains, cars, diggers, etc. What kind of things were kids fixated on, or using for imaginary play, before the invention of the above? Was it just carriages and horses and means of transport (the closest equivalent to things that go)?

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Im writing an essay about how the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the most tragic attacks that the US was involved in during WWll, and I need to include information and examples of how the US did not do anything as bad as those bombings.

Im having trouble finding some specific examples or even some information on this that is valuable for my essay. Can anyone help? Anything would be good, I cant seem to find anything on my school’s research databases that would be easy to add into my essay.

Thank you!

He describes natives of the north of the Yucatan peninsula (probably close to or Mayans) as wielding "cotton weapons" (armas de algodón). I'm guessing it's not maces with literal cotton heads?

Edit: one person responded (but whose comment is just gone now) and said it might refer to armour, which makes sense.