Im guessing that if any where, they would be assumed to be dragon bones or such, or would be seen as unholy. Anyone with more knowledge than I?

First off, sorry if it was posted before, I did a quick search on this sub and found nothing.

Also, how was ammunition distributed and what would an archer (horse archer especially) do if he ran out of arrows before his comrades?

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In America, Native Americans are typically presented as various groups of hunter gatherers. Why are the feats of Native American tribes such as the Mississippians, such as Poverty Point and Cahokia Mounds, and their large trade networks stretching thousands of miles ignored?

I understand that due to their extreme isolation at the time these fears had little impact on later civilizations. But to me, the fact that such great feats occurred in isolation is all the more reason for them to be taught.

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I ask because as far as Nazis go, Rommel always pops up as one of the more neutral ones, who wasn’t outlandishly evil and actually had some respect from Allied forces. Plus, would his alleged involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler potentially have brought him any clemency?

So, basically, what charges if any would the Allies have laid against Rommel if he lived to the Nuremberg trials?

On a related note, it's clear that Novgorod and the Teutonic/Livonian Knights are stand-ins for the USSR and Germany, but are the Golden Horde supposed to be an allegory for Japan?

I am aware there are alleys in lower Manhattan, but the blocks built according to the 1811 commissioners plan don’t have them. Why not? Did they anticipate the sanitation issues it would cause?

Upvote the answers you like best, and if you don't see one here that should be, feel free to post it!

Japan is renowned for its martial arts like sumo, judo and karate. Now many cultures throughout the world have developed some form of wrestling and pugilism, but the Japanese have been particularly creative when it comes to the martial arts. Has there been research into what factors have led Japan to be such a fertile ground for martial arts throughout its history?

I often see old condoms made from animal skins but i'm wondering how well did they fill their intended purpose?

The only explanation I've seen for its removal is that the Mexican government objected, but that doesn't seem like enough of an explanation. For example - why wasn't that a reason not to use it in the first place? And what leverage did Mexico have? As for the first part, I know there was a general climate of heightened racism / xenophobia in the 20s, but how did that lead to Mexicans / Mexican Americans being designated as distinct race? Or was there some other reason?

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(new account due to doxxing etc.) I have started my PhD just yesterday. The subject falls within the confines of the history of religion. I am confident in my abilities surrounding the religion part, but the history part not so much (good thing I have some years to work on it).

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My concrete question to you is: what sort of programs do you use to search through documents (or perhaps even to find documents in online databases as well)? I will have to, among other things, trace the history of a few specific terms, so a program in which I can fill in whole lists of search terms and which gives me an analysis based on this would be great (specifically within pdf and other text files). I guess my google searches do not contain the right key words as I only find pdf-finders and things like windows search files.

One of my question of the WWI: Is there a real chance gemany would have learn from russo-japanese war so they may change their tatic from Schlieffen Plan to foucus on the russia instead.

I was thinking about this in parallel to our own times--I'm a mid-twenties millenial who grew up in the Great Recession, and I along with everyone I know are very hard-nosed and practical about careers and life--and very aware that having a college degree doesn't make you "too good" to work retail. However, I see a LOT of struggle to understand this among people in my parent's generation. In Mary McCarthy's novel "The Group," which is set in New York during the Depression, we see a similar intergenerational struggle between a recent college grad and her mother. Does anyone know if this sort of clash was common then as now?

The migration period happened around 300 AD, and it brought an end to the western Roman Empire. How and why did all those people decide to migrate to Western Europe? Also did they travel in large groups or small groups?