Hello I'm rather curious about the early trade stations or entrepôts in Africa or elsewhere before any real territorial conquests were made. What sorts of people went and lived there, and for how long? How was life in general there? My interest is not so much with the passing sailors and traders but rather the people who spent extended periods of times in these places.

Are there any primary sources like diaries or autobiographical texts or even secondary sources about people and their experiences in such places. Anything in Romance or Germanic languages is of interest to me. I suppose i'm mostly curious about such places located in the then less developed parts of the world. Anything from the early Portuguese up until the 1700s is of interest, as is any archeological work done on such sites.

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Hey guys, I posted earlier in r/whatisthisthing and I was pointed to a website that shows there has been similar finds in Britain BUT no-one seems to have a good idea of what it was part of or used for.

The item is heavy bronze with holes on the end of each limb, it was found in field next to a field with a Roman fort and bordered by a Roman road although it could be earlier than Roman as I found half a bronze age axe in the same field so really any ideas or maybe similar has been found in your country that has been positively identified, images below.

In the days before CPR and defibrillation, what was the usual treatment if someone suddenly went into cardiac arrest? Let's say that they are already in hospital, or that a doctor happens to be nearby. Was there any particular kind of pre-CPR technique that would have been used on the patient, or would they have been considered absolutely unsavable?

From my reading, it seems like it had a lot to do with the Sino-Japanese War and Empress Cixi's personality - is this what historians believe? Is it even possible to pick out a 'point of no return' in the first place?

Personally, I think the humiliating defeat to a "dwarf barbarian" was the point of no returns, as it clearly exposed the flaws of the Self Strengthening Movement (SSM) and Cixi's conservative mindset and failure to implement any radical reforms meant that the underlying root causes would always be present in the Qing society. Cixi was extremely narcassistic and in fact arrogant, her pride and public image seemed more important than the eradication of the Qing problems. Her efforts with the SSM were clearly just papering over the cracks and the defeat in SJW highlighted this. However, people may argue that the efforts were made post Boxer Rebellion (BR) with the Late Qing Reforms (LQR), but again these were half-hearted reforms that didn't actually show any tangible change, and by this point, it was Too Much Too Late and even the scholar-gentry were forced to question the legitimacy of the Qing. Would it be fair to say that the point of no returns was the SJW as it highlighted Cixi's lack of ambition and conservative ideals, and the BR simply expedited the fall of the Qing as it paved the way for Sun Yat-Sen too capitalise on the public unrest and carry out the Xinhai Revolution 1911?

Thanks in advance

Most people would have had an attitude of wanting to tell people in the mainland when a new land was discovered, so why didn't anyone send word back to Europe? And why didn't anyone stay in the New World and live there?

I'm making a 1980s winter kit for re-enactment and need sources on what to buy/wear.

My instructor said that the government of the Roman Empire could order food be transported from one region of the empire to another in order to address famines.

Rome had a healthy system of money, property rights, and trade, so why weren't market forces sufficient to incentivize merchants to transport food?

In addition, to what extent did ancient persons demonstrate private scepticism toward belief systems, despite publicly embracing them for social or political gain?

While I do realize that many people lost their lives due to the destruction of the city, what effect did the event directly leave on the area and/or culture of the Middle East?

EDIT: Not related to school in any way, just curious.

The Netflix show “The Last Kingdom” is a fictional story about pagan Danes and Christian Saxons in 9th century Britain. The show includes representations of the Dane religion. In one scene, two pagan Dane warriors fight, and even when one of them (the show’s main character) strikes a death blow against his hated but respected opponent, the victor makes sure that the losing warrior is still holding an axe at the moment of death. In another scene, a Dane warrior is assassinated in bed, and even though the victim is reaching for a sword with his dying breath, the assassin ensures that the victim does not reach it - and other Dane characters conclude that the victim has been prevented from entering Valhalla.

Did the Dane religion really work that way? Were the specific circumstances of a man’s death - including whether he was physically holding a weapon - seen as mattering more than the way the man had lived his life in an overall sense? What if a brave warrior died from illness, or drowned after falling out of a boat in a storm, or from other non-battle-related causes?

This may be a simple answer, but I've always wondered how in the middle of a war soldiers would know the names of equipment of their enemies. Taking WW2 for example, how did they know that the MG-42's were actually called that by the Germans? Was it from POWs? Or did the Germans publish the names of their equipment in literature that the Western powers could get access to?

Hello again historians! I am back once again looking for help from you guys. I am doing my capstone research project on the Nazi camp system.

The bulk of my research at this point will focus on Auschwitz (most famous death camp), ravensbrueck (only documented all-female camp) and Buchenwald (known for it's violence) while also including an introductory research on the general camp system (different types of camps, camp sponsors such as ig farben, and how the camps evolved over time). I have a good amount of books, articles, peer-reviewed journals, and a few shows so far.

Some from my bib are goldhagen's 'hitlers willing executioners', albert speer's memoirs, hoess's 'commandant of Auschwitz', and Sarah helm's 'ravensbrueck'. Any additional books, articles, or peer reviewed journals that you know of to assist me in my journey are greatly appreciated!

Two of my history teachers say that when Magellan landed in the Philippines he was eat by the natives. My parents, whom are both Filipino, tell me that is a lie. However, both of my teachers have history degrees and my parents could be wrong. I personally don't think Magellan wasn't eaten as he was killed by a poisoned arrow and cannibalistic islanders sounds like European propaganda but I am not sure. Please help me and include links please.

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