Concessions were given, such as Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, etc... but Western nations didn't take over the whole country as did happen to India (British colony) and Indochina (French colony).

Was it because the Western powers just weren't interested in outright takeover?

What were the mitigating circumstances / factors at play here?

Apparently the Strasbourg Agreement between France and the Holy Roman Empire banned the use of poisoned bullets, but there seems to be very little information about poisoned bullets - in 17th century Europe, or any other place or time. Wouldn't the poison mostly fall off during flight? What types of poison would be applied?

Thank you.

At the end of the Wonder Woman movie Diana is living in mans world.

She has no money, she isn't married, no family to support her and she's an immigrant (the thick accent being a dead giveaway) I'm not sure what type of paperwork people would have had back then (are passports a thing?) but Diana would have literally nothing.

She has some friends, she has Etta Candy a secretary for the Government and Steve's friends Sameer, Charlie and Chief Napi.

But she can't depend on them forever so I was wondering just what life would be like for Diana straight after the war?

Would she for example be able to become a maid? or find employment in a department store? Because I've also seen that letters of recommendation from previous employers are quite important which is another thing she wouldn't have.

So I'm wondering what likely happened to Diana given the constraints of her circumstances and the historical context she lived in?

I know elevation is calculated starting from sea level, so how did they do it especially if there wasn't any sea around to serve as a base point?

Obligatory I looked through the book list.

The game is massive, the map covers all of Europe including Britain, Northern Africa, India, and the Middle East. I have no idea where I should even begin my reading. Rome may be a good start, but I don't want to neglect the rest of the world. I am especially curious about India and the Middle East during the games timeline. I would be thankful for any books on the happenings on the time period, hard reads welcome and even encouraged.

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Secondary Question: Devs said finding information on Scandinavia is very hard during this time period, and they had to use some educated guesswork. Does India, Eastern Europe, Spain, or anywhere else suffer from lack of scholarship during this time period?

When reading about the Crusades, I saw this Fatimid grand vizier/ regent who fought against the Seljuk sucessor states and the First Crusades, called Al-Afdal, with some sources calling him Shahanshah, which assume was the title of "King of Kings", used by the Persians emperors, and later, by the Muslim caliphs. Was this his full and official name or he entitled himself as Caliph, since he "ruled" over the Fatimid caliphate (in behalf of a underage Fatimid boy) and saw himself as the real Caliph? (For curiosity, besides the Persians emperors and the Muslims caliphs, any other rulers entitled themselves as the King of Kings?)

I’ve been reading a book on the Mycenaeans/Minoans and I’ve been struck by how the way they talk about the “age of heroes” resembles the way say, any post apocalyptic fiction talks about “the old ones”.

It’s made me curious how much of that is chauvinism/projecting, and how much were post Bronze Age Collapse cultures (esp in the dark ages or archaic period) aware of their status as living in the shadow of this great period of culture and civilization that wouldn’t be matched for several centuries? And if it’s not too broad, how did the near Eastern and Egyptian cultures see the fall?

The borders of the republics and other subdivisions were ostensibly determined on the basis of ethnicity, but it seems like there were many arbitrary or illogical deviations (examples below). How were these borders determined and why?

More specifically:

• Why was Nagorno-Karabakh not joined to Armenia?
• Why were Kazakhstan, Tajikistan etc made republics while Tatarstan, Buryatia, Chechnya were not? It seems like not all republics were previously states (eg the Baltics) so why were some areas created as republics and others weren’t?
• What’s with the handful of enclaves near the Fergana valley?
• Why were North and South Ossetia not joined together?
• Why weren’t areas with large Tajik populations given to Uzbekistan instead of Tajikistan?
• On that note, why was Karakalpakstan given to Uzbekistan and not Kazakhstan?
• The borders for the central areas of Russia don't seem to follow ethnic lines of Tatars / Bashkirs / Mordvins / Mari / Udmurts very closely at all...

We often see pictures of Native Americans on horses using bows.

I've recently heard that (like horses), it was European technology that was quickly adapted and utilised.

At the same time, they had access to all the materials needed for bows, so it seems like a stretch.

I understand that Native Americans are many peoples, with many different ways of life, I'm interested in any info regarding any Native Americans and bows.

It seems like most men in 1700s US were clean shaven. At least as far as the higher classes went. Then we move into the 1800s and it's hard to find a man without facial hair. And not just facial hair but dozens of different styles. What caused such a stark change in the prevalence of facial hair from 18th to 19th century America?

it seems counter productive. he lead most of the important early victory over the protestant armies and then you have him killed before the war is even over.

What i mean is that since language develops and changes over the centuries than how do arabic speakers easily understand and read the Qur'an. I'm 18 and i have difficulty reading shakespeare which is only 500 years old due to the language difference. Did the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) instruction on to avoid reading translation and rather learn arabic to understand the holy text stop the arabic language from developing in such a way that the Qur'an becomes difficult to read as opposed to how the bible was translated from Greek to Latin to English. By the way i cannot speak arabic so i am assuming arabic spealers can understand it.