I'm thinking of the three gold lions on the red background, for example.

I was reading a facinating post by /u/legolodestone whom mentioned:

The Brehons were the true power in the land. They were a specialized druidic bard class that served as judge, jury, and lawyers. They had the power to over rule anyone at any point. When seated with the high King all the way through the 1300s they were served first and better cuts than the king. This wandering judiciaries would have been known by their outfits and often by face to all of the locals in the area. They ruled on all matters covered in every incarnation of the Kilkenny statutes (which is a whole lot) and anyone could request their services.

As I've never heard of these people before, I was wondering if anyone could elaborate more on who these people were, and, why the possessed such political clout?

I'm playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and it got me thinking. Today if I am 15 minutes late it seems like a big deal but back then they didn't have watches to necessarily differentiate time on a quarter hour basis. If I was going to go to someone's house would I just say that I will be there sometime between noon and 6? Would they even say 4:15 or would it just be 4 - 4:30 - 5 - 5:30. I imagine in towns there would be a centralized clock but on homesteads I would imagine some people may not even have them. Were they cheap enough for everyone to have one at home? Would I tell a friend to meet me at 1pm at the saloon tomorrow or what. How did this all work?

I just finished a graduate course on theory and methodology and I'm still not sure I understand the difference between them (I know that postmodernism is a theory but the process of defining methodology is still confusing to me). I'm just looking for a concrete definition that I can share with my classmates!

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Furthermore, what is generally more commonly used by historians?

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I have been listening recently to Revolutions (A podcast currently covering the Mexican revolution), and his portrayal of Pancho Villa as a sympathetic, intelligent, general who was a die hard man of the people. He mentions a bit of civilian violence, but only in a brutal justice sort of way, even going so far as to not let his men sack the cities they captured.

This tended to follow my minuscule knowledge beforehand sorting him into a sorta robin hood bandit.

however, I was reading his wikipedia article, and it mentioned Villa used widespread rape and sexual violence. They suggested his womanizing persona was incorrect and his plethora of wives were not necessarily willing.

included as well is an event called the gang rape of Namiquipa. Where Villa herded women into animal pins and had his men gangrape them to death.

This took me aback, as that seemed to heavily conflict with the popular view of Villa. I haven't been able to find any good sources for this gangrape, or any other good accounts covering this aspect of Villa.

Is this account accurate? Did Villa let his men rape widely or is this propaganda from the era? And if he did was this just base cruelty towards women or did use this as a military tactic? Either to reward his men or punish the enemy?

Thank you in advance!

I am narrating a D&D campaign in a late medieval/early modern setting. Sort of based around 16th century Italy, but with magic.

The party will now live in a big town (population of around 800 people, please tell me if that actually makes sense?) and help run it.

What are some services and trades that must be available, and what would be some that shouldn't? I'm thinking, what would day to day life look like? The town is in the hills, surrounded by Lemon groves (main export) and some crops (mostly tomatoes, wheat and spinach).

So basically I want to flesh out some NPCs, and think of some problems that would disrupt life in town (like bad crops, or running out of clean water, but maybe more specific).

Thanks for reading!

Considering the title, both planes had similar bomb loads and ranges, yet the Mosquito was crewed by 2 iso 6, mostly made out of wood which wasn’t as much in demand as metal and the mosquito was much quicker than the B25, even quicker than most German fighters.

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i know it depends in what region of the world you’re talking about. i mostly just want to know what other economic systems existed and jow they functioned.

I’ve been playing a lot of Battlefield V and noticed that some of the maps that take place in cities capitalize on huge levels of destruction to make the maps interesting. This makes me wonder, was this destruction realistic in the war? Were entire blocks and neighborhoods of European cities completely trashed? What was the extent of the damage in an average city that saw combat?

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He also claimed that Apocalypto was an incredibly honest, authentic, and accurate portrayal of his civilization, which is something that I knew wasn't true when he said it. I bring this up because, frankly, I kind of doubted everything he said following this.

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If you try looking up images of that sort of thing, that's the design that pops up the most often. How did that become common depiction and is there any evidence for this?

Bonus: Other than the one on the famous Gokstad longship, have there been other dragon figureheads discovered attached to the hull?

EDIT: wow 140 points? I didn't expect that. Thanks guys!

I have always been curious as to how the US decided which soldiers would fight in Western Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific theaters. Was it based on the soldiers home region (soldiers in he West fight in the Pacific theatre, soldiers from the East fight in Europe.) or was it completely random.

Most explanations for Africa's genetic diversity attribute it simply to the accumulation of time in which diversity can accrue. That sort of makes sense, but it's not clear to me why the accumulating diversity would so stubbornly persist.

For example, the US buying Alaska, or the US Virgin Islands

I'm in a history class where theres constant mentions of the Silk Road to the point where it's almost expected when talking about Eurasia. We never discussed how powerful this trade route was though, is there any ballpark as to how much revenue or merchants etc. came through the trade route in a given time?

I'm not sure if this belongs in AskHistorians or a subreddit focusing more on Economics, so sorry if this is in the wrong place.

I've read that when Germany reunited, West Germany exchanged DM for GDR marks at an artificial exchange rate that was way above market value for East German marks. Did this cause the DM to lose any value internationally (against the dollar or the pound, for example)?

Were there any other proposed/seriously considered plans for economic integration of the two Germanies?

For nearly 20 years, I have been in possession of a piece of fabric taken from a Japanese soldier by my uncle in the war. It has some writing on it, which we pretty much assumed was a prayer of some sort, until I recently set about translating the characters. Thanks to some good folks over at r/translator, I was able to gather that the words make reference to a fabric shop (which could either be where he original owner worked, or simply got it). Another part has what could be the owner's name.

I would like to see if there is some sort of database to locate the possible owner of it, and maybe make a connection to return it to any living descendants. I was told that it was taken from the Philippines.

Thank you, and a Merry Christmas to all who partake!

(Edit: my finger slipped and accidentally hit the post button before I was finished)