Most immigrants came to the 'New World' because they were escaping poverty and bad living conditions back in their home country, right? But how did they feel about things once they got here? Did they often want to return (but maybe couldn't because of a lack of finances, or maybe they did sometimes return)? What kinds of records are there about this?

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Why did the UK and Argentina go to war over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)?

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I work in an industry that works with a lot of timber products, and not a single manufacturer will guarantee a product for longer than 10-15 years, AND these products have all been treated in some way.

This prompts my question basically, how did timber structures stand up to the test of time before chemical treatment?

I didn't get taught anything about the British Empire at school - can anyone recommend any historians to follow or books to read to try and self-educate?

I know it's a *huge* area to look into as it covers so much of the planet! So happy to take suggestions on certain parts of the world rather than books dedicated to the whole empire (but if they exist I'd love to hear more).

So I'm not sure if I should be separating this into separate threads but I have a few questions on naval warfare in the first Punic war that I was wondering if anyone could give me some insight into.

• Whom primarily crewed the Carthaginan fleets? The wikipedia artical says that it was primarily Carthaginan citizens unlike their army, is this true? Were people like Libyo-Phoenicians represented in any significant numbers?

• I understand that the Roman preference for boarding actions was because they couldn't compete with the Carthaginians in other forms of naval warfare but what was the primary weapon in the Carthaginian arsenal? Ranged weapons or ramming? And if the former what was that, bows, slings, javelins, larger mechanical crossbows and small siege weapons? Were they aiming to kill the crew or did they often try to set ships alight?

• How probably is the story that the Roman's designed their fleet based on a Carthaginian ship that was grounded in a storm?

• How significant was Corvus for the Romans? I was given to believe it gave the Romans a significant edge when it came to achieve a successful boarding actions and thus narrowed the gap between the qualities of their fleets but I talked to someone the other day who say its significance was significantly exaggerated and that the heavy bridge left Roman ship over balanced and was largely abandoned as a result.

If you can answer any of these questions you help would be appreciated.

My English-Punjabi housemate made many general claims about the British Rule, like "London wouldn't look like it does if not for the stolen wealth of India", or "India was kept underdeveloped on purpose". Is he right, and if so, in what ways? What was the impact of the Raj on administration, industry, infrastructure, and trade? Was trade really free between the UK and India or was the latter exploited?

(This question is not intended to debate the merits of “neoliberalism”)

How has neoliberalism influenced American (or European) politics, both at home and abroad? How has it affected American history? What are some of the tangible economic outcomes of its embrace?

This may be a stupid question,

So the Bible says God created everything, and Darwin says everything has been evolving for millions of years. What I want to know is what did the ancient people (from all over) believe humans and animals came from? Did ancient religions believe we and everything else was created?

In Lisbon the excavated Roman amphitheater was several meters bellow street level. And I was wandering how it managed to sink so far bellow the modern day city of Lisbon and why do Roman ruins tend to be found underground? It’s called Teatro Romano btw