Recently I was reading through the Wikipedia page on the second temple and saw it mentioning that the temple operated as a money changing centre allowing pilgrims to convert their money “from the profane standard Greek and Roman currency for Jewish and Tyrian money, the latter two considered religious”.

Was Jesus referring to this in Mathew 22:21 not just that Jews ought to pay their taxes?

I'm hoping to become a museum curator, but I have no idea whether or not I am actually on the right degree path. I'm in my freshman year of undergraduate, but I'd like to be sure I'm not wasting time or taking on something I don't need. I guess what I'm really looking for is other people's experiences to get into the history field!

My majors, Public History and History, are backed up by Anthropology and Management Information Systems minors. I realize those minors are...a little off the wall, but my Anthropology minor will have a focus on archaeology and artifact handling. Management Informations will ideally show me how to create databases and use technology, which I felt would be kind of useful no matter where I actually end up.

My school doesn't have the option to specialize, but I'm still up in the air on that and have a few ideas for grad school, anyway.

Thank you in advance for any input!

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I'm curious what kinds of clothing pre-teen Victorian girls wore. What was the length of their skirts from, say, 10-12 years old? Did they wear crinolines like their mothers and older sisters? What about corsets and petticoats? Please compare and contrast the differences between how a Victorian woman would have dressed and a pre-teen girl.

Also, what did the Ottomans call their state if not the Ottoman Empire? Is that name a name given to them by modern historians or was it generally used within the period?

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At some point in history someone decided that a old man would watch kids while they are sleeping and know when they are awake.

Take me through the whole process.

I’m really confused. Could someone please explain to me how Ealdormen,earls, thanes, estates, shires and everything worked in Saxon times. Thank you.

did they develop any armed/organized resistance?

Is there any particular text that is recommended to start? Does her writing stand up well on its own, or is it better to read it alongside something to explain or give context? And separate from reading her in her own words, which biographies do you feel are the most worthwhile? Thanks!

I'm a writer who loves drawing inspiration from real life, and I'm trying to brush up a bit on my British and Irish history. Any recommendations for good books on events prior to the 1700s or thereabouts? Especially interested in the Middle Ages. I really appreciate your help.

I ask because I had always assumed it was the Vikings (or Varangians, I guess) in the 800s and 900s who first sailed down the Volga, the Dnieper, etc. to trade with the Middle East and Byzantine Empire, but I came across this in Michael Pye's The Edge of the World:

Tribes who poured into Eastern Europe in the sixth century blocked the old trading links between Scandinavia and Byzantium, the river routes that tracked across what is now Russia

which suggests the Varangians were just reopening well-established trade links that had been cut off for a couple centuries.

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Heyo, I've been trying to find more info on Directorate S of the KGB, so far what I've found is that it was responsible for training illegal (sleeper, non-official cover) agents, and it was led by Yuri Drozdov from 1979 to 1991. Not sure if it existed before his leadership, or if Drozdov founded it. It seems that Directorate S was also responsible for other foreign operations including Special Operation Storm-333. I'm trying to find information on the actual training methods for illegal agents, and if there are any publicly known agents that were found to be directly associated with Directorate S. Also any further info on Vympel would be helpful too.

A lot of French and Italian recipes I find begin with these ingredients. I also learned variations exist for German, Spanish, Polish, etc cuisines, too, usually subbing out one ingredient for another. For example, bell pepper, parsnip, leek, and more. I read somewhere, probably hearsay, that poor families who could not afford meat in antiquity used these ingredients as a very rough approximate for the taste of meat.

I know they're used to build up flavors early on in dishes; the impact a mirepoix has on a dish is hard to quantify, I just know it's sorely missed when absent. I'm mostly curious how such a technique could appear almost universally in so many forms of European cuisine, and maybe the history of this cooking step. Did it originate in one place and spread or individually "discovered" in many regions at once?

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Hi fellow redditors, I am writing a essay about electricity and I need your help. I want to write a piece about the history of electricity but sadly I cant find some good info about the history of electricity. I hope someone wants to help me or knows a good website.

I imagine they were kind of busy managing population, war, cities... but as free time living in palaces and being compared as semi-gods, what were they doing ?

Maybe I should have posted this in #nostupidquestion ahah

Roman solders are typically depicted wearing shiny plate armour. If the material that the armour was made from contained iron and it was shiny, does that mean that the soldiers of Imperial Rome wore steel armour, rather than iron armour, because iron is not shiny like steel? Roman armour plate components were produced in their millions for the duration of the empire. If the armour was steel, does this mean that Roman blacksmiths had essentially masetered the art of mass production, specifically mass production of steel just a little bit earlier than the era of the Bessemer converter in the 1850s and Taylor's 1914 production line at the Ford plant? By the way, there don't seem to be many soldiers with non-shiny plate armour that seem to appear after the Romans either. Did we somehow decide that early steel wasn't the real thing?

I have been able to find information about how baseball was brought to Japan, but I cannot find much to explain the basis for its popularity and cultural significance. I just think it is very interesting that such a distinct culture has adopted “America’s Pastime.”

My teacher chalked it up as their “favorite historical fact” since we are all playing Red Dead. I’ve always figured these people would’ve been very conservative and so not gay, like my conservative grandparents who like cowboys. Is any of this stuff accurate?

Are these TV shows at least somewhat true to how battles of that age (age of Vikings) looked like? Two armies charging into each other in a long line, basically heads on and complete chaos afterwards? Were Vikings such great figthers that they could win a fight that's 3:1? Or are these shows unreal bogus?