I'm currently writing a short story about love in ancient Roma, during the rule of Augustus. I was just wondering how this would play out. Say a Roman man encounters a Roman woman and he steadily gets feelings for her. I've asked friends and they keep telling me that that scenario would just end in rape or forced marriage. But I know that cant be entirely true. I would like to see how this scenario would play out from the males perspective. Thank you

I was curious if over the course of China's history they ever utilized windmills for agriculture? If so, what did they look like? Were they similar in design to the ones found in Europe? If someone happens to be an expert on this topic, what about the surrounding nations in Asia, were windmills widely used?

I realize that currently China has modern, power producing wind turbines, but I am referring to the early version used to grind grain.

Thanks in advance!

I’ve gathered that he was some sort of money lender, but there has to be more to it than that? How would he have secured the loans? How would he have enforced his debt? I’m also taking it that there was an investment component because he was familiar with the exchange and the people there. It just seems that it would require more people than just he and Cratchitt to do all that work.

I'm playing a small part in a ballet in which I play a wealthy man who will purchase a very expensive doll. The ballet is set in Victorian France. I'd like to know how I should interact with the common folks before I purchase the doll.

I enter the scene and everyone is stoked because they know I have scratch. A few people greet me and there is bowing involved. My question is: should I be bowing fully, partially, some other way? I make my way around the stage as they greet me. Just wondering what would be proper during that time.

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I’m mainly curious of how the tales of the medieval time came about in different parts of the world. From what I have seen, many countries have their own versions of elves, mages, dwarves, dragons, magic and I’m wondering how it spread. I’m curious if there is any evidence that they might have existed in the past or if they were bed time stories told to children (and even then where did they originate from?).

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By this I mean when the US expanded and acquired new territory, they didn’t rename these places like the British and Spanish did. Why is this?

I have read it was Hitler's praise of Muhammed that gave him a lot of islamic supports, not only in middle eastern countries such as Iran but among some minorities in Soviet Union, Balkans.

Hello, im hoping someone can provide some insight. Im 25 and live in England. I have wanted to be an archaeologist since i was extremely young, it came from a genuine love for history and many a day was spent watching documentaries and shows like Time Team.

Sadly life gets in the way and i now work an office job and have a wife and stuff. I was just wondering if its too late to chase my dream and if it isnt then how would one go about beginning? I have a GCSE in History but nothing further.

Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

When did it stop being widleu spoken and why was it able to survive as a living language for so long? Was it due to the isolation of Cornwall?

Follow up: How did the Slavic tribes manage to resist the Byzantine Empire, one of the strongest at the time, and settle on their lands, keep their culture, language, and even assimilate the native population?

Reading a time line of Nazi Germany, I find it mind boggling how fast the Nazi's moved. Within months of taking power Hitler could make any law he wanted, the gestapo is formed, less than half a year in and there are book burning rallies and rival parties are banned. Perhaps I'm naive but it's hard to believe how fast things changed. I would've have expected it to take some time for the Nazi's consolidate their power not literal months.

I feel like I know the answer I’m most likely going to get but I’m hopeful there may be more to discus on the topic then the depressing hard conclusion I’ve been seeing on the horizon.

I love studying history but the depressing reality I’ve that finding and then reading sources of any actual worth fact wise is a costly, hard, and time consuming affair. What always gets me motivated to keep reading and finding things to read in history I’m interested in is the often entirely absurd media inspired by history. I love samurai and Japanese history, and I love blasting through books, movies, and games focusing on fictional tales not at all grounded in reality about samurai. I especially love the Extra History series, which manages to make entertaining legends and myths out of actual history, even if it has to be approached with that same understanding most or none of it is true. These entirely fictional things make it easier to find new topics to research and inspire actual study of what facts are available.

But I’m not a historian, I have to wonder if actual historians loathe these fictionalized tales. I’ve already seen things like Extra History get torn apart for historical inaccuracies, and I suppose it would make my life a lot harder if my job was to teach people things and some artists decided it would be fun to make art that teaches the wrong thing. So is there any sort of general consensus on this?

In the TV series The Last Kingdom, the Viking settlers are known as Danes and the people of Wessex as Saxons. Would they really have referred to one another as this at the time? I realise that Alfred went onto become "King of the Angles and Saxons" once he conquered Mercia, does that make the Mercians more Angle than Saxon?