I’m asking this in particular due to the fact that I’m making an attempt at writing either a short story, or hopefully a novel, about the certain subject of a possible Roman-Sino alliance or simply understanding of each other’s existence in a true full fashion. What would the implications be of such a relation? Would it expand or hinder the two sprawling empires?

Is this accurate, and if so how were the war guilt clause and other sanctions against Germany justified?

**apologies if this is a common Q

Walk around any large city and you will see plastic and cigarette butts littering the ground.

What would I expect to see in Roman cities? What were their garbage heaps full of? Did Roman garbage cause pollution of the local environments?

When I've read and watched documentaries about the Battle of Samar, I've been told that Taffy 3's small force of CVEs, DDs, and DEs was the only Allied naval force which stood between Kurita's battleship fleet and the Marines on Leyte.

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But by the time the Battle of Samar started, a few hours had passed since six battleships of the 7th Fleet had routed the Japanese Southern Force in the Surigao Strait just a short distance away. Where did these battleships go after that battle? Were they not in the Leyte Gulf and in a position to defend the Marines in the case that Taffy 3 had not been able to stop Kurita's advance?

Below is a letter from Diana Gabaldon (author of Outlander) to her fans. What stood out to me was this line: "...a competent historian could probably make a good case for the roots of the American Revolution having sprung in part from the bloody soil of Culloden."

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Considering the Scottish Enlightenment, I was intrigued by her statement and would love to hear a historian tease out links.

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Gabaldon Letter to Fans:

"But why didn’t the story stay in Scotland?!?” is a cry I’m used to hearing. “I loved Scotland! All the fighting and the tartans and the swords…”

Well, yeah. Who doesn’t?

The thing is…that Scotland ceased to exist on April 16th, 1746. When Roger and Claire tell people that “the Highland clans were crushed”—they meant it. That’s what actually happened, not novelistic license on my part.

When the Stuart Cause came to ruin at Culloden, it was followed by what would come to be known in a later century as ethnic cleansing. The British Government decided to put an end to this Scottish nuisance, and set about it in determined fashion. Kill or transport the men, burn the houses and crops, leave the women and children to die of cold or starvation. And it worked, to a large degree; the Highlands ceased to be a military or political threat.

But Scots are, in the main, hard to kill. And a Scot remains a Scot, no matter where he is. And so our story follows the tide of history—to America, where Scottish emigrants (voluntary or otherwise) looked for a place to set down roots pulled out of the Highland soil. At the time of the American Revolution, one citizen in three in the colonies was Scottish. And a competent historian could probably make a good case for the roots of the American Revolution having sprung in part from the bloody soil of Culloden.

As for fighting, swords, medical calamity, startling people and personal turmoil, though…all those things came along for the ride.

I hope you will, too!

Le meas agus,

--Diana Gabaldon

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Was jousting a skill that was only used in exhibition? Or did knights actually engage in jousts on the field of battle?

If used in battle, why would they do that? Jousting as a tool of warfare seems very impractical to me.

Are there historical accounts of knights fighting to the death via joust? Was it a duel of part of some sort of larger engagement?

Bonus question: How did jousting develop? Was it a genuine tool of warfare that was augmented for exhibition or purely designed for entertainment?

I am reading an article by Numan Bartley called "The South and Sectionalism in American Politics," and one of his comments drew my attention:

Jim Crow segregation, like slavery before it, defined the social system in terms of color. Whether slaves or freedmen, the presence of large numbers of deprived workers, in addition to the general poverty of the region, discouraged immigration . . . the South remained old stock and Protestant, ethoculturally identifiable as blacks and whites, with that distinction written firmly into law and vaunted by the "White" and "Colored" signs that adorned the public facilities across the region."

Bartley says that the socioeconomic situation in the South during Jim Crow was not necessarily attractive to immigrants, but there are definitely examples of Latino/a immigration during this period, and some did stay in the South. So what was life like in Jim Crow south for ethnic minorities? Was it different from black southerners?

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During the Second World War, did Germans living in South Tyrol ever enlist in the Italian military? Furthermore did Germans living in South Tyrol ever cross the border into Germany to enlist in its military?

What makes people/historians believe that there was a city named Atlantis and that something happened to it?

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I have been reading a bit on Andrew Johnson and what a train wreck his policies were and I was wondering what, if anything, is known about Abe Lincoln's long term plan for rebuilding the south and if in your opinion this would have lead to a radically different culture in the south.

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I have read that a large number of European immigrants returned to Europe after a period in the United States. To what degree was this return migration planned,and did many who planned to return end up staying? I am also interested in the experience of non-European immigrants.

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Long story short, I'm DMing a campaign (in 5th edition D&D) in the Sengoku Period of Japan around 1567 (just before the invasion of Mino by Nobunaga Oda), but I'm finding it hard to find a map of that time period. I'd also appreciate having more resources for the period, but not really sure where to look. Any help would be appreciated.

I have read in at least two sources that row cultivation was not widely practiced in continental Europe until the 18th century. How is that possible? If you want to grow anything, the most logical and simple thing would be to grow it in rows, right?

I'm a longtime lurker, first time poster. I would love to know how accurate the two movies mentioned above represent the history of Scotland. I would also love to know your opinions of each movie!

Whenever there is representation of dark ages and early middle ages people from Scandinavia, they are always drawn as wearing bright blue, yellow, red and orange tunics and robes. How accurate were these depictions and if so, how were these clothes created, and did these bright colours hold any symbolic meaning beyond the fashionable?