I'm writing a novel that is inspired by 1400's England and I'm writing a feast scene. At a royal feast, what would seating look like at the head table? Specifically trying to find out seating placement for the king, the queen, their daughter, and the king's niece.

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My daughter has a school project that were working on together, including a large wooden and Clay diorama of a tomb in process of being robbed.

I'm looking for any fascinating resources that would appeal to an eleven-year-old audience on the topic of Tomb robbery in general. Don't worry, I'm doing a lot of leg work myself, I'm just looking to see if there's other things I simply can't find on my own. Thanks for your help hey what's going on man

Is it safe to assume that most people in the past had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? As far as I understand, at least in the west, people used to drink a lot. Certainly they didn't know that drinking while pregnant was harmful. I've often heard that there wasn't a lot of clean water in Europe after Rome, and so they drank mostly weak beer. Is this true?

In the east they drank tea and probably did not have this problem, no?

As a young teenager, I read Romeo & Juliet and I found it to be such a romantic tale. I identified with Romeo & Juliet, and I felt like they had "true love" for one another, and it was only the ignorance of others that kept them apart.

However, as I've grown older, I've started thinking that Romeo & Juliet were actually the foolish ones. Not because of their resistance to ignorant prejudice by their families. But rather because of their rash decisions that led directly to their own demise, all due to lack of self control and acting upon impulse. As well as a general disregard for the wisdom of their elders and advisors.

Do we have any idea how the tragedy would have been perceived by the audience in the era the play was first performed in?

Given it was such a different time, and different society than today. Often that valued respect for superiors & elders over individual autonomy. Would they have sympathized with Romeo & Juliet? Or would they have ridiculed them for disobeying and bringing about their own demise by rashness?

To clarify, I’m asking about the Old Swiss Confederacy within the Holy Roman Empire, not later 19th / 20th century nationalism - hence the scare quotes around “language”.

Hey I am really intrested in WW2 history and i've heard alot about how hitler wanted to annex the soviets up to the urals and kill all slavs living there and colonize it with germans, lebensraum. I find this very strange and unbelievable and so I started to do some research but the only thing I found was how hitler wanted to germanize crimea according to ''hitlers table talk''. I would like to see something that could prove this. This is my first reddit post ever so if i did something wrong tell me.

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He had a very long stable reign, expanded the empire, "found Rome in brick and left it in marble" etc. And I know that he was a master propagandist and he killed off most of the people that opposed him(but this one was before he became emperor), but he still deserves a spot here in my opinion.

Are there any surviving documents from the Confederate leadership discussing what they would have done with the northern states if the south had won the Civil War? I'm curious if they planned a military occupation or if they would have enforced a border between the north and south and avoided trying to exert influence in the north.

So my understanding of Venice might be somewhat limited but it's essentially a floating city supported by columns right? What confuses me is how this city organically came together. Especially to arise in a time of limited technology I just don't understand how much a seemingly impracticle town went on to grow into such a powerful city.

Examples such as

Joachim I Nestor, Albrecht III Achilles, and John Cicero.

Sorry for the many questions I have. I dont expect every one to be answered but I'm just illustrating my confusion on this topic.

I'm interested in how the Atlantic Slave Trade began. To my knowledge, slavery didn't really exist in Europe in the 15th century, though I'm sure they were aware of it and I don't know how historians view serfdom vs slavery. Was there any moral or legal proscription of slavery in Europe around this time? If so, how did this get abrogated to allow for the Atlantic Slave Trade? When Portuguese sailors found slaves for sale on the African coast did they just go "Neat!" and then have at, or was there some controversy and attempt at justifying the purchase of said slaves? If the former, why WEREN'T there slaves in Europe prior to this?

I also read that initially, the slaves once in the New World were given the legal status of indentured servants rather than slaves, and that their legal statys evolved over time towards slavery. Is this true? Does that mean they had "theoretically" the same rights as white indentured servants at first? Does it mean their indenture was temporary, and they were paid in some fashion (or at least were supposed to be even if that didnt happen)? Were they slaves in all but name, the "indenture" being a fiction invented to assuage moral concerns?

Thanks!

From what I've heard, slavery mostly died out in medieval Europe among Christians. But what about Muslim slaves under Christian owners? What rights would they have had, how were their daily conditions? How were they treated, and did they have any sort of social mobility.

What do we know about the site?

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit for this question, but I could not find anything on the rules against this kind of questions.

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I know very little about USA history and I would like to fix that. What is the best book to start?

Maybe something like a cave painting which looks like it might have been a self portrait or something of the sorts?

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I'm aware that there were quite a lot of changes in the armies in that time frame, but I'm curious if there were similarly drastic changes to naval combat. Would a Roman or Greek navy be superior to the Medieval Venetian fleet, for example?