I'm writing a fictional story(in Washington Irving prose) for my APUSH class and I want to write about a ranger/sheriff type of character who helps protect new U.S. settlers from the attacks of Native Americans.

So I need a state where my character is based in. The state has to meet some requirements tho.

• 1. Has to be a state in the Antebellum period
• 2. Should be at least sorta a frontier state
• 3. Should have a huge problem with Native Americans attacking
• 4. Rustic, open-field, et...Basically, classic physical American frontier geography/setting

Might be a lot, but this sub is pretty epic...

Citations would be cool, but not necessary

Thx

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I'm guessing they were relatively aware that there was a genocide, though I'm not sure so feel free to correct that. But were they aware of conditions in the camps or the scale of the murder. Any links to sources would be greatly appreciated, eg - any Nazi newspapers on the holocaust from the time, or propaganda from the time (Don't need to be translated from German.). Thanks

I am very unclear about the degree to which Sanskrit has been learned and used in the Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist traditions. My current understanding is that the Mahayana Buddhist canon was transmitted from India in the Sanskrit language, but the texts were translated at an early date into Chinese in China, and Tibetan in Tibet, so that these languages formed the primary basis for Chinese Mahayana and Tibetan Vajrayana practice.

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What happened to the Sanskrit originals of these texts after these translations were made? If they were lost, were they lost quickly or slowly? To what did Mahayana and Vajrayana monks know and use Sanskrit after the schools became cut off from India?

There were surely lots of closer places to conquer. Why specifically Southern Italy and Sicily, so far from Normandy?

Please let me know if I can clarify the question. I'm very interested in finding out whether any of the Americans ever made it back to the United States, or for that matter if they ever left Canada.

For a class, I need to write a paper about a subject related to American military history. My first choice was covered to in-depth by the textbook (we haven't gotten that far quite yet) so my Professor told me to pick a new topic.

As every student is required to have a unique topic, I was hoping to get some ideas for lesser-known topics to do my paper on to increase the chance that my next topic will be accepted.

The only real limits are it needs to be Vietnam era or before and it must relate to the United States military.

Not sure how to phrase this, but I find it strange ancient Egyptians and the Aztecs/Mayans built the same structure buildings in terms of pyramids. Was there influence from one culture to the other, or did they build pyramids independent of their respective cultures?

Why weren’t they rectangular shaped buildings, or literally any other shape? Or is a pyramid the most logical shape in terms of structural integrity for the technology they had thus making it no mystery at all?

Sorry if this has been asked, I’ll settle for a link to that post if I’ve missed it.

Edit: Spelling

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It seems Roman generals can summon legions out of thin air in every corner of the empire. I know Roman colonies were a thing, and citizenship was extended to Auxilia veterans, and that non citizens were also used as soldiers, but the bulk of a Legion's force was still largely citizens I assume. How come so many Romans seemed to already live outside Italy by the Caesarion Civil war? Citizenship had only recently been granted to all Italians, it seems the Roman diaspora was immense already by the Republic. How many Roman colonies were scattered throughout the Mediterranean world?

Why was violence the default reaction to slaves? Were any slave owners kind (yes, I know owning slaves in itself isn't "kind")? Is there evidence to suggest kinder owners had better production than violent owners or vice versa?

How was Mars discovered and not get lost amongst the stars as any other star?

How were the distances between Mars and Earth established?

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I understand Ottoman succession battles started in the harem and could be brutal. Male heirs grew up aware of their purpose for succession and their unfortunate destiny of fighting for it, often to the death. I wonder what would happen to the sultans daughters? Were there certain rules and expectations for an ottoman princess? Were they used as "peace maiden" for alliances as in medieval Europe or they had more freedom to define ther purpose?

I have heard various explanations of why the ninth through twelfth months of the year are named for the seventh through tenth. These include Julius and Augustus Caesar injecting new months into the year (which doesn't make sense because there are twelve lunar cycles in a solar year), that the new year used to start in March instead of January, and things about older calendars with ten months but a lot of intercalary days. What's the complete history of this calendar switch that lead to the months getting misnamed, and how was it initially received?

I'm playing a grand strategy game called Europa Universals 4- that takes place in historically accurate 1444. And there is this nation called "The Great Horde" and there are other nations refereed to as hordes. Why are they called this incredibly intimidating name? Is it a cultural thing? Was Russia/Muscovy a horde?

ie, was it a masterful feat of navigation ? or would any captain at the time been able to do the same?

During his war with the Marcomanni, Marcus Aurelius was given what the Roman population termed a miracle when lightning struck the siegeworks of an invading German army. When I read this, it made me wonder: since ancient and medieval armies were walking around carrying big pieces of metal, often covered in sheets or chains or segments of metal, and defending themselves with big shields that often contained pieces of metal, and since walking around covered in metal during a cloudy or stormy day increases your risk of being struck by lightning, were ancient and medieval armies struck by lightning frequently? And by frequently, I mean enough that it's noted by historians?