I'm inspired by a recent controversy in Canada where a person has been sentenced to a healing lodge. However, I understand that there is no monolithic 'native north american' culture, but are there any records in general?

Edit: Pre-European contact is the most interesting to me. Edit: Rereading my question, I want to clarify that I'm interested in any North American tribes, rather than just one tribe/region or another

Given the current Supreme Court nomination and charged political climate, I wonder if historians could offer perspectives on a very similar debate in 1991 when Clarence Thomas was being nominated for a seat. What was the background of Anita Hill's allegations against him? Who was being more truthful? How did that impact the politics of Supreme Court nominations from that point on?

Besides the Tetons, Wyoming doesn't have distinct natural borders nor does it have large amounts of water or arable land. When it became a territory in 1868, Wyoming Territory was sparsely populated and had only small amounts of known mineral reserves. Why was it thought necessary to make it an independent territory rather than keep it divided between the Idaho, Dakota and Nebraska territories?

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I saw somewhere a map of places vikings had colonised or raided, and parts of the Eastern Caspian were shown. Does anyone have any more information on this, and how did it affect the people who lived there already?

Generally, I am curious if there are any interesting translations of ancient Greek (or other cultures) math terms (i.e. their literal meanings and how they differ from modern ones today).

Specifically, I was curious if they had a special name for numbers of interest like the square root of 2. But I'd also be interested in their general terms for square-roots, integers, ratios, irrational numbers, etc.

I ask in part because I remember coming across two coins included in Peter Thonemann's The Hellenistic World Using Coins as Sources, using essentially an identical design (down to the name of the original mint magistrate), despite the latter being minted under Roman rule centuries after the former.

Can anyone recommend some scholarly works that detail the history of Christianity, particularly the early years?

I am wondering if there is a complete list of every item of food served at a royal meal or any highly extravagant event from the middle ages or earlier.

The goal is to figure out what it would take to recreate that meal in the modern day.

Aside from fearing the indigenous tribes around them of course. More like the devil or supernatural creatures lurked in the woods?

From everything I’ve seen the Persian army were far superior in numbers, training, etc.

The only disadvantage I could find was that they wore little to no armour on account of the army being comprised primarily of archers, but this never seemed to stop them in the past when conquering others.

In "The Storm Before The Storm" by Michael Duncan the author details Sulla sitting outside of Rome searching for a legal basis to enter as a ruler, eventually settling on being elected dictator.

What was his reasoning for this, considering there was no question he was already militarily in control of Rome?

I'm not interested in comparing the two slave trades in terms of their awfulness or immorality, it is a question about population movement and demographic shifts.

After the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was initiated, eastern Europe underwent major geopolitical changes, as new borders were drawn up by the major powers of the region.

As everyone knows, one of said changes was the splitting of Poland, with the east going to the USSR and the West to Germany, but there's one part of the borders that doesn't make sense to me: The German-controlled Suwalki triangle.

Why would Germany push for the annexation of this small, underdeveloped and frankly insignificant region? What was it's worth? This is what I'd like to know

Sorry typo in the heading: "Or did the Doom Book represent a new development in establishing the rule of law?"

How did they identify citizens? Was there some kind of list of people who already voted?

What did the authors of this major 16th century atlas use for sources on the cities they illustrated? Of particular interest to me is the view of Calicut, where a presumably Chinese vessel is shown in the foreground alongside of a presumably Portuguese nau. Did anyone involved in this work travel to the cities described here or did they work off of written accounts or older illustrations?

Marble sculpture was painted to look more lifelike, but I have seen a few reproductions of bronzes with bare polished metal for skin and dark staining or paint for hair. These sculptures often had inlaid copper lips and nipples, glass eyes, and silver fingernails suggesting more of the material was not painted. Is there any further information on how representations of textile were treated? Would they have been painted like marble counterparts, or the metal treated differently for contrast?