Those fellows with long mustaches and pointy metal helmets made such cathedrals?

Did they have news reporters at so many of these battles?

How was childbirth performed before all of the modern day technology, doctors, and cleanliness? Also how were miscarriages dealt with? Also many mothers would die giving childbirth, how did this affect the child without modern day resources?

If so, what was the reason for it?

Surely it wasn't for any sense of decency, or even back then were these body parts considered 'private'?

Or are modern depictions of cavemen hiding their genitals just so it's more 'safe' for kids?

The Australian colonies obviously were quite literally built upon forced labour of convicts, and 19th century race relations between settlers and the traditional owners of the lands they were settling on were not always enlightened, to put it mildly. However, at least in theory, the British Empire abolished slavery in 1833. Was there slavery of indigenous people before 1833, and was there slavery, or other forms of unfree bondage in the later parts of the 19th century (or even continuing into the 20th century)? If so, how did that unfree bondage compare to American-style chattel slavery?

I understand that the service life for these types of weapons were relatively short, which leads me to believe they weren’t too effective at taking down tanks. Thanks! :)

I am wondering if there are any accounts of theories or myths about what lay in or beyond the White and North seas? Considering the Nordics/Finnics/Rus were trading in the White Sea and in the case of the former, actually colonizing as far north as Greenland and Iceland, surely they gave it some thought? Perhaps the Inuit or residents of Siberia pondered it as well?

Not sure if this is the right sub for this or not but thought I'd try. I'd really like to learn more about the crusades, any recommended books that are easy for a laymen to digest? Sorry mods if this breaks rules.

I was thinking about how it could be related to the economic benefits that the settlers provided but I feel like there so many more factors to address(i.e. disease) that it's hard to pick a central one.

Hello! I am currently serving as a peace corps volunteer abroad. One of this biggest things I have learned from this experience is that I would like to continue exploring and learning more about the world. Before I started my service, I had planned on going to law school, however I realized law isn’t what’s going to make me the happiest. I’m currently in Latin America and I graduated with a bachelors in history with a consideration in Latino studies. I’m going to follow my passion and love of history! I was wondering what job opportunities there are for people who pursue history as a career. I plan of getting my PhD. I would eventually like to be a college professor but looking more into international settings.

Edit: just wanted to know if my vision of what my life could be as historian is close to reality or am I just day dreaming!

Are claims that the Ewe originate from the middle east verified? If so, how and when did so many sub saharan africans get to the middle east in the first place, and how did they make it to West Africa? Are there other similar tribes that settled along the way?

My girlfriend is Ewe and there doesn't seem to be an answer online. As a far as we can tell, they have never been colonised by Hebrew people, and aside from some coincidences with the name, they seem to have no links to Judaism (most are either Christian or Muslim).

I apologize if this is inappropriate and will gladly delete it if so.

I'm not really taking about the Caligula type, but what we refer to nowadays as serial killers. Do we know of any and if so, what are the stories behind them? If not, what are the earliest known serial killers throughout history?

Hi All,

I've recently taken an interest in the history of the Arctic and Arctic exploration. I have become aware that there was some history of communication between Siberia and Alaska.

For example, when the first Europeans landed on the Diomede Islands in 1648 (as per wikipedia) they were inhabited, and since they are so close to both Alaska and Siberia it seems reasonable that there were established connections between the two for a long time before that.

Naively I would have thought that this knowledge would have found its way South, and lead to the "Discovery" of the Americas from the West before Columbus was able to do it.

Were these places just too cold and too remote for non-natives to travel to? When was the first contacts between the natives and the rest of the world established?

The colonies of Nova Scotia (including present-day New Brunswick and PEI) and Newfoundland were notable bastions for Loyalism to the British Crown during the American War for Independence, however in the 20 years preceding the revolution, neither colony sent delegates to any of the major Congresses further south in Albany, New York, and Pennsylvania.

The economic dependence on British due to their reliance on fur/resource exports entwined with mercantilism served as an effective deterrent to revolt (not to mention the influx of Loyalists preceding and during the war), but in that twenty year period there appears to be an abscence of the Patriotism that cultivated throughout the middle and southern colonies.

As I stated before, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland were absent from the Congresses in the other colonies. Newfoundland was relatively isolated, and Nova Scotia sat as a buffer between them and New England, so it is understandable that they would not send a delegation to Albany in 1754. Furthermore, the initial reason for the Albany Congress was to seek alliance with the Mohawk and other Iroquois, so the lack of a delegate from either is understandable. My question primarily pertains to the subsequent Congresses, particularly those pertaining to the Stamp and Coercive/Intolerable Acts, which would have surely impacted the business and well-being of the economically poor Northern Colonies.

When Thomas Jefferson sought to learn about Islam, he interviewed enslaved people under his own control. As late as 1835, members of the Afro-Brazilian community led an Islamic slave revolt. If Islamic belief was able to persist for centuries after the beginning of Transatlantic colonialism, when and why did these practices disappear? What linguistic, cultural, or ideological traces of West and East African Islam managed to survived the long, brutal, and ongoing process of colonialism and cultural erasure?

In Afro-Diaspora communities such as Haiti, Cuba, and New Orleans, parts and pieces of polytheistic belief systems survive through popular religion. In these communities and others, is there any comparable presence of the more consistent, well-attested, and organized traditions of Islam?

It is an on going joke that France surrenders even before an enemy has given the declaration of war. But why is that? France surrendered after bitter fighting in WW2 and they got kicked out of Vietnam but there are lots of countries that have done worse in millitary conflicts. As an example my own country Denmark surrendered the same day as Germany invaded in 1940 (which was completly reasonable but France still but up a fight)

Is it the same kind of joke like: "pardon my French"? The British who mock their "friends" on the other side of the Channel?