One map said from 1350 to 1500.

How was this possible for such long periods of time as claimed in maps that have year ranges. They obviously can't slaughter every rat that crosses the border. Maybe road blocks but the border was massive so someone could cross anywhere.

Completely separate and I have very little historical knowledge so I'm not trying to express any belief in what I'm about to ask. But does it have something to do with Poland being friendly towards Jews compared to other parts of Europe. Like didn't England expell them around here.

I’ve posted this before but didn’t get any response so I figured I might as well try again.

When was debarking/devocalization in dogs developed?

Wikipedia doesn’t offer too much and Google leads me to the same short articles that Wiki cites.

FWIW I don’t endorse debarking nor do I agree with the practice. Just wondering if any history buffs here have an idea of when the earliest procedures might’ve occurred.

So I've heard that clan tartans are perhaps a more recent thing, but what exactly is the history of clan tartans? Are they in any way real or just totally made up? If they are made up, who did the making up, when and why?

What did the debt of the USSR look like at the time of its collapse? How were the debt obligations distributed among the post-Soviet countries and were they fulfilled?

Thank you dear historians and fellow redditors

Visit a house party in 2022 and the music isn't representative of what you hear on the radio. The tracks have heavier bass, they're simpler, more aggressive.

Can the same be said for parties of the 1970s?

What were the "bangers" of this era, and did it differ from what was played on the radio?

For the sake of specificity, lets assume our frat party takes place in a major city, such as the NYU campus.

When thinking about western medicine and eastern medicine we are comparing a practice that made progress within the last 200 or so years with traditional practices over 3000 years old. This made me think that prior to western medicine there should have been a traditional precursor that was just as comprehensive as Indian Ayurveda and Chinese medicine.

One guess is that perhaps because western healers didn't dare spread their knowledge or were killed due to accusations of heresy/witchcraft by monotheistic religions the chain of knowledge was broken.

Indian Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine also seem to be somewhat linked to spiritual or mythological beliefs of the culture and maybe all ancient medical practices were that way and thus became unsuitable for use by people having a different religious practice.

Another example would be the Dutch "Peter de Wit" compared to the German "Peter Weiß" or English "Peter White".
Scandinavian names are mostly patronyms so I understand why articles are uncommon there, but German, English, and Dutch surname patterns seem very similar in all other respects.
Obviously there are exceptions but comparing the 100 most common surnames in Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands seems to back this intuition up.
Did Dutch adopt them or did English and German lose them? How recent is this?

I guess it depends on the region, and the country, and the year, yet I'd still like to be told more about the topic.

I remember reading the Spanish book "Lazarillo de Tormes" written in 1554, and it says that the mother of the main character met a black man in a Castilian town and married him. The event isn't told as if it was something very weird.

Thank you in advance!

Hello, I am just an amateur in the subject of history.

Many historian books have extended elaborations about processes concerning selections senate's members or for a caste such as equites and the election of consuls during times of Roman Republic. However, I didn't face exact information about who regulated the selection of augurs during that time. Were it elective positions? Than among whom election occurred? Was some some special sacred education is necessary for that position? Which type of a person could occupy this position? For example, if someone had occupied the position of aedilis, could he have been elected as a augur in the future?

Thank you, for your answers.

I will gladly receive any useful information about this topic.

Sorry if that's a stupid question.

I know very little about portugal's (and the iberian peninsula in general) pre roman empire period and would like to know more about the celtic natives that lived there and how they lived before the romans conquered everything. Thanks :)

Obviously the right to bear arms and gun culture in the constitution it stands to reason that weapons were always a big part of the colonies. In America nowadays many folks have guns. Obviously our police forces have guns, citizens have guns, some open carry, etc.

Was it similar in the 1700s? If I was a merchant or businessman about to do some travel to a different state, would I make sure to have a gun or a weapon on me for protection? Did the city “guards” (or were they formally called police back then?) walk around carrying the large rifles and bayonets revolutionary soldiers are usually depicted with? Would it be similar to the US today, where your typical farmer would have a gun but most city folk might not? Did folks carry swords?

Im really just curious about early “arms” culture altogether.

Sorry for my broken English, it's not my first language

I'm writing a story that takes place during the Golden Age of Piracy, and I REALLY need that information. One of the characters is autistic, and I don't exactly know how the other characters would behave with her (and I like to be REALLY precise when it comes to historic accuracy in my stories). Only know that in that time they didn't have the idea of autism or mental illness that we have now, and that that subject only began being studied in the 19th-20th centuries. (autism was first diagnosed in 1940s if I'm not mistaken)

Couldn't find a precise answer anywhere, so I thought this subreddit could help me.

I understand that steel is far superior to bronze but given that early Iron Age tools and implements and weapons were not steel, how much of a technological jump was iron really? Did iron displace bronze purely because it was the superior material ? Or were there factors such as loss of international trading networks which made bronze harder to make etc?

In nearly every historical era some kind of hat or cap seems to be one of the most important clothing accessories for men and women, but nowadays, aside from baseball caps, no one really wears hats anymore. Why?

A lot of ships in ww2 had small catapults on them for scout/recon planes, where did they land? Did they just lad in the nearest place to dry land and abandon the aircraft, or could they have landed them near the ship and recover them with cranes?

Knowing vaguely that there's been a lot of academic pushback on this sort of narrative for the Yuan and Qing empires, I wonder if the same applies for the Northern Wei and other Tuoba/Xianbei states.

Currently reading "Qarakhanid Roads to China" (2022).

In one chapter, it is written :

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How far-flung was the Qarakhanid trade? Valerie Hansen claims that the most distant place from which the Khitans imported goods could be the Viking world. She poses the question: What if the Vikings brought different commodities that were highly prized in the Islamic world and China, such as walrus tusks, via the trade routes they used to transport amber? Khitan contact with the Islamic world was managed by the Qarakhanids. Primary sources demonstrate how amber reached China from the Vikings’ world, transported first to Volga Bulgharia and Khwarazm and further via the Qarakhanids to Liao China. Among the goods coming from Khwarazm, Islamic sources listed “fish teeth,” which refers to walrus tusks, which could have been imported from Scandinavia to Khwarazm and further via the Qarakhanids to China. The Vikings shipped various goods, including walrus tusks, not only from Northern Europe but also from the Americas, which by the eleventh century could theoretically also have reached China both via maritime and continental routes.108 The Vikings had their own interest in trade with Central Asia. They imported silver during the Samanids and later Central Asian fine fabrics during the Qarakhanids. The movement of goods and commodities across such distant territories demonstrates how the trade along the Silk and Fur Roads flourished during the tenth to the twelfth centuries, and how the Qarakhanids were located at the center of these global networks.

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I don't know much about amber so I couldn't deny this assumption, but the idea of ​​goods having crossed the world from North America to East Asia seems far-fetched to me as much as it seems plausible... And narwhals/walrus tusks weren't only poached and sold by Vikings but also by the people living in current Manchuria/Northeast Asia.

Apart from amber, was exchange of commodities between the ""Viking world"" (in the broad sense of the term, referring here to the territories from the Volga to North America) varied and proven?