On only one of the first 20 images that showed up upon googling ”Viking ship” depicted a Viking ship with any type of roof. I can’t imagine Vikings traveling far and wide, in cold climates, sitting on a ship without any areal cover.

To be more specific:

Were they anywhere near as rigidly structured as Roman Legions?

Were there fixed numbers of troops of different types forming blocks and formations?

If so could you describe them?

So PTSD is a major problem for veterans of conflicts not modern times, but I have never heard the same being true for soldiers in the past. My question is, why were they seemingly immune to this? Was it due to ancient culture glorifying war? Has modern ways of waging war had effect? Maybe they did but it was not recorded? Also, when is the earliest definitive record of PTSD we have?

I started watching the HBO miniseries John Adams and was stunned to learn that he'd successfully defended the soldiers who fired.

Then I went and read the court transcript which alleged that Crispus Attucks had attacked the soldiers, to the point of grabbing one of their bayonets and hitting them with a cudgel before being shot.

1. Is there any support for this outside of the trial record?

2. Is there any documentation that proves (as much as it can) that he was the mob ringleader?

3. Am I crazy and misread the whole thing?

Thanks.

I know you can derive oil from corn, but I’m fairly certain that process was beyond the scope of any of those civilizations’s technology.

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It is said that dalmatian is the missing link between italian and romanian.

If so, how close are romanian and dalmatian and what does their relationship tell us about the romanian ethnogenesis (its area more specifically)?

Thank you!

If my info is corrects they used them in Belgium but what was stopping them doing a combined invasion of u boats, paratroopers, planes and tanks/GI’s on boats?

I know the broad strokes of how people were getting free calls and so forth, but obviously the phone company found out and started fighting it. How did Ma Bell do so?

We know composers like Beethoven, Bach and Mozart had reputation of being great performers as well. But were they the exception or the rule in the 18th and 19th century? Was there a different trend in the 20th century?

I'm currently reading L.A García Moreno's "Spain 702-719: The Muslim Conquest", and it has inspired me to learn about the culture and the politics of the Visigoths, as well as their history. Though the aforementioned book has a quite impressive bibliography and lists several books on the matter, it feels quite overwhelming and it's hard to navigate through the list without much knowledge.

For example, what percentage of Americans knew how to swim 100-200 years ago?

I read it on the internet, that in the old or medieval times, this practice was common. Can anyone who has knowledge on this subject, confirm if this is true?

Axes were invented long ago with the discovery of metal, but were axes used in ancient warfare by elite soldiers (Greece, Rome, Persia etc.) and not barbarians (Gauls and the other Germanic and Slavic tribes)? Because armor wasn't as advanced as in medieval ages, I believe there wasn't any need for battle-axes and "tomahawks".