Growing up between two countries I've noticed that his real name is not used. Always some translation (or half translated in English)version. Why is this? In the US Christopher Columbus is used and in Mexico Cristobal Colon is used. Why isn't his birth name or Italian name seemingly never used?

This is from reading Greenblatt's "The Swerve" or Moller's "The Map of Knowledge". Both books deal with how Europeans "rediscovered" the knowledge from ancient Greece and Rome, sometimes thru contacts with the Islamic world. This started the Renaissance. However, did all of the medieval world lose knowledge of the ancient world, only to rediscover it later? Specifically, did the medieval Chinese lose knowledge of Confucius or Sun Tzu like the Europeans did with say Aristotle, Galen, or Lucretius, then rediscover it in a later dynasty? Or were the ancient Chinese knowledge continually passed on to future generations?

(PS: Any references to history books that better answer my question would be much appreciated)

I just got to thinking about Booth's occupation the other day and a lot of questions came to mind. I didn't see them answered previously and wanted to know if anyone had any information about this sort of stuff.

I was looking through the document Army Battle Casualties and Non-Battle deaths in WWII - Final Report 7 December 1941 - 31 December 1946. Prepared by the statistical and accounting branch office of the adjutant general.

In this I noticed that Non Battle deaths were broken down into four categories Accident Aircraft, Accident Not Aircraft, Disease, and Other.

Accident aircraft, and disease are mostly self explanatory. But seeing as nearly 1/5 of all deaths were non battle I was wondering what were some of the more common causes of a Non-Battle death. I'm aware that there were plenty of traffic accidents and training mishaps but in my mind the near 30,000 deaths listed as Accident Not Aircraft seems high to just be that. Also I was wondering what rationale was used for the 4th group, the "Other" Non-Battle death. They have 9,286 Non-Battle deaths listed as Other. Homicides and Suicides are also included in DNB but that does not seem to line up with the suicide rates for Americans during WW2 that I can find online. If anyone can shed some light on some of the causes or on the rationale used to index these deaths it would be greatly appreciated.

I do not know what is a good way to word this question in order to get the answer I'm looking for.
Basically, what is the first recorded evidence of the concept of a timezone or at least aknowledgement that the time or moment of the day is different from a location further East/West?

I read that there was a cheese contest during the Congress of Vienna and that the French ambassador brought Brie cheese which one. Did this really happen, if so which cheeses did other ambassadors bring?

I have a few questions here regarding this.

What sort of compensation did this survivors get? Anything “creative” in terms of compensation? Like “free passage for life” sort of deal?

Where there any successful lawsuits?

Did any of the survivors go on to do “inspirational” type talks? (In modern day you know this would have been how people would capitalize on it)

I’m doing an essay about what life would have could’ve been like during slavery in the 1800s. I’m a mixed (black/white) woman so life would have obviously been rather.. interesting. I’m trying to cover every option of what could’ve become of mixed woman and I was wondering if Django Unchained was right in the aspect of comfort woman being a common thing. I’ve tried finding sources but all I cant seems to dig up anything about it. Did they exist? And how was their living conditions compared to say a maid or a field worker?

The Ba'ath party was created in 1947 in Syria. Its platform was pan-Arab social, economic, cultural and political unity — and it soon established regional wings in other Arab countries such as Iraq and Yemen. The party was popular enough to see members elected to the Syrian parliament, which played a role in the formation of the UAR, a 1958 political union of Egypt and Syria. The UAR lasted no more than a few years, and it all went downhill from there. Less than two decades after its foundation, the Ba'ath party had split into bitterly-opposed Syrian and Iraqi rival branches. Why and how did a successful party whose claimed raison d'être was pan-Arab unity so quickly ended up compromising the very unity it sought to uphold?

Such as sources, authors, or methodologies. Specifically on southern US black populations or West Africa

I'm working on a video game project with a friend that would thematically take place during 4AD with a focus on Gladiatorial games. I have a goal of making the game's atmosphere as close to real life as possible and to recreate the feeling of how it was to participate in one of those games from the perspective of the gladiators. I have myself did some research. mainly with resources by Garrett G. Fagan, but still I feel like a life consultation with an expert would greatly benefit to the accuracy of the project.

As such I'm in need of a history consultant knowledgeable about gladiators and gladiatorial games, but I'm at an in-pass as I have no idea of how to go about the process of actually finding an historian/expert like that, especially since we are a tiny indie game studio and with a very limited budget.

To be honest, most of the time all artworks and pictures depicting Crusaders showing them using swords and not any other kind of weapons (bows, polearms, etc. (especially polearms)).

Did the Crusaders actually uses other kinds of weapons (like the ones I mentioned above) in tandem with swords? I am pretty curious about this since the answer to this question could be noteworthy for my own worldbuilding (no, not that sense, what I mean is fictional world building (with inspirations from real-life things)).

All of your help on this will be appreciated!

P.S. I have asked this on r/AskAChristian, but the people there recommend me to ask all of you guys members of this subreddit instead.