I know "various medieval nobles" is vague but i would just like to know as much as i can.

I would prefer later periods (14th/15th centuries), preferably english or western european nobles.

I of coure know that there would be plenty of variation due to differances in population, teritory, income, prosperity... but would still like to know.

Hello presidential historians - first a couple questions about the US:

• Are presidents required to get background checks and top secret security clearances from the FBI before they take office?
• If its not a requirement now, has it ever been in the past?

And for a global perspective:

• How does the policy in the US compare to other countries, from a historical perspective.

Thanks!

I recently learned that Hitler didn't exactly decieve people into hating Jews, but rather used pre-existing beliefs in his favor. People already generally didn't like them, and using them as a scapegoat for more issues helped fuel his campaign. Why did so many people already feel this way?

I'm also curious about why he took certain positions. I find it odd that he was so pro-Aryan and a German nationalist, when he wasn't really either. Did any citizens pick up on him not being Aryan? Did his government or group or whatever try to explain this?

Edit to add another detail. One claim I've heard (though only through media so I don't know if people believe/believed it) is that Jewish people 'killed Jesus'. I don't know, however, if the Nazi party cared strongly about Christianity. I believe I read that Hitler didn't care but Himmler was interested in the occult or something. I also don't know where the claim came from, as the Romans killed Jesus on the cross (if I remember correctly).

It’s not divided into night and day like early cultures would divide time. Midday seems like the reasonable time to make the midpoint of your clock. Wikipedia says early clockfaces were 24 hours but “During the 15th and 16th centuries, the 12-hour analog dial and time system gradually became established as standard throughout Northern Europe for general public use”. Why was that?

Greetings,

from what I see, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar has many connotations one could view as quite dangerous for not just the monarchies of the day, but the very structure of society of many areas in Europe at the time.

Was the play suppressed by the ruling classes anywhere?

How did the general public react to the notions of a government formed from voting in representatives? Or even the notion of someone refusing a crown being a virtue as presented in the play?

Commercial airlines started in the 1920s and the Internet didn't really take off until the 2000s. How did people buy airline tickets/pick seats? Did they go to stores or directly to the airport?

In the first episode of Babylon Berlin, which takes place partly in the police headquarters of the City of Berlin during 1929, the elevators seem quite unsafe. They don't seem to halt between floors, don't have doors, and people just have to quickly jump off at what would be their stop.

Is this simply the makers taking an artistic liberty or did at lest some elevators actually at one time work like this? If so, is this contextually-accurate?

I am looking into Ancient Hellas and its history for final exams. The sources I'm reading seem to skip dates and I cannot grasp the periods especially when it comes to Athens and Sparta.

So far this is what I found:

Bronze Age

Minoan civilization: Lived on the island of Crete, flourished around 2000BC. This was the first "advanced" civilizations in Europe. Peaceful people, they were traders on the sea. Due to natural disasters and Mycenaean Greeks, it was destroyed.

Mycenaean Greeks: Lived in during 1600-1100BC. They were the first civilization on mainland Greece. The made up the last phase of the Bronze age. These guys had bronze weapons, they waged wars against each other for land and the built big fortresses. These were the guys who destroyed Troj. During the wars, they weakened and their civilization crumbled.

Dark ages

Dorians, Ionians: Time: 8th century BC. These greek tribes migrated through Greece and settled. They created poleis and instead of a kingdom, they formed an aristocratic republic.

Greek colonization: Time 8-6th century BC. Now we can talk about Athens and Sparta. Also during this time, Greeks started colonization due to overpopulation, not enough lands, political conflicts and for better economy. And also Democracy was a thing during this time.

Is all the above correct? Also when I say ancient Greece, what time period does that include? Everything I just mentioned?

Or was this introduced by fantasy novels?

If it was a thing, what are some weapons one should know?

I recently watched Enemy At the Gates and they had these units in the film gunning down fleeing men, did this happen like that? I cant wrap my head around that this might well of happened.

Heyo! Wanted to ask this question here for obvious reasons :P Basically, I hear a lot of people discussing where contact between Europeans and Indigenous Americans took place before columbus. I remember hearing about an account of an Irish monk travelling to America long before Columbus, and that the Vikings reached the continent as well. I am sure these both happened, yet I see countless debates online whether the Europeans reached America or vice versa. Any confirmation on this?

Why did they become empire-builders instead of peaceful traders?

Through the 13th, 14th, 15th centuries the cities of Italy, Venice, Genoa, Milan, Florence, Pisa, Naples, Rome, all grew to be cities of 50, or 100, or even 200 thousand people. How were these cities fed?

I hope my title makes sense. I'm not sure if there's a definitive answer for this, but I figured this would be a good place to try. So how many people currently living in the United States can trace their ancestors back to the 1700s in the U.S? I know immigration to the U.S. surged in the mid 19th century, and has always been pretty prominent. By that I mean that a lot of people have immigrated here in the last 200ish years. (please correct me if I'm wrong on that.) I recently figured out that I can trace my ancestry back to person who lived in Maryland in the 1760s, and I think that's awesome. How many people have a similar story as I do? Thank you.

I've been reading A Military History of the Ottomans by Mesut Uyar and Edward J. Erickson, and it's really interesting. Really helps me understand what the Ottoman Empire was, and what classes of people constituted its military throughout its early history. But then, on page 39, I came across the strangest thing: "The most revered object for entire Janissary corps was the sacred cauldron 'Kazan-ı Serif.'

And later, the book mentions that many junior officer positions were named after positions in the kitchen, because the cauldron was so sacred. So my question is: why?

This is something I’ve always been curious about. By this point presumably the Confederacy was definitely considered “out” of the Union, but certain places like Louisiana have records of electoral votes even though they ultimately were not counted. Was there a greater discussion on whether or not to allow these votes? Or was the decision relatively unanimous? Additionally: For the records in Louisiana, how was this information disseminated? Did the Confederacy allow vote information to be easily released to the Union since they voted for Lincoln?

I'm aware the Electoral College votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. Is there a specified time/date for the House and Senate to cast their votes? Does this occur with the current session of Congress, is it delayed until the start of the next session, or is the time left to be decided by the House/Senate?