Phoenix is a hot and dry city in an area that isn’t that known for hockey, so what compelled Colangelo and his group to buy up the Jets and relocate them to Arizona? Especially considering that Minneapolis/St. Paul was originally going to be the location but they were unable to secure the lease for Target Center, did they just have to relocate to Phoenix because it was the last location they could, and because the Suns, which were owned by Colangelo at the time, could share their arena instead?

Was looking at the portrait of the tetrarchs, and other Eastern Roman/ Byzantine sculptures and works of art. They look so much more rugged and simple (of course this is not necessarily a bad thing) . . . By no means am I making the silly claim that it was a “downgrade”, it’s just interesting how dramatic of a change it was. Edit: architecture looked so much different too. Was this because of Western Roman influence? In contrast, Western Roman sculptures look more similar to those of Classical Greece. For example, compare the portrait of Gordian III to that of the portrait of Constantine.

Rice farming originated in the humid regions of East Asia and is associated with East Asian cultures today, it was such a popular crop that some people wrongly assume that all East Asian cultures relied primarily on rice for all of history, which isn't true because they obviously grew other crops. While wheat originated somewhere between Southeastern Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia. However wheat, which is a Western crop, has been grown in China and Japan for thousands of years and is used to make noodles and dumplings, which means it must have traveled across Eurasia pretty quickly. Meanwhile I've never heard of a single culture from Europe or the Middle East that ever grew rice, I think a few modern Arab dishes contain rice, and Westerners surely knew what rice was from at least the time of the Silk Road, but I've never heard of any culture in Western Eurasia growing rice themselves as a staple crop. Obviously wheat is not superior to rice, since rice produces much more calories for a much smaller area of land. Is rice just not able to grow in Western Eurasia because of the climate? Does it rely on monsoon weather patterns or is Western Eurasia just too dry to grow rice?

I've been wondering this for a while now. Is there a historical reason for it?

It seems like human sacrifice and cannibalism was widespread for thousands of years in mesoamerica in a mass scale even but I don't think the spaniards reported some disease related to cannibalism.

The full quote reads “Like the Byzantines, Muslim Ottomans too called themselves ‘Rumi’ -Roman- at least in the so-called core areas of the empire, in the Balkans and Anatolia.” Later in a footnote the authors add “Özbaran notes that the Portuguese referred to the Ottomans as ‘Rume’; alone amongst Europeans to do so, the Portuguese must have picked up the name in the Indian Ocean.” I’m curious as why the Ottomans would have used this name to refer to themselves. I understand that in much of the Greek speaking area they ruled over people would have seen themselves as Byzantine regardless of their Ottoman rulers, but the speculation that the Portuguese picked up the name ‘Rume’ in the Indian Ocean seems to indicate it was more widely used. I’m curious as to why this would be.

In Tom Hiddlestone's Coriolanus in 2011, the story of the eponymous tragic hero is set in the years just before the fall of the Republic (as opposed to when it's traditionally set, in the 5th century BC).

The play starts with lots of political graffiti. As famine threatens the city, demands for bread and citizens criticising the ruling elites are drawn against the wall.

On the one hand, the Roman elite were not hugely popular with the plebeians in the 1st century BC. On the other hand, I also imagine they were mostly illiterate, so would not be writing anything on the walls.

Was there much political graffiti at all in Ancient Rome? Is it reasonable to imagine things like "Give us Bread" and "I am the Down with the Senate" written on walls and homes?

Hi, I never make actual posts, so please forgive me if I don’t do this properly.

I have posted this in a few relevant subs, in hopes of getting more responses. I hope that is allowed.

I was raised by my grandpa. He was in the navy, during the Vietnam war. I know he served on riverboats. He passed away recently to cancer.

During one of our last conversations, I asked what his all time favorite songs were, so I could write them all down. One of the first ones he mentioned, was something he said they’d do over in Vietnam during the war, called “Poor Old 33”. That’s all he could remember, as he was heavily medicated.

After he passed away, I talked to a relative, an army veteran, and he said that would likely be a cadence? I really am ignorant when it comes to anything of this nature, so I’m not even completely sure what that means. But I thought it might be worth including here.

I have spent weeks looking high and low for this song. It was important enough to him to mention to me before his passing, so I must find it.

Can anyone please help me, or at least point me in the right direction? I thought it would be worth a shot. Thank you.

It seems unusual that in the America the conservatives are linked to the color red while in western Europe at least the conservatives are blue with the socialist parties going for red.

I can’t think of ever hearing about something like that happening in previous wars. But I’m not a historian.

I’m from the US and I find it interesting to hear of veterans volunteering for the Ukrainian army. It is crazy to me that I also read about a PA trucker with no combat experience who went to volunteer.

Is there evidence that the Israelites invaded the “promise land” and committed genocide against the canaanites?

A follow up, more speculative question is: could the Erie Canal be operated without electricity in the way it is set up today, or is it entirely dependent on the electrical grid? More broadly, I am interested in how canals were operated, and to what extent they are operable without electricity, so any information on the broader historical context here would be helpful to me as well.

I always thought excommunion was a sevre punishment reserved for exceptional cases, but this passage of Don Quixote suggests it was used a lot more frequently than that

I'm not sure if this is really the best place to ask this, but I thought it was fine.

Where did the idea of Gender fluidity first develop? How has the idea changed through history? How did different cultures view it?

I've heard this stated before: that it was considered acceptable for a man to ask a stronger/more courageous man to sleep with his wife, to produce a better son than he could himself. How much does this hold up to scrutiny?