Were they split between uniformed and plain clothed? Did they work to uncover plots?

Hello!

I'm an aspiring writer and a creator of a RPG system, which I am trying to fully construct for 8 years now. Recently I started updating my ranged weapons rules, and found myself not knowing a lot about them and having problems finding any realiable source of information.

I decided to post here in hopes for any sources or anwsers to my questions, which are as follows.

What materials were used to make bows? I would love to get some information about the wood that was used and how it impacted the performace of said bows.

How did the lenght of various bows impact the range of them?

What was the minimal, maximal and most common bow pull weight and how it impacted the strength of the bow?

Hopefully this is the right place to ask and you'll find my post interesting.

(Sarcastic Extra: How can the entirety of the history of the Italian peninsula, even to this day-like as we speak- be basically a big question mark "how problem/chaotic thing X began at all and how could such an unsustainable thing sustain itself for so long?)

Now I know that owning slaves was sort of a cultural thing between black tribes in Africa, but I would like to know if other non-white groups (like asians, indians, arabs & etc) also had african slaves at the height of the African slave trade.

Some recent reading about the Crusades has made me realize that the Norman conquests of England (1066), Sicily (1130?), & the First Crusade (1096 onwards), all happened within a fairly short time period, but also well over a century after Rollo's treaty with Charles III (911 CE). My understanding of history is that a major expansionist drive for conquest doesn't really happen in a vacuum; there are conditions at home that lead to it (rising economic growth & military strength, domestic tensions that spill over, etc etc). I understood the First Crusade as being driven by Pope Urban II's drive to consolidate power, & fed by tensions in Europe, a knightly class, & a lot of second sons trying to escape a pretty awful situation in Europe. There were, of course, people from all over Western Europe in it, but as I understand it the leaders & Crusaders were disproportionately Norman & Frankish.

But thinking about the 1066-1096 timeline has me wanting more context. If it was simply their Viking heritage, why the long wait between settling in Normandy & then pushing outwards again? What was happening in the 11th century to drive the Normans to push out overseas?

Not only did the Byzantine Empire refer to itself as the Roman Empire and the Citizes to themselves as "Roman" but Greece never held Constantinople or anything past Macedonia.

I am not denying that there were Greeks in the eastern Roman Empire but it was definetely not just Greeks, and the citizens never called themselves Greek.

(This is not me hating Greece, I am Greek and I just find it confusing when people refer to the Byzantine Empire as "our ancestors")

Ford was well known as a Antisemite, publishing conspiracy theories and spending years talking about how much he disliked Jews. But what did he think of the Holocaust itself when all the details came out in 1945? Was he proud and openly supported things like the gas chambers? Was he horrified? Didn’t care?

Asked a similar question a few months ago and got no response to that one.

Anyways, on Peleliu, the American troops (namely the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division) landed using copious amounts of naval gunfire support, and close order support from LVT(T)s and LVT(A)s (Landing Vehicle Tracked (Tank/Armored)). Observers to direct the naval gunfire were in the first wave too.

At Normandy, were these vehicles used to the same deadly effect? The Japanese Commander, Nakagawa, didn't deploy his tanks to repulse the landings, instead saving them for defense of the Peleliu airfield. Did the German commander deploy tanks to repulse the Normandy invasion? That would neuter the effectiveness of the LVTs.

I tried to research this on my own but only came up with results about DUKWs rather than the LVTs.

I thought that was limited mostly to Northern Europe.

History always be rewritten by the country government. Books that write against government usually be burn and destroy. People go against government usually be hunt down as witch. How could historian able to tell the truth?

So I asked my mom last night if she thought Jesus would have been bullied by his siblings last night as a bit of a joke, and she responded with a huge speech about how Jesus had no siblings. One of the things she kept coming back to was the fact that when Jesus is dying on the cross, he asks one of his disciples to look after her. According to my mom, the other siblings would have been required to take her in according to the laws back then. But she also doesn't have any real knowledge of ancient Judean laws to back this claim up. I also lack this info, so if anyone here might know about the rules back in the day, please feel free to help us!

Why did they stop where they did considering there were many more cities and Greek people throughout Anatolia?

When did this split in language happen? What caused it?

(sincerely apologize from now because I could sound ignorant here)

I've developed an interest in British Tudor history and even co-run a social media account regarding the same topic. I know that political differences were a reason on why Elizabeth and Mary Tudor didn't really get along. I know both Marys are Catholic while Elizabeth was Protestant. I know that Mary Stuart has a claim to the English throne and married Lord Darnley to further strengthen her claim.

My question is: since Mary Stuart seems as a better candidate in Mary Tudor's eyes (and in my level of knowledge; ps I'm not even 18), why wasn't it written in Mary Tudor's will that Mary Stuart is next in line of succession? Was it because of Mary being in a different country (France) that already planned to claim England as their own with the use of matrimony? Was it because Mary Stuart isn't really the best candidate for certain reasons I don't know of? Or is there not a specific answer from history?

Would appreciate everyone's input no matter what it is.