Can anyone give me a summary of the research on Mississippian decline? I understand the larger cities (like Cahokia) declined rapidly in the centuries immediately before European colonization. What do we know about the causal factors of this decline?

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So far as I know, most medieval armies abandoned the kite shield in the 13th century, but the byzantines kept using it into the 15th century. Why?

I am trying to run a history page on Instagram, and I have been thinking about offering a much deeper insight to both allied and axis tanks and also on the technical details. I do watch the Nicholas Moran videos, but I would like it if you guys could point where I can find non biased information, as tank Wikipedia and some books are a bit dodgy. If you guys could help, like recommend books and where to find them for low cost I would greatly appreciate your support.

Fellow redditors,

I really hope that this is the right subreddit for this kind of question..

Anyway, I'm preparing with some fellow students a presentation about about the influence of Arabic culture and language on western civilization and am hoping that somebody here can point me to some good literature (preferably in English)?

Maybe something regarding Arabic nomenclature in science if possible, or the general influences of the Islamic golden age, etc.. Anything that is factually correct (books, documentaries) would be greatly appreciated!

Why did Byzantine Emperors usually not marry into European aristocracy? Especially with the increase in Ottoman aggression one would think they would seek more alliances with the west. I know that there were occasional marriages of Byzantine princesses to nobles in Western Europe - mostly to Hungary and Bulgaria. But I can not think of any "great" empress that came from a noble house from e.g. France or the Holy Roman Empire.

Hello,

I understand Poland and Hungry have a very tightly knitted relationship that is seemingly very close from material I've read , though I don't know how much this works in practice .

I am curious about the bond and how the two countries histories relate , as Hungary was part of the central powers and aligned with Austria and Germany - two countries that I don't think got along well with Poland ... And didn't Hungary have a relationship with Nazi Germany ? I took it that Poland didn't have neighbors that favored her much , and why she always looked for allies to West (France , England , USA) and adopted Catholicism and a Latin alphabet instead of Orthodoxy and a cryllic / Greek based alphabet.

So considering these points , how do they factor into the bond that exists now ?

Thank you for reading and your time 🙃

Was watching a doc on Bernini, and apparently adultery was still a prosecuted crime in the 17th century in Italy, which surprised me. When did it become a thing that wouldn't make it inside of a courtroom in Christendom?

The question is fairly straight forward. "A Modest Proposal" was written by Jonathan Swift anonymously and published in 1729. I have heard at the time it became well known and there was some amount of outrage as some people didn't understand the satire. However, I cannot find anyone saying how it was published and got around so people would see it. It doesn't much seem like something I would expect the news at the time to print and I see sources saying he published it himself, but no more information.

Hi - please forgive me if this isn't appropriate for AskHistorians but I thought I would ask here first.

Current events have been making me think a lot about previous periods in history when the 'official narrative' of current events were in dispute - from my own periods of study at university I am thinking particularly of talk of 'slave power' conspiracies in the pre-American Civil War period, and of anti-Catholic/Irish hysteria in 17th Century England prior to and during English Civil War, the Exclusion Crisis and the Glorious Revolution.

Does anyone have any recommended reading on disputed public narratives/conspiracy theories/minsinformation campaigns, particularly in the above period, but also in any period of study where you think these played a key role?

Anything from popularly-targeted to scholarly works is welcome.

To quote them:

In Europe, this knowledge seems to have persisted continuously since time immemorial, passed on solely by oral traditions, right until the end of the Roman Empire and then...it just disappears. Starting in the Early Middle Ages, broken bones seem to have rarely been set and we find fairly horrific deformities. It took centuries for the knowledge about proper care of broken bones to reappear.

Hey all, I'm putting together a independent readings course book list with a friend of mine and I was hoping to get some help selecting some books and articles. The course will be on Balkan history. My colleague is pretty well covering the post-WWII period, including socialism and the post-Communist Balkans. I'm looking for readings dealing with basically the entire period up to that. The main areas I'm looking to cover are the following:

• Ottoman Turkish rule: early-modern to the Balkan Wars of 1911/12
• Post-Ottoman to Interwar: the rise of independent Balkan kingdoms, particularly Serbia, but Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, as well
• Interwar: I'm really interested in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia here
• WWII: What the hell was going on in the Balkans during WWII? A survey-like book would be really appreciated here.
• Historiography: any articles or books dealing with the practice of history either in or on the Balkans, and anything dealing with broad interpretive frameworks would be awesome.

If you can help in any way it'd be much appreciated. I'm very interested in general survey works, as well as more argumentative monographs. Thematically, I'm most interested in statehood, nationalism, and pan-Slavism in the region.

If you have any titles you think fits the bill, a title and author will suffice. A sentence or list of keywords indicating the book's coverage would be great, if you've got the time.

I understand the concept of Hitlers hate for the Jews stemming from the collapse of Germany after WW1 and using them as a scape goat, however what did he believe the jews did to lose the war? Were there Jewish generals, captains in the German Army?

Teotihuacan, classical Maya, and Monte Alban Was there actually an across the board decline? Why was El Tajin one of the few major cities to not collapse?

In the following decades, they refused to acknowledge Israel and took the political stance that it was a Western infiltration into the Middle East? They aligned themselves with Egypt and the rest of the Arab world against them? So why did they enable the founding of a country they so despised?

Off the top of my head are The Omen, Orphan, The Good Son, Children of the Corn, The Exorcist, Pet Sematary, and the axe-murdered ghost twins in movie version of The Shining.

Why did the Greek army revolt after the successful battle with King Purus of Punjab in 326 BC? Why his Generals, who were childhood friends, abandon their King in the middle of enemy land?

How did nomadic empires (Mongols, Timurids) operate? as I understand it they always had some form of capital (Karakorum, Samarkand ect) but how does it come they are still considered nomads? How did the bureaucracy work?

thanks in advance for your answers

A buddy of mine told me that Greco Roman statues stopped being made for thousands of years until the renaissance?

Is this true? It doesn't seem right to me.

I mean the ordinary citizens. How did they react to the discovery of a whole new world?