Or why Lucian of Samosata's A true Story did not serve as an inspiration for authors who lived in its time? Why is the relevance of this story lost in time?

Just asking if there was any record of Muslim soldiers fasting during a campaign, from the early years of Islam to the present day.

I will probably buy it in the next year (sadly, it is not available in the library of my town). I would like to know if Durant's book is still trustable and actual/current according to modern patterns of historiography.

Keep in mind i will spend around 250 dollars, because i live in Brazil.

They sound like the all have a different etymology.

Title says it all, according to my History textbook one of the reasons France did not intervene in the Spanish Civil War was due to fear of a civil war starting out in France itself, how far would this be true, and what would be the impact if the Spanish civil war spilled over to France on French politics and international relations? Thanks!

Like with the 20,000 or so people signing onto the International Brigade in Ukraine. That's a sizable chunk of their army. Has that always been the case?

Macedonia, Babylon, the Hitties, Assyria, Elam, ProtoEgyptians, Arzawa, and Mitanni. All these Ancirnt bronze age civilizations fell within a rather shirt time from one another, and many historians aren't certain why, even now thousands of years later, we have no freaking clue what happened.

Any thoughts?

I've been looking for stuff about this mesoamerican civilization but can barely find anything. I just want to hear as much as we know about the Olmecs. Here is some question that is on the top of my head:

1. What are the differences between them and the others that came after them like the Aztecs and Mayans?
2. What were the giant stone heads based on?
3. What gods did they worship?
4. What kind of language did they possibly have?
5. What was the possible reason their civilization disappeared?

If demand for water was ever lower than what was traveling in the pipe all that water would have to go somewhere, either being diverted somewhere or just backing up in the pipe. The problem with backing up the water is that some of those aqueducts had a very large elevation difference, for example the Zaghouan Aqueduct at 264 meters, so the pressure would be high at the bottom of it. Also, on a smaller scale, did Romans station people at fountains and bathhouses to mess with valves so that the water didn't overflow or did they have control mechanisms for it?

I had an interesting discussion with someone on reddit the other day about the wether it was accurate to call Arthur 'King of England' or 'King of Britain'. Given that the Kingdom of England wasnt created until 927 .The Anglo-Saxons seemed to have used Englalond to refer to Old English speaking areas of Britain (including the Scottish Lowlands) and excluded areas that encompasses modern England such as Cornwall and the Old North . Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 11th century mentioned that Arthur ruled Logres - the area that ran south and east of a line extending from the Humber Estuary to the Severn Estuary. This has given us the modern Welsh word Lloegr. Was Geoffrey of Monmouth using a new word to refer to England or basing it on an older Romano-Briton word for South East Britain?

Did Soviet society ever try to recover the free love and sex ideals prevalent during the early years of Bolshevik rule? Or did it remain a first wave feminist society for the rest of its existence after the 1920s?

I’m assuming many traditional “girl” toys have been around for ages because they tend to imitate domestic tasks (e.g. baby dolls simulate childcare). What were “boy” toys like before the the invention of monster trucks and the discovery of T-Rex?

I’m interested in the answers to this question for other parts of the world as well.

Prosperity theology sees spiritual and physical realities as inseparable. Poor health and poverty afflict the spiritually impoverished. Those who do well spiritually also do well financially and physically.

This seems like a weird contradiction for anyone who has read the bible.

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” — etc.

So when prosperity theology started gaining steam in 1945, how did preachers explain away these contradictions? Were their audiences so poorly versed on the bible that they didn't notice?

I'm trying to do a bit of research on the cost of things in 1877. I'm really only able to find things like "$1 in 1877 is worth...in 2022" and a Macy's catalog.

Specifically I'm wondering about the shadier history such as:

How much morphine or laudinum would cost (and for what dosages.

How much would it cost to stay in a saloon or hotel per night?

How much the "Painted Women" of the west charged?

How much did Saloon girls make?

How much did the Snake Oil salesmen sell their "miracle" cures for?

And any other obscure products or services one may have found during that time.

Thanks for any help :)

Hindu nationalists commonly claim that Muslim rulers were prolific destroyers of temples, and had a taste for senseless massacre. In particular, the figure of the 6th Moghul emperor, Aurangzeb, comes up for frequent criticism. How accurate are these claims?

Considering the fact that the French were the Germans' biggest continental rival did any emperor ever ally with the English to try and crush them?

Obviously music has existed long before then, but I always figured people would only hear it at some sort of big event or special venue.

If that was the case then I imagine most commoners would only hear music a handful of times in their entire life. Is this accurate?

What factors led to their unsuccessful pursuit if they reached as far as Derby? Things such as the general atmosphere towards Jacobites that may have aided their feat would be greatly appreciated.

I sadly don’t have a whole lot of information at present. Thank you in advance. 😊