Mainly, what was the motive behind holding onto the territory and actively colonizing the region? To the best of my knowledge Tibet is an extremely poor region with little in natural resources and its strategic value is debatable.

Was it hard for people to accept? What was the catalyst? Who started it?

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England or Britain is a tiny country. Yet it managed to maintain a vast colonial empire for centuries. That must have been an extremely expensive endeavor. Maintaining, training all the armies, navies and running all the thousands of bureacracies across the globe. All the while the tax base was very little given that most of the colonized people were poor and there were very few rich people in Britain paying taxes.

So how did Britain finance all these large expenditures for maintaining its colonial empire?

I'm mean contemporary history. Post WW2.

I have heard this phrase a lot and in reference to a wide variety of contexts but have little to no idea what this actually means. Can someone help me out or at least point me in a direction please and thank you.

Going through a list of the classic American Westerns I was struck by how many of them invoked the civil war or ex-confederates as part of the characterization of major characters

Did Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, exist? From what I have been reading, it seems like a lot of historians do believe Muhammad exist, but there seems to be a lot more tolerance of the idea that Muhammad did not exist in the academic world than there is for the idea that Jesus didn't exist. Most who deny Jesus existing end up being called Christ-myth conspiracy theorist and laughed off by most historians, but with Muhammad it doesn't seem like that all the time. Is this just because not as much study has been done on the historical Muhammad in the west as it has been on Jesus? Is it more plausible that Muhammad not existing than Jesus not existing? Even if he did exist, how much can we really know about him? Even this I noticed among scholars, who will usually be able to concede facts about Jesus's life, but never Muhammad's life. I have even seen it questioned if Muhammad was even from Arabia, whereas for Jesus, no historian questions he came from Galilee and was a Jew. What's up with this?

Hello,

I'm currently writing a story about an idiot knight and his fake heroics, set in a fictional place similar to Spain.

I'm looking for a book to provide me with some inspiration and historical context.

Who were some of the knights who fought in the Iberian Peninsula? What were some of their feats?

Any period of the Middle Ages would do. In my ignorance, I thought that maybe the warring between Muslims and Christians could give me interesting material to work with.

Searching this subreddit I could find recommended books about knights in England, France and Italy; none for Spain, unfortunately.

Thanks.

Several types of cannons were used during the wars of the roses, obviously the longbow was very prominent during this time, did either side have access to and use hand-held guns at any point during the Wars of the roses?

This question came to mind while I was traveling Japan, and read the history of early trade with Europe, and how the Japanese liked the guns a lot more than Christianity.

So my thought was, would something like "give us this day our daily bread" become "give us this day our daily rice/food"?

As the Atlantic was threatened, was the US in any position to destroy the Bismarck?

I've been researching details on ships from the 16-1700s for the past two weeks. so suffice it to say, i have probably looked through most of the suggested websites that cover this topic. But as we all know, ☆Reddit is the Hivemind of the Internet☆ ...so here i am

i require historical accurate speeds for the AVERAGE sloop, schooner, brigantine, brig, frigate, & man o' war. along with crew needed to sail, max passenger/cargo load, number of guns per deck (cannons/swivels)