It seems like historically, the Jews get blamed for a lot, and not just in ancient or medieval history -- the Holocaust, Soviet Russia, even modern-day anti-Semetism. What made / makes the Jews so darn hated?

I was at the Museum of the American Revolution and I saw an image repeatedly that I had never seen before that appeared on currency and other artifacts. It was thirteen rings, each ring had a colony's name on it, linked together in a circle. In the center there was a "US" ring (or something to that effect). Any help identifying this symbol? I think I heard someone call it the "ring of states" or "chain of states" but google is not helping me find anything! Thanks in advance!

Hello, r/AskHistorians something that I've noticed for quite some time now, but never thought to ask about it was how there were common "themes" to certain names to nobles in Japan.

For example: During the Oda clan's reign it's very obvious to see the common theme in the clan's naming process to have the prefix Nobu- for the names. So like Nobunaga, Nobuhide, Nobukatsu, Nobukatsu, Nobuyuki etc.... you get my point.

Also the clan's name will be behind it as well, such as Oda Nobuhide and Date Masamune. I'll just assume that is just their last name or whatever so no real significance here.

Anyway my main point I want answered is how come a lot of the time there are common prefixes behind a name? Do these prefixes really have a meaning to them or is it sort of like a familial tradition or both?

Has the US government ever deployed funds to search for treasure of any kind? If so, why?

How has he US government been involved with these, historically?

It may not be the clearest of questions, my apologies.

I can't seem to think that steel tanks baking in the sun all day long, combined with an engine in the back, would sustain a comfortable temperature for the crew, especially in fronts like North Africa. Did tanks during World War II have any sort of system to keep the tanks from becoming ovens for the crew?

I just finished Band of Brothers and the scene where they liberated the camps was quite moving, but I was surprised when the soldiers seemed to be oblivious to the Jewish persecution during the war.

Educated soldiers who read Mein Kampf would have known of Hitler's views of minority groups but was it well known that this was happening by the common soldier?

Were the people outside the walls be given refuge? Would a town or castle be able to support them? If not were they raped and killed? Was the farmlands destroyed to leave the people starving next year? If so was this used as a threat to get a surrender?

If I must pick a setting, I suppose the hundred years war since it saw sieges on towns and castles. But I would also like to hear from other points in history too.

Chickens were domesticated out of Asian jungle fowl, probably twice (in the indus region and Burma according to wiki) and spread westward. They arrived early enough to be a part of Roman culture and divination and appear to be an assumed part of domestic life in prechristian times in western europe. They are hardly suitable for trade, since they require live cartage and care unlike walking livestock. They are non-migratory and at best semi or full forest dwellers when undomesticated, their presence supposed trade or human migration. I'm assuming migration? Would we know if they were traded?

Tea was in use in Asia in the 2000bc period and is a highly portable dry good if high value, less than pepper but undeniably tradeable. We know some very high value artifacts traded through Asia and reached western Europe.. so how come we got chickens, which are possibly the least tradeable item but didn't get tea until far later?

Okay, so I've enjoyed several documentaries and documentary-like things in the past, some of which were made more recently than 20 years ago. Would it be acceptable to ask "does x documentary accurately represent an event that happened more than 20 years ago"?

Vikings were the big users of axe and shield in a historical setting, but it seems to fall off after them. However, fighting with an axe and shield is often marked as comparable, or even better than sword and shield fighting in the modern HEMA community. What influences stopped the use of axe and shield?

I made a Reddit account specifically to ask about this topic as I was directed here by a friend, but, I've been trying my darndest to scan the internet for information regarding Russo-Canadian relations during the "Victorian Era", but I've been unable to find much.

Mostly, I'd like to know if they had positive or negative relations, and if a Russian immigrant to Canada during the time would be regarded with suspicion.

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While the followers of Christ were building up his importance, did they come up with the idea that mankind needed to be saved, thus magnifying Jesus' sacrifice?

And, if so, did they reach back into the old testament to find something bad mankind had done which needed saving, thereby anchoring this idea to the respected tome of the Old Testament?

Or was the original sin of eating the apple a big concept already at the time of Jesus?

Hey! I am a huge Iron and bronze age nerd, I was wondering if you had any recommendations on books, podcasts or series about the bronze age collapse. I don't quite know if this is the subreddit to ask. Thanks!

Depictions of slavery in the ancient world typically portray it as lacking any racial/ethnic component. A person would not have been enslaved based on their race, but based on their misfortune of being conquered, or because of some debt or crime they had committed. It is often portrayed that they were not enslaved for being considered inferior, but were seen as inferior because they had been enslaved. Was this accurate? If so, how did that system transform into the intrinsically racist system of only holding Africans as slaves, that became infamous during the colonial era in the Americas and Europe?