Y'all are doing a bang up job, y'all keep unneeded information away from threads and keep things unbiased But, I vast majority of posts here are very interesting and I would really like to know the awnser too but everytime I go to a thread the awnser was deleted, to me it defeats the purpose of this sub and it's gotten to the point where it's getting ridiculous. Please either change mod rules or mods themselves.

In many strategy games that I've either played or watched, specifically age of empires 2 and atilla : total war, camels get a bonus attack to other cavalry. Are camels normally considered to be natural counters to horses?

I am fascinated by history. I have recently travelled to the U.K and Europe and I have just become more obsessed. I'm an intelligent person, I love to read as well but I wouldn't say I was "smart" like "university smart". How do I immerse my life in history? I want to learn as much as I can about it and I want to teach others about it through my passion for history. Would I need to go to university? I didn't get fantastic grades in high school (I come from a small town - if I had bothered to try get good grades it would have been different). I'm just looking for some insight from others who have gone down a similar path.

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How fast did this happen? etc.

It feels like the actions of the current president or his administration inspire a great deal of questions these days, and I feel it induces and uncomfortable strain of current focus into the sub when people ask about something only because the president said it, or they are wondering how this similar event played out in the past only so it can be a parable to a current situation (which may be a flawed application ) of the present administration and not for the sake of the past itself.

I vaguely remember hearing something about this and thought it was quite interesting, a more classy version of a last supper before being sent to the chair

Was it genghis khan?

When I tried to google this question, all I get is accounts from US defenders or the like who survived being attacked.

So hopefully this is not too broad a question so I can find an answer, but I've heard that armies made up of the peasantry, AKA conscripted forces were actually very seldom or non existent. However, when big wars and battles came into play and kings or lords needed to raise armies....how did they do it?

Were armies made up of mercenaries? Were the mercenaries treacherous or ditch the rest of the army if they were on the losing side? Or did they fight to the end? Were armies made up of veteran soldiers? Where did the soldiers get their training to be considered "veteran"? I take it they wouldn't be taken from garrisons in a castle(given the garrison would need to defend the home front while the army was at war)but were people called in to train daily just in case an army was needed? Other than knights, who would be part of this army? Would they be given weapons? Or asked to provide their own?

Hope to see a few replies, thanks in advance!

The US Constitution stipulates that the president must be a permanent resident for 14 years to qualify for the office.

Does anyone know why the founders chose 14 years? Is there some special significance about that amount of time? Also, does anyone know if they meant 14 consecutive years leading up to the run for office?

Mostly, I'm just wondering why they chose 14 years.

So I think that the fact that some Native American gruops where able to work with metal is relativley well known. However, I was wondering as to why it seems to be mostly be confined to jewelry? Is there a reason fir this? Is there any evidence for metal tools or weapons made by a Native culture?

Or is it possible this is more of an embellishment and rumor, and that the late director did not actually participate in these behaviors.

I was having a discussion with some friends about politics a couple weeks back and someone brought up this point to me. Maybe this isn't the best sub to post to, because this is more of a theory than anything else. But in a time where homosexuality and transsexualism was very culturally taboo, for someone in a position of power like himself, couldn't this easily have gotten him blackmailed, or even thrown out of his position completely?

It just seems unlikely that he would be able to conceal this secret so well, in a time where something like this would be such a social "intolerable" that I have a hard time believing this actually was the case, but ore of a rumor that's been passed down through the years that's gotten embellished.

I am curious what history has to say about this.

Thanks all for the responses ahead of time.

Edit for clarity of my questions: I feel like this behavior would be so out of the norm, that even blackmailers would have leaked this information and he would have been "found out." Maybe not though! It seems like it would be a very hard secret for anyone to have kept.

I'm trying to get an idea how Nelson was able to communicate "England expects that every man will do his duty" to 27 different ships. That seems like one hell of a flag-signal...

As a non-US citizen, one of the main avenues of exposure to something that feels truly and uniquely American is WWE Wrestling. But watching Monday's RAW episode taking place in London in front of 17000 people, when did it become that? What is the history of entertainment wrestling? Was it always fake? When did the first superstars emerge? When did the pay-per-view mega event format come about? When did it develop into elaborate story lines about love and betrayal, about deep human emotions like in the unforgettable retirement of the Undertaker, the betryal of Chris Jericho by Kevin Owens, the resignation of Mick Foley? Was it always this way or did that develop over time? If so, how?

I was directed here from ELI5

What's your best recommendation for a starter Latin America/Brazilian history read? I', Brazilian/American and stopped taking Brazilian history in the 4th grade. My American history's pretty solid and I'd like to bring my Brazil knowledge up to snuff.