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In particular, I am looking for the effects on China, Korea, and Japan. I understand the black death started in China, but I don't recall reading about the great mortality in anything Song China or the Kamakura Shogunate.

Was East Asia hit as hard as Europe, or were they less immunoniave to diseases of that nature?

As followup, suppose I meet some of my contemporaries from Romania, Albania, Russia, China or Cuba. How much of our coursework do we have in common? Could I successfully pass their test questions, or vice versa?

I've never read anything by Alan Macfarlane, but an interview/video I found on YouTube of him discussing Fernand Braudel led me to looking him up, and his book "Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan, and the Malthusian Trap" intrigued me the most. Would it be worth buying a copy, or is there another one of his works that would be more worthwhile?

Thanks!

Super specific question and there really may not be an answer that you guys can all give me. But I wanted to know how the process of making those cool Greek sandals worked. I'd love some primary sources (translated, of course)

Additionally, what kinds of shoes did the Athenians wear? Was there lots of variation, or was everyone really wearing the same kind of footwear?

Up until the deployment of P-51 bomber escorts could only go so far before they broke away for home. That left the bombers vulnerable to the bomber-hunters of the Luftwaffe. It must have been easy to take care of the bombers while not being escorted. So was it a major surprise when the Luftwaffe went up to to destroy the bombers and found they where being defended by fighters?

What was the Luftwaffe's tactics before and after the introduction?

What was the Allie's tactics before and after the introduction?

What did the Allies do once they got a fighter that escort?

Did the number of Allied bombers that made it back drastically increase after the introduction?

Did they start building vertically?

I think ask history has most active and thorough moderation team of any subreddit I know. Ultimately, this is a great thing. It ensures that all the answers you find here are well sourced and reliable. The downside is that more than 50% of the time I click on an interesting question and find a barren land, with rows and rows of deleted comments and perhaps a mod message amidst the slaughter chiding commenters for their poor sourcing. This happens very often and each time I think... oh... well... that would have been interesting... guess I'll leave!!

Many other subreddits (e.g. /r/whatisthisthing etc) get around the problem using tags like answered/unanswered. I'm not sure this is completely applicable here, as some questions may be hard to answer definitively. However, if there were some way of showing that someone had provided some sort of interesting answer that hadn't been deleted, I think it would greatly improve my enjoyment of the subreddit.

Mods, commenters, lurkers, what do you think?

I'm teaching Geography to a group of middle school students. I was curious when geography became a subject which began to be studied academically. Is this a more recently developed?

Did "extra" mean they received new information and was an update from the previous paper released earlier? Where did it come from?

I'm having a hard time finding more stuff about this. The wiki page simply says that he (presumably) was at the Battle of Pharsalus, where he was captured, and eventually became a politician under Caesar. My question is, why was he at Pharsalus? Did he have any political aspirations beforehand?

I'm not quite sure how to phrase this properly.

For example, New York City has Little Italy, several Chinatowns, Jewish neighborhoods, Russian Enclaves, etc.

Did the same go for ancient Rome? Was there an "Africatown" or a "little Assyria" or something like that?

Countercultures have always been present it seems in US history. I've never come across US citizen support of Germany during WWII though.

We hear a lot that from the Southern point of view their main reason for secession was to preserve what they saw as their rights from federal encroachment. I'm curious how well that translated into their government during their brief existence. Was it every state for itself or did they attempt to put in place the same sort of centralized controls that they believed they were fighting against?

Throughout WWI and WWII you hear about these massive dreadnaughts being built (IJN Yamato, USS Missouri, KM Bismark come mind) with massive firepower; however, you never really hear much them being used in ship to ship combat. IIRC the USS Alabama only ever fired her main batteries during a shore bombardment in the Pacific Theater in WWII. The only effective use of these large batteries I know of was when either the Bismark or Tirpitz (memory escapes me atm) hit the HMS Hood's magazine room which destroyed the ship almost instantly. It just seems with the implementation of aircraft carriers and guided missile technology that these types of naval guns have gone the way of the dodo.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

The idea that I have in mind is to investigate whether or not there is a relationship between Norman expansion and both imposition of Latin Church practices on non-Latin Catholic churches (such as the Maronites) and Romanization of non-Roman components of the Latin Church (in this case, I would like to specifically examine the way that the Normans dealt with the English church hierarchy and the differences between the Anglo-Saxon church practices and the Anglo-Norman church practices).