I'm reading "Dogs of God," which covers the Reconquista and its ties to Columbus' voyage to the New World. There's a fair bit of discussion about maps, and comparing new material with material from ancient Greece. At one point did cartographers feel that they had mapped the complete world, and there were no more large Skull Island-ish landmasses to be found? After Australia? Antarctica? GPS?

Im not sure if Im asking the right question so ill provide some background. My SO has been watching Hidden colors and came to me about it telling me its the truth and I need to watch it so on and so forth.

If you guys don't know hidden colors is basically "black people did everything and European people stole it. Then destroyed as much proof as possible. However they left enough for people now to find and connect the dots. Although its a conspiracy to hide the truth from us so they won't tell us.

An example of the type of things mentioned are the statue of Liberty was supposed to be black and she represented slaves becoming free and they used a black model and it has chains still

Im a skeptic or at least im practicing skepticism and I'd like to be able to research these things myself to see if there is truth here or bs or a mixture. But im not sure how to do that. I also will most likely get hit with "thats the mans history or some other form"

I'm speaking in reference to YHWH.

I know that Congress outlawed the importation of slaves in 1807, and US Navy ships like the USS Constellation intercepted slavers in the antebellum period. How large was the illegal slave trade, and how effective was the USN at combatting it? Was it a high priority of the Navy?

Would it be the same bootcamp everyone else went to or would they have a relatively easy time of it?

Apologies if this has been asked, Google wasn't much help.

Follow up questions:

Are the snakes from the legend really snakes, or is it a metaphor?

Context/My own quick research: My pagan friend is adamant that St. Patrick's Day is a day about oppressing pagans. Growing up Irish-American, I was really baffled by her interpretation. I want to know if any historical scholars have any insight about this (what appears to me) pacifist 5th Century mass-Converter. Just based on my own googling-around, it seems like this whole, the snakes are metaphor thing was started by neo-pagans in the 1960's.

Also, I have read the wikipedia article about St. Patrick and the one about the holiday, so please don't just direct me there.

Hi there, I'm doing some research for a story I'm writing and am trying to find information about life in the US before and during prohibition. Any suggestions of books that are historically accurate about this time period? Areas of interest are the Plains states, New Orleans, mid Atlantic states and New York City. Definitely interested in specifics of how common certain amenities and technologies were at this juncture, i.e., electricity, indoor plumbing, train travel, automobiles vs horses, and other details such as that. Thank you for your suggestions!

I've always been fascinated by the story of Cairo, Illinois. It's at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. It seems that all of the ingredients were there for it to develop into a major city that would eventually anchor a tri-state metropolitan area. But it didn't.

Today, the city where Mississippi and Ohio meets have a population of roughly 3,000 people. I know that Cairo has a history of racial tension but that arose after the city SHOULD have already been established as a major city.

What happened? It just seems weird that the Ohio and Mississippi meet in what is essentially the middle of nowhere.

I find it very hard to conceptualise the food from those places without the chilli pepper even though I know not every dish uses them.

Is there evidence of dishes that we know today that have versions before chilli peppers?

I was also wondering if there were notable social and cultural manifestations in art, fashion, domestic cultures, status etc. in Asia around the introduction of chilli peppers? It seems to me that there would be massive cultural shifts around issues like tradition, fashion and taste to arrive at chillies being so indispensable to cooking as they are in Malaysia, for example.

In the past I've read quite a bit about the consumption craze for coffee and the fashions related to it as it was introduced to the Old World, but I've never really read or heard anything about the history of the chilli in Asia and what effects its introduction had in social and cultural terms.

I guess I'm asking if the KPD played any part in the Soviet counteroffensive on German soil. Alternatively, would KPD membership protect civilians from the violence of the Soviet advance?

What happened? What became of them? Why did they choose to throw in the towel?

The one that come to my mind is that they didn't know that classical statue used to be painted. I'm curious, what other misconceptions did they have ?

I mean none of us have actually witnessed them, and none of us actually know anybody who personally experienced them.

What is to stop people who lived 200+ years ago from fictitiously making up civilisations like the ancient Egyptians, or the Persian/Bablyonian empire.

I get that there are artefacts and literature but how do we know that these are authentic and actually from the era and not made recently in a fictitious manner?

Let's say we live in the middle of nowhere with no one else around and my kids are very young. What would happen to me and my kids? What do we eat? Do I have the ability and skill to hunt? Where do I go?

Edit: I'm surprised that my post has been upvoted so highly. Hoping for a comprehensive and in-depth answer to it soon.