I just watched it today, and specifically their uniforms caught my eye. Surely being such a big event, some degree of historical accuracy should've been put into them.

Most sources note that Harold's housecarls had significantly better equipment than his fyrd, and that Williams forces were better - armoured than Harold's in general as more of them were professional soldiers or rich landowners. However, would there have been any notable differences between the equipment of the leaders and that of their elite forces? What about differences between Harold and William themselves? It's commonly recounted that William had four horses killed underneath him (however I'm not sure if this is considered truth or legend) yet obviouslt still survived, which would make one think that he was either an incredibly good fighter, incredibly well armoured, incredibly lucky, or a combination of the three.

My Hist. Teacher says that it was because surrendering was considered "dishonourable" by the Japanese.

I was speaking to someone in regard to the attacks in the Melbourne CBD yesterday. They mentioned the attack should be defined as a terrorist attack as they caused terror. Wikipedia's and many countries definitions disagree with this stating they need an ideological or political message. When did this shift occur, and why?

Say I'm a rich Spanish nobleman in the late middle ages. I'm planning on going on a trip north through English Aquitaine, West across Southern France, tour around Northern Italy a bit, and finally end up visiting my cousin in Bohemia. What kind of preparations would I need to make? Do I need any kind of identifying paperwork or special permissions to pass through all of these realms? Are there well established borders and guarded border crossings that I'd have to pass through, or is that all more of a modern development?

Furthermore what would the journey actually be like to cross Europe in the late middle ages? Would it be radically different for a nobleman than for a peasant?

I know there has been a lot of changes in our understanding of the social, legal, and political structure of the Middle Ages and the word feudalism is out of style.

Does this discredit much of Bloch's work at least in this area?

I've read a little about it, but want to understand it completely, because I'm very interested in the royal houses of England. What happened with house York and Tudor? And what is the Duke of York today? Thanks for answering!

Up the Revolutionary War period in the American colonies, were there any openly gay people/couples, and how were they viewed by their community? Any progress on gay rights during that time?

Thanks for any insight.

If so, what circumstances allowed him to conquer the known world with so few casualties? The history podcast that cited this number states that there is some debate among military historians as to whether Alexander really suffered so few casualties over the course of his campaigns, so I thought I'd turn to actual historians to see if there is any veracity to this claim. Is this something that is widely debated among scholars in this area, or does this number merely represent a controversial claim by a single historian?

From what i understand. The Mongols took over the entire known world through cavalry. Mongols dominated the land by being excellent with their horses.

But thats the LAND. Did they never fight at sea? I find it odd how an army can take over such a large amount of land and seemingly never have to fight any sea battles.

Did the mongols even have a navy? or were sea battles just not needed?

I just finished reading the Phryne Fisher novels which are set in the late 1920s in Melbourne Australia. Several things are described as being Jazz colored, including bed linens, wallpaper, and a scarf. Was Jazz a real color? Could someone find it at a fabric or paint store? Thanks.

The modern military draft, namely conscripting potentially unwilling citizens from a broad swath of society, (Theoretically, all men of military age) seems very different from the various militia and levy systems of ancient and medieval times. How did this system begin, and how did it propagate? (Note: I'm mostly talking about Western Europe here, but I wouldn't object to, say, the history of conscription in China either)

WW1 was often referred to as "The Great War", and is still sometimes referred to by this name. In the early writings about WW2 (let's say between 1939 when war began in Europe and 1949 when technical occupation of Germany ended and the modern status quo began), were any alternative names ever proposed or in use?