I have read how Vikings buried their dead mostly. Do we know anything about their traditions or customs reguarding death? Does it depend on the era in which it would have occurred? In what time period did "traditional vikings" occur and can the Normans be counted?

Thank you in advance for any information given.

I want to leave this question as open ended as possible, but I'll start by asking how did people living under communist regimes react to it, and if it played a significant role in degrading and ultimately defeating communism. Is it generally regarded as a success?

A point that never came up in my history courses in school was the justification for the Union to go to war outside of "you cant secede just so you can have the laws you want". It would seem to me that there had to be some direct threat to the North for them to be willing to shed so much blood. But then again this is America and having a reason doesnt seem to be required.

I know that there's different houses that have ruled over time, but even these different houses were related to the others. How far back can we go?

I'm a 10th grade World History teacher in my second year. I'm still learning some of the content myself yet I had an interesting question from a student the other day I thought I would ask here. Currently we're on the Protestant Reformation and discussing the concept of the sale of indulgences. It's always a treat when students actually ask about the content instead of raising their hand to go to the bathroom, so the other day a young man in my class raised an interesting point: did the clergy of the Middle Ages through the period of the Protestant Reformation actually believe in indulgences? Or did Catholic clergy knowingly deceive people to pocket the money for their lifestyles and building projects?

Additionally I'm having a hard time answering the question of how clergy would determine how much time you'd get off of purgatory. Was there a belief at this time that there was an "average sentence" an individual would spend in purgatory? Or was this all made up to control the population?

Thank you for your help!

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My teacher Culture History told us that WW1 wasn't all about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria but that it was because of money.
I'm not quite sure what he said about it. But he told us that we never learned about the real cause, because People Don't need to know that all those solfiers died, because some countries were in conflict because of money. It sounds better if they died for a real cause. The motherland.

I'm really curious how much of this is true. We, belgians, Don't have a pretty good past (eg. Leopold II), and I never learned about what he did before I looked it up. I wouldn't be suprised if schools kept the truth about ww1 away from us.

Thankd for any help!

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It is my understanding that at the siege of Constantinople in 1453 there was a contingent of Venetians among the Byzantine defenders. What changed in the relationship between Venice and Byzantium in the years between the Venetians sacked Constantinople and when they defended it, if anything changed? Were the tensions between the Western and Eastern church lessened? Was it just because the invaders were Muslim?

My grandmother (born in 1936) said that she remembers her mother saving the drippings from cooking meat and donating it to the war effort in the 40s. What sort of things was it used for?

Note - not bacon grease, the fat and oil one gets from cooking beef, or sausage in a pan

Æthelred ascended to the throne when he was very young and his mother was supposedly a very powerful political figure. Was the murder of Edward the Martyr Ælfthryth’s way of basically assuming the reign through her son? How much do we know about her influence on Æthelred? Am I misreading the origin of his nickname completely? Or does Wikipedia? I mean, he was pretty unready at the start of his reign.

Specifically Eisenhower and Grant. They both followed large wars with military backgrounds. Just by a glance at wikipedia their predecessors were a democrat and a democrat on the national union ticket.

Were there other specific elements that brought this on? Fear, their opponents, other hot issues at the time?

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Now that it is officially getting cold outside, and my lips are chapped, what is the first known time in human history that helped keep chapped lips at bay?

In 1264 de montfort's parliament was the first to include "knights of the shire" which were the predecessor to the Commons. By what procedure were these knights and their successors elected? Was there some kind of medieval voter registry? Who assed whether a person met the property requirements and how did they do this?

Today in my history class we were talking about current Mongolia and it's agricultural and writing system, which was in Russian characters. From what I remember about ancient Mongolia it was basically all Chinese in and out so why would they switch to Russian?