I have been searching high and low for Swedish and Danish archaeological armour finds from the 1100-1200's, but I can't find any. There are quite a few from the Viking age, but so far, I have found none at all from this particular era. All of the Norwegian finds are catalogued online, so those were fairly easy to browse (albeit to no avail), but I haven't found any similar resources for the neighbouring countries. This begs the question, has there been found much at all? Does anyone know of any finds from that era at all? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was wondering what people in the early 1800s thought would replace coal in the future as they must have known there was a finite amount of it. Were there any suggestions about what could replace it or was it just a problem for the future?

First off, apologies if I make any incorrect statements while explaining, not as versed in history as I should be.

OK - so what happened to Greece during the Medieval period? After the Western Roman Empire fell, what happened to Greece? I don't hear much about Greece during that entire period, up till around the World Wars. Obviously something was happening. Who was living there? Was it a part of a larger empire? Were people still aware of Greece's contributions to philosophy and art and such?

I'm curious to hear from your community. Thank you for any answer provided!

It seems that he went to great lengths to conceal it. How effective was this?

I read The Plantagenets by Dan Jones and it mentioned that the chronicler Henry Knighton wrote, in regards to the Bubonic Plague, that "there was no memory of death so stern and cruel since the time of Vortigern, King of the Britons, in whose day, as Bede testifies, the living did not suffice to bury the dead." What was this great death? Was it comparable to the Bubonic Plague?

From past experience the west has preferably sided with a military dictator than a communist state.

this being FDR Stalin and Churchill

I have done some reading on the internet about this, and from what I can tell it seems to be something upper class people devised to prevent their white clothes getting dirty from working. Is there something deeper? Are there other potential explanations?

I hasten to add that while today is Labor Day in the US, it is not a "current event" as this trend goes back to at least the 1920s.

Germany is the best example of this, on November 11 1918 the country was starving, restless and the beginning of the German revolution led to Germany's surrender, although the allied armies were still yet to even cross into Germany at that point. In WWII, Germany's surrender came only after six months of the allied armies fighting in and occupying most of Germany itself. Japan's steadfast refusal to surrender short of the atomic bombings and Soviet declaration of war also comes to mind. So why did the countries in WWII not surrender until the absolute very end unlike in WWI?

I have to do coursework around why pirates were possibly rebelling against European society during their golden age and I'm relly stuck so I just want to start with why become a pirate.

We see it todays world an increased awareness over the toll the sport takes on bodies, but what was awareness and thinking like back in the early days of the sport? I just can't imagine being in a crowd and seeing someone die. It's a wonder the sport became as popular as it is.

I could find nothing on the internet, mostly just speculation. Did IRVC women really went bare-chested? Most historical Indian cultures covered their breasts, so I think it's a little strange. What about men? Did they really wear robes that hung from their left shoulder?

The word "Einstein" has now become practically synonymous with the word "genius". Did anyone fill this "genius" role before Albert Einstein? Perhaps someone like Leonardo da Vinci, or even Beethoven?

Early Asiatic "Gunpowder Empires" (such as the Ottoman Turks, Ming Chinese, Safavid Persians and Mughal Indian empires) were innovators in the use of gunpowder weapons on the battlefield - especially the use of field artillery. Their tactics relied on the combination of infantry armed with matchlock guns (like the Ottoman Janissaries) which were protected against cavalry charges by a fortified line of cannons in the front of the infantry formation. These cannons were often chained together and further protected by carts and mantels to form a nearly impregnable front line. However this combined artillery/infantry formation was essentially immobile. In effect, they built field fortifications armed with artillery at the center of their battle lines which then served as a fixed base of maneuver for their cavalry operating on the wings.

In contrast to Asian tactics, European armies of the Renaissance utilized field guns operating independently from infantry formations while combining their musket armed infantry with blocks of pike armed infantry to form combined "pike and shock" units (Spanish tercios, Gustavus Adolphus' Swedish brigades, Cromwell's New Model Army, Maurice of Nassau's Dutch battalions, etc.) of various sizes and arrangements. The use of pikemen provided protection for the muskets against cavalry charges, added a shock/melee capability to a primarily gunpowder weapons formation and was decisively mobile on the battlefield (unlike the immobile artillery/infantry formations of Asia).

So why the differences in the development of gunpowder weapons tactics between Europe and Asia?

Aside from Hussite war wagons, why didn't Europeans utilized artillery field fortifications?

Were Asian gunpowder tactics essentially Hussite tactics only on a much larger scale?

Why did Asia not use pike infantry as a means of protecting musket troops while allowing for mobility and providing shock capability?

Did either tactical method ever meet on the battlefield?

Which tactical system proved superior?

Hello there! Currently, I'm in the outlining stages of a story, and I really need help understanding the US Army during WW2. As such, I need to understand a few things that I'm unclear on in my research. First and foremost, I require information on ranks -- and not just their order, but what the job of each rank entailed. Two, I need information on unit types, as well as what each unit's job was. (I mean, for example, I know of platoons, but I have no idea on what they did.) Three, and this would be amazing if you can answer it, how did all these units and ranks coalesce when it came to combat? How did they work to benefit the situation on the battlefield, basically?

And if you have anymore information regarding the US Army during WW2 that you want to share here, I'll be all ears! Thank you so much!