Ok, basically, what did the Midwest's landscape look like before farming, and when did large scale farming begin in the Midwest? Also, are there any areas (I'm guessing protected) that can give me an idea of what the landscape was like before farming?

I just started reading the Wikipedia article about the Thirty Years' War, and the "Origins of the war" section of the article alone makes Game of Thrones look like a joke. Can anybody provide an easier explanation or some sources that might clarify the topic?

According to legend, he says:

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it."

Asclepius being the Roman god of medicine.

I am reading Nashe's "The Choice of Valentines", and I came across a strange line (this is at the point in the poem when he is being seduced by his love). .

Hir arme's are spread, and I am all unarm'd

Lyke one with Ouids cursed hemlock charm'd,

I would think that the standard classical association with hemlock would be Socrates. In Elizabethan England was Ovid associated with hemlock, or is this, perhaps, a purely prosodic choice.

How many people does the DoomsDay Book record being there? Is there any reason to think it Would have been drastically different 400 years earlier?

What happened to slaves in the American South who were caught doing homosexual acts?

Reading about all the uproar regarding the flight of the 14-Bis in the Olympic's Opening Ceremony as a tribute to the man that we, Brazilians, call the "father of aviation", I came to ask myself: what History has to say about that?

From what I researched, it seems the Wright Brothers had nothing but a telegram/self claim to the titles of "inventors" of the airplanes. Only 2 years later after Dumont flew in Paris, they did the same - but with a few more difficulties.

Did I get this wrong? Please help!

Hey there historians I'm in need of either some answers or at least a direction to look in. I'm looking to build a replica of the US Sixth Fleet as it was when my father was deployed on CV 67 in 1983. Trouble is he doesn't remember the names of the other ships in the fleet. I've checked the cruise book which lists the carrier air group's makeup at the time just not the ships present. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I'm mainly curious about how a developer would get resources from Nintendo on all the documentation for making the hardware and software. What equipment did Nintendo provide to programmers? How would they make prototypes? What example code was available? Was it all in Japanese? What costs were associated with making games? Anyone with any of this information would be great to hear from!

It just hit me today that the name Seleukus, for whom the Seleucid Empire was named, sounds an awful lot like the work Seljuk. This is reinforced, in my mind, by two things. 1) the always contentious relationship between [j] and [y] in European languages, and 2) we already know that the Rum sultanate got its name from the Byzantines calling themselves Rome. It makes sense to think that when these more ancient Oghuz people moved into the region known Seleucid, they may have come to call themselves by that name. I know that their supposed origin is in a guy named Selcuk/Seljuk, but is it possible that this is a later interpretation or idea? It just seems so close both in phonology and geography to be a coincidence. Is there any evidence for any of this or am I way off?

From my understanding, religion in the ancient world (or for a better word, 'Pagan' religions) had little to do with how you should/shouldn't behave, and didn't have a moral code to follow as such, and also seemed 'selfish' in a way that, it was about what YOU could receive. Animal and human sacrifices being a good example of this. Their idea of religion was (obviously) very different to Abrahamic religions and trying to grasp how people of the past saw the 'Gods', or how they defined religion, is very difficult from a 21st century point of view.

Is there anything available to us from the past which could help your typical modern person understand how religion was viewed in times gone by?

So, it is said that there exists a book on Hungarian history passed down through generations of taltós, shamans. The latest incarnation being in the 1940's (I believe). It chronicles over 30,000 years of Magyar history. The most interesting piece? A map. On this map is labeled "Altaisz Gyarmatai", with "Ataisz"-- Atlantis?-- having lines going out from it towards Central America, Asia, India, and even Egypt. It's not a question of if it exists (it does) but is it truthful? Is it a credible work?

Thank you!

There are also profession-names for jobs associated with men (e.g. Smith), but not for jobs associated with women. Why is this the case?

In fiction, especially fantasy, it's common for there to be legends of events that happened thousands of years ago. In ASOIAF, by George R.R. Martin, there are myths about a mini ice age like event called the long night, which happened something like 6,000 years before the series. This makes me wonder, is there anything analogous to this in our world?

In short, among myths that we can link to a real event, what's the oldest corresponding event?

Relatedly, do we know what were the first claims made on already inhabited land? Did those events set precedent for dealing with native inhabitants as well?