In terms of land, influence, or a combination of the two

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Heard on Dan Carlin's Hardcore history that the Middle Eastern empires sent ambassadors to Europe asking for help amid the Crusades. Found that really interesting, just wanted to follow up on the validity of the claim.

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Specifically, I heard this happened in at least Natchez, Mississippi with mass graves remaining.. Did this really happen and if so, what really happened and why doesn't it get more attention?

I consistently see references to Plague Root and from what I can find that's Angelica archangelica; however, I also see that this wasn't used as medicine until the 16th century. So what medicine/herbology was used during the black death?

I can think of some economic or social reasons people might support keeping it after a while.

So, I would imagine that the general joke of Russian judges in the Olympics giving low scores is some sort of a Cold War holdover, but is there any single event that gave rise to this stereotype? As a follow up, how much truth was there to the stereotype (as compared to judges from other countries swinging things one way or the other)?

I don't know if my question makes sense. But basically, planes shot bullets at each other. A lot of them probably missed. Gravity brings those bullets to the ground... was there any damage/casualties from these falling bullets?

Where did the tradition of Longbow use in the British Isles originate?

I'm an avid practitioner of the Sling and while doing a bit of research on the weapon I noticed that very few if any early records/depictions from the Iron Age to the Roman Period mention the use of the Longbow among the Britons/Celts/Picts.

Curious I checked Wikipedia which gave some useful links and the familiar history I learnt in school detailing the weapons use during the Middle Ages, at Agincourt and Crecy and how bow training was encouraged and passed down etc etc. It also mentioned that the first Longbow was discovered in a bog in the Alps and is thought to have dated from 3000 B.C.

So I thought maybe the Saxons, Danes or Germanic Tribes brought the weapon over with them. I thought on back to High School history and how the Saxon Army that faced the Normans at Hastings was very light on archers. Williams army seems to have had archers but from the scattering of sources I found they look to have been smaller and less potent than the stereotypical Longbow; they also look to have been very much a secondary weapon.

I then found a few quotes from the so named Gerald of Wales who mentioned encountering the weapon in the 1100's in use by the Welsh however the way he mentions it was as if he had never encountered one (indicating that the weapon was not common in England) not long after 1066. Fast forward a few hundred years the Longbow is being used by Yeomen and Commoners across England, forming the backbone of the English Armies during the Hundred Years War and with its use widespread and ubiquitous.

TL:DR: How did go from Ancient Britons with Slings and Chariots plus the odd short bow to the Bow-lite Saxons and Normans to the Bow heavy Armies of Edward III (and the ubiquitous use of the weapon in the British Isles)?

In terms of: costumes, dialouge, traditions and events.

Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, etc, etc are well known today. They are obviously extremely skilled. But why do we know of them instead of other composers of their era?

Was it because they were extremely popular at the time? It seems most would have never heard their music. Were they the only composers of that era of note? Were they unusually skilled, and we have a lot of bad composing lying around for other patrons? Were they the only music that survived for some particular reason?

Did they hunt bisons? But were they able to? Since horses aren't present in America before the Spanish arrival.

And I know the lack of horses is also the reason why Meso-American culture never went far north. Since they never had the means to travel and cover large distances.

And steppe people also tend to remain nomadic. Never went pass the domestication stage. The Mongols are another example of steppe culture who remained nomadic and never developed farming. CMIIW.

So what was life for Native Americans like in the north? How was their cuisine? I'm not talking about Eskimos.

Turkey was probably a good source of meat. What else did they eat?

EDIT: Native Americans were also stone age people. Was the original tomahawk made from stone? How did they manage to produce the modern tomahawks made out of steel? Was it just some random axe they found and then just named them tomahawks? CMIIW.