I mean from anyclass?

I am currently researching what daily life would be for citizens of Venice (the city, not the wider territories controlled by the city), and having trouble finding good sources. I've found plenty of books on the history of the line of Doges, the city's various wars with the Ottoman Empire, political jousts with the papacy and other larger historical facts, but more intimate and personal details remain elusive. I am hoping someone has good ideas for some books or articles which might provide such details.

Some of the questions I'm looking to answer include: How was the city policed? How densely trafficked were city streets and paths vs. canals? What would the diet of a regular (IE non-aristocratic) citizen consist of? As a mercantile city, how many different languages might one expect to encounter? At this time how much construction would have been going on? What materials were buildings at this time composed of? Stone? Plaster? Wood? What kind?

Any help you all could offer would be greatly appreciated.

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Given the contents of the rest of the documentary, which I highly recommend, I'm inclined to believe this statement, but I'm wondering what evidence we have of the FBI's involvement in the drug war and its intentions to specifically target the black community in order to quell civil rights activism. Also, is there evidence, such as statements from Nixon, that the war on drugs main intent was to imprison blacks?

Edit: Full quote below.

I mean, yeah, you know, the 60s was very revolutionary in terms of thought and in terms of imagery: 'black is beautiful,' 'we love ourselves'. And it's documented, it's not even a myth or anything that is a conspiracy theory, that the community was flooded with drugs in order to stop this stuff. I mean Hoover and the FBI, they made sure that the drugs were an influence in the community, and it certainly had its effects - just like how drugs affect your brain, they affected the community and made everything out of focus. Everything fuzzy. The drugs almost had a renaissance when they did the same thing with crack. It was heroin then, it was crack after that, but that's.. you know, people who are poor and oppressed, they focus on survival. The drugs seem like an easy escape route.

To hear many in Italy say it, Italians weren't so culpable as their German or Japanese counterparts because a great many Italians resisted Fascism (and Nazism when the Germans took over the north), to the point that it was a full blown 'civil war' as opposed to an entire nation of people being on the wrong side.

Other Italians will say that's bunk, that in fact the vast majority of Italians were either backing Mussolini or at least going along, and that the Partigiani and those who truly supported them were not more than a small, valiant minority. In that era, an entire generation of my wife's family were in the resistance, and this 'small minority of heroes' counter-narrative seems to be what they hew to.

I'm thinking the truth falls somewhere in the middle?

It seems like there would be more assassinations between co-consuls who disagreed on major things. Then they could just name somebody with similar ideas, or somebody who would just do whatever they said.

But the co-consulship deal seemed to work out for everybody. Why?

In films, medieval armies seem to be fairly rag tag with ill fitting chainmail and people mixed in with different weapons. Was that the case, or did some armies look smart and sleek?

If you pull up Google maps and look at the area surrounding Tashkent, the borders are very odd between these three countries. Borders do not seem to be based on rivers or mountain ranges. Another interesting note is there are some cities owned by one country that are completely enveloped by another (see Vorkuh, Tajikistan which is completely surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, cut off from the rest of the country). How did the modern day borders of these countries in this specific region develop?

EDIT: *the in the title, not "he"

Aztec's origin lore said they migrated from servitude in the north in land called Aztlan to Mexico. Is there any argument made that links Aztecs to Mississippian culture?

We all know that Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans experienced a lot of discrimination during WWII while living in the US, but what was it like to be an Asian American, particularly an East-Asian American? Did they experience lots of discrimination due to being confused for Japanese people? How much of the nationalist sentiment in the US was Japanese-focused as opposed to Asian-focused?

I live in the US. I hear about things such as the Rape of Nanking, and a number of other atrocities that were allegedly* committed by the Japanese during WWII. However, I get confused by this because of a Japanese friend of mine. He is normally pretty laid back and very methodical in his work. However, when it comes to war crimes the Japanese are accused of committing, especially in Korea and China, it's like a switch flips in him and he is suddenly very vehemently protesting it as all disgusting, made-up lies.

I suspect there is some deeply ingrained nationalist pride for his country that prompts this reaction when that topic is brought up, however, I can't really challenge it one way or the other because about all I know of the Pacific Theatre is: Pearl Harbor sucked and led to Japanese Internment Camps in the US; The Battle of Midway is generally considered the turning point from US being on the defensive to Japan being on the defensive; The atomic bombs were a "necessity" to end the war in a timely manner.

So, I would like to know of good, historical resources that I could use to educate myself about history that was basically never covered in my junior high and high school classes. Details of what went on the Pacific Theatre. Motivations for the parties involved. Atrocities/war crimes committed by all parties involved. As well as how sure we are it happened/how we know it happened. Please help cure my ignorance!

*allegedly because I genuinely can't say that I know enough to say they occurred, or to what extent they occurred.

It occurred to me the other day that creating a flight of stairs or a ladder is not a simple invention. At what point did humans go from having single story buildings (houses or otherwise) to having buildings be two or more stories? What did they use to get to the top?

The Bible has been scrutinized to no end throughout the years, and biblical criticism is the study and investigation of biblical writings that seeks to make discerning judgments about these writings. Has the Quran (or any other religious text for that matter) been studied the same way?

I've heard that the number of New Testament ancient manuscripts greatly outnumber those of other ancient works. I'm having a hard time finding a source that feels unbiased, but I don't see anyone strongly debating the numbers and dates.

Can anybody comment on why this might be? Was there a unique culture of preserving those documents within early Christianity? Were they simply copied and shared a lot more compared to other pieces of literature for some reason? What's the story on why we've found so many manuscripts compared to everything else?

Also, what other advances did Genghis Khan develop ? I've heard the Mongolian empire, once established, was very accommodating for it's subjects (how much truth is there to that?)

I'm mostly curious how people from the steppes of Mongolia developed such an amazing yet simplistic innovation in archery, where Europeans had long bows, crossbows, ballista weaponry, etc.?