So I live in a town just north of the city of Richmond Virginia. Recently I have found arrowheads dating back to the archaic period. I would like to learn more about the natives who lived in the area and am wondering if there is a way to pinpoint who they where? Could any one point me in the right direction or information as to website or literature would be helpful.

Thank y'all have a great day.

This is such a stupid question but I recently visited Roman ruins (more specifically Vaison-la-Romaine, a beautiful spot) and you can see the remnants of public toilets attached to the forum, but there's just one room.

So I was wondering, what's the deal here? Were Roman toilets unisex, or were women expected to hold it until they were back home, or...?

Side question, could slaves use the public toilets as well?

Is there any literary or cultural significance as to why the Trojan War lasted this long, or is the timeframe simply a way to convey "this was a very long and taxing war"?

How come out of all the cities in Japan, the US dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima? Was it because of population density or were there important government buildings worth taking out?

Wich books/authors to begin to understand military history(Strategies, people, weapons, general mind, how they war, concepts) ?

I read something recently that mentioned there was a brief period of time during Reconstruction when American black and white could’ve begun to be equals, to have a level playing field for the first time. (I don’t have the book for an exact quote.)

1. How true is this statement?

2.The black codes, and the Jim Crow laws are, I assume, what put an end to that brief moment of equality. But since the 14th amendment now granted all the black people citizenship and protection under the law, wouldn’t that have made the local Jim Crow laws illegal?

3. If the Jim Crow laws were illegal, did no one ever try to sue or go to court?

Thank you in advance!

I understand that this question is rather uncouth, but in light of current events I have become curious as to the validity of rumors of Nancy Reagan's past sexual exploits that have been recently floating around Twitter and beyond. To my knowledge most of these rumors have their roots in Kitty Kelly's 1991 book Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography, but how much verifiable truth is there to the claims made in this book?

Is it true that during the Salem witch trials, the "afflicted girls" would get people hanged, and then their parents would buy up (or be awarded) the land?

Portugal didn’t try as hard to get involved in mainland Europe and mostly focused on trade and its overseas empire. What caused its decline? Especially since from what I understand they were also allied with the English, meaning their alliance dominated the waves rather heavily even in the 1600s and 1700s

Spain tried very hard in the 1500s-1600s to dominate Europe. Via the Holy Roman Empire and Italy and Netherlands it tried a lot.

Portugal was also an extremely rich nation at the time. But it didn’t really try this. Why not? What was their thought process?

So many people like to take the majority religion of early America as proof that Christianity should remain a dominant cultural force today. Ideally, I'd love to be able to say, "Actually, three quarters of the founding fathers were Muslim," just to completely invalidate their argument. I'll settle for knowing whether there was a decent non-Christian movement around that time.

Thanks in advance!

I went to a very conservative high school, in a strongly Republican-dominated area of the US. When we studied the Post-WWII era in history, we were basically told that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War and fell because Communist economic policy destroyed all industry in the Soviet Union. My history teacher told us that Communist leaders forced people to leave their homes and travel hundreds of miles away, and told them what crops they had to grow regardless of whether the farmers had any experience growing those crops, or if the soil and environment were conducive to growing such crops. What we were told was, these decisions were all made by bureaucrats who had no knowledge or experience with farming, so they just picked crops out of a book and assigned them to plots of land. This was done because this is how a command economy works. Local entrepreneurs have no power to make decisions because a bureaucrat in the Kremlin makes all of the decisions regardless of whether or not it makes sense.

We were also told that the Soviet economy failed because nobody was financially rewarded for anything. That is to say, a person who refused to work was paid exactly the same amount as people who worked 16 hour days. So everybody realized that nobody needs to work to get paid, so everybody refused to work, and hence no crops were grown, no factories were run, etc. Everybody just kind of gave up, and the few people who worked only did so because the Soviet Army threatened to shoot anybody who didn't labor.

All of this sounds like some kind of bizarre caricature of Communism. I could go on and on, but you can probably imagine it all. We were told that America is exceptional due to our core values of capitalism and freedom, and that socialism is evil, etc. As an adult it seems rather unbelievable that the entirety of the Soviet Union's citizenry just "gave up" and eagerly awaited the government to give them "free stuff", or that the Soviet Army was literally rounding people up and threatening them at rifle-point to go to work every morning.

At the same time, everything I've read does indicate that the Soviet Union had extreme economic problems.

So, what's the truth? What really happened?

Hello everyone! I was reading a fictional book set in the 30s in the SU, when I stumbled upon a woman mentioning drinking tea with a candy between the teeth to get some sugar in her body because of the overall sugar shortage. Was that really common? Thanks!

Hello. There once was a vehicle. It could traverse many surfaces, and it had two rollers. There was one roller in the front and one in the back. They were super wide and made of some sort of rubber.

The tires dispersed weight so well that it ran over a human for a test and the human lived. What was this called?

I believe it was made in the America’s in either late WW1 or WW2

I'm growing out my hair for the first time in my life and I'm truly wondering how ancient people dealt with having long hair without things like hair ties etc. Seems like if not dealt with, long hair could really get in the way of hunting, etc. Do we have any ideas of how long hair was dealt with in the stone age?

Internet searches only yield modern music with themes that relate to Manifest Destiny. I'm looking for music produced back when Manifest Destiny was relevant and even glorified.

EDIT: The types of songs that inspire Manifest Destiny particularly, not ones that condemn it. And not just ones that include instances of Manifest Destiny, but are the entire theme of the song.

Considering Okinawan kobudo weapons tended to be blunt and wooden in nature, I am curious if non-Samurai were forbidden to own wooden practise weapons such as bokkens, suburitos, kanabos, and home made entirely wooden sticks sharpened at the edge into a stake to replicate a spear?

I'm curious to know more about the English longbows but I know very little about them. The Wikipedia article says they are usually 1-3 years old wood, that they were ugly and unfinished looking. Extra history mentions stuff about how the English boys of the time would have been taught by their fathers how to shoot, like cub scouts of their time.

I'm imagining something like, longbows we're suggested as a sort of national sport for people. I'm guessing the boys got their longbows by making them with their fathers, who built then to teach their boys to shoot. So when the time came to fight for their country, all the trained English longbowmen we're the adult boys who didn't their childhood learning how to shoot. This might also explain why the weapons might have looked ugly, or unfinished, was because the bows were handmade by amateurs just enough to be able to shoot, or something like that.

Who made the English longbows, originally, and how did the tradition of English longbows get started? Thanks.

I got an oddly specific essay question surrounding the Roman Army and the impact that Roman occupation had on some of its provinces in the West.

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So far, I'm planning to write about Roman loans/tributes in regions such as Tripolitania, to show how it negatively impacted the economy, but I also plan to write about how the Roman Army kept trade routes and sea routes safe, allowing for ease of trade and perhaps benefitting the economy in this sense, (although, of course, a lot of this would end up going back to Rome.) I also plan to write about how temperate Europe had a much greater military presence than the Mediterranean, but I'm not sure how I could implement economic factors into this?

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Would I be able to discuss things such as the creation of Roman towns, which were formally legion camps? Could I write about the resources that regions such as Gaul and Britain offered, which may have intensified military presence in the region? Not looking for loads of answers, just point me in the right direction, thank you.

Or, indeed, any Christmas celebrations and traditions.