Aside from bringing back agricultural products from their colonial possessions, do we know of any field that the natives of these places were ahead of Western colonial nations? We constantly hear that the natives of these lands were astounded by the technology of the West, do we have any record of this situation in reverse?

All else being equal. And I'm thinking mostly of a 1-handed axe.

I was getting into an argument with someone about cultural appropriation. Basically, all I was saying is that I can see why it's viewed as disrespectful for the offpsring of white settlers who committed genocide against the indigenous population to begin wearing the attire of that culture.

The response I got was this:

Your head is way too far up your ass to have any idea of what reality looks like.

I told him I'd come here to ask to see if it really is fair to call this genocide. This is mostly so I can rub it in his face, but I am genuinely curious if my layman understanding it really is fair to call a genocide.

Thank you!

It just occurred to me that I don't hear that much about George W. Bush. It makes sense that a person would want to go back to living a normal life after stepping down from the presidency. But after seeing Obama end his speech with "Obama out" and dropping the mic, it seems impossible that he's going to stay out of the national limelight.

I've read that good slaves could cost thousands of denarii in Ancient Rome. So, if a rich Roman bought an expensive slave (or several) at the slave market, how would he pay? Would he have to hand over the physical cash there and then, or was there some other sort of system in place?

Maybe a veteran of a hoplite battle and a boxer?

I mean, not just the business or its commercial history, but how books where put together and sold in classical Greece, Rome, Byzantium; medieval Europe, talked about what the books were likely to be published etc,? How a book was sold, promoted? Were people more likely to learn something formally by reading or by being lectured? All that and more. I can think of a great many questions surrounding the history of the book; I haven't found any books addressing it directly. Thanks,

Specifically the background of the PLC

What would the crew be eating for their meals? What would be the normal portion sizes? Beverages? How did this compare to a typical New England diet at the time? If it was a slave ship, what was likely to be fed to the enslaved people? Do we have any recipes from the time?

I'm working on an interpretive program for later this summer, and know absolutely nothing about maritime diets.

This may seem like an odd question, but I'd assume they didn't have alarm systems.

After the fall of Berlin, the Russian army attacked the 750,000 or so strong Japanese army in Manchuria and crushed it. So, when Japan surrenders, the Russian army is still sitting in Manchuria. Considering how long the USSR occupied East Berlin, as well as the animosity left over from previous conflicts with Japan, it seems that the USSR could have kept some or all of the Manchurian territory. What kept the USSR from occupying Japanese territory? What effect did the Russian Army in Manchuria have on the eventual Japanese surrender?

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Just seems odd considering Spain and France weren't particularly maritime nations and yet they both had a lot of oversees holdings and it doesn't make sense to me why Denmark never had anything more than Iceland and Greenland (and a few negligable Islands across the world)

I guess my question is, how afraid were powers in Western Europe of the Mongol Invasion, did they do anything about it, and was this a reasonable fear?

I ask this because I was reading up about the Hussite Wars and realized that the Papal States actually called multiple crusades against the Kingdom of Bohemia to quell the tide of Hussite heresy there. Was calling up a crusade a big deal by the 1400s? Would the nobility care at all? Would the common people even know about it if they didn't live in the Holy Roman Empire? Were those final crusades against Bohemia and the Ottomans viewed with nearly as much chivalry and glory as the first four so many years previous?

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