I know that the Steppe is a chaotic place to live and that mostly there wasn't a direct line of succession in most cases but I was curious if there was any relation between Idantyrsus and Kahn? Can't seem to find evidence either way.

I know there are a lot of different tribes therefore probably a lot of differences among them.

But how did child care happen? Were there certain people/sub groups within the tribe that watched children? Sort of like a daycare?

What kind of discipline occurred?

Were parents all on the same page as to how they took care of children? Were there rules for child care and raising a child as part of the tribe?

Would other parents intervene if they thought a child was endangered?

Plenty of land, food and opportunities. Yet Native Americans didn't exactly over populate the landmass. Why not? Was it too much warring between the tribes that got ride of the extra people, keeping population growth in check?

Hi r/AskHistorians,

I was recently exploring some Civil War history with a couple of friends and one became captivated with General Sherman and abolitionist John Brown. I have a number of books (Battle Cry of Freedom, etc.) that deal with Brown and Sherman as part of larger studies of the Civil War period, but what are the best books/biographies about them individually?

I've heard a lot of them in songs like Three Ravens or My Son John but it isn't something you hear any more. What was the purpose and why did it die out?

I'm familiar with the basic timeline of events in Yugolsavia from WW2 until the modern day but not much beyond that. Two things I often see stated as fact, but havn't seen much proof of eitherway, is Tito being incredibly popular and loved within Yugoslavia and admired by other Eastern Europeans. Those seem true with people from that part of Europe today but that is just anecdotal.

The other I see is that Tito was extremely opressive and Yugoslavia was a policestate, sometimes said to be on the same level as the USSR with killings, etc.

The difference in the way the wars were fought was huge - one was a war which took a year and cost 1,000,000 casualties, another took four and a single took 1,000,000 casualties. However, the technologies (except for the machine gun) used at the beginning of the war appear to be fairly similar.

If it was used, what was it used for? Was it used as fuel? Was it valuable? As a side question was it used in ancient Egypt?

The prevailing view on the Japanese surrender in this sub seems to be that the atomic bombings had an effect but a comparitively minor one compared to the Soviet DOW. This makes sense to me in a way, after 3 or so years of having their cities wiped out again and again its understandable that the Japanese government would be pretty numb to that sort of thing. What doesnt make sense to me is that they were already preparing for a joint US-UK invasion, possibly supported by more nukes, fully expecting people on both sides to die by the truckload, why would the addition of the Soviet Union rattle them so much?

I'm curious to know to what extent did the governors of provinces in the late roman republic get to make their own decisions and to what extent did they have to answer to the senate.

How centralised was provincial decision making? How much was devolved?

I would ask for all matters of life, but am mainly interested in mythology. While still debated and discussed, and not fully understood or accepted (from what I could gather), PIE is like the skeleton to the various bodies from Europe to India. Does Africa or Asia have something like it?

(Looking up Proto-Asians only bring up "Mongoloids", and Proto-Afroasiatic only shows language.)

I'm just writing a paper for history and I've come across a problem. I've been reading through a few books and I can't find an answer to this question. Since "cleric" and "clerk" are derivations from the word clericus, could any cleric or clerk claim the benefit of clergy, even if they weren't ordained?

Henry, the father of the first King of Portugal was made Count of Portucale, but he was a burgundian noble as far as I know. His son benefited from the help of a large Norman fleet to conquer Lisbon. Friendly relationships with Frankish/Germanic regions must have been a factor they would certainly use in securing their power base in the Iberian Peninsula.
How stretchy is it to say that the concept of Portugal was originaly a Frankish/Germanic enterprise in otherwise Hispanic and Arabic Iberia?

I find it hard to understand the purchase of military commissions in pre-modern Europe. The purchasers were usually the nobles, who were often unwilling to grant taxes to the Crown. Yet, when it came to military commissions, they were willing not only to serve (i.e. to shed their bloods), but also to pay for the privilege to serve? It sounds like a rotten deal.

They must have got something out of such purchases, in addition to the sense of knightly honors, right? What would that be?

On the other hand, from the Crown's perspective, how did the King make sure his military officers were competent, when such positions were actually bought?

Literature, both contemporaneous and recent, as well as TV shows, make it seem that all an English gentleman truly ever wanted to do was to go about "sporting" on his estate. Is my impression somewhat accurate?

As I was trawling through different pictures and videos regarding the Eastern Front in WW2 I couldn't help but notice a lot of Asiatic looking men in The Red Army and I became pretty curious about the involvement of Russia's pretty diverse ethnic groups in WW2.

I am watching the show the Tudors, and I know it is not historically accurate. Still, I will ask this question all the same.

In the show, an English lord named Thomas Culpepper goes out with his friends riding through the country side and comes across a peasant woman on her own. Thomas and his friends rape her for fun.

Was this a normal thing that young lords were known to do regularly? Did they go in to peasant villages for fun to rape the common women, or was this scene just fictionalized for TV with little basis in history?