Also what's the fartherst known trade route? Did the Inuit trade with the Incas, for example

Historically, were places such as Kashmir, Tibet, Ceylon, Bhutan ever considered "India"? (Refering to the Region, not the Current Country). Were parts of Southeast Asia (Burma, Siam, Laos, Vietnam) considered parts of India when they were majority Hindu?

Would I feel a sense of solidarity because they are Christians, or would I harbor ill feelings- even possibly blurring the lines between Orthodoxy and Islam? This questions applies to all Crusades in the Holy Land (and not just the 4th).

Did either side view the war in a sectarian sense?

And can topographical surnames indicate Norman and or Lombard ancestry? Can you point me towards anything that indicates so.

Also, can you recommend me some good books or documentaries on the Normans of the South and how they conquered and ruled Sicily. Thank you.

The Anglo-Saxons used their first names and a patronymic or byname (such as Cnut the Great or Cnut Sveinsson). But a nobleman who wanted to introduce himself, how would he include his title?

Sorry i'm not native english, and my tought is tough even in my language.

Nowadays, if you read, listen news and talk shows, commentators and normal people, talks about how the people are downgrade, moral values are under the feet, and so on, and indeed the whole world will burn.

So I was asking myself, people did the same long time ago? They toughts that their generations were the worst ever exist? Any evidence?

I see many people says "humankind sucks, we need the extinsion" or "this planet sucks"

Sorry for the dumb question, but I must asked. Not sure if this is the right sub.

I'm having a hard time visualizing the scale of things in the 15th century british isles. People tend to generalize "medieval times" into one stagnant point in time, so I run into confusing scenarios along the lines of...

"soldiers were elite warriors hired on an individual campaign basis. people grouped up in towns accompanied by a fortress inhabited by a battle-trained warrior and maybe a friend or brother with similar combat experience. He would then dictate the actions of his people in order to fend off and discourage attacks."

that's all well and good, but then i look up professions and jobs from the time, and I see oddly specific, high-population jobs like "catchpole" - one expected to find people with debts and make them pay up.

How could a civilization small enough to be dictated by a knight and a handful of castle-dwellers have enough debtors to keep a catchpole employed?

I'm also unsure about when the law stopped having trials by combat, fire, water, and exile, and started imprisoning people. I've heard that prisons were once reserved for nobility that you don't want to risk hurting if you weren't certain of their guilt, and eventually there was a shift where the nobility would be exempt from prison when awaiting their trial.

What would an average 15th century town look like in terms of architecture and population, and at what point did stone masonry begin to dominate cities, leaving any plant life as negative space?

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I was in class the other day, and they were talking about Indigenous Australians and how they made it to Australia. Was Australia isolated after it's original discovery?

Were people voting more than twice? Four five six seven times?

Also depicted in the movie were more votes then populous/ballots. Was that sort of thing common?

Experts in voter fraud at any time are welcome to answer this question. I'm sure each period has its own different voter fraud tactics. I am interested to know how many votes the average person voted, how many votes someone could get away with, dead voters, suppressed voters, forced voters, the rich swaying elections (paying voters/delagatrs) and anything else unusual or interesting.

Sorry if this is too wide. Feel free to let me know a better way to ask or if I should focus on an era. I'm happy to edit the body for more focus.

I mean wouldn't batter just be a waste of flour?

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There were many famous black singers/musicians, such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole. How were they treated back then? Did their race affect their careers?