I’m really interested in how tribal cultures and society have actually worked, for examples theres many interesting languages and religions certain modern tribes have but do those tribes have any documented history of theirs? Or at least how their technology progressed via archeology?

I would really appreciate any articles, research papers which are easy to digest or documatries on the topic

Just to set things straight - a small timeline:

• 4th century BC - Aristotle proves the Earth is round
• ~200 BC - Eratosthenes calculates the circumference of the Earth
• 2nd century AD - Almagest is published describing the spherical Earth
• 1492 - Columbus tries to find a different route to Asia Around the other side of the Earth
• 1632 - Galileo Galilei is put on trial for his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems for proposing that the Earth is flat

So why was Galileo Galilei prosecuted if it was already well known by Columus's time over a century earlier.

I am currently reading a biography on the life of Alexander the Great. What struck me about the book was how Alexander conquered, for example, Egypt. He then 'installed' his government.

For the common folk outside the city that didn't experience sieges, did they know this happened? Obviously the Macedonian army was small comparative to the landmass they conquered, why didn't they just act like they were conquered, then when the Macedonians left, return to business as usual.

Even further, with Caesar conquering Gaul, how were the Gaulic people outside the city centers 'know' they were Roman? Obviously it isn't like the game, Age of Empires where the color of their shirts didn't spontaneously change from green to red.

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Thank you!

Context = I'm new to this community and as a history task I was asked to find out what my great grandparents did in the war/wars. So I've got two questions as I can find little online about both.

1. WW1. One of my great great or great grandparents was a royal marine or RND as it says in Gallipoli during WW1 although I'm struggling to find any information about him or what happned all I know is that he passed away in something called the third battle of al kiritha.
2. WW2. My great grandfather who I knew and survived war didn't talk about any of his experiences all I know is that he was part of something called Force 136 according to my mum who knew him best.

Any help would be great as I can't find much information on both of them

Many Thanks

So I was thinking of the Chinese situation where you have a number of highly divergent dialects (or languages I have no dog in that fight) using the same writing system.

I was curious if during the period where the Romance languages were perceived as Latin dialects whether you started to have highly divergent pronunciation of the same written words leading to a similar situation, or whether the pronunciation of written Latin texts stayed roughly similar across regions.

Why was Berlin split between the 4 major powers when it was deep in the Soviet zone? Really seems like it would cause tension from the offset. And why did the Americans get Bremen?

For instance why is “Anglo-Saxon” specifically the thing to define white Protestants in the US? At the very least they were like 600 years removed from Anglo-Saxon dominance in England when their ancestors left for America. Were settlers to the new world from England actually literal Anglo-Saxon descendants that were fleeing Britain after centuries of not being given titles or important posts by their continental overlords?

Like for a resident of the Danelaw region when William the Conqueror came through and ensured that everyone was now his subject as the king of England and this was no longer an autonomous Danish territory or whatever, would they be left with their language and culture to do what they want? And they just slowly blended into the “anglo-Saxon” and “English” culture over time under their French lords? Like why don’t northern Englanders that likely are more descended from Scandinavians more recently and more often than saxons, have an anglo-Danish or anglo-norse label or something? What made “anglo-Saxon” stay the dominant label for 1000 years of other groups coming along and jumping into the gene pool?

Publicily at least, they seem quite cordial with each other.

Hi, I’m doing a school project about the treaty of Utrecht and how the golden age of piracy was affected by it? (1713), would anyone have any good sources for information that can help me answer this?

I've heard this phrase a lot - it's quoted in the song 'The Green Fields of France' for example - and as far as I know it was a contemporary phrase.

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Did people of the time believe this to be literally true? And if so, why did they believe that?

This question occurred to me when watching my little brother play Battlefield 5. Were the native inhabitants taken prisoner, relocated, or something else? Was life the same after the war for the inhabitants of the islands?

Hello,

I am currently writing a historiographical essay and I was wondering how much of my own opinion or voice should be in the essay. I find that I am primarily just summarizing the arguments and debates of each historian regarding the subject and not providing much analysis. Is this the wrong way to do it?

Heya.

So I am writing an essay on the success of Prussia during both the Franco-Prussian and Austro-Prussian wars. An idea I would like to discuss is the role which weapons technology had in those victories, with the main focus being on the Dreyse Needle Rifle and the advantage that it gave Prussia compared to its neighbours.

Now while I have been able to find sources discussing French arms at the time, I am struggling with finding sources about the weapons which Austria used at the time, and thought that maybe this would be the best place to ask for help.

Thank you, and sorry if this is the wrong place entirely to ask lol.

In the story of Prometheus he is chained to a rock and every day an eagle eats his liver, no other part of his body, but his liver specifically, and then his liver grows again for the eagle to come eat it again the next day

I always found it very odd that out of all the body parts the eagle could have eaten and regenerated it was specifically the liver, the only part of the human than can actually regenerate

This makes me suspect that maybe ancient people had noticed that the liver could regenerate, and this fact inspired that story in some level. However I have no idea how ancient people could have noticed this, but perhaps they simply were a lot more cleaver than we give them credit for

Or it may simply be a coincidence

Hey I'm looking for any good books on the Parthians with scholarly ones being the preferred choice if there any?