The mass aerial bombing of Germany and Japan targeted their major cities and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, but did these air raids ever manage to kill any important Axis personnel?

I'm in an intro archaeology class and we just talked about Monte Verde in South America. A site discovered that meant the people living there lived thousands of years before natives could have passed through Alaska from Asia.

It was preserved so well because organic, easily perishable materials were trapped in a bog this whole time."A bog is a mire that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material." To me, dead plant material sounds like the perfect, moist, bacteria ridden substance that would biodegrade pretty much anything relatively quickly.

I understand how ice can preserve things extremely well, but warm, moist, bacteria-full and wet material? How?

I know that the Romans were active city creators and many of the cities that they founded are still around (Trier, London, Istanbul, etc.) so that got me to wondering how they chose the location for a new city. Were there any guidelines, manuals, handbooks, etc. on how to do this?

I've been told that during the colonization of the America's, the western powers intentionally covered blankets in smallpox before giving them to the natives, as a form of biological warfare. Is this true?

did something happen within the last 10 000 years which made building cities easier/more useful?

Thanks for any answers

As a Romanized Samnite during this period, would people treat me differently? What sort of propaganda was used during this period, and was it anything like, say, America's WWII propaganda against the Japanese? Would I have a Samnite "look"? Do we know if there were any instances of racism during the Social War? I am wondering this because while reading the Wikipedia page about the Samnites, I found this:

By 82 BC, the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla conducted an ethnic cleansing campaign against this most stubborn and persistent of Rome's adversaries and forced the remnant to disperse.

I just have to wonder, if Samnites were such a nuisance to the Roman Republic that a genocide took place, would Romans have viewed a Samnite - even a Romanized Samnite - in a negative light?

As someone in the LGBT+ community, I take note of important figures in history that I could relate to. I've noticed though, that there's a lack of abundance of important people who are gay or lesbian that play a part in history. Of all the prominent historical figures, it's hard to believe that only a handful were members of the community, considering how many people played a part over the course of all time. With the exception of a solid few, I've never actually heard of many figures who were gay prior to the twentieth century.

I know that some important people were queer- Oscar Wilde, DaVinci, etc- but there really isn't any particular historical notice of any gay people until you get to around the 1950s. That's when, to my knowledge, people began to pay attention to the community and the stars/celebrities/famous figures in it.

So, were gay people always around? I know what happened in ancient Greece (there's a Childish Gambino line that goes "fuck boys like Socrates", lol), but were gay people as abundant everywhere as we are today? Or were people who were LGBT+ just not documented in records?

I'm looking for a French history book that centers around the time of Napoleon, but is more holistic than that. I want to look at France as a whole, including some time before and after Napoleon's rise to power. Basically French history of the 17 and 1800s that's not just about Napoleon and his life. Thanks a bunch

Okay from what I understand Babylon was around from 550 B.C. - 330 B.C. Roman Empire was around 27 B.C. - 285 A.D. as a whole.. the west - 285 - 476 the east 330 - 1453

Basically what I want to know is a few things..

• When you could go visit the Roman Empire was Babylon still around and unconquered?

• How many years is in between Babylon and the Roman Empire?

because B.C. is backwards it is mind mending to the say the least.

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I'm asking about the names themselves.

Edit: I probably should have said, "the two major sides in the United States."

I realize that this is a tricky one to answer, and if it's not possible I understand.

This was touched on slightly in the recent panel AMA, but I wanted to go more into the question. It's overwhelmingly common in fiction for a woman who's accused of witchcraft to be single and a successful dispenser of herbal medicine, with the accusation coming about because of a power struggle with the local religious authorities.

From the surviving records, do we know how much of this stereotype actually was common during the 15th-17th centuries? For example, did most accused witches have a history of curing people with herbal knowledge/folk magic? Were the various parts of the stereotype more common in different parts of the period/Europe?

I'm extremely interested about this topic. I've conducted my own research but wasn't able to find answers specifically to this. It would be very helpful if this were to be answered.

I didn't much like studying history at school, but over the past couple of years I've started trying to educate myself. One period that particularly interests me is English history around 800 A.D.to 1100 A.D.

I was hoping people could recommend me some books about this period. I don't expect anything to cover the whole period, but I'd be interested in anything about the end of the heptarchy, the establishment of the Danelaw, the unification of England, and the Norman conquest.

Often in depictions of Communism we hear people use the word Comrade a lot, especially in greetings. Was this the case? Were there any other quirks in Communist etiquette?

From what I've read, rape had no toleration under Viking law, but other sources I've seen make mention of slave-rape and of Vikings raping even their male enemies to humiliate them. And obviously, the idea of the uber-rapist/pillaging Viking has to have come from somewhere- so where?

As the title says, what was the first written piece of music we know of in what we call the new world? What was it written for? Are there recordings?

Not much is mentioned about the UK vs. Japan in World War II, especially the public opinion. Do any of you guys have any ideas of what that might be? And can you link your source? Newspaper articles, political cartoons, anything of that sort would be a great help!