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Did Moctezuma really believe Cortes was a returning god? In my Curriculum there's two different books on the subject and they give contradicting accounts.

After watching Spartacus the sheer amount of intercourse these people had it only came to mind of how they avoided STDS etc?

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I'm assuming that the average person didn't have firearms, but what prevented a Soviet citizen from bowhunting on the weekends? Did wild game play a role in the informal economy?

Historic fabric does not necessarily refer to the buildings physical fabric. It also refers to its overall atmosphere. Such things as its viewscape, it's lighting at night, and other intangibles can also be historic fabric. So, if a house is widely considered to be haunted, would eliminating the ghost be harming historic fabric? If I removed a painting of the home's most famous occupant, that would be damaging to historic fabric so if I remove the dead occupants spirit, I would think that, too, could be harmful. If I don't know the importance to the house of some physical material, like, say, some wallpaper, I let the wallpaper remain until it has been thoroughly researched. If I don't believe in ghosts, I should still remain objective in case science proves their existence later, and not exorcise the ghost. Are there any experts from haunted house museums who can offer an opinion?

I've been studying the history of psychology and neuroscience such as the studies conducted by von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt. From what I've read it seems to me their studies depended on technology that could record time on the scale of milliseconds (i.e. measuring reaction times and speed of neural transmission. How exactly did they measure these types of things with precision back in the late 19th century?

Sorry in advance if this is the wrong sub.

In entertainment alternate-history/fiction I keep seeing the theme of the Soviet government suffering some sort coup, usually sparking or intensifying a war with the West.

Was their government ever really in risk of that?

edit: During the cold-war!

A while back, I read something about a military leader who was moving his men through an area that he knew the enemy was observing. He did not have enough men and knew he was outnumbered. He marched his men in a giant circle to make it appear as though he had hundreds of men when in actuality he only had several dozen. The enemy chose not to attack because they felt outnumbered.

It may not be exactly that, but I thought about it a little bit ago and I'd like to read more about it. I've tried googling it but I'm not even coming close to the right answer.

Thanks.

Like gambesons etc.

Because I cant really envision them being useful, but if several cultures used it it must have worked, right?

I observed that the questions on /r/AskHistorians I am most interested in are the one about the history, propagation and popularity of ideas ("Were there slavery abolitionists in ancient Rome?" "When did the idea of borders arise?" "Was torture widely accepted in middle-age europe?", etc...)

"History of ideas" provides a time-line of intellectual discoveries and theorizations but it mostly focuses on the intellectual elite and may talk about an idea as widespread while it may be a minority in the popular opinion. For instance one would say that in 1871 the idea of a French Republic was pretty popular within the intellectual circles but elections showed that most French people did not accept it yet.

I understand that it is much harder for historians to study the popularity of ideas in a general population rather than in the set of people who would actually spend a lot of time writing about their opinions but I wonder if such an effort as ever been attempted and if there is a good resource I could find to learn what we know about the spread of ideas.

EDIT: Can someone explain to me why this question is apparently inappropriate?

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I have heard many claims that the German Tiger tanks and the Russian KV tanks were prone to mechanical failure. Did other heavy tank designs from that era also suffer from those problems?

Also, although this is more of a technical question, was this the consequence of faulty design, i.e. could it have been prevented, or was it a consequence of the materials of the time simply not being able to reliably withstand the stress put on them by the operation of such heavy vehicles?

Similarly, considering that modern battle tanks are just as heavy, if not heavier than their WW2 predecessors, what has changed to make them more reliable?

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Even when southern States and it's police oppressed blacks even more(remember when police attacked civil rights workers there in Alabama) so why did riots in the North and West Coast broke out more than so of the South? Especially with Jim Crow Laws. What is a differences between the regions?

Was it ever used as a guise when shipping very important cargo/personnel?

We've all seen (and most of us own) a t-shirt with our favorite band's name or logo. So which musical group was the first to set up a merch table and sell a band shirt?

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