I have this image of natives living a life of abundant hunting and easy gathering living in an almost ideal human habitat while I picture European life of the same era to be filthy, brutal and wretched. How accurate is this conception?

I never took Latin and Google is being uncharacteristicly unhelpful. Does ibera mean something to the efect of limit or furthest point?

It seems rather odd to me. Did Vietnam just not have its own writing system until they began using the Latin one?

I've looked around the internet and read Ashley Jackson's "The British Empire and the Second World War," but I can't seem to find a source stating how many total troops from the Empire served during World War 2.

I'm going to Turkey for a couple weeks in September, and I'd like to get a book to introduce me to the history. The linger the timeframe, the better - I love books that stretch from prehistory to the present. Scholarly or non-scholarly are both fine. Thanks!

EDIT: I should clarify, the book doesn't need to be prehistory to today, I just meant that I'd like it to be expansive as possible, time-wise.

The title might be a bit misleading, My real question is; Where there any land units in the kriegsmarine? I've heard countless stories of the Russian marines and their ferocity, Did the Germans have anything similar?

So at school and while visiting various sites in Germany I was told that the Vikings raided various towns along the Rhine river, some of them more than 100 km from the coast. But how were they able to make it down the rivers? Shouldn't there been any defensive installations blocking access to the river?

Also why was there little costal defence? From what I could find out they were feared for brutal attacks and stealing many treasures. So why was little done against them?

Sorry for the poor phrasing, but I'm looking for the name and some examples of the fallacious notion that civilization has always gotten more "progressive" or "liberal" or whatever you want to call it; basically, the idea that over time, a stable culture will always tend toward more sexual freedom, tolerance, etc.

Of course most deaths must've been by bullet but close combat was still widely used right?

I'm not American and this question just kinda popped into my head.

Why were they the only ones that were slaves (in the US)? Were black people treated the same way in Britain at the time?

I am doing research for a worldbuilding project, and I am working in a period analogous to the time between 1400 and 1850.

While there is a wealth of information about the latter parts of the Age of Sail, the time between about 1200 AD and 1600 AD has given me more difficulty.

Development of the Carrack from the Hulk from the Cog is faily easy to trace and fighting styles of these ships would have been fairly standard archers / boarding, Carracks began to mount canon.

I'm a little short on sources for how effective these were or what ranges they had and thus their influence on naval warfare.

Just by the way, the worldbuilding project is /r/Conglomera, and I am developing the Rahi Vasa Company, a non human spin on something like the East Empire Country obtaining statehood on a alternate planet.

I Drove by a crazy spray painted sign left by 9/11 deniers and it made me wonder if all tragedies have a certain set of deniers. Of course I know about the Holocaust deniers but wondered if other WWII events had deniers of their own.

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What would define as a "popular" history?

So I've been hearing this idea quite a lot and it was my understanding that wealth across the world was pretty equal until the industrial revolution, which was pretty much independent of colonialism, and therefore colonialism had little effect on the wealth of the common man. I'm just wondering if this is truly the case, and if so why does this idea that white people have privilege because of colonialism so widespread?

Obviously, keyboards are very common in rock bands, especially today -- but they aren't part of the "standard" three- or four-piece set, and were less common at rock's outset. Other instruments, though common in jazz, country, and bluegrass, are seen mostly in subgenres of rock, or as "color" novelties in rock bands. Why?

The film shows Eazy-E as being up in arms after the departure of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. He is also depicted as going broke and returning to drug sales. However, Eazy-E put out several platinum albums after Dre's departure. In addition, I'm fairly sure that Eazy-E got a lucrative deal upon Dre's departure, hence the lyric "Dre Day makes Eazy's pay day." What does AskHistorians think?

A local tour guide in Copenhagen told me that the reason why portraits in the Rosenborg and other similar castles had their mouths closed was that most of their teeth were pulled out or blackened. Is there any truth to this statement?