I'm watching this show about the plague in the 14th century. The show focused on effects in Europe, and mostly Western Europe. There was mention that every living person at that time (no qualifications on location) knew someone who died.

But there was no mention whether there were any known effects in Africa?

And, since it originated in Asia, what happened there?

Finally, is there any information if anything similar happened in the Americas, prior to diseases being brought from Europe after 1492?

It seems weird in my opinion, lots of European nations got their capital sieged and occupied once or twice. Austria did, France did, Prussia did, Russia did. There are probably more examples of this(I think Spain and Portugal also had their capitals occupied).

Ottoman Empire was a very old nation, founded in 1299 and fell in 1923. The only time I remember Kostantiniyye being occupied is after WWI by France and UK. Why did no other nation ever occupy it before this? Were their rivals(Russia, Austria, Persia etc.) too weak to occupy Ottoman capital or were there other reasons? It seems particulary weird Russia never did it, as it would reinforce their claim of being Third Rome, and also the fact that Constantinople and later Kostantiniyye was the center of Orthodox Christianity.

Nowadays, anyone can watch virtually any foreign film because of the internet. Did Americans watch foreign films that we would consider classics?

I live in a conservative Christian area, and a friend of mine committed suicide recently. I'm anticipating someone saying that he's going to hell for his action, and I was wondering about this especially because suicide wasn't abnormal for the Romans, the largest group where Christianity gained hegemonic dominance originally.

Unlike the conquests of 1204 and 1453, which are known to be sieges of an epic scale, the reconquest of Constantinople in 1261 seems like it can be summarized as "some guys sneaked into the city and deposed the emperor". I was wondering about the details of this event, and hoped some of the brilliants minds of this subreddit could shed some more light on it.

Hello! I keep hearing about how homosexuality was normal in ancient Greece so I have a few questions:

1. Was it accepted for a man to have a male lover and not be married to a woman?
2. Could someone have sexual relations with both sexes?
3. Finally, was homosexuality actually seen as something normal or was it something you hid?

Can anyone elaborate, or has heard of this tradition?

I'm working on doing some writing set in the Baltic States / Poland / Lithuanian area set in the bronze age. I'm looking for information on what village life was like:

1.How were the villages governed?

2.What food crops were grown?

3.What trades were practiced (Carpentry, bronze smithing, etc)

4.What did the villages look like?

5.Who were the town/villages VIPs?

6.How were children raised/educated?

7.Was there an active priesthood?

Any information you have would be helpful, especially pictures (well, artists' renderings), books to read, essays, etc.

Asking again for a bit of a bump. Thanks!

As the ship was said to be 'unsinkable', did the survivors of the Titanic get any sort of financial compensation? Are there any records of families or businesses of the deceased suing?

As far as I understand, the switch from Republic to Empire wasn't seen as a fundamental change of the state, but I'm a bit confused as to the terminology. Did the Romans refer to the empire as the Imperium Romanum, or as the Res Publica Romana? Did it shift over time? I mean, the Byzantines referred to it as the Basileia tōn Rōmaiōn, so I'm asuming they stopped calling it a Republic at some point, right?

How long ago do we know that people kept dogs like they were a member of the family and gave them affection/walks and taught them trick? Since there are many different dog breeds all across the world did various cultures treat dog ownership differently?

If we went back in time 100 years or so, would even immaculately clean houses and buildings look a little dirty to us, given all the new cleaning products and tools we have available to us now?

One tactics I've seen for sieging castles and fortresses was sapping- tunneling under the walls, either to collapse them or to allow a small force to get within the walls and open the gates from within.

Did any of the major powers in WWI try something similar (tunneling under the enemy trenches to strike at the guns) after both sides were strongly entrenched?