I am working on a game set in the cold war, and I was initially against the idea of having “influence” be some arbitrary number, which I thought would be too gamey. But after a bit of research I came across the percentages agreement where Churchill and Stalin agree on spheres of influences using percentages.

I have looked up a few sources on the agreement, and most just seem to regurgitate the same few information (considering how “crude” the agreement was, I am not surprised there’s not many sources on the) but the one part that I am wondering and that isn’t even mentioned anywhere is what did the percentages of influence actually mean in the real world? How does having 50% or 70% influence translate to the real world?

Thank you all in advance for your answers :)

Hi, here’re in Italy people always wondered if Mussolini actually wanted war, i know that from the 20’ to the end of the 30’ Mussolini wasn’t seen that bad by the people but when war started, inflation went up and there was a whole civil war people hated Mussolini. Maybe he thought that his “Parallel war” stragegy would work? I’m asking here because anyone else has a clear answer

I don't even know if this is the right place to ask this and I honestly lack the proper language to ask google. So how do we translate ancient languages without linguistical keys (like the Rosetta Stone)? Are there real examples of this being done?

How about living languages? How did European invaders learn first people's languages at first? Or the inverse.

Hi, I'm pretty interested in audio or visual interviews of world war one veterans. I've watched most of the interviews on YouTube and I've really enjoyed them. The problem is, I can't seem to find any long interviews of World War One veterans that were made before the 80s. Maybe its just my search engine use incompetence but most of the videos I've seen are from the 21st century. I know these interviews are out there, can any one recommend a good place or film to find one?

Hi there, for an assignment, I am comparing Prospero's magic book to other historical examples of spellbooks or something similar, I feel like I have some things on the tip of my tongue but just cannot quite place exactly what I am going for here. The only one that springs to mind is the Necronomicon, but if there are others, fictional or otherwise, would love a handful of ideas. Thanks!

The entire prompt is very open ended and the topic is my choice so hoping it is fine to ask here rather than in the HW specific subreddit.

Hi! I have looked at a number of sources and cannot come to a conclusive answer. As the title suggests, I'd like to know how many troops would be able to be transported on various ships around 1500-1600s. I've seen a number of sources say that a crew of 50 for a Carrack or 20-30 for a Caravel. But, mainly I find sources stating how much tonnage of cargo it can carry. I'm unfamiliar on how to translate that to actual troop counts.

How would a medieval army, for example, transport 15,000 soldiers from one coast to another? I understand that they may use a fleet of many variety of ships. I'm interested in knowing which types would be mostly used and how many actual soldiers, not crew, would be able to land ashore.

Was cheese generally something made by each family? Was it generally aged, or were soft/fresh cheeses more common?

I understand the reason behind why Native Americans are called Indians or American Indians, but why hasn't there been a push to change it? Respected news outlets like NPR still use that term, and so do many books. Why not call them Native Americans or something similar?

I'm looking to read 30-40 pages of any primary source document from prior to 1500 CE to analyze the

biases of it. Are there any particular documents that come to mind which has strong bias? Thank you

Recently finished reading Elizabeth Greenhalgh's The French Army and the First World War, and towards the end she states that conscription ended offically in 2001. After WW1 I can see why, but surely they would have gotten rid of it after the second world war. Did they just forget to end it? Or is there something else to the story?

As I have read numerous books on that topic and have watched documentaries around that topic, I would like to ask for your honest opinion. Was JFK shot by Oswald or it was a bigger conspiracy? I believe that the Cubans have a huge part in the shooting of JFK because I've read a book last year, Live By The Sword by Gus Russo(1998) in which the author gives a pretty detailed analysis on Kennedy's Cuba obsession and claims that Castro gave a green light about the murder as a sort of revenge because of US attempts to kill him. Oswald's life is detailed also in the book. I highly recommend it. So what do you think - was it Lee Harvey Oswald or somebody else was behind it?

Today marks the anniversary of Oklahoma becoming the 46th State in the United States of America. I'm reading a historical section of a local Oklahoma newspaper which claims, "During the American Civil War, most tribes in Indian Territory supported the South." I am curious as to the veracity of this claim. Did most tribes really support the South? If so, are there any insights into why any particular tribe would side with them? Likewise, any insights into tribal opposition of supporting the South?

We would like to know more about the KKK because we are very interested in the political situation during 1865-1945. I hope you can answer some of our following questions.

We know that the KKK was a big group but why was such a radical group popular at that time?

We know that there was a first and a second KKK uprising, what was the difference between them?

On the internet we can find a lot of information about the original KKK group, but less about the group that came afterward. Can you tell us more about this?

How did the first downfall of the KKK happen?

Where did the KKK get their typical clothing from and why?

Was the KKK during the specified time period controlled by one leader or were there many different factions of the KKK?

Ancient Apocalypse (GH’s show) is the 2nd most watched show on Netflix worldwide.

GH thesis in short: there was a sophisticated civilization living in the last Ice Age that was obliterated by a global natural disaster. The survivors of this civilization transferred their skills and knowledge to hunter gatherers eventually giving birth to important civilizations in Mesoamerica and/or Egypt and/or Asia.

I was reading some old posts from /u/EnclavedMicrostate and i saw this tantalizing bit:

The core of the Red Flag Fleet consisted of ships and crews hired as mercenaries to intervene in a Vietnamese rebellion in the 1780s. After the rebellion was stamped out in 1799, the crews returned home to Guangdong Province, whereupon it was discovered that the mobile elements of the provincial garrison had been moved inland to fight the White Lotus Rebellion, thus preventing the provincial armed forces from taking action against them – not that the Qing had possessed a substantial naval force since the defeat of the Te family (also written 鄭 but Romanised from Hokkien this time) in the 1680s anyway.

Which inmediately attracted my attention because my understanding was than the Qing never had any significant naval strenght.

So, who was that family? How did they fall?

I’ve always been interested in medieval weaponry and tactics, finding it to be some of the most intriguing stuff in military history. I know that during that time there were many different weaponry and armor meant for different tactics, so this may not be a good question, but I was wondering that if I was an every day soldier during a time of war, what combination of equipment would I want to have when I see combat?

I’ve heard the Pole Arm or Halberd is considered the most versatile ones, is that true? Would you pair a pole arm or spear with a shield? Any knowledge you have I’d love to hear!!