I've booked a holiday to Canada in August, but I've realise I know nothing about Canadian history. I would like to know some basic history of the place before I go.

I assume real life adventurers wouldn't go killing dragons (although that would be pretty badass) but maybe they were the Ines finish the boring quests like finding the lost goat of the farmer outside of town ;)

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If not necessarily as an enemy, at least as...not a friend? Did anyone see the sun as anything other than an ally/friend/provider?

I remember reading a long time ago about a city (I think in Germany) that helped protect the citizens from daytime bombing raids by having mesh stretched out above the city. This mesh was painted to look like something other than it was.

Mesh stretched over the lake (if I remember correctly) was painted to look like factories/houses, and mesh over factories and houses was painted to look like forest and lake.

Did this actually happen?

Since the Church was involved in music of the period, and since the Church kept monks separate from nuns, should the alto and soprano voices of a male ensemble be sung by a boy and a castrato?

I assume that most of the Africans that were brought over as slaves to the Americas were "lower class" in their African societies, rather than being part of the royal family or higher social class. Is there anything else they might have in common before they were enslaved?

I've read before the Norman invasion of Ireland the preexisting Gaelic system was a type of proto communist society. How true is this and what was it like for the people of that time?

There seems to be little historical basis for Germanic or Celtic speaking "barbarians" to dislike Mediterranean cultures for "decadence", however I frequently see this trope in video games, television etc. Roman and Greek material goods were a central feature in the socio-political structure of Gallic chiefdoms, and both Celtic and later Germanic aristocrats seem to have taken up Mediterranean customs and titles with enthusiasm when incorporated into the Roman empire.

So where did this trope originate if there is little historical basis for it in antiquity?

Having studied the Chinese language for the past few years, I can't help but notice that compared to other cultures, city names such as "northern capital", "southern capital", "on the ocean", "fragrant harbour", and "western peace" seem to be rather unoriginal and utilitarian. Is anyone able to elaborate on how these names came about? Do western cultures have the same issue, but it's just obscured because they're in archaic forms of the language?

Just curious steam punk everything is now like something cool and fun and ill admit it can look pretty sweet but also very impractical for every day. Was there ever a point in our history American or in the world where the steam punk fashion was in use?