I don't know when glasses were invented/when they grew common, and I somewhat doubt they've been around long enough to cause an actual evolutionary trend, but thought it couldn't hurt to ask you guys. Thanks!

Were the people of the Middle East who were being converted to Islam already Christians? Was Christianity mostly replaced by Islam? What was the religion of places like Indonesia at the time that they began being converted to Islam?

I'm currently reading Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome by Carlo D'Este and every few pages he references official histories. Why do different governments commissions them? Who writes them? Who decides what's important?

Hello. I would like to ask you for help to find something about my grandfather. during the ww2 he was in some KZ camps, in Natzweiler-Struthof, Dachau and in Schömberg. He was persecuted as a political prison as we know and a month ago we found the date of his death. I´m so sorry but my English is not so good to find documents. Some dates: Bela Molnar, born in Megyercs Hungary (now Slovakia), he was born 14/7/1912, he was a butcher. Sincerelly Ferenc Molnar

In HBO's John Adams miniseries, Gen. Washington is shown wearing a uniform of blue and gold. The same is shown of Continental dragoons in the TV series "Turn." Is how the Continental Army actually dressed, and if so, how did those forces come across those uniforms?

I've read both on this subreddit and /r/badhistory that many Westerners don't really understand Sharia law. After doing a little bit of reading it doesn't really seem to be any different than any other legal system, so what explains the general hostility towards it?

So this morning I was sitting on the crapper reading reddit on my phone when I saw a post here about Ronald Reagan. I remembered I had seen an episode about Ronnie on drunk history (and not knowing how strict the subreddit is, my apologies gang), so I posted a reply without thinking anything of it.

The replies got me thinking, how accurate are the various 'history' shows (The History Channel has turned into something of a farce) we consume through various sources (TV specifically, though I'm inclined to include streaming media)

And in fact a follow up would be, are there any shows we CAN trust from an historically accurate view.

Thanks and again, apologies for posting without thinking.

I hope it's clear what I'm asking. I know the HRE wasn't a country like France and England were. So I'm just trying to understand how that would play out to a person living there.

With two very different economies and cultures surrounding the two sides, why did the north feel like they had to keep the South in the Union? Was it because of the morality of slavery or were there other reasons?

I remember that I found some time ago articles that claim that Artillery kill 65% of all combat casualties during WW1 and around 40% during WW2.
Sadly I cannot find this articles anymore.
Does anybody have sources on how much Artillery kill during WW?

This is inspired by a scene in GoT when Ramsay Bolton claims all he needs it "20 good men" to stop a slow moving army from reaching them.

Also Witcher 2 there is a SAS-style breach and room-clear scene with guys covering with cross-bows as the door is breached, followed by men running in with swords.

It all seems too far fetched to me. Is there any evidence for small specialised tactics like this? When did special forces style tactics really develop and take shape?

Most modern watches still show the current phase of the moon as seen in the sky.

I was wondering why that information is important?

Farming? Sailing? Other uses throughout history?

We hear about the ones who formed businesses and bought land and basically become the founders of the country but I'd imagine a great deal wouldn't want anything to do with Australia after their forced emigration and years of forced Labour and imprisonment. I think I wouldn't.

Did this not happen often because of the cost of passage, or were convicts actually disallowed from returning despite having served their sentences? Or did it actually just happen all the time and I just never heard about it?

How did the Teutonic Order affect the population they ruled over, if at all?

It seems like since WWI, many aspects of culture have been dominated by the US, including music, film, literature, television, advertising, and even the Internet. Dissidents call this imperialism. makes sense.

Why is it then, that "American" sports never became global? American football barely has a presence outside North America, and baseball only has a dozen or so prominent nations. What made American sports so unappealing to other nations?

I'm especially interested in how the British reacted.