Was it because of the weight? I think some kinds were used in the 13th-14th century.

I know the Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi were the largest of the war, and I've heard them referred to as super battleships, but I'd like to know how they compared to the battleships of the U.S. fleet.

In other words, what exactly made them super battleships?

There appear to have been a lot of building of monuments in the interwar period and from what I could see not too much has been talked about what happened to these memorials immediately before and during the war.

What were the attempts to save these memorials, if any? Were there attempts, say, by Nazis to destroy Allied memorials? If so, why? And what of the historical battlefields themselves, Ypres, Passchendaele, etc?

How often would a ship pass yours on the seas? Could you see other ships passing you all the time, or would it just happen every few days or so? And how often could you find flotsam floating around in the sea? And would ships of nations who were at war, engage eachother at sight or did they occasionally pass without fighting? But the main question is: How busy were the seas of the 17th/18th century?

Topics would include the Knights of Labor, the 1877 uprising, Homestead, the Molly Maguires, the Pinkertons/other private detective agencies, the IWW free speech battle in San Diego, and Ludlow.

Documentary will take a critical view of early American capitalism.

If you happen to know of a historian who would be willing to discuss these issues on camera please let me know. If you are that person please feel free to link me to your work or PM me.

Thank you.

the Jewish community has been consistently demonised by regimes and forced them from their countries. What was the original cause for history's repeated anti-semitism?

I heard this in the context of civilizations being (un)willing to learn from other civilizations, and how this sort of cultural chauvinism can hold societies back.

from reading fiction I'm given to understand that in the union army during the US civil war attrition in a unit was not addressed VIA replacements for the fallen soldiers, and rather new regiments where raised. is this true? and more importantly what if any was thought to be the virtues of this policy? and what where its flaws?

1. Why was that the case?
2. Can you describe how the Vikings and Saxons perceived the various tribes in (modern day) Scotland? Were some more feared than others? Or did they not discern between the various tribes?
3. Is it true that they were highly respected by the Vikings for being fierce warriors? In Bernard Cornwell's Saxon saga, the main character frequently mentions just how deadly the 'Scottish' (anachronistic, I know) are.
4. What type of training would your average warrior go through growing up?
5. What were some of their favored tactics? And would they be equipped somewhat similarly to the Vikings of the 8th-11th centuries? What did their weapons/armor look like?
6. Was the terrain perceived to be especially harsh by the Vikings?
7. How closely allied were the 'Irish' and the 'Scottish' during the early middle ages? Did they frequently assist one another in their wars against the vikings?
8. Can you recommend some non-fiction books focused on the warfare of early medieval Scotland and the Scots (or Picts, etc, etc).

Thanks!

Welcome to Monday Methods.

Today we will be discussing a topic that should be the bread-and-butter for documentary historians. That is, dealing with written sources from the era you study.

This week's thread will be a bit more relaxed, and anecdotes from your experiences handling primary documents are encouraged. Have a funny story about a missionary with terrible handwriting, or that time when you discovered that a widely-used translation mistranslated a crucial word? Feel free to share!

Have you experienced difficulties securing access to study the relevant document? How has document digitization affected the issue of access to documents?

Next weeks topic will be: Coming to grips with oral histories.

I was playing a game where you are a fighter pilot over London and I noticed a lot of time you were shooting down at another plane that was over the city. Would this have killed people in the street?

Were meteorites used as a source of of iron during the Bronze Age and earlier? I happened to read two comments that claimed as such, during a discussion about the importance of meteorite metal in legends and myths.

Not anymore, but back when metallurgy wasn't as advanced, meteorite iron was of higher quality than forged iron.

More to the point, meteorites were the only workable source of iron during the bronze age, so if you could get an iron sword when everyone else was using bronze. Even more true during the stone age--the Inuit were using cold-worked iron off a meteorite when they didn't have anything besides stone tools.

How accurate are these comments? Are there any sources that describe ancient iron tools forged from meteorites?

I'm not very knowledgeable about the Medieval time period, so let's just go by whenever the "peak" of the medieval period was. To expand, I've seen posts on here about the weak points knights would exploit in each others armor as well as tactics and equipments they would use to defeat each other, but my question is how would a normal levy soldier fair? Would he have the training and equipment to put up a fight or would the knight essentially run over him? While we're at it, where would mercenaries stand? Surely they would have similar combat experience, could a seasoned veteran give a knight a run for his money? I understand battles were pretty much always formation based and didn't allow for the duels you always see in movies, but let's just pretend somehow the knight comes face to face with one of these guys on foot.

I've been brushing up on WW1 and read that Japan enter'd the war on the side of allies because of their alliance with Britain and to expand its sphere of influence and gain new territories. But they were very anti western in the forthcoming year's what changed?

I play lots of cards but realized I don't really know much about their development and history. Anyone care to give an overview?

I am particularly interested in the active war periods, not veterans returning home after the surrender.