Hey guys. I'm not sure if this is the best place to field this discussion, if there's a better one let me know and I'll delete and repost there!

I'll do my best to explain.

Is there a place to view something akin to TV tropes, but more history based in comparison to fantasy? So something where you can see where popular aspects of the fantasy genre originated from. Maybe tropes isn't a good word.

Stuff that might be covered could be where the idea of "paladins" came from, why the undead are a popular enemy, the origins of some of the things you see in magic (if it came from a historical place.)

Some of these questions have been covered here, but I was thinking more of a place to easily find the information in the context of fantasy origins (because let's face it, the reddit search isn't amazing).

Starting from the Ancient World, with Ancient Greece etc., what dates would you set the periods to without overlapping each other. The problem I'm having with this is that various movements/revolutions seem to start while something else are still finishing up. Generally speaking there should be a viable cause (like the Crusades, the invention of the steam engine with the industrial revolution) or movement behind all of the dates. And the dates would extend all the way up until now, although applying periods to modern history is fairly black and white.

Researching the Holocaust, The Final Solution and ordinary men.

What were the key stances Goldhagen and Browning took on who perpretrated the Holocaust and how/how eager they were to do it, motivations, psychology etc.

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One thing I've learned about the Middle Ages is that it was not how I imagined it to be. That the geo-political structure was far more complicated than the simple pyramid taught in school. This makes me wonder if any medieval society actually met the stereotype.

This is a two-part question: 1. What is the modern-day justification Hindus use for not eating cows? 2. What are the actual historical reasons for this?

My family is Indian but we're almost all steak-loving atheists and I've never gotten a straight answer.

I'm also interest in how these soldiers handled this discovery.

Since EH Carr's "What is History?" there has been debate and discussion over the purpose of History, historians, and which outputs are most important for academic work.

What does everyone here think?