I am spending the summer in Maine and have always been fascinated by indigenous peoples. However, documentation regarding the Abenaki seems to be scarce.

So the Knights Templar around the 14th century have a series of bad losses in the Holy Land, the nobles don't like them, they own all sorts of money and land, there's a lot of mystery surrounding them.

The inquisition start to arrest them and extract confessions of heresy and debauchery via torture. In 1307 apparently there were as many as 15,000 arrested in France and thrown in the dungeons.

Here's my question: You're a holy warrior order. You own everyone's money and land. Theoretically you are in a vaguely sustainable position. A bunch of people, who gave you their money and land for keeping safe, turn against you. Then this group of theatrical guys thumping bibles start arresting your guys, on bullshit charges, spreading propaganda, and torturing your men. Why in the world did the Templar's Grand Master not say: "Ok, that's cute. I have the gold. I have the land. More importantly, I have the swords. You're fucking dead, mate." and march an army into the inquisitorial holdings and start killing bitches? It doesn't make sense to me that they even allowed this stuff to happen to them, seemingly without much of a fight. This seems like a reasonable thing to do.

Anyone able to shed some light on this for me?

I'm doing a research paper for my Western Civilizations class on how the Muslims viewed the Crusades. I chose the topic because everything I've ever heard or read about the Crusades up until now has been Christian European biased and I never questioned otherwise.

However, I've had a little trouble finding many decent sources that are easily accessible while researching and I thought asking everybody here at /r/AskHistorians might help me find some really good sources to pull from.

I can use any sources necessary as long they're reliable but I don't have very long to finish this so it can't be anything I have to order online. Online books, websites, magazines, physical books, etc. are all acceptable. I'm not asking to have the paper written for me, I just would really like some help finding research sources and thank you for the help ahead of time.

More often than not, during medieval fairs, you see medieval surgery equipment, so i wondered if peasants or merchants could afford surgeries or doctor visits. i kept the era broad because i dont really know when this equipment was used.

Learning my historiography for an exam on the operational art, but can't seem to find any evidence outside of the Final Report to Congress that the Gulf War embodied AirLand Battle doctrine at all. Wondering if anyone has come across any scholars that claim the Gulf War was anything but an application of the classic principles of operational art?

Before WW1, the German Empire was home to many different nobles and royal families. I assume most of these nobles were still around when the Nazi Party came to power, so how did they react to it?

What I'm trying to ask may be a bit too general of a question, but pretty much, why weren't the nations of Africa's technology as advanced as the European colonisers? Was it lack of war thus leading to less technology advancement or they just happen to not develop as fast ?

From Arian heresy that prompted The First Council of Nicaea in 4th century to the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" in 9th century, heresies have always been calmed with public debates and councils before the emperor. It seemed to me that persecution was rare - very unlike medieval Europe which did not hesitate to punish heretics through inquisition and the like.

Why did the churchmen and bureaucrats prefer to negotiate heresies instead of silencing them with force? Roman Empire didn't seem to be that weak at that time to enforce violence. The clergies were also close to the emperor to, as far as I understand.

I have wanted to know what war crimes and the numbers committed by the already mentioned groups during WW2. How large in casualties they where, if the troops protested and such. Also I am not asking about the Holocaust in Romania as in the deportation of Jews to Germany but crimes committed directly by the already mentioned groups. And if there are some good sources or books about the subject.

You have to go back to the 1500s to see a Danish king not named either Frederick or Christian, and it seems an unusual custom to alternate between the two. Is there any specific reason for this?

I read somewhere that someplace it was common to have a bell where you where buried, in case you where not dead.

I find them incredibly hard to read, how do historians read them?

I heard somewhere that certain colonies in the eastern US were popular with settlers from particular parts of Europe (and more specifically certain parts of the UK), and this led to the different accents that developed (so one state had more immigrants from, say, Cheshire than anywhere else, meaning its accent was more heavily influenced by Cheshire accents and dialects).

So my question is:

a) Is this true? and

b) Has anyone mapped out the different accents and dialects to their source? Because this would be very interesting to see!