I mean, I know that many of the other Warsaw Pact nations used something other than the Hammer and Sickle on all their equipment, but why a compass? It seems like such a random object.

Hey there! This is going to be a strange question but it is heavily related to history. I was wondering if anyone on this subreddit had lived in Mexico close to the time of the Mexican Revolution or knew a way to get in contact with someone who was. I have to interview someone who understood what was going on at that time for class. Sorry if this question is irrelevant. I am just hoping that I could find some help.

Recently watched Lost Kingdoms of Africa and it amazed me how a few of these complex societies operated. Especially the Asante Kingdom in tropical West Africa being able to move manpower to clear forests for agriculture, extract gold to conduct trade, transport slaves, etc. with seemingly no archival methods.

Surely, someone was doing some kind of physical recording somewhere, no? How did these empires and kingdoms know how much in taxes they needed to keep the operation going? How did they know everyone (generals, soldiers) got paid?

I'm writing a paper on Beijing/Hong Kong relations but my professor keeps marking off because I'm not using enough primary sources.

Right now I have plenty of papers that are essentially analyses of certain events, or are histories of things. I'm not sure how or where to even look for primary documents that I could use.

Should I use newspaper articles? Or do I need something that is written in first person?

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As the title says, I'm looking for books or material on life in, specifically, the latter half of the eighteenth-century but would certainly settle for something covering the entire century. I'm not so much looking for an analysis of society but of living conditions, rectreational activities, diet, clothing, &ct. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

They were both part of the Roman Empire and had a chunk of Greek speakers so were they the first "Eastern Europe" or were they always considered to be outside of Europe?

I'm looking for someone who has a good amount of knowledge about this. I've tried looking into it myself, but there isn't that many good sources online.

The main reason is because I'm writing an urban fantasy novel that takes place in a district that combines working class, hipsters and a gay subculture - all centered around a single entertainment district.

It's not going to be super accurate (hence the mixed population of hipsters, working class and gay subculture), and it's not even meant to be historical fiction. It's inspired from the time period. The only thing is I have very little to go off of with the gay subculture part - wikipedia did very little to help this.

Any and all help is very appreciated, even if it's just in the form of reliable sources!

Edit: I'm looking for information around the US, especially in places that were Urban centers at the time.

I am in class that talks about the developments of eastern Asian martial arts and i know they both have an effect on eachother but im curious as to if one had an overwhelming majority of influence or weight to it. And i'm a fan of fun facts so there is also that.

I've always heard that Mongols were all devastating. Did anybody stand their ground, be it town, culture, kingdom or whatever and send the Mongols home?

Just to clear any potential confusion, in no way at all do I mean to imply that people shouldn't have made it out of concentration camps. What made me ponder is a documentary I was just watching about Mengele and medical experiments on prisoners.

Essentially I was wondering why some people survived for so long in Auschwitz (still acknowledging that a vast (?) majority died there)? As far as I can understand, jews, gays, political opponents, communists, gypsies etc were brought to concentration camps with the explicit intention to exterminate them and their kind...

So taking aside the fact that men were kept alive for slavery purposes, what motivated the Nazis to keep others who were of no direct "use" to them? For example, why did they keep feeding them? Surely it can't be out of compassion or about having qualms about their prisoners' misery... Were the gas chambers running at full capacity?

Or am I just missing something?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Watching Peaky Blinders, they often talk about "chalkers and rafflers" at the racetracks. I'm not sure what exactly that refers to, and google doesn't seem to be much of a help in the matter. Can anyone enlighten me?

I just started watching Turn on Netflix and it's mostly about spies during the revolutionary war. While I'm not expecting it to be historically accurate, I do enjoy a good story (like Marco Polo, for example).

One thing I immediately noticed were the wigs. It seems like 90% of the redcoats had those wigs, at least in the 1 and a half episodes that I've watched so far. Is this Hollywood's take on the outfit of the time, or was it actually a part of their uniform?

How many different cultures lived there, what languages did they speak, what gods did they worship, and where did they live?

How did that change over the course of time, up to WWII?