Did the style originate from wood-blocks? And did the style begin before or after western influence? What is considered the first manga/ anime?

Were they know as world wars during the conflict or is this a label history has given them?

What happened to them during the era of the state they lived in?

What happened to concubines who survived the abolition of an empire (Ottoman/Qing)?

What happened to the concubines that weren't "used"?

As a subsidiary question, why did they never domesticate bison? I imagine that they would have made perfectly serviceable beasts of burden for establishing farming on some of the most fertile land in the world.

I've read a decent amount about the Cold War. Most of what I've read seems to lend itself towards the idea that the massive amount of nuclear warheads in service for each country were mainly thought of as being used in retaliation to a nuclear strike by the other country.

What I'm saying is that I haven't read much of anything that suggests the Soviet Union or United States ever seriously considered making a first strike, or had a set plan to do it.

I know that there are several instances where nuclear war was incredibly close to happening, but I never got the feeling that it would go "It's Sunday morning here in the United States and... looks like the Soviet Union just launched all its available nukes."

When did swimming pools become popular? and hot tubs too?

I remember seeing some old shows about small passageways that we have yet to explore, and a possible room/repository near the sphinx. Is there anything that we "know" should be in either but have yet to find, or anything interesting that we suspect might be uncovered in the future? Do we expect to find any other major archaeological sites in the area (tombs, small pyramids, etc)?

I'm an amateur historian, and I'm really interested in the history of Mesopotamia and the Levant. Throughout my reading, I come across the terms Assyrian and Syriac. At first, I believed that they were the same peoples, language, and culture. However, the more I read, the more I realized that they were actually different, but I never got a clear answer as to what the difference between the two was.

In accordance with this question, what was the origin of the name for the modern country of Syria? Is it from the Assyrians, or the Syriacs?

Empires such as the Persians, Assyrians, Egyptians, and the Babylonians never extended into the Arabian peninsula during their respective reigns. Why is this? Was it because of the geography?

I plan to be doing a 15-20 page research paper this semester on the Yom Kippur War. In order to do this, I will need some good reading material. If any of you have any suggestions, I would be delighted.

On a related note, if there are any topics of particular interest to you relating to the Yom Kippur War feel free to post about them as well. I will look forward to reading responses.

I apologize for this lack of specificity.

Why did it replace the Eastern Agricultural Complex, and how? How long did the change take?

I am planning a solo 2 months trip to Turkey and wish to walk the roman/greek roads and aqueducts. Best I found on the net was colored lines without their names. If you guys have anything, you would really make my life easier!

So I just finished watching (yeah, yeah) a show about the War of Roses. In several scenes, people shout, "I am ___!" ("I am Henry Tudor!" "I am Anne Neville!") How were their captors 100% sure that they were who they claim to be? Couldn't a commoner just pretend to be someone they're not?

Even if the show was not historically accurate about these bits, how did people identify other people? How often did people lie about who they are? If they mostly told the truth about their identity, why?

I'm not interested in glorifying the guy. I just know that there's usually two sides to the story and history is written by the winners.

Is that true, and if so, why wouldn't they just grow their own?

Do we have any records of what we think of as science or speculative fiction from ancient cultures?

Why is the Tarascan Empire rarely mentioned in most history textbooks and general world histories? Is it because of the lack of a big conflict between the Tarascans and the conquistadores like the Conquest of the Aztecs or Manqu Inka's rebellion?