I've thought of this a considering the Mongol empire wasn't immediately dissolved after his death and even after the hordes lasted for quite a while before they ultimately fell. Surely something worth knowing must've happened during that time?

It's an interesting and often overlooked part of World War Two, and I'd like to learn more.

When reading about the Paris Peace Conference (PPC) there is no mention of anything related to White Russia, apart from the USA being in favor of a strong united Russia to counter Japan, as far as I can find.
Why were the Russians, who were one of the first Entente to declare war and suffered majorly at the hand of the Germans not invited to the PPC?

Which states were generally stable? Which states were still developing/in shambles? Are there any exceptional cases to look at? Basically am wondering who was well off and who wasn't and why if that's not too huge of a question to pose!

I am studying a History class at school which is starting soon and it would help a lot for homework (which I have now and need help with).

After talking to my dad during his retirement tour of the southwest, and his visit to Tombstone, AZ, I was wondering about how many people were killed in the conflict between Wyatt, his brothers, Doc Holiday, Earp's Posse, and the "The Cowboys"?

This is a legendary piece of the American West, yet aside from a few details about the OK Corral shootout, I don't know much about the ensuing conflict.

Actually, my question is a bit more precise than that. I'm currently reading James McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era" and it's fascinating. I'm Belgian so I knew (know) very little on the Civil War and I'm getting quite passionate about it.

McPherson's book is very well done but something isn't quite clear to me. In the runup to the war, it seems that the Democratic and Republican platforms are the opposite of what they are now. The Republicans are anti-slavery, prevalent in the North and East, and unwilling to compromise with the Southern States. The Democrats are mostly anti-abolition and seem politically closer to the Southern States.

Now, it seems the roles are reversed, with the Democrats being more progressive and with bastions in the Northeast and the West, and the Republicans being socially conservative and Southern oriented.

This might be a brutal oversimplification but I'm really curious as to what happened between 1860 and now that explains this apparent shift in political aims.

I have tried to google this and have not found much. I know the peasants ate a lot of rye bread but how did they prepare it? I am interested in what the poor or common people would eat. Not nobility. And I know sometimes they had to eat literally whatever they could find, but assuming it was not a family year. What would a typical let's say Russian or Lithuania family sit down to for breakfast? Dinner?

Read somewhere but tried searching for it on Google brought up nothing. I know the first car was around 1885, and the first manmade satellite was (Sputnik 1) was on 1957 & on 1961 with Vostok 1. Is the "in ~100" years correct then?

Thanks!

I'd like to know if we have any archeological findings related to Classical Greece (e.g. the days of Socrates, Pythagoras, Thales, Plato, Aristoteles, etc.)

We have tons of amazing temples, beautiful statues, amphorae & pottery fragments depicting various scenes from Greek myths and legends, to warfare, to the daily life of commoners, yet I find it extremely strange and disturbing that we can't find anything related to science.

Thanks!

EDIT: Thanks all for answering!

1. I'm dismissing texts as a reliable source of info, because no originals subsist (it's a shame they didn't use clay tablets like in Crete). So we have only copies.... of copies .... of copies, most of them "appearing" during the Late Middle Ages/Renaissance, with many containing inconsitencies (e.g. the Greek language used being sometimes too "modern".) Hence restricting the scope of my question to archaelogical findings.

2. The Antikithera mechanism: I think it raises more questions than it answers, such as: was it really made in Greece? Having been retrieved from a shipwreck, could it possibly be that it was imported from somewhere else (Persia/Egypt/India), and not made in Greece? As /u/SmokeyBear81 mentions, it uses the Egyptian calendar.

Moreover, it was only discovered in the last century... Does this mean that historians from, e.g. the 19th century, really had no material proofs?

3. Klepsydras: they were invented in Mesopotamia/Persia, and the oldest klepsydra was discovered in Egypt (14th century B.C.)

4. I 'd consider a "valid material proof" to be, e.g. a painting/mosaic/sculpture/engraving of someone holding a scientific instrument. Or a pottery fragment with a sketch of Thales' theorem on it.

If the Mayas and the Indians had no problems engraving their temples with numbers, then why can't we find something similar for the Greeks? There must be something.

I know they are all against Jews, but why?

^I ^know ^Zionism ^is ^the ^goal ^to ^create ^a ^Jewish ^country.

I'm not a historian, and this is a question that has bothered me for quite some time, since I feel that a lot of the history we are taught is kind of Euro centered. Through Latin America, "Indian" (indigenous) people are looked down upon, and thought of being dirty, savages, ignorant, even to this day. A legacy from the Spanish conquista. And this is why I'd like to see a comparison between Spain and the new world's civilizations (Mayan, Aztecs, Zapotecs, Olmeca, Toltecs, Inkas etc) at the time of the conquista. What was more advanced and/or thought of differently in each part? (Like the difference in the understanding of wars between the Spanish and the Triple Alliance people) We hear a lot of the beautiful things that Europe has produced, but I have always been curious to know what the beautiful things from the ancient American civilizations were.

Thank you and apologies for my bad English

Hey r/Askhistorians! First of all, I apologize if this isn't the sort of question one ought to ask here. Anyway, I know very little about the history of Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries (more specifically, I'm interested in the period between the Thirty Years War and maybe the Seven Years War), and I figured if anyone could recommend good general histories of the period, it would be you guys. It seems like a fascinating period in history, but is sadly neglected in modern American education. I'd heartily appreciate any suggestions!

Hi, I am writing a radio piece about a story my Grandmother used to tell me about a sunken U-boat and I am hoping y'all can help me. Basically the story goes that at some point during the Second World War a U-boat was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico and ticket stubs from shows in New Orleans where found in the uniforms of the drowned German sailors.

Now, it doesn't take much more than a cursory search to figure out that this is a total urban legend. Part of a paranoid hysteria spawned from the fear people had of the success the U-boats were having along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts during early to mid 1942. A 1st page only google search will come back with several versions of the story from all over eastern North America from Newfoundland to Galveston.

It is my understanding that there were some sabotage and espionage missions which were undertaken. But these stories are different. They exist to underscore either the audacity of the German Uboatmen or the level to which they could rely on German-American traitors.

So my question is if anyone has a lead on an original source. Were these rumors just the result of a culture of fear and speculation only. Or were they planted? Some government agency hoping to remind everyone to trust no one and look over their shoulders or maybe a newspaper man cashing in on the war frenzy. Anything that points me in the direction of a verifiable printed account would be awesome. Thanks.

I'm currently reading "A Broken World" by Sontag and he mentions that the German colonies were distributed to the Allies after the Treaty of Versailles. What colonies did Germany possess?

I want more insight on this.