I was reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's book Reformation, when he made reference to the Japanese Christians. I know that they were severely repressed by the Shogunate after an attempted rebellion in the 1600's, but he makes reference to them surviving hidden and being rediscovered when Japan was opened to Western trade. He doesn't really go further than saying that they were discovered with some surprise.

Does anybody know more about this? Do they still survive? In what form?

I'm looking to learn more about this period which I know incredibly little about. I'm mostly looking for something that's more of an overview than anything too in depth, but I'm very interested in this semi-mythical period of history. Really, my only current understanding is that the Romans left, Angles, Saxons and Jutes came, kingdoms were established and they fought with each other a lot. The religious aspect of it is also of interest to me, having so many of them in the small landmass of Britain is quite curious!

Hello, i am about to begin my research and writing for my dissertation for my final year at university. As you can see i have chosen to focus on Trotsky and his influence on communism. I always struggle finding where to begin, can any body suggest some good reading and also some strong topics i could included in my dissertation to build a good historiographical debate. I have just started reading Robert Services book as a starting block but i need somewhere to go from there. Sorry i have been vague on both topic and content but i truly am at a loss. Thank you.

I'm a high school teacher, and one of the things drilled into my head during my training was that adolescents, even ones approaching adulthood during their senior year, are not just "mini" adults; their brains have different parts at different stages of development. Parts that will later be able to expertise control on impulsivity or planning or spatial awareness (etc) are still developing and will be for a few more years. It has been a few years, but I recall something like 22-ish was the general age when the brain's parts were laid out, but there is always plasticity.

But I also recall from earlier classes hearing about how adulthood started earlier at other stages in history (Here's where I am a little unsure). And I know it varies in different cultures. I've heard talk of the "invention" of adolescence, if that is actually a thing.

So, my question boils down to how was the adolescent brain different OR how did adolescents deal with these difference in their brains during an earlier adulthood OR am I completely off base and my understanding of adulthood is off?

Incredibly broad question, but I'm completely clueless on this.

Assume there's no language barrier please!

Before Europeans came into contact with these animals, what kind of interactions did humans have with great apes? Do they feature in any mythologies? Were they hunted for food? Did native peoples attribute to them certain characteristics we do today, like relatively high intelligence and a "close relation" to ourselves?

I'm secretly hoping someone tells me there were gorilla gods.

Edit: Forgot to mention Bonobos in the title. Them too.

Is this just the best way of labeling a large group of city states on a map, or was there notable unity there? Not by a single government ruling over them, but enough to label a place on the map "Greeks" I know about the Hellenic League, but I'm talking about before this.

I'm currently enrolled in a Russian History course (predominantly intellectual and social history), I'm grappling with how to view and interpret the Soviet historians that we are using as source material. What would be an "appropriate" (for lack of a better word) way to approach the material?

As far as I'm aware, all our names for the ancient tribes of Britain, Gaul, and Germania come from Greeks and Romans like Ptolemy and Tacitus, so we end up with names like Picti, Iceni, and Boii. But do we know what the Celtic tribes called themselves?