Were the Arab conquerors already familiar with Roman-style baths, aqueducts, and arches? Why were they able to maintain these structures, when the people of Europe could not?

Opposed to 4 10 hour days or working all 7 days

It has been some time since I reviewed the primary sources so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the Chronicles of both Jean Froissart and Geoffrey le Baker, as well as a couple others, describe the prince as having every intention of fighting the battle at Poitiers. Furthermore, considering the outcome of the battle and the extensive preparations taken on behalf of the Black Prince's army, the notion that the Black Prince had always planned on confronting King John II isn't too far-fetched. For those of you unaware of the outcome, despite outnumbering the English ~3:1, King John II was captured and the French army was thoroughly crushed.

However, in a letter written to his father, Edward himself states that he was attempting to retreat from King John's forces. Likewise, the movements of his army in the weeks preceding the battle imply that the Prince was seeking to return to the safety of Bordeaux. The Black Prince's victory at Poitiers can be seen as evidence of his brilliance as a military tactician. Considering the sheer size of King John's army, and that Edward had no way of knowing how poorly organized and undisciplined it was, it seems reasonable to conclude that, as a military commander, the best option would be a tactical retreat.

I'm interested in hearing why historians, in their own opinion, either believe the Prince was or wasn't retreating.

They won first place in the 1984 Sarajevo winter games but third place in the 1972 Munich summer games. In 1990 their population was only 16 million.

Obviously its not a weird hand position but the fact it is used in christian prayer (atleast for a few hundred years) and in japan for praying at Shinto shrines (or just in general) and im sure other places seemed interesting to me. Did they influence each other or did this hand position come about independently?

I've always heard that "Napoleon was short" is a myth, because while he was only 5'6", that was actually above average for French men at the time. But now I'm reading Napoleon: A Biography by Frank Mclynn, and he discusses Napoleon's shortness multiple times, including disparaging remarks made towards the Emperor by his own people. So can anyone clean up this discrepancy? From what I've read, Frank Mclynn is a reputable historian, so I don't think this is a silly mistake on his part.

I need specific information regarding the questions below, Im supposed to have 1-2 pages for each question. Links to articles, or anything informative of the topic would be much appreciated, thank you!

1. IDENTITY – e.g. How did the identity of Native Americans (in terms of qualities like gender, race, class, religion, and region) change?

2. WORK, EXCHANGE, TECHNOLOGY – e.g. How did changes in the economy and technology affect Native Americans? How did Native Americans participate in various labor systems?

3. PEOPLING – e.g. In what way did population patterns among Native Americans change after the arrival of the Europeans?

4. POLITICS AND POWER – e.g. How did various European groups deal with Native Americans? To what extent and in what ways could Native Americans participate in the political system? What political and social values affected them?

5. AMERICA IN THE WORLD – e.g. How did events in the Americas relate to contemporary developments in the rest of the world?

6. ENVIRONMENT AND GEOGRAPHY – e.g. How did interactions with the natural environment and various geographic regions shape the lives of Native Americans and the arriving Europeans?

7. IDEAS, BELIEFS, AND CULTURE – e.g. What moral, philosophical, and cultural values most clearly were associated with Native Americans?

I realize this question walks the line of fitting the subreddit rules in that it must be "A question about the human past". So, 20 years ago people were using the internet. 12 year old me was graduating from dial-up bulletin boards playing L.O.R.D. and downloading various items spread into dozens of megabyte sized RAR files. Obviously, networks had existed for a long time, but the early 90s saw a marked expansion of the casual public using the internet.

Are historians going to be able to study and explore what internet culture was like at those times? How daunting is the explosion of documents and simultaneously the lack of permanence to many of those documents? Is this a whole new field that is opening up?

I heard once from a professor at Uni that main reason for this is the lack of broadcasting equipment of sufficient power to cover whole USA area (and thus provide a broadcast that could be received by millions simultaneously) at a time when radio and TV were becoming popular. Is this true? Also from this I conclude that is why so many smaller broadcasting companies were established throughout US rather in commercial manner than to broadcast state-funded content without additional charge. Was government ever involved or interested in running a public radio or TV station? I know that currently some public spendings are made to PBS but thats still not a public station in my undestanding.

I know this is broad and involved physics, history and whatnot but this subreddit seems to be the best place to ask such questions.

Sorry for my english, im not a native speaker.

As a graduated history major I still enjoy looking backwards and connected dots. I was moving backwards from WWI to the Treaty of Berlin in terms of causality and it's looking like the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire is one of the root causes of the succeeding wars of Europe. So I was curious about events caused by preceding events.

Did they consider him a "Blasphemer" like the ancient Greeks?

It doesn't particularly blander than other Western European cuisines, yet is a common butt of jokes.

In classic European literature, there are some accounts of an island named Thule. I was wondering whether there's some historical evidence for that, so I decided to ask AskHistorians.

So what I'm asking is who the greeks referred to when writing about the people of Thule and where it is. I know the island Thule doesn't exist, but I'd guess there is some place in the world (Norway, Iceland, etc) that would fir the description.

I'm trying to make a mod for the game EUIV that makes Chinese technological development more historically accurate. The main problem I run into is that there doesn't seem to be (as) many indigenous technological innovations once the Qing Dynasty took control. Can some of the experts on here help point me in the right direction for research into this area? Does anyone have theories on why this seems to be the case?