Working on an idea, and what I came up with was hatchets, knives, bayonets, and E-tools. What am I missing?

Japan had the nunchaku (rice flail), kama (sickle), and sai (winnowing fork?); England had the bill, flail, maul, and military fork.

Daggers, staves, and axes seem universal.

Did Northern Europe (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, etc.) have any particular regional variations on agricultural or levy weapons?

Well, this thread may be a breach of rules due to the fact that I only skimmed over the forum rules and FAQ. I also contemplated going to the Canadian ask historians, but I thought people from other countries could give me a better summing up of what Canada did from the outside.

So, what did Canada really do in the Second World War? I know about their participation in Operation Husky, the Italian Campaign and the fights in Normandy and Western Europe (Also when they liberated the Netherlands). But what exactly happened in the sea, the air, and at the Home Front? And overall, do you guys think Canada helped keep the allies from losing or prolonging the war (I'm gonna get yelled at because that may be a r/HistoricalWhatIf question.)?

Is there a pro-Democracy bias in History?

Its usually taught that Theocracies and Monarchies were naturally oppressive in comparison to Republics. While its true that the the quality of life has definitely improved in democratic areas, is the root of our wellbeing really owed to Democracy or rather Imperialism?

Also, people are glad to point out the concentration of wealth around power in Monarchies, but has the expansion of democracy hasn't exactly changed that?

I'm asking this because the majority of whiskey's are aged for 6+ years and I would think that people would not think to leave it for that long. Even leaving beer for a couple of weeks seems a bit long for them to leave it.

Did most of them come from southern spain ?

If so were they worse than nazi camps? How many more killed? And anything else you can add

I read that Christopher Columbus brought some native Americans back with him to Spain, but I could never find out what happened to them.

On a related subject, I have searched for European accounts of early America, but can't find anything. Most anything to do with early America is written for elementary school kids. Where can I find original sources, hopefully on the Internet?

I've read about how peoples from Northeast Asia surely would have crossed the Bering Strait at some early point in time, but I'm wondering how a seafaring nation such as Japan wouldn't venture east and happen upon North America, or why the people of Southeast Asia were surely aware of the islands in the Malay archipelago, but not Australia?

EDIT: I found a similar question, but that was about why the Romans hadn't explored the whole world by sea. I'm wondering more specifically why the neighbouring nations weren't aware of the Americas and/or Australia.

The people/time period I'm talking about is the: Greeks, Romans, Macedonians (At the height of their power), and Napoleon. Obviously there were no radios, so how did the general tell his troops where to go during a battle?

I've heard a lot about smallpox and the other diseases that came to the Americas from Europe. But I don't recall hearing about many diseases going the other direction. Were there any new, major diseases in the Americas that hadn't yet made it to Europe/Asia/Africa?

In the 1830s and so forth, why did the French-Canadians in Quebec foment the Patriotes rebellion (even if there were new lands like northern Quebec or the Prairies to flee to from British rule) whereas many Afrikaners merely fled the Cape Colony (in the Great Trek) and not so much rebelled against the British?

Pretty much as per the title, I've recently become interested in the numerous conflicts between Russia and Japan, up to and including World War II. I tend to have trouble getting my way through books that are too dry, so I'd like to request good prose over the level of detail if I can't have both (of course, not at the sacrifice of accuracy).

Also, What could the average person afford?

Edit: Posted before to add text accidentally.

I was always under the impression that a duchy was essentially a monarchy vassal to another one, such as the duchies of the holy roman empire. Why then was Muscovy considered a duchy, and the same for Lithuania, when both of them were independent? Why not a tsardom, or a kingdom?

I know that some Czechs could stay because my grandfather wasn't a German, in fact we have Austrian last name, and he never spoke German. At Czech schools teachers teach that all Czechs had to leave Sudetenland. I would ask my grandfather but he has Alzheimer's.

With all of this talk about ISIS in /r/worldnews a few people are very quick to defend Islam and are always quick to bring up the Islamic Golden Age. However a few other commenters have said that the Islamic golden age was more of an Arabian Golden age than an Islamic one.

So what say you r/askhistorians? Was it Islamic? Arabic? Both? or neither?

What was the reasoning behind deploying this as main tactic? Was the tech available not able to support an offensive military doctrine?