As far as I know, there is no reason to believe they spoke Greek. Their alphabet was unrelated to the Greek, and Minoan culture may not have even been of Indo-European origin. Are they considered Greek for any reason other than that Greeks would later settle Crete?

I'm confused because I'm getting information on Haiti being the first country to abolish black slavery and also counts of Chile completely abolishing slavery in 1823. I can't find any other country in the Americas that "completely" abolished it before then.

Does anyone know?

Not a question of much historical significance, but when thousands of troops parachute into a battlefield, what happens to their parachutes? My grandmother used to tell stories about silk stocking shortages in WWII -- surely the silk was just as valuable where the soldiers were landing? Were they collected?

Really curious, I can't seem to find much information about it online.

I ask because I can't recall hearing of anyone having any objections to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, despite his being Cuban.

Do any recipes survive from ancient societies such as Rome, Greece, ancient China, etc?

I've been reading the Forgotten Realms books for a while now. I'm currently reading the Drizzt series, and I'm just amazed how the skilled warriors in the books play out a fight like a chess game. I was wondering if actual melee combat was like that too. I know that a lot of the characters in the books have hundreds of years to perfect their technique, but there are some human characters who put up a damn good fight too.

I've been listening to the History if Rome podcast and just got to the Great Revolt. I was thinking about how this would play out today and started to wonder why the Jews never asked the Parthians for help in their revolt against the Romans. The Parthians were more than match for Rome, it would seem, and were much closer to the region.

Did this kind of thing, asking the international community for aid, happen in those days, or was it just understood these problems would be dealt with internally?

Thanks for any replies!

During and around the time of World War 2 Finland engaged in a bitter defensive war against the Soviet Union, against all odds, and won. They also hammered the Germans out of Lapland in 1944.

But how did they do so well? Was it tactics or how their troops were trained? From what I know they were pretty under-equipped and hadn't nearly the same experience at war fighting as that of German or Russia.

A user in a thread over in /r/BadHistory said the idea of terrorism was anachronistic to the Tea Party, but that we could get better idea of when the concept originated over here.

Or maybe what was the first book to be published that was written by a woman?

I was reading the other day about the Hapsburgs and there was a comment about their 700 year reign.

So what family ruled the longest throughout history? Are they the winners? Who are the runner ups?

Growing up in England I never heard about the war and it never came up in history lessons. Why do we seem to care so little about his war and did it have much importance?

There were no satellites obviously, so how did people know what their lands looked like?