Hi there! I'm currently undertaking a project on minecraft and I'm building Himeji Castle keep/tenshu. I've been researching it to make sure I'm historically accurately, but the problem is I cannot find any information on what the interior layout of the castle used to be, like what purpose did each room serve/what each room was.

I've been researching for about 5 days straight now trying scholarly articles, online tours, videos, information....heaps of information about the layout, quirks of the castle. But nothing about what rooms were actually inside it(like maybe there were bedrooms, halls, dining rooms etc.), if it had any residential purposes etc.

I would really appreciate any help if anyone knows what rooms were actually inside the Himeji Keep back in the Edo Period. Thanks :)

EDIT: To be more specific, around 1610 when the Ikeda's just finished building the as you see it now 7 story castle keep, I'm just wondered what kind of rooms/furniture were in it back then and if the daimyo would have lived in there.

To clarify, who did the groups appeal to, raise funds, etc.? I'm curious as to how the movement began its efforts, so I can then try to understand how it gained strength and changed those methods!

Thanks!

Moroccan people were comparatively friendly to their former leaders, while Algeria still has strict Anti-French laws in place. Why were the French so hated in Algeria? Were Europeans or Petit-noirs more despised? Did the Algerian people differentiate between those two groups?

In the earlier days of the Empire, as Christianity rose, were Christians in (say SW Anatolia) persecuted as badly as Jews in Palestine?

I know that Diocletian was particularly brutal toward the Christians, so when did it die down? Was it before Constantine converted (I know his mother became Christian prior to him). Or did it happen after?

So I was going to ask a question regarding why the Central Asian peoples such as the Mongols and the Turks were able to so effectively invade the West, however I noticed that that question had already been asked and answered. As I understand it it was because they were able to mobilise literally their entire population of healthy adult males to fight, whereas settled cultures had maybe a few percent of their adult males able to fight.

However this leaves open the question: where did all the steel necessary to equip an army of hundreds of thousands of men (and their horses) come from? Surely that would require a significant mining operation, which would in itself require a settled, agrarian society to support the miners. Just how nomadic were the Central Asian peoples?

Just wondering just how advanced their technology was in comparison to the Europeans

You know how Spanish speakers who can't speak English well but we can still communicate with them? How far back in time would I have to go to have a conversation like that but with someone who speaks english?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I've just never really understood it.

I've read that during the prophet Mohammeds time, there was alot of hedonism. But why did the church fail especially there, while it is it's home area.

What was the suicide rate like for American soldiers in previous wars?

I have read frequently that Thomas Jefferson was the king of hypocrisy with his view on slavery. While I know that you cannot judge a man by the morals of your time, it is difficult to pinpoint the morality of Jefferson. Particularly on the issue of slavery

So I've been looking at France in the 1500's and it seems as if the economy was almost wholly localised: road, canal and trade systems were very basic and undeveloped. A place like England in the same time, however, had a more developed economy which was less of a patchwork thing.

How far, then, was the relatively primitive nature if economies until the late modern era due to centralised governments? I know economic theory etc had not really been introduced, but it seems to me that even local leaders would have benefitted from better infrastructure and farming techniques - I read somewhere that the techniques used by Clovis and his franks in the 400's to farm were not vastly less advanced than those of the 1500's.

I have my doubts that this would have happened given the racial and religious attitudes of the time but are there any examples of nobles from Japan or Europe marrying one another? Thanks.

Just for clarification, I'm referring to names with more words than used in the Western culture, which tends to have 3 words.

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Both in WW1 and WW2 the italian army did poorly compared to other allied/axis armies, why was this the case?

Hello,

I have been a lurker on reddit (especially this subreddit) for a while now but I decided to register for this question: why did low-intensity, guerilla warfare become so prevalent in the last half century? When I look at history, I see many rebellions, revolts, revolutions but battles seemed to be fought mostly on the field in a conventional way but the past few decades guerilla-warfare seemingly became the norm in war.

... or am I perhaps wrong and is guerrilla warfare more prevalent in history than I thought?