Reading about the history of American cinema, I wondered what the existing inhabitants of Hollywood thought of the sudden influx of actors and directors and so on. Hollywood 100 years ago was I suppose only a small town or a sort of suburb of Los Angeles. Did they support and welcome the fact that their town was becoming the centre of the American film industry, or was there resentment?

The British had the East India company

The Dutch had the famous , Dutch East India company

The french had: Compagnies des Indes occidentales.

The Portugese:Companhia da Índia Oriental

So what about Spain and why?

I was watching a PBS documentary about the Amish and there was a little bit in there about how the Amish were able to get by during the Great Depression because they lived in self-sustainable communities. The documentary attributed the nation's shifting perception of the Amish from one of disdain or indifference to one of admiration or sympathy due to their ability to weather the economic crisis.

Were the Amish really immune to the the effects of the Great Depression? Is there evidence that people had a different perception of them after the Great Depression?

After learning that a tumblr called Medieval PoC (a blog dedicated to showing Non-Caucasian people in Medieval times) is

an ideologically driven, revisionist, thoroughly presentist, and sensationalist crime against history that can't even get the definition of "mediaeval" right, and has been caught out making severe stuff-ups (if not outright falsehoods - such as Beethoven being black , while also reversing the burden of proof), quite often in service of said ideology.

as one reddit user posted, i have decided to ask this question here.

Weere there any Sub-Saharan Africans present in Medieval Europe, at any point in said era? Why would they be there? How would they get there? If there were any, weren't they usually in the coastal regions closer to Africa? And wouldn't they be traders?

I imagine North Africans had a larger presence, being closer and all, but what about Sub-Saharan Africans?

Thank you for your time.

It starts at the beginning of European colonization and finishes at, and including, the Civil War. Currently, I own no books on US history at all, but I just bought Middlekauf's The Glorious Cause. However, I've been told it only covers from the Seven Years War and up to the end of the Revolution. What other books should I buy as well?

I was just rewatching some of my favorite scenes from the John Adams series and I just wondered. Thanks for the answers.

Just something I was wondering, from what I've heard WW1 was expected as early as the mid to late 1800s, was the same true for WW2?

Was it known outside of the SS what was happening there? Were there rumours? How did those who discover the former death camp know what it was and how did we get the information we have about it?

In a lot of old drawings and depictions of the early medieval period you see folks with brown leather belts, brown sheaths and brown coin purses. When did people first begin to dye leather black? Was it available and affordable in medieval times?

I mean, Christ, they're just furs. Did they not have skinnable animals in Europe?

We all know that Germany and Italy are renowned for making fantastic cars, the same can be applied to Japan (they make a lot of them). Why does it seem like these former Axis members are nowadays leading in the car industry?

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but I was really curious.

Were developed lines of diplomacy (with ambassadors, diplomats, and formal declarations of war and treaties and such) around during the Middle Ages? For example, were there British and French ambassadors during the leadup to the Hundred Years' War?

I am well aware that "ancient China" is a very broad term covering thousands of years of history, but let's try anyway. If that helps, let's call ancient China anything from roughly the Qin Dynasty to the Xinhai Revolution of 1911.

Has the contact with Europeans changed the view on homosexuality in China ? If so, in what ways ?

i was looking at pictures of phalanx and they where all holding the spear with their right hand and the shield with the left, so what would happen if someone was left handed? where they ambidextrous? i'm left handed and i'm pretty uncoordinated with my right arm.

I've been fascinated with the subject of Pompeii and Herculaneum but have always been confused by one aspect of the story. Everything I've ever watched or read regarding this subject says that the discovery of Pompeii was completely accidental, however, it's also said there are eyewitness accounts of the destruction that survived. So, as I asked in the title, did historians back in the day know that Pompeii and Herculaneum existed and had they ever attempted to find them? In addition, if not, why? Especially if we know there were written accounts of the tragedy.

I have been reading about globalization and its effects on the world. I have seen people argue that it is simply "another form of colonialism" but also have seen people say that it is raising the prosperity of countries by introducing them to the world market. Would someone be kind enough to provide more in-depth information and show the arguments for and against globalization as a form of neocolonialism?