What did the Vikings call the Byzantines, Arabs and Khazars?

I'm currently working towards a degree in International Development, and ideally would like to work for organisations like Quaker Peace. One of their biggest operations, as far as I can tell, was run alongside the American Relief Administration. However hard sources on it are relatively hard to find. I've found a book called "The Famine in Soviet Russia 1919-1923 the Operations of the American Relief Administration", but that seemed to have been published in the 1920s. Is there anything more recent, more able to judge the long term effects, successes and failures?

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If you believe the first page of google it seems they very much played 'the ball game' / pok-a-tok / tlachtli / ollamaliztli

However it seems with a bit more research they very much did not, and it's just lots of people inaccurately answering questions that causes that false fact to trend the results

So did the Incas play any sports?

A different way to present it would be: why did the Germanic tribes convert? Wouldn't it logical for the conquerors to impose their religion to the conquered? Why did the Germanic tribes abandon their gods in favor of Christ? Why the Huns didn't? Did Attila impose his faith, or he didn't care about religion at all?

I know that Native American cultures were mostly found in Mesoamerica and southern America.

So let's say that there was a chance that the Vikings had some contact with the Native Americans in part of the two Americas, is there any evidence or records so far that suggest this?

Or, is one of my original premises wrong?

Basically White+Black

it sounds like it was a big deal

I know this used to happen all the time but it seems to have become less and less common as time has gone on, I was just wondering if there were any recent examples of this.

It feels like my area is just devoid of any written history compared to everywhere else in America, but surely that's not true. When I read the Wikipedia article about the history of the Ozarks it (no joke) has nothing written there. I tried looking for some national historic landmarks and there aren't any really. Even the towns around here aren't really named after people, and the towns that do have cool things don't really document it that well compared to other places. As a person who is new to history research, there's just not a lot to go off of to know how to find more.

I just want to get a feel for the place I'm from, like who were the pioneers, what brought people here, what made them stay, what was life like here in the old days and maybe what people from other areas thought of the area or if the opinion of the area has changed at all throughout the years.

I'll take any cool information but I'm mostly interested in, say the 1800s up to WW2.

Edit: I understand the Ozarks was kind of an area for people trying to stay out of the history books, and I'm okay with that. I'll take anything, I like information that helps me get a feel for what everyday life is like (a quest for immersion) so even seemingly mundane details are very interesting to me.

I am an author writing a story set in the Stone Age. I know some South American civilizations knew about metal and smelting, but lacked the mines to do it on a large scale.

So from the point of view of, say, a proto-European or middle easterner in the Stone Age, would it be erroneous for me to describe something as “silvery”?

Would they know what metal is, even if they didn’t quite know what to do with it? Or would they just have no idea?

What did writers, whether samurai themselves or no, have to say about the samurai code(s) of honor, if they existed, before this time? Historical fiction of the 20th century seems to depict everyone who isn't an aristocrat or samurai themselves as fearing samurai and considering them somewhere between thug and tyrant, so I imagine if such honor codes exist they might be interpreted quite differently among the lower classes.

Iran has been a center of continuous civilization for 2,500 years, with massive empires for about 1,000 years from the Achaemenid to the Parthian and Sassanid eras. Persian cities in their heyday were just as grand as any Greek city, so why is classical Hellenic architecture so well-known and ancient Persian architecture not? Why is there so little left of Ctesiphon, or Pasargadae, or Persepolis (or other great cities)?

Or is my premise wrong, and just a product of Western culture being more interested in Greece and Rome than the Persian world?

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This was an example question from the mod post on relaxing the "no example seeking" rule, but I actually got curious when I read it. Most of the existing/already asked questions about twins on this subreddit seemed to be about choosing heirs between twins, but there didn't seem to anyone else asking about much else related to twins.

I'll admit I'm particularly interested in twin girls, since anecdotally I've heard some cultures consider twins in general, or twin girls in particular, to be bad luck. But I'm curious about perceptions of and explanations for twins in general, too.

(I especially would like to know how baby twins were told apart. Today, if there's a potential or accidental mix-up, parents can just check hand or foot prints against the birth certificate. How did parents untangle twin mix-ups before the normalization of birth certificates and foot prints?)