Do you think European colonialism is somewhat similar to the globalisation today?

How much of an impact did individual skill and troop training, or maybe battle experience, have on the battlefield? I'm not talking about tactics, such as shooting at the enemy force before the two armies meet, but what happened when the soldiers crossed swords with the enemy. If an army of 1000 met an army of 2000 in close combat in a flat open field, and both were armed and outfitted the same, could any amount of skill or training overcome such a large size difference? Does the answer change if you scale it up to 10,000 vs 20,000? I understand that combat was somewhat avoided when it could be due to it usually being a matter of who had the larger army, which is where this question comes in.

Edit for clarification: I am counting close combat tactics as part of training, just nothing that would lessen one force or the other before they clash, and nothing that relies on specific terrain since my scenario has flat open ground.

That is armours of 2 or more materials in layers e.g. leather and thin metal, sandwiched together with glue and/or stitching similar to the construction of bullet resistant glass? I am aware of some naval armours of sandwiched wood and metal but I am asking about infantry/cavalry armour.

It seems to me that this would be an advantage over plain metal or leather during at least the bronze age.

Went camping recently and forgot my nail clippers… got me wondering how humans took care of their toenails and nails before these specific tools? Files? How were they made? Did they let them grow long? How did nail-polish become a "thing"?

Hope this isn't too stupid a question for AskHistorians.

Why didn't this land wind up becoming a part of the state as well?

EDIT: 40 million pages, not documents. Phase 1 of that project is 3000 manuscripts.

I know I'm going to get down voted to hell for being "racist" but I really am curious about how this form of selective breeding was used amongst slaves as they were viewed as subhuman chattel.

If anyone can find the origins to this name and if it is In fact related to vlad the impaler, please any information would be gladly appreciated!!

Me and my friend are having a discussion and I want to know the color/race of the skin of ancient Israelis. I can't seem to find any academic sources stating anything online at the moment and as we are at a conference we're unable to do any hard digging due to lack of resources. Could you provide any sources that you used to find you're answer? It's relevant to our discussion and I'll definitely like to go through and read them.

Thanks!

If a battle lasted several days, how did that... work? Obviously, you can't have the same guys fighting continuously the whole time. How did they get out to have a rest or go to sleep? Or did they just fight until they dropped? Did generals have to factor this in to their strategy? Did everyone just stop at night?

For centuries, the King of France was officially King of the Franks. Though William I was King of England, he also styled himself not as Duke of Normandy, but as Duke of the Normans. Did kings in Europe and the Near East see themselves as tribal patriarchs or as owners of the land?

What were the tactics for hunting and killing the u boats once detected? Would it have been suicidal to attack an escorted convoy?

Or, more broadly, how did England respond to the Bolshevik revolution/presence of communism/radical-left, especially since it was so close to them?

I was just wondering if it is slight variations of Europe, or if some countries had wildly different names to refer to the continent they were all living on. Please note I am NOT looking for an explanation of HOW it became called Europe that is already very easily accessible and well documented.

Hi all, I'm starting an ethnomusicology course in a few months with a focus on Middle Eastern music, esp Turkish. I have been looking at ethnomusicology books but I think a little background on the history would be pertinent as well.

Can anyone recommend me a book on the Ottomans that gives me an overview of the history? Seeing as most of my time has to be spent reading on music the book shouldn't really be too long, not more than about 300 pages or so for me to read on the side. Does anyone know of a decent book of roundabout this length?

When did Islam spread to the Phillippines?

Are the Muslims in the Phillippines culturally closer to the rest of the Phillippines, or neighbornig Muslims in the region?

How were Muslim Filipinos affected by Spanish colonization? Did Muslim Filipinos support Emilio Aguinaldo? How were they affected by American control? Were they affected by the Japanese occupation?

When the Phillipines became more independent, did Muslim Filipinos want to be part of the same country? Wikipedia says they have an autonomous region. What level of self-rule do they have?

We all know the claim was somewhat doused after the hundred-years war, but was the claim to the throne ever really obtainable?

Hey guys, long time lurker and seldom poster. Im looking for reading material on the Soviet black market, with a focus perhaps on the proliferation of western goods in the USSR. Some questions may be how prolific it was to have things like jeans, music, etc smuggled in and how did the Soviet government handle it?

Thanks!

Perhaps the most famous instance of foreign claims being made to the English crown was in 1066: William the Conqourer (Norman) Harold Hadrader [and Magnus] (Norweigen) Sweyn Estridson (Danish)

A later examples which springs to mind is: William of Orange (Dutch)

Now I concede that issues surrounding national identity through much of the Middle Ages aren't comparable to modern notions. Nonetheless for a bit of fun I'm keen to understand who else during what we might broadly define as the Feudal period who might be perceived as 'foreign' had a claim/claimed the Kingdom of England?

Presumably the Scots at some point? Did any of the HRE provinces do so? I understand that later the Russian and German monarchies were closely related to the English throne. Did this extend to any direct claims during this earlier period?

Did it originally originate with Mexican cuisine or was it something that was born out of the adoption by others (like from the United States)?