Have they always done this with horses/carriages? Is there any advantage to one or the other?

She presents a well described social structure, but it is also one very different than ours. Are the books useful for understanding England of the time?

I'm curious since i can't find anything online, thank you!

Did they have glasses back then? If not, what would my job be from day to day? (Btw my vision is awesome with glasses/contacts, but without them i can't see 1 foot in front of me, everything blends in together)

There have been a few instances in which boarding parties successfully attempted and captured submarines while on the high seas. During WWII, the British and American navies captured a number of U-boats. What would it have been like when attempting to take these vessels, knowing very well that they could dive or sink at any moment?

And as a side question, when was this design first used?

Did the slaves know that the north was promising abolition if they won and if so, did they ever stage any revolts or acts of sabotage to help the north or at least to not help the south?

When did age requirements for the military start historically? I search a good amount and only could find WW1 British requirements (17). Did American civil war soldiers lie about their age?

After the Achaemenid Empire grew to more-or-less its largest size, what conflicts did they have with non-Greek peoples (besides rebellions & dynastic strife).

Did the Achaemenids have large fleets in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, or Persian Gulf?

Do we know how far their diplomatic contacts went?

I have heard stories of Rome stopping its conquests in other areas, such hadrians wall. But is there evidence of conquests into modern day Russia? Was a conquest through Romania, Ukraine and into Russia looked into by the Roman Empire, if not why?

First of all, let me apologize if I say anything stupid or flat out wrong. It's just that when I was reading about post-Roman Europe it seems that after playing a huge role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Goths largely vanished after being conquered by the Moors in Spain and by the Byzantines in Italy. I never read about them in any point later, about a Gothic identity, people, kingdom, culture or anything like that.

However many things that appeared in the High and Late Middle Ages are called "Gothic". The Notre Dame is a hallmark of Gothic Architecture, the Gothic Plate Armor was developed during the 15th century. Why are these things considered "Gothic"?

I don't know if this question makes any sense, but it seems weird to me to have stuff originated from all over Europe be called Gothic while the Goths themselves were gone by the end of the Early Middle Ages.

Obviously more people are dying than ever, and I'd assume the current deaths mimic the living numbers well, meaning mostly Chinese and English and Spanish and Arabic and Hindi.

So the total numbers must be swaying in those directions, but do they rival the total deaths of speakers of languages like Latin, which were around for millennia?

Forgive the gross oversimplification of historically ill-defined languages like Arabic and Chinese.

When the Soviet Union dissolved, did Russia try to claim more of the area near the Black Sea?

I noticed that most of this land went to Ukraine.

The technology of European handguns seems to be remarkably static from the 16th to 18th centuries, though I think that there must be much more variation than meets the eye. How were pistols in the 1580s different from those made 200 years later?

Wasn't it the other way around in the 19th century?

Computer Sci major here. I am taking a Chinese History class and literally have no interest in the subject. I was wondering if anyone could give me a little background on the prompt--"How did Confucian Thought Influence the Political Tradition in Han." Thanks, and love you all!

How did the culture of both the east and west change? What were the problems? What was the average person thoughts about the other?

I imagine they wouldn't get much exercise or sunlight (or fresh food). How did they survive? How many might be expected to die during the crossing?