I realize there were hundreds of tribes in America, so I am trying to narrow it down to which ones came into contact with the original settlers the most. I'm interested in a few things.

Who were they? What was their culture like? How did they interact with the settlers? Are there any books I could get from the library to find out more?

In addition I have a more general question about this sub. There are a lot of topics I am interested in reading up on and frankly I would be happy with a response saying "so and so book discusses this well, go" but I'm not sure if this is the right sub for that. At the same time I would rather get book recomendations from this sub than google or something since I think you would provide me with better history.

Thanks.

Read things over the years only to find out later that it didn't happen or it was exaggerated. I'm wondering how true this is: Athenians were bored. They needed a heroic cause so they could preform heroic deeds. They decided to attack Sparta. Vote was taken and passed. Led to a big disastrous war which Athens lost after decades of fighting.

This was cited to show that democracy is not always a good thing.

So I've been playing the campaign in Rome 2, and in every battle, even on hard difficulty, Roman legionaries just seem to steamroll everything in their path. But then again I'm also aware of several historical battles where Hannibal was able to completely route Roman forces, especially where he defeated 90,000 Romans with only 25,000 men to himself (can't remember the name of the battle, sorry). That being said, were Roman Legionaries actually far superior to their Carthaginian counterparts, or is Rome 2 just making the game easy for new players?

In "The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage", Will Durant makes a passing comment about Genghis Khan's attempt to change the Chinese script to an alphabet-based system.

• Is much known about his attempt, and why it failed?

• Were other attempts made by others, and what were the circumstances?

Edit: I mistaken refer to Genghis Khan, whereas it should have referred to Kublai Khan. Unfortunately, I cannot edit the title.

Hey there, These last days I'm reading over and again he word Westphalia in 18th century satiric prose. The thing is, it's always in italics and seems to refer to information beyond the geographical location. Can anyone tell me more? I have the following examples:

Alexandre Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, II.171-80
Let courtly wits to wits afford supply,
As hog to hog in huts of Westphaly;
If one, thro's Nature's bounty or his lord's,
has what the frugal, dirty soil affords,
(...) etc.

The following is from a dutch satiric periodical called Rotterdamsche Hermes (1720-21) and the piece of interest loosely translates as: Does he daily must use more harsh language, thus well-spoken with such fluent expression, as if he hath translated all from a Westphalian manuscript, to be heared by Scholtus, Pharhér and Kofter?

Hermes verwondert zich dat (…) de scherpzinnige Argus (…) zijn zwadder heeft uitgespogen op een verdienstig Acteur van den Amsterdamschen Schouwburg. Moet hy dagelyks erger en bitterder taal voeren, en dat zoo welluidend en met zulke vloeiende expressien, als of hy het alles uit een Westfaals Manuscript, ten overstaan van de Herren Scholtus, Pharhér und Kofter, had getranslateert? (…) ’t is waaragtig iets raars, als een Lunatique voor Achitophel t’scheep komt (…) en in alles Lucifer nabootst;

Thank to anyone with even the remotest directions to some information.

After the fall of Constantinople, many greeks fled west. What impact did they have on the Renaissance. Ex. spreading knowledge of the ancient greeks? Would it be slower/have happend without Constantinople falling?

So I've acquired a sudden urge to start reading up on history; more so ancient history. The classes in school just don't cut it. I'm looking for some easier-to-grasp reading. I'm more so leaning into old religions, empires, ancient civilization and history in general. Any help is thanked.

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This question came up in my AP Euro class today and I wanted to know what the experts here think of it. In our class, we described the man to have had one of the most brilliant minds in history. So what made him divorce Josephine? Sure he wanted to be a royal but married Marie Louise who was the niece of Antoinette! It doesn't take much intellect to know that it was a foul move. So what drove him to it?

Sources would be greatly appreciated.

Theories abound about where most cultures originated but I've never seen one that accurately says where these groups came from. Their languages are markedly different enough from others that they must have migrated fairly early, and from a rather different place than the Germanic tribes in Europe.

• Today, Sci-fi novels are some of the most popular, but was there an equivalent to this back in the times of the Greeks or the Romans? Did any ancient authors build ever worlds and tell tales filled with fascinating new technology that would have seemed as impossible to them as much of space is to us?

• If fantasy novels, authors often take us to the far past of castles, lords, and peasants-- did ancient authors do something similar to this? Have 15th century British authors ever looked back and written novels based in the Roman era?

I hope that's clear. :) Essentially I'm asking if the sci-fi and modern fantasy genres would be similar to something that ancient readers would read? :)