I hope the question isn't too vague. I'm particularly interested in learning more about it's formation and how it's power developed in it's early stages. Any feedback would be appreciated!

Seems like they would have been able to make some sort of deal with the South African government, seeing as the apartheid was in place.

I know just enough to get my interest. I am wondering what are some good books about him.

These days you very occasionally hear of a camper getting attacked and/or killed by a bear, a trail jogger or mountain biker getting attacked/killed by a cougar in a state park, etc. But we rarely venture into the deep of what remains of their habitat and the attacks are very rare even when we do.

When I think of early colonists coming over from, say, Britain, these would have been people unused to large predatory animals for the most part, because they didn't have many. Bears, mountain lions, etc. I think there were still a small number of wolves on Great Britain at that time, but I believe most had been hunted down for bounties and I don't think they are normally attackers anyway. And bears were extinct over there and big cats apparently only the subject of occasional sasquatch-style rumor.

But regardless, you've got people coming over and making settlements in rural and forested areas right smack in the habitats of these big animals. I'm thinking there would have been a lot of bears and big cats and whatnot, depending on the terrain. And the people would have been out in those woods hunting game, and even if not would have been in very close proximity to the surrounding wild.

Is there much record of these early settlers being attacked and/or eaten by these kinds of animals back in colonial days?

Same question for later people out on the frontier as America pushed westward.

How did technology evolve this way and why?

I apologize if my question was worded wrong. I was trying to find information on any native tribes of Japan that had cultural & religious concepts of bushido or chivalry, but google came up with nothing. So I decided to try here for any leads. Thank you for taking the time to read and hopefully comment.

hi there, i was going to just post this in the anthropology subreddit but it seems pretty dead over there.

i'm looking for book recommendations for what i think would be the subject of cultural anthropology of indigenous peoples/tibes but i'll explain it more to make sure we're on the same page:

i'm looking for a learning resource to study the way that indigenous peoples all over the world lived before they were affected by colonialism. like the customs and practices they had before they were influenced by the "western" influence (for lack of a better word). natural people in the natural world. this can include both spiriutal and practical customs like daily hygiene, hunting, beauty, medicine, spirituality, interpersonal relationships etc etc etc. if you feel a different subreddit would be more accurate or would yield better results, please help.

thank you in advance.

My textbook claims only a few towns existed north of the Alps in Europe. This makes me wonder what Rome looked like, because I thought it was almost completely deserted after the fall of the Roman Empire. Were houses destroyed, left empty, or was there way more life in the city in 800?

My knowledge on the matter is limited to watching a few documentaries. On one hand, it states that the various Native American societies had no contact with each other, and most of the time didn't know of the others existence. On the other hand, European-brought diseases such as smallpox spread like wildfire to the Native American societies. Did this involve each tribe individually meeting Europeans, or is one of my assumptions wrong or am I missing something?

Edit: For the sake of my question, I should have put an emphasis on Central and South America

More importantly, what would they have been found guilty of?

Diseases such as typhus, smallpox, typhoid, malaria, tuberculosis and STDs seem to be nonexistent during the 19th and 20th century in Russia. It seems the bigger issues were social and political upheavals, famine, and the increase use of alcohol and tobacco. Why is this case? Countries such as England during the Industrial Revolution and pre-war era were dealing with massive public health problems that lead to plague, typhus and smallpox. In the United States, polio was also a large issue. Is the climate of Russia an explanation?

Excluding the research bases with rotating staffs that exist there now.

I just finished listening to a lecture on Neo-Confucianism (by Professor Kenneth J Hammond via The Great Courses lectures), and he has a segment on Neo-Confucianism, where he mentions that the ideas of Zhu Xi don't really become popular until some time after his death. Why was this? What was the situation like that caused it to become popular?

Also, I also want to study more about Neo-Confucianism, but have no idea where to begin; what authors to look for, what translations are accurate, etc. Could I possibly a get a few book recommendation on where to begin with my own self-study on the topic?

What would a Knight do when not at war, and what exactly was a fief that a knight ruled over or owned? I guess this question would be directed towards English or French knights, since I guess there would be more info about them, but I'd love to hear about other knights if you have knowledge about them.

More concrete, when did we realize there was time zones and how? Not referring to the invention or regulation per se of time zones, but when did we realize there were differences in when the sun got up across the planet?

Ps. I posted this at /r/askhistory a few days with little traction, and got tipped to post it here.