So i started painting some models of a german tank crew and i might end up putting them on a Stug IV. But i have already started painting them in the black uniforms. After i had started, i did some research and read somewhere that since Stugs were organized as artillery, they had different uniforms than the tank crews. So my question is, were Stug’s ever organized as part of the panzer divisions? Were they ever crewed by tank crews instead of artillery men? Would it be historically accurate to have them in black uniforms? I’m not sure if this is the right forum for this so if its not where should i ask?

First: where did they find the first bronze? If it weren't out on the surface, what did they do to dig it up?

Second: once they had a supply of bronze tools, how efficient was it at digging up large quarries and excavating whatever it is they wanted to excavate including bronze.

Which leads me to my third question: what other material did they search for besides bronze?

Besides wrestling and fencing, why didn´t ancient Western martial arts such as glima, bare-knuckle boxing and the various schools of swordmanship to name a few survive to this day?

Karate, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Judo and so on are all huge in the West as well as the East, but most of our own older martial arts are sort of obscure and considered eccentric to practice at best. Is it exoticism?

Note that I am note talking about more modern disciplines such as Krav Maga or Sambo.

Since only married women could own "property" for a long time, was it only married women who owned slaves?

This is is what fueled my question: I was working on an ancestry tree for a friend, and there was a testimony saying that a woman had bought the family I was researching. It surprised me, because I didn't realize women could even do that.
So I'm now wondering, how involved were women in slavery?

I'm starting to research a project in my civil war course on Fredrick Douglass. I'm interested in how Lincoln changed his perspectives during the civil war and the influence that Douglass had on this development. For the paper, I'm flipping the script and want to examine how Douglass's political views changed over time and how Lincoln influenced him. Can I get some recommendations for readings about Douglass that might help me?

I'd love to learn more about it. The children would be good case studies for the nature versus nurture argument. Thank you.

Also, I'm not passing judgment on comanches for the practice. It was the 1800s on the frontier. There were butt holes on both sides.

I just watched The Dig on Netflix, which is the dramatisation of the Sutton Hoo excavation in Suffolk immediately prior to the outbreak of war. There are several scenes which emphasise the presence of WW2 on the home front, such as a child running round playing while wearing a gas mask, scenes in London where windows and statues are being sandbagged, and a scene in a pub where the windows are already being blacked out as a rehearsal. All of this is happening before Chamberlain’s famous radio speech explaining that war had been declared.

So is this accurate? My understanding was that although it was common knowledge that war was a possibility, and measures such as gas masks, the blackout and sandbagging to protect against bombing are well known, but I was surprised to see these measures being portrayed so early on.

For example, say a Germanic tribe rises up against the Roman Empire and is causing vast amounts of damage. Would the Empire recall legions from Asia Minor to aid in the fight, or would there be enough manpower nearby to quell the situation?

I seem to recall the Great Illyrian Revolt causing a number of troops to be diverted that would otherwise have gone to the Germanic wars (although I could be wrong), but I'd consider that to be 'close' enough to make some sense. In this particular situation, I'm talking about action at extreme ends of the empire, several thousands of kilometers apart.

I don't have a ready example from any real-life empires facing such a situation, so I'm not even too sure if it ever happened.

My main reason for asking this is that I am writing a fantasy novel in which something like this happens, but as I was working on it I realized that I knew of no historical precedent for something of that nature, and if it would even make sense for a large empire to act in such a manner. If it doesn't, I might discard the idea. Thank you in advance!

There are several surrounding events to this historic event. The first that comes to mind is the conflict between Israel and ALA.

There are several questions that interest me about the conflict:

Why did Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon not enter the Baghdad Pact which resulted in this animosity we have until this day? Did they not see the threat of Communism, or was it rather an anti-american move? Did they realize Americans are going to try to enter the region as they did in BP countries?

Why did Truman recognize Israel despite the future IR damage it would cause with literally every other middle eastern nation? It seemed as if plenty of members of parliament were not in favor of recognizing the existence of Israel, why was Truman so adamant on going forward with a move that set most of the middle east against the US? Why was Israel more important than Iran, Iraq, Syria and Egypt. especially considering the reliance on foreign recourses to defend it from ALA during the Arab - Israeli conflict?

I just finished reading Brotherhood of Kings by Amanda Podany and apparently Amenhotep II stated outright that "from time immemorial no daughter of the King of Egypt is given to anyone."

Do we know why this attitude, so different from that of the nearby Mesopotamian kings, evolved in Egyptian society? What did the princesses do if they weren't allowed to engage in diplomatic marriages? I know that some married their brothers in order to preserve the royal line and some ruled outright, but what about the rest of them? Did they serve the Temples? Doing what? Or did they exclusively focus on childrearing?

NOTE: I posted this last night and got 10 upvotes but I had accidentally typo'd it as "Priestesses" thanks to autocorrect :( Sorry for anyone who was curious about Egyptian Priestesses (who are super cool, but pretty well-covered by Ancient History Encyclopedia).

Where there any protestant Jews, gypsies and other "undesirble" people in the holocoust, and specifically in the Warsaw Ghetto? what do we know about them? if there were any in the Warsaw Ghetto, where in the Ghetto did they meet and what was the relationship with the Jewish and Catholic residents of the Ghetto? If you have any sources I would be very happy.

please note this question is not meant to belittle the horors of the holocoust enflicted on non-protestants or outside of Warsaw. as a jew, I would never do that.

Was wondering if the single ship depicted in the Vikings tv show was historically accurate

During the early Roman Empire, they fixed the sestertius to be 1/100 of an aureus. They also organized their military in groups of 100 lead by a centurion.

But why? The Romans didn't use decimal as far as I am aware, so what practical value did they see in organizing important things like currency and the military into groups of 100 instead of, say, 64, which is also a square and practical mathematical value?

If I'm a young, healthy German man (civilian) during the WW2 (any stage of the war), what options do I have to avoid mandatory military service? How widespread was draft-dodging and what were the punishments if caught?

Thank you.

The 2008 election is considered to have been a democratic wave election. But I never hear about the 1992 election as having been a democratic wave election. However when you look at the results you see a Democrat decisively winning the White House after a period of a Republican presidency. In the House the democrats won 258 seats, one more seat than the 257 seats they won in 2008. Meanwhile in the Senate the Democrats had 57 seats after the 1992 election while the Democrats began 2009 with 58 seats, only one more seat then in 1993, as Arlen Specter didn’t switch parties until April of 2009 and the Minnesota election wouldn’t be resolved until that summer when Al Franken was finally seated. So why is it that 2008 is widely regarded as a wave year while 1992 isn’t?

I want to read how Persians saw Alexander the Great and if he was really that great as Arians or other Greeks describe him. There is a particular reason for reading the Persians and that is that they would (if any writing exist) compare him surely with Darius or with Xerxes and then we shall get a good picture of Alexander.

So, please recommend me some history books by early Persians who wrote about Alexander the Great.

Thank you.

The battle of Gettysburg lasted three days. Presumably, people managed to get some sleep during that time. How did armies decide when it was time to fight and when it was time to rest, eat, etc? Where there generally understood patterns? Did armies have to negotiate? Was it a free for all and you never knew when an attack might be mounted?

I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept of being in the field with people bent on killing you for multiple days and nights.

In at least one story of Sinbad the Sailor, drunkenness plays a part in the plot, so it seems to be more than an afterthought. Was this just Burton not knowing that Muslims are (in theory) forbidden to drink alcohol, or was there a time when this was not true?

Assuming that usually those who conquered tend to force their own culture to be the dominate one rather than assimilating themselves into the culture they acquired. It seems odd that the Manchurian officials gradually started using Chinese rather than Manchu language.