Well its a game so it wont be 100% accurate. But im asking about the enviroments, the story, the time period, the weapons, buildings, stuff like that. Can i learn anything from it?

My understanding is that it would be about a day's voyage to get there from the coast of Morocco with the nautical technology existing at the start of the fifteenth century.

I have the general impression that it is, given how many myths are referenced in the Odyssey, Iliad,etc as having already happened. However, I haven’t read enough myths to draw a confident conclusion and cannot find conformation

I remember from my christian upbringing (correct me if I'm wrong) that at some point in their history, the Jews were conquered by the Babylonians and deported as slaves: the so called babylonian exile. Then, when the babylonians were conquered by the Achaemenid empire, Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to go back home.

Why were the attitudes of the Achaemenids towards slavery so different from the Babylonians? Why did Cyrus just let them go? What were his motives to do so?

It just seems weird to me that the devoutly Catholic Austrians were okay with her marrying someone like that. Not to mention the fact that Napoleon had invaded Vienna twice at that point. Was there a lot of opposition within Austria over this decision? Was there a lot of opposition within the Habsburg family? How about within the church itself?

I honestly apologize if this isn't the purpose of this sub, but I thought who better to go to about history than historians.

So, a family member of mine is very into history, but he's still relatively young (12 to be precise). I've also been into history myself and he always looks to me to discuss history.

I want to make sure that I am teaching him right, and to encourage his curiosity. However, I know how complicated and frankly confusing history often is. What I want to know is how I could properly teach him the nuances of history while also encouraging him to think about it himself. I would hate to misinform him or confuse him too much that he will give up on this completely.

I'm currently doing a monologue from the play Nell Gwynn and it would be interesting to know if the number of male audience members went up due to the arrival of women on stage.

Is there any evidence for the actual number of theatre goers in Restoration England?

How did this impact the regional politics, and how did people react? Why would Korea declare themselves an "Empire" for that matter?

In South Africa before 1994 (i.e., during apartheid), were there any non-Afrikaners who were so racist as to supporter apartheid? I’m wondering about individuals of British Isles descent, or other white ethnic groups: Portuguese ancestry, maybe, or Greek, etc....

I've read that wheat, a high calorie food, was mainly for the higher classes. Potatoes are high in calories but were only introduced in the 15th century.

I've gathered they mainly ate vegetables and not much meat.

However, to get 2,500 calories (daily caloric requirement for a male) you would need to eat something like 4 whole heads of cabbages and 3kg of carrots. That's an incredible amount of food which I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have access to every day.

Mani was supposedly raised in an obscure Jewish-Christian sect in Persian Babylon, which he later distanced himself from to found a new religious movement which blended Gnostic Christianity with Zoroastrianism and, ostensibly, Buddhism.

Given that he spent much of his life in Persia and Mesopotamia, and was patronised by Shapur, it makes sense that Mani would have been intimately familiar with Zoroastrianism. Gnostic Christianity, which was also dualistic, would have been easily paired with Zoroastrian philosophy, but Buddhism is a rather different tradition entirely, and one which, while present in the Sassanid Empire, would likely have been far more distant and alien to Mani than Christianity or Zoroastrianism.

Nonetheless, Mani seems to have considered Buddha, along with Zarathustra and Jesus, part of a succession of prophets that each revealed part of the truth. Do we know how how Mani learned about Buddhism, and the extent to which he was familiar with it? Do we know enough about the teachings and worldview of Manichaeism to pinpoint ideas and practices in the Manichaean religion that were Buddhist influences? Indeed, other than the obvious inclusion of Zarathustra in its line of prophets, what were the Zoroastrian influences?

Max Hastings seems to be a very polarising author in his field and I'm curious to hear what this sub thinks of his book on Vietnam. Goodreads seems to be fairly mixed and so does Reddit. Historically and factually, is this book up to scratch and worth a read?

The Romans placed an emphasis on mining in the Black Country almost 2,000 years before the revolution, and you can read about poor working conditions in both eras. Other than the obvious language barrier, does my life really change that much?

Since moving to Portugal a couple of years ago, I have come across a quote more than once that some Portuguese use half ironically, half proudly:

“Há, na parte mais ocidental da Ibéria, um povo muito estranho: não se governa nem se deixa governar!”

“There is, in the westernmost part of Iberia, a very odd people: they refuse to govern themselves and they refuse to be governed!”

The quote is sometimes attributed to “a Roman general” from the 3rd century B.C., sometimes to Julius Caesar. Google has not been particularly helpful in finding the source or the original Latin quote, or even a translation into English (substituting Iberia with Hispania did not improve it).

Is it known if the Romans had any specific thoughts on the people of West-Hispania?

Thank you!

I have read many times that the early medieval spatha was made of poor quality iron that couldn’t keep an edge, that it was more for bludgeoning than for cutting. Is that really true? It has a whiff of the “stupid Dark Ages” about it, which makes me wonder if it’s a pop-history myth rather than the opinion of current scholarship.

I’ve heard about friends who have had their hearing impaired or even got tinnitus. And they got that from firing a rifle or being to close to one, without wearing any protection. From one day to another, their hearing had been impaired.

So that got me thinking. Maybe I haven’t researched enough, but it feels like you haven’t heard about all World War II veterans suffering from tinnitus, lost their hearing and so on. But I guess that they did and do?

One thing I know for sure, is that the regular private didn’t have any protection (or did they?). I’ve seen photos of artillerymen covering their ears. I guess that pilots had some sort of protection and maybe also tank crews. But there are still millions of soldiers who most likely never had any protection or chance to cover their ears.

How come that this isn’t talked about more? Or at least I haven’t heard about it. Is it just a common fact that firing a weapon without protection will worsen your hearing? Or were the weapons back then less powerful? The veterans who didn’t suffer from PTSD, panic attacks, and so forth, are rarely talking about how they’ve lived with tinnitus since the war, or how they cant hear anything. (And once again, I may be wrong, that is why I’am asking).

To summarize, how can it be that one can severly damage your hearing by firing a gun or a rifle a few times without protection. Whilst not hearing too much about damaged hearing from World War II veterans (also other wars, of course), when they obviously fired their own rifles, were close to others who fired their rifles, artillery barrages, airplanes, tanks, most likely on a daily basis. So, how many veterans have lost or damaged their hearing?

I am quoting a wire service news report from Luxembourg on Aug 2, 1914. "A train full of German soldiers arrived that the station at Luxembourg during the night. The troops seized the station and the bridges on the Treves and Trois Vierges line."

The details are left out. Was this a regular train that they got on? Or did the Germans put their own train on those tracks? I am curious what the details were about how this was orchestrated.