Besides training with weapons and horses what kind of exercises did they utilize? It seems logical to me that there would be some kind of calisthenics and perhaps even rudimentary weightlifting to keep match fit for war and tourney.

Mountains? A tolerant Habsburg regime? More mountains?

In pre-modern times, women either weren’t allowed to ride horses or they had to ride side-saddle. Horses were usually for men

How did it come to be that horses are now seen as a womanly interest, to the point that some action movies need to put beards on women for scenes where characters are on horseback?

One thing that puzzled me when I was reading about the Vietnamese war was the fact that during the invasion of South Vietnam, North Vietnamese army had far less mechanized units and was far less high-tech compared to South Vietnam yet the South Vietnamese army seemed to almost completely collapsed in the face of the North Vietnamese army. Why did this happen?

When I first started researching for this project I would use Google and click on the first result not thinking if it was wrong or right,simply because I didn't know it could be wrong.Two years later and I definitely not making that mistake again,but I was think of one fact that I'm always hearing people say ,the thing with teen/kids getting married. I would always hear people say "if you where born back in the day (or some time) you would have been already married with two kids.."or a version of that. In the past when I looked it up I on Google it said "Women during the dark ages usually married in their teens."

Since I'm suspicious of Google and can't buy books at this time or know few books to buy that give the right facts.I have no idea if the fact is true.Is it true that in the medieval Europe some women married in there mid teens, specifically in 8th century Europe .I absurdity need to know because if it's false I'm very screwed but it is better that I know ,so I don't making the biggest mistake of my life.

(I did already check to see if anyone else asked this question on this subreddit but the answer weren't really clear)

When did the trial by combat go out of fashion?

Did it ever exist? All the way from stone age to today?

Which parts of the world stopped it first and which was the last?

Thank you.

Not sure if this is a weird question but i could only find articles about Marco polo when trying to search for "Asian explorer Europe".

My friend pitched me this book. He told the book talks about the origin of religion, language, currency, agriculture and human society and evolution in general. I loved his description but I wanted to know whether the book was factual or not. I came across many threads here and in ask anthropology and most of them claimed that the research wasn't that good.

I want a book that is accurate and talks about the origin of language, religion, currency, agriculture, government- basically origin of the things that are the pillars that hold today's society. I don't mind reading text books and I don't mind of ALL these ideas aren't in the same book - I'll gladly read multiple books. I never knew that the origins of such things would interest me so much. The moment my friend pitched the book, I instantly wanted to read it but I want something that is accurate and isn't too much biased. From what I've searched on my own - the dawn of everything looks like a book that has much more meticulous research behind it. So please - suggest me some books

Say you have a name like Rameses that’s spelled in hieroglyphics. If you can translate that language you know @$?! = horse, but unless the proper name %#*€ is “horse town” or “horse lord”, how are you supposed to know what it sounds like or how it’s spelled in English? I’m using Egyptian as an example, and maybe for that case there’s a particular explanation, like Greek contemporaries wrote about Rameses in their own language and we know how Greek is supposed to sound. Or more generally if you can map an entire alphabet to English you could just sound it out as it would sound in English, even if the language as spoken didn’t originally sound like that. But I mean the question more generally for all ancient languages, even ones where we’ve never heard someone speak it or read someone write about it.

I'm a History teacher looking over Hammurabi's Code with students, and for them it's incomprehensible that this is a real punishment (we have a very large swim team.) This got me thinking, in the Code of Hammurabi it's treated as a fairly serious punishment.

Could most Mesopotamian's swim? If not, was that why it was so dangerous?

Were people tied up? It specifies adulterers were tied together, but were others?

Is it less serious a punishment than I think it is? It sounds like trial by combat to be honest.

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Thanks for anyone who can help explain this!

So I have to write a like 10 page long essay about how the womens movement and the other movements in the 60s/70s worked together or how they tried to keep them down. Or like if they were „friends“ or „enemies“ If anyone can help me with articles, books or other literature that would be awesome too since i have to cite these in my work

(The title in german is: „Freund oder Feind? – Frauenbewegung und die deutschen Bürgerrechtsbewegungen in den 1960/70ern“)

I'm doing research for a story I am writing. I want to understand their daily routine, what they see/experience on the march and their experience during battles/skirmishes as well. Thanks in advance!

I frequently hear Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written in 1818, credited as the first ever horror and/or science fiction novel. It's the oldest major one that I can think of, written 79 years before Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and 46 years before Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). However, science fiction and especially horror are such broad genres that it strikes me as odd that there weren't any novels written in them before the 19th century. I know that the distinctions between genres of fiction can be fuzzy, but if we define them somewhat liberally, is the claim that Shelley was the first horror and science fiction novelist really true, or were there other (perhaps lesser known) novelists in those genres before her?