How long have green and red been associated with go and stop/good and bad?

I asked this last week, but didn't get a response. I assume it was too late in the week, so I'm going to ask again just to see if anyone has any input:

I'm going to be going to a pirate-themed murder mystery party in June, and I wanted to make some interesting props/souvenirs. Namely, I wanted to bring some coinage, both practical (monetary) and fun (token-based). The period of the theme is 1600's Jamaica. I was planning to make some Jamaican Escudo's or Gold Doubloons, is that the correct time period, or at least close enough? My idea was to find a coin (or coins) from the period, model them in CAD (or find a model someone else has done), edit them to add the name of the party and the date, and print them on my 3d printer as souvenirs for everyone.

Also, I may be backfilling into a female character role, and for fun I had the idea to hand out brothel tokens. Would those be anachronistic? If so, that's fine, I'll just find one that looks neat, but if not it'd be cool if I could bring some period-accurate brothel tokens as well. Does anyone have a picture of a period-appropriate brothel token from a country that would have had a stake in Jamaica in the 1600's?

Did the Hapsburgs know how much their tendency to inbreed was causing health problems for their family?

Which of the meanings of the word "execute" is older? As in "perform" (execute a plan) or as in "kill" (execute a prisoner)? Is either one derived from the other?

Please pardon me if this is an inappropriate comment to make, it’s not a history question, but it’s ABOUT historians. What do you historians think of this article?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/16/historians-demand-payment-for-research-in-tv-shows

Does this ring true with anyone?

Is there any free online sources to learn about Islamic and Indian history? All the books I can find are alas prohibitively expensive. . .

hey, are there any good resources for learning about the 'italian civil war' in ww2? i can find very little on italian forces fighting other italians or germans, mostly just stuff about the allies fighting the germans. apparently there was a large battle in rome between the italians and germans too, but i can find even less about that. sounds like an interesting topic.

thanks.

Why were dashes used so often in old texts? I've noticed in old (say around 1800s) articles that authors would write ":--" rather than just a colon. Or, in old letters and essays, authors would write ",--" ".--" ";--" instead of just the respective punctuation mark. Was it because of the grammar of the time or something else?

Any book/television suggestions on Russian history?

There is this Roman tablet fragment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/apd8kw/fragment_of_a_marble_roman_tablet_giving_the

What is the purpose of such a tablet?

I'm looking for a book about the History of Medicine to give to a friend of mine. He has no background in Medicine, but has studied history, mostly "post-classical" history, so I want something that is fun and easy, but at the same time doesn't dumb things to much down. Any pointers or tips?

Does anybody know why Walt Disney first released Cinderella in Boston? I just read about it here and I'm curious why that was the choice.

When was the first recorded acronym used?

Nowadays whenever something new is invented it seems to become a string of known words, normally shortened to an acronym. Is it correct that this was avoided in the past by inventing new words?

Queens in the British Monarchy have typically had ladies in waiting, whom I understand to be other titled women who act as companions. Would their daughters (the princesses) have had the same and if so we're they also called ladies in waiting? What about princes, and what was the term for male companions?

Was Jesus of Nazareth the FIRST to proclaim to be the Son of God? Or simply did it “better” in that he was successful in starting a regions movement.

Who was the first white person born in America with known descendants? That is, not Virginia Dare since she disappeared with the rest of Roanoke Colony, but someone after her who left known descendants.

What was the average survival time of an attacking soldier during d-day, starting from the moment they stepped on the beach?

I was intrigued to hear mention of the Austrian civil war when reading Judt and Snyder's
Thinking The Twentieth Century, as I'd never heard of it before; when I mentioned it to a friend of mine, he'd never heard of it either, and I consider us to be fairly well-read (as well as us both having German as a second language, so having some interest in the history of the region).

Are there any good books that anyone can recommend about the run-up to and events of the conflict, and why it seems to have been subsumed in popular histories of the Second World War?

We seem to refer to all famous (post-antiquity) scientists and mathematicians by their last name (Einstein, Newton, Euler etc.), with the sole exception of Galileo, whom we refer to by his first name. How come?

I have a question that I have been wanted to get answered for a long time. Was the m16a1 used in the Vietnam War? If there are any Vietnam Veterans on this subreddit (thank you for your service to this country, we wouldn't be free without you guys!), did you see and m16a1's out in the field? Thanks!

are there any good sources of fascisms economic impact (eg gdp statistics) on germany, italy, and japan, and also are there any books on fascist economics particularly recommended?

Hi! I'm searching for a good book on Iberian history from before the Romans, essentially I want to learn more about the mainly peoples and lifestyles of the tribes that were in Iberia before the Romans came. I've been reading a lot on Wikipedia but looking to dive deeper. Furthermore, this is after the Romans, but I would also be interested to see if this a book that focuses on the Visigothic invasion and settlement. Thank you very much!

Daughtry, Dougherty, Doherty; do these Irish surnames come from the same source? And are they related to the more English Daltrey and the French Dauterive?

Hi, I had a little trouble to find something reliable so I tought I give it a shot here.

Can you tell me what would be some of the newest/ most reliable translations of Plutarchus Vitae; which also contain the greek original (one page greek and one translation). I was only able to find stuff which dated back to the 60s.

Thank you very much.

Hey guys, I’m intested in learning more about the Armenian genocide, do you have any good recommendations for reliable literature on this subject?

Okay, new post for an unrelated question: does anyone know of any good resources for ancient demographic information?

For example, if I wanted to know how many people lived in Alexandria during the reign of Cleopatra VII, and how many of them were ethnically Roman, Greek and Egyptian? Or if I wanted to know the typical size of a nation's entire population relative to its military force during the Bronze Age. I know exact figures are unlikely to exist, but surely there are estimates?

Any good historical podcast recommendations? I finished Dan Carlin's hardcore history recently and absolutely adored it. Would love something similar covering the second world war but I'm open to anything really.

Two questions that might possibly be one question, but probably not:

• In the Bronze Age, how did armies differentiate themselves from each other in battle? EG when two armies clash, how do the rank-and-file soldiers recognize friend or foe?
• Similarly, how did armies do the same in Imperial China? The Yellow Scarves Rebellion in the 3rd century CE was named for the yellow cloth worn by the rebels... so was it common for armies to be color-coded? Like a video game? And if so... what was the process/logistics involved? IE I'd imagine it would be expensive to produce enough dye for a whole army back then.

Quite often the titles of historical research papers contain this two word combination - "social factors". What is the definition of social factors in historical research?

Little bit of a Meta question! Why isn't there a flair when a topic gets a good, quality answer/response? There's probably something obvious I'm missing (and I'm sure it's been discussed before) but it seems like it'd be useful for browsing to see at a glance if a topic got a good response

I am blurry when trying to understand The Honourable Company. So correct me if I am wrong, but essentially a group of merchants realized there was a lot of money that could be made in the Spice Trade, hence, they got together and eventaully... got a Charter from the Queen Elizabeth I (because other countries were already doing this, etc).

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Anyways, from my understanding, I guess it was really competitive, so they just set up factories to buy and warehouse their stuff, they even had to fight off some locals, etc. Then, many yeats later.. they also got permission from the Mughal Emperor at the time to be able to setup more trading posts by Surat, etc.

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There's a lot of in between stuff that I am still blurry about. It seemed like nothing much happened between 1600 - mid 1800s... but then, we always hear about this company imperialized India to for half a century.

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How did it begin to take over territories, what monopoly did they have (why couldn't the Dutch or French do it, if they started before... why were the British much more successful?) And also, why did the British East India company get a diwani (the right to collect tax from a region?)

How come French Guyana is still part of France? I was under the impression that post world war 2 European powers realised that colonisation is rude to put it mildly and any colonies that hadn't broken free were basically granted independence. I understand how places like Ceuta and Melilla don't count (due to proximity) and some smaller island territories might actually like having a naval power that has to protect them, but French Guyana seems like a bit of an exception here hence my confusion.

Is there a forest somewhere in Gallia where two famous military events took place, one during the Gallic wars of late republican Rome and one during World War Two?

How was the USSR able to send people to outer space when 30-40 years earlier they were a poor nation of serfs?

Where could I find sources describing the major Scottish clan's overall wealth/fighting power/septs during the 13th and 14th century?

In Faulkner's "Light in August," the mixed character Christmas is repeatedly mistaken for Italian. I've been reading about Sicilians being lynched in the American South but I'm having a little bit of trouble finding other sources. Does anyone have recommendations for secondary literature on Italian immigrants to the American south? Particularly in the antebellum or reconstruction periods? (It's possible there IS none in which case I will have to choose a different topic for my senior thesis)

What books should someone read to learn the history of New Hampshire and New England?

What are the best Russian or Ukrainian language sources debunking Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun's (Suvorov) books?

Did Martin Luther King jr. actually help getting equality for all Americans?