Beyond the case of plague doctors stuffing their beaks with stuff, would a 'regular' person applying a perfume as a matter of course to begin their day consider it to be prophylactic or merely cosmetic?
I was wondering this when realizing that our nations first university opened in 1575 (Leiden, The Netherlands), but I virtually don't know anything at all about how thing would go. Were there exams? A fixed cirriculum? Could females apply? Frat parties? Dorms? Scandals involving students? Or was it all based around religious studies?
For example, the site of Troy was irreversibly damaged by Schliemann's excavations. Can't we say that it was better if the site had been discovered much later, perhaps denying us of the knowledge of the location of the city, but preserving it for modern archaeology?
Going back in time, when do modern experts start cringing when they learn that a site was excavated in a certain decade?
Wondering if there is an audiobook that deals with humans coming in contact with aliens that isn't in the future, or in modern times with modern technology and understanding. I wasn't sure how to search for it without getting ancient aliens non-fiction type stuff. I did find a book called Eifelheim (Michael Flynn 2007) that is set in ~1400AD. Haven't started it yet though.
I did do the Destiny's Crucible series that deals with a modern day human being sent by aliens to a different planet inhabited by humans that was in an equivalent period of the 1700's. It was a really good series, but the alien aspect really had zero bearing on the story.
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And I am not talking about any sort of ignorance by modern people, I'm referring to the fact that it seems like a mistake that would have been corrected a hundred years ago and barely repeated by people today.
edit: this has been answered by /u/Snapshot52 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5amzma/why_is_it_that_the_term_indians_is_still_used_and/d9ink6s/
Each caravan is composed of 100 men, women, and children, and 20 wagons. Their modern advantages are as follows:
Caravan A: Modern medicine. Each wagon has been gifted a custom-made first aid kit provided by the time traveler. It includes everything the settlers need to treat the most common and deadly afflictions of the Oregon Trail, such as cholera. They also include instructions for treating these ailments.
Caravan B: Modern weapons. Each wagon has been equipped with one AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, one .357 Magnum revolver, and one pump-action shotgun, along with ample ammunition for each. The settlers have been instructed in their use.
Caravan C: Modern tools. Drills, chainsaws, weed eaters, flashlights - anything the settlers could conceivably need, the traveler has provided them, along with enough battery packs to power them all for the whole trip.
Caravan D: Modern transportation. This caravan has received 20 big, Class-A RVs. They have enough fuel for the journey, but cannot travel any faster than a wagon train (about 2 miles per hour). The settlers have no training or equipment to fix the RVs.
The challenges are as follows:
Round 1: Who makes the journey quickest?
Round 2: Who makes the journey with fewest casualties?
Bonus round: A team of 100 young, fit, modern survivalists go back in time with a huge hoard of gold and form a caravan of their own using only what is available to them at that time (circa 1820). How do they do compared to the settlers with modern advantages?
I remember reading that napoleonic tactics of living off the land didn't work well in Spain and Russia because of the poverty there. I can understand and attribute the general poverty of Russia to serfdom, geography and warfare but Spain? It seems to be well positioned for trade, has some fertile rivers and access to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean and did not experience chronic warfare that was commonplace in Europe.
So, for examples of writing, Vergil guiding Dante through the first two books of the Divine Comedy, Erasmus' writings on Cicero, or Melanchthon's lecturing on the classics at Wittenberg. For images, there's intaglios of Bacchus being produced in 17th-Century Germany, or the obviously Athena-inspired images of Britannia.
As I sit here and blow my nose and pop Mucinex for congested sinuses, I couldn’t help but wonder if people in colonial times, or even pre-historic times dealt with the same issues we have today in regards to the common cold. If so, how did they manage?
Title says it all. The king had a magic marble race game thing which the kid and the king played a game at to decide the fate of the kingdom or something. Also there was possibly a time dog character which may have complained about the kid killing time.
EDIT: Source has told me the dog may have been a separate thing, but definitely sounds like Phantom Tollbooth.
Everyone parrots similar statements that I have heard for a decade, but have we had any studies revisit this theory and actually do decent testing? Not saying that y'all might be wrong I just try to question all my assumptions, especially if it's something as important as this.
