history

Bit on an idea I've been mulling around for quite some time. The city of Constantinople, right during the beginning phases of its final siege, is given some divine intervention. The city, inhabitants, and allied soldiers/ships are sent back to the time of the Peloponnesian War (Specifically...

Was looking over some articles I've been meaning to post for a while (I.E. culling my open tabs), and this one at NPR about food history is quite interesting! How Snobbery Helped Take The Spice Out Of European Cooking MARCH 26, 201511:22 AM ET MAANVI SINGH A 16th century woodcut shows...

Well, this is certainly interesting. I'm always intrigued by the developments we find in animal intelligence, especially with apes. Chimpanzees Would Cook if Given the Chance, Research Says JUNE 2, 2015 Almost. Scientists found that chimpanzees have the patience and foresight to hold off on...

Magna Graecia: A City State Quest Note: Magna Graecia has ended and a continuation is now up. Feel free to read this thread for the first twenty years of Eretria's embattled existence in Italia and then switch over, or go straight over to the new thread! It has been 286 years since the...

What are some erroneous ideas about what the present day is like that you could see becoming common pop history ideas in the future? ------ Thread inspired by this post on SB, where I got into the minds of people looking at present day people with the same kind of horrified pity we tend to...

(Let's get this out of the way first: as you might know from looking at my location, I currently live (as I always have for the past nineteen years) in the province of Quebec, Canada. French is thus my native language, and as such, most of my reading experience consists of books written in...

Do you have any questions about history that youve been wondering about recently? Any that are not major enough to start a new thread about, or any that you are just too lazy to start a thread about? Well, this thread is for you. Starting question: As someone intrested to become more...

You are Gaius Julius Caesar, Dictator and Imperator of Rome, conqueror of Gaul, gifted speaker and lawyer, brilliant administrator and quite possibly the finest military commander to have ever drawn breath. You are Gaius Julius Caesar, and you are dead. For reasons that had become very clear...

Alright, I tried this quest here before but due to getting extremely busy caring for family after surgery and other personal life situations, I couldn't get very far into it. I'd like to make another attempt at it, but with a couple differences, the most important being that I'd prefer to keep...

We actually didn't have an Assassin's Creed thread, so I decided to make one. Anyway, what are people's opinions on Assassin's Creed: Rogue? Playing primarily as a Templar, while not exactly new, it's rather a moderate change from the usual Assassin perspective. Personally, I don't like it(it...

Assassins Creed comes to the French Revolution. http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/home/index.aspx