What do you know about history?

Answer 1

A lot.

Answer 2

I had a strange hobby as a teenager.
I loved to learn about the history of toilsets, washing, soap, costume, especially things like petticoats, cooking, building and general sanitation and living.
I would read a book for just a few bits of information; I went to archives and read old letters; I asked old, old people people who had been born in the 1800s (this was in the 1960s)
I can not tell you about kings and famous people but I can tell you following
- Romans went to toilet 6 in one room
Roman slaves wiped their owners bottom with sponges which they washed and used again
- until about 1400 plates were not used, they used trenchers - big slabs of bread
- fork was not invented until relatively recently
- no-one wore knickers until early 1800 when Mrs Bloomer invented them
- soap was so expensive a Spanish prince gave a bar to Queen Elizabeth the first for her birthday In official list of her presents
-Queen Elizabeth the first was considered super clean because she bathed at least once every 3 months
- cooks filled hogs heads and pheasants with sweet things but meat was served seperately
-mothers gave their babies gin to drink as the water was so bad it killed the babies, alcohol was less germy
- the way arches were made in churches was by carving oles in one peice and then fitting a correcponding piece into it; this was all done high in the air.
- jelly was made from cows bones, someimes human bones
- the potato was not eaten by white men until after the 1400s
may not want to read these
- the church often killed people by tying one end of a person to one horse, the other end to another horse, then making horsesrun opposite ways until person was split in two
- when a Lady had her period, she would use rags, her servants would wash these, then use them for herself, and buy the Lady new rags
- The 'Iron Maiden' was a device used by the Spanish Catholic Inquisition, proclaimed by His Holiness the Pope. The priests would place a person inside this iron device, then shut it. Inside were nasty iron spikes so the person was slowely pierced to death.
Yes I know a lot about the history of the masses and then as now the powerful hurt the weak.

Answer 3

History is only what is written down. If you go back for 3 to 4 generations, everyone is dead, and you have no more eye witnesses. So you are left with what is recorded. Which might not be very accurate. Oh, and in 1847 the Mormons entered the Salt Lake City Valley (Go PBS!)

Answer 4

I don't know the whole history of the world but if you actually ask a specific question about a specific event of a specific time then we all might be able to help you out.

Thanks for the two points.

Answer 5

Alot but it seems people on yahoo answers don't care much about it .Very sad history is lost to most people.

Answer 6

i know that Jean Jacques Rousseau was a misogynist. He only believed women needed to be educated to make them better wives and mothers.

i know that in the middle ages before the catholic church took hold in Europe, a man and a woman could make a vow to each other and consummate their relationship and that was all it took for them to be considered married. No witness was required.

I know Hitler was a lunatic and that he orchestrated the destruction of 6,000,000 jews and others that he saw unfit.

i don't know. i know lots about american history too. i just did a lot of study in european history in college.

Answer 7

History is the record written by the winners, the losers get relegated to the comic books

Answer 8

I know enough that I do not need to go to wikipedia and cut and paste to answer the questions asked here. I read Herodotus and Thucydides, the books, not some links to wikipedia.

Answer 9

i would known thing about history since i AP all class history in school time-some boring so teach would give more work

Answer 10

A whole lot.

Answer 11

Only what we are told.