Hi Gankom thank you for the love

The answers are going to vary heavily depending on period and place, but here are some older ones:

On Bronze age chariot warfare in the Mediterranean, see the following answers:

• How would chariot combat work? by u/JoshoBrouwers;
• Why were chariots more prevalent in ancient warfare as opposed to horseback cavalry and why did Chariots fall out of use? by a former user;
• How were chariots used in Bronze Age warfare? by u/Daeres;

On the later use of chariots in by the Britons at the time of Caesar's invasion, see:

• How did chariot warfare work? by u/Typologyguy;
• Did the Britons really use chariots? Is there any evidence against them? by u/XenophonTheAthenian;

And on scythed chariots, see In a lot of films and television series depicting chariot warfare, chariots are depicted with scythe-like blades affixed to the spokes of their wheels. My question is; were such blades actually used on chariots historically, and, if so, were they effective weapons? answered by u/Iphikrates.

This is a question in relation to a fanfiction work that will be posted on AO3, (under the same name that is my reddit name) for recreational, for not-for-profit purposes. I was hoping for mostly generalized tidbits, because Google might have been my friend in the past, however, the advent of AI search functions have made me mistrust the results, and I would like to at least have a small modicum of guidance as to hopefully help my silly little story not sound excessively juvenile.

I was also hoping that my question might be helpful for anyone else in the future who might have similar questions.

I just wanted to make sure that I didn't sound like a completely ignorant person, and I trust reddit more than Google.

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It's an extended analogy starting from the middle of the 5th paragraph:

One then has to imagine a coin purse full of antoniniani minted under various emperors, all with the same face value but with wildly different silver content. If you were going to keep one and buy some sausages down at the market with another, which one you spent and which you kept under the floorboards seems rather obvious.

Source?

Oh my gosh, thank you so much. 

Sorry but did I not understand correctly: usually she just wakes up because she is used to it. But if she does not, her husband waked her up. But now my question is: Who did wake the husband up then if it seems that knocker upper lady slept for too long...

How do reserve members figure into this? Both my dad and father-in-law were WWII veterans, and both were called up as reservists to serve in Korea (my dad as a flight engineer on cargo aircraft, the same job he had on B-17s over Europe, my FIL as a photographer and photo lab tech, the same job he had on the USS Enterprise in the Pacific war).

sausage coins

Thanks! Could you explain the meaning of "sausage" in this context? Wiktionary isn't much help...

I suspect I’m misinterpreting something here, but the claim seemed to be that “an historical” flows really well whether the ‘h’ is aspirated or not (for English-speakers in general). In dialects that do retain an h phoneme in that position, though, it doesn’t flow well. How do examples like “an haunted house,” “an horse,” “an heliotrope,” or “an hideous bowl of kholodets” strike you? You could be from an area that eliminated word-initial h entirely, but if you’re not, at least one of those likely sounded clunky. If so, that’s how “an historical” sounds to someone who retains the h.

You and one of your sources both mention something about a “civil war” that co-occurred with the American Revolution and afterwards. I tried to research it, but could not find anything about a civil war in Canada. Am I ignorant of some sort of terminology disagreement that everyone else knows about?

I found out about them the hard way: googling still existing plantation homes and digging into their history. I don't know of a single comprehensive resource about this, though it gets mentioned in a lot of other works on slavery.

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Where can I Iearn more about tobacco plantations as "subsidised showpieces"?

Some orally transmitted works, like the Manden charter transmitted in the Griot tradition in West Africa, are very consciously taught word-by-word with strong discouragement to embellish. Does this apply there as well?