Some good americam names?
First or last, male or female? People, places or things? Help us out...
Should they bring back nicknames for monarchs like they had the medieval times? Who can knock names like "the Unready", "Augustus", "the Lion", "the Mad", "the Simple", "the Bald", "Ironside", "the Pious", "Hardrada", "Rufus", or "Longshanks"?
The Norse all had their father´s name, so Harald son of Olof would have a son called Olof son of Harald etc. And to distinguish them they had a descriptive name like the Swedish King Erik ”who had a lisp and a limp”. Harald Hardrada (Hårdråde) meant that he was a hard ruler or regent in the end of the Viking times - he fought with Olaf in Stikkelstad, Norway, married Prince Valdimar´s daughter Ellisiv in Kiev, served as a Varangian Guard in Constantinople, became King of Norway, and took the Danish and English Thrones briefly before being killed in Stamford Bridge by the last Anglo-Saxon King Harald Godwinson (son of Ethelred the Unready) after the death of Edward the Confessor, just before the battle of Hastings, when the Normand William the Conqueror of Norse origin took England.
What are the main characteristics of the anglo-saxon people?
Historically, the Anglo-Saxons were a Germanic tribe who invaded Britain in waves between 400 and 600 CE. Their lifestyle was divided into kinship clans that centered around the main mead-drinking hut, which was where all communal meals took place, women served men, and warriors ran around invading neighboring tribes to loot pillage and plunder. Each person had a wergeld, or certain monetary worth, based on their age and status, young people were worth more than children or elderly, men worth more than women, and this applied in the even of homicide in the repayment for the life of that clan member. They had an animistic religion, that is, the belief in nature-spirits until their conversion to Christianity in the early 600s, after they had settled in Britain. Once they settled, they became an easy target for the more fearsome invading Vikings, who were of a similar Germanic origin but were not the same. Sorry that it's not much, but that's what I remember about them.
What were the short term and long term results of the War of 1812?
Short termThe American war achieved it's real major objective - to prevent Great Britain from providing support to native Americans to resist American westward expansion. From then on in, European domination of the west was a foregone conclusion.English speakers in Upper Canada were so shocked by American looting during the war that even residents who had been born in the United States started looking more and more to Britain rather than the United States. It essentially created an English Canadian identityGiven the death of many British leaders during the war, including Brock, "leading from the front" became a thing of the past.Long termBoth sides started eschewing war as a way of settling their differences. Anglo-American rivalry continued to exist until World War I, but after the War of 1812 both sides were more willing to talk over their differences. This led to the establishment of borders and fishing rights being negotiated over the next hundred years with no shots being firedThe Americans suffered losses from privateering and began to see it as a bad idea (the States was one of the last nations to abandon it). The American philosophy for fighting war changed from "militias" to "regular army". During the next forty years, the United States built a professional army and stopped relying on militia for defence. By the Civil War, both sides were fighting with professional armies who received regular pay, were extensively trained, and had officers promoted on merit rather than connections.
Can some name all the Latin European countries?
If you mean European countries where one or more of the Latin-derived Romance languages are spoken as official national languages, then there would appear to be twelve independent countries matching this definition. I have included a thirteenth, Vatican City (Holy See) in Rome, whose official language is Latin, not itself classed as a Romance language because all Romance languages are descendants from Latin. 1. Andorra, where the Romance languages French and Spanish are spoken. 2. Belgium, where the Romance language French is spoken, mainly in Wallonia and Brussels; Dutch (Flemish) and German are also official languages of Belgium. 3. France, where the Romance language French is spoken alongside Basque and Breton. 4. Italy, where the Romance language Italian is spoken alongside German (South Tyrol). 5. Luxembourg, one of whose official languages is the Romance language French, alongside German and the Germanic language Luxembourgish. 6. Moldova, where the Romance language Romanian (locally called Moldovan) is spoken. 7. Monaco, where the Romance language French is spoken. 8. Portugal, where the Romance language Portuguese is spoken. 9. Romania, where the Romance language Romanian is spoken alongside minority language Hungarian. 10. San Marino, where the Romance language Italian is spoken. 11. Spain, where the Romance languages Catalan and (Castilian) Spanish are spoken alongside Basque. 12. Switzerland, where the Romance languages French, Italian and Romansch are three of the official national languages, alongside German. French-speaking Switzerland is known as "Suisse Romande" in French. Vatican City (Holy See), where Latin is the official language, is the only country in the world with Latin as an official language. PS: The Channel Islands (Îles Anglo-Normandes) may also be potential candidates for "Romance-language country" status, but they don't, strictly speaking, constitute an "independent country". They are British Crown dependencies where, alongside English, dialects of Romance language French are spoken; Jersey French is used in legal administration.