Talk:US History/European History

It looks to me like the changes made by 128.230.183.108 on 2 Apr 2004 should be reverted. I'm new to this so I'll let this discussion point sit a while. If I remember to come back, I'll probably revert it. -liblamb 4 July 2004.

Yeah, pretty safe bet when there's a line inserted about reptillian aliens you should revert it. :) Done! Oh, I see you're talking about an earlier instance of vandalism. Crazy vandals, sacking the book... -AndreaC April 1 2005

European exploration in 1000 BC?
There's a phrase that states "...archaeologists discovered remains at La'Anse aux Meadows dating back to about 1000 BC." I was just curious as to whether or not that is supposed to be AD/BCE. I myself don't really know, but it doesn't make sense with the rest of the section if the remains dated from ~2000 years before the Vikings reached North America.

Move to delete
This section is unnecessary and I think it should be deleted Geo.plrd (talk) 17:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Myth of Filth
Whoever compiled this history had a lot of myths in the tuckerbag. The Middle Ages were in some ways cleaner than, say, the 18th century. They had bath houses, they had laws against food adulteration or serving rotten flesh, and chamber pots were dumped in cesspits, not in the public street. I wish the author had relied on actual histories, and not on a "gross history" book. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 20:35, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Bloody Vikings! I'd like permission . ..
May I move some material on the Viking exploration to the later section on Exploration? While there is much room in cyberspace, redundancy is bad. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 19:08, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

May I change a section?
A query to the powers that be: may I submerge the current sections about Portugal and the Hundred Years War in a new section about the rise of nation states? Though the topic seems needlessly determinist, it is broader than the current headings, and more fitting for a history of an America settled by contending nations. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 11:51, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

More maps?
We are talking about more than a thousand years, with many political changes. Could someone bring in more maps? It would be nice to have one of the Holy Roman Empire at its medieval height, one of the movements of Irish monks, and a third of the incursions of Islam in Europe. Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 21:38, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Must there be "The New World"?
Some of the material in this section can be put in other sections. Columbus is treated in the very next chapter. May I eliminate this section? Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 22:05, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Spain
I am ignorant on this topic. Can anybody write something for here? Pittsburgh Poet (discuss • contribs) 19:34, 17 May 2014 (UTC)