It's possibly a Chinese concubine then thank you 😊 though incredible history right there 👏 thanks for sharing! Would you know any good documentaries on the ottoman empire ? I'm from Britain so the idea of concubines is so exotic and unusual considering our most infamous king literally changed religion and history of England to be able to have extra wives and lovers

I apologise if I'm wrong I could be mixing my Chinese or Turkish history but someone told me there is a famous concubine. The court painter wanted extra money from her or he would paint her ugly. She refused and was painted ugly. The king insisted she wore a veil in his presence because of the picture and put her low ranks? But then there was an issue with another country or nobelman or something and to keep peace he offered one of his concubine in marriage. And this concubine volunteered . Then when he handed her over to he seen her without her veil on and realised she was the most beautiful woman who walked walked earth and realised what a mistake he made. And was infuriated and has the court painter killed ? If this sounds familiar can you clarify who it was and recommend any documentaries about it? Apparently she went on to be famous

Depends on various things, 1 Location 2. Time peroid and 3. The class using them. I could give you some ideas of terms used for Britian and Ireland that were around queen victorias time
Some slang by lowerclass would include Brickies (brick layer ) Quakers (worked soup kitchens in irish famine ) (Mutton Shunter) policeman Docker (dock worker) THREE-PENNY UPRIGHT ( a prositute ) Bit Faker (someone who made fake coins ) Bludger (violent criminal) Didikko (person of travelling community) Dipper (Pickpocket) Don (leader or distinguised person ) Flash (something or someone Posh eg flash house) Spike Workhouse , landsharks bloodsuckers(landlords) gentry (gentleman

Upperclass and middle being better educated would be less likely to use slang, When I look at letters written at the time about the famine for example the terms used are straightforward compared to lowerclass slang but terms I've seen are things like the labouring men, The middle men (for landlords) Tendry (tennants)
"It would be impossible adequately to describe the privations which they [the Irish labourer and his family] habitually and silently endure ..."

I think if your looking for earlier good examples of how things were written earlier would be to read a few chapters from books of that era your interested in that focus on class division eg poldark (set in early 18th century) or something like homers oddessy if you want ancient greece, shakespere if you want 1600s etc

Not sure if it's the same but in Britian we have the class system and everyone knows what class they are in . We know the terms people use for use for us too. So I would assume yes people historically were the same

Oh goodness so many I want to visit...but for practical reasons wouldn't especially being a woman 🤣

Does science just come in and out of fashion in history? How can great ideas just get scrapped?

Historically we had some seriously cool discoveries that just kinda got washed over. We had batteries and understanding of electric we had sewage and baths with Romans. We has things like early aviation theories and Chinese lanterns gun powder fireworks . I know c sections supposedly go back further than the 1200s and antibiotics.Traces of antibiotics were found in human skeletons from ancient times dating back to 350 – 550 CE and I've seen science articles claim cavemen did amputations and their subjects survived. Using milk of poppy for pain relief

Obviously outstanding engineering feats meant there was outstanding understanding of maths and architecture. and space. And yet it was all ignored for a long time

But there's just this huge period recently (or relatively recently 1700s onwards where all these old things were brought back and rediscovered. Eg sourcing plants for antibiotic properties. Or reinventing batteries bringing back plumbing as opposed to passing in a bucket etc

Even modern times sort of did this. The first ever invented car was electric. Then they got scrapped for unleaded and diesel engines and now its back to electric cars.