No. Dany is Daenerys Targaryen, daughter of Aerys II and Rhaella Targaryen. Her birth was witnessed by servants, bannermen, and Viserys; it happened while the island was under naval blockade so there was no smuggling anyone in (it took the storm of a century to allow Ser Willem Darry to sneak through). 

On a metatexual level, GRRM is not M. Night Shyamalan, he doesn’t do twists out of nowhere or for no reason – if you go back to GRRM’s texts, he very carefully layers in huge amounts of foreshadowing in ways that make things super-obvious when you do a re-read. So if he wants a character’s identity to be open to question, as with Jon Snow, he puts in a huge amount of material pointing in that direction.

He didn’t do that with Dany. He did the opposite, repeatedly tying her back to House Targaryen. AGOT and ACOK are filled with references to Rhaegar, Aerys, prophetic visions of Rhaegar and Aerys, and so on and so forth.

I mean, even the relatively more urbanized medieval societies were overwhelmingly rural, so I don’t think it’s much of a difference. 

Light, incredibly difficult to puncture, yeah, it’s not bad. 

From what I’ve learned from a quick bit of research, the whole iron vs. bronze thing isn’t about hardness or weight or anything like that. Rather, if you can forge iron, it’s way more plentiful and doesn’t require access to both tin and copper. The ancient bronze world relied heavily on trade networks to get access to both, so if disrupted bronze cultures would have a hard time replenishing their weaponry whereas iron cultures wouldn’t. 

I would imagine this meant that when a bronze-using army encountered an iron-using industry, the issue is that the iron-using army could equip itself more cheaply and easily, so could afford to equip more soldiers than the bronze army could for the same amount resources. 

Wrestling yes, boxing had sort of fallen off after the classical period. 

But honestly, when you carry swords and knives all the time, hand-to-hand is less relevant. 

Well, not every House has to have a Valyrian sword, so I’m a little hesitant. I don’t think the Teagues would have had one, and if the Justmans ever had one it probably would have been lost with Bernarr II (although I like the name Balance). As for House Gardener, I like the idea of Longthorn (maybe Leo Tyrell nick-named himself after the famous blade?) – hat tip to @warsofasoiaf for that one.

I don’t necessarily have headcanons for this stuff, so I’m going off the top of my dome here:

• House Gardener should have the “look” of Garth Greenhand, who my headcanon is less this than this. So, handsome/beautiful in an earthy, slightly louche way (capable of running to fat if they don’t work off the calories from living the good life) that befits the descendants of a fertility god. I also like the idea of them having hair and eyes that are a mix of brown and gold, earth and the divine mixing. 
• House Justman should be a mix of the “looks” of Houses Bracken and Blackwood. So the Brackens tend to be beefy but not tall and with brown hair and eyes, and the Blackwoods tend to have black hair, hooked noses, and tend to be goth as hell. So Justmans would probably have dark hair and eyes, a balanced physique (neither as wispy as the Blackwoods nor as blocky as the Brackens), and noses that are a careful balance between the two families.
• House Teague were Andals, who tended to be fair-haired; beyond that, I don’t have any ideas. I like the idea of the Teagues as being short, because I like the idea of them as feisty bantamweights who don’t know when to give up. 

We don’t know and we don’t know. 

The new Ducktales is pretty fun. 

A constitutional monarchy and a modern constituional monarchy aren’t necessarily the same thing.