We all know France had vested interest in Louisiana and Quebec, but why those two, relatively distanced areas specifically? E.g. were they trying to outflank other countries, occupying the likes of New York, Boston etc. to command a greater share of North America?

Making a fictional world has me wondering what the minimum tech requirement would be to produce wire.

Was unable to find anything in most Wikipedia or Forging articles that mentioned anything this.

Is this just a new-age marketing Term? Or is there some Historical Basis for this?

Most articles just focused on how they folded or Welded lower carbon Iron "Ovals" into the blade to help strengthen them despite a lower carbon percentage.

Recently, I've been hearing a lot of news about crimes that are fairly white collar in nature, such as Ireland's court battle with the EU over Apple's tax bill, as well as exploitation of loopholes in the coronavirus relief funds provided by many countries. This has got me interested in embezzlement as a historical phenomenon, which I assume is as old as civilisation. I have a few particular fields I'm curious about:

1. I'm very interested in embezzlement on a small and medium scale, such as farmers exploiting agricultural subsidies in ways unintended by policymakers or creative accounting for family-run restaurants, rather than Enron or Lehman Brothers-style corruption

2. I'd like to know more about cases in which rushed or otherwise badly thought-out legislation has led to unintended side effects and been taken advantage of

3. I'm fascinated by the idea of state capture and of consciously-developed tax havens

4. I'd like to find out about the evolution of financial crime over time and, in particular, how it changed in line with innovations in finance itself like double-entry bookkeeping and mortgages

I'm more or less equally interested in all time periods and cultures, but have no financial training so anything overly technical, like treasury paperwork, might be beyond my reach. I can read Spanish and French if any works are available in those. Case studies or any writing with a touch of humour / the ability to liven up and add character to this sort of thing would be especially warmly received.

I know this all might be quick niche, so thanks for anyone that can provide recommendations

I made this joke to a friend recently in response to him pointing out that I'm caucasian. "I'm not caucasian, I'm German. My family didn't come from the Caucasus." While I understand there are people who think these super ethnic catagories are useful, I've never understood why the specific ethnic group of caucasians was used additionally as a super category. Doesn't this cause problems when you want to talk about Caucasuian food specifically for example?

So recently I watched the Last Czars on Netflix and after I finished I thought why didn’t the Russian people revolt in WW2 like they did In WW1 so can someone explain to me why they didn’t revolt against Stalin and the Communist Party.

I know that at different time throughout the world people seemed a lot more cool with gay people, E.g. ancient Greece and precolonial America. Was there a specific time/place that homophobia started? Or has it come and go in waves?

I want to read about the roman empire as a beginner, but i dont know where to start from. What books or ressources do you suggest

All the mummies I've seen are skinny and I suppose that the pharaohs had enough wealth to eat like "kings" ...

Does the mummification burn all the fat or there are some fat less known mummies?

Thanks

By "religious turmoil", I was thinking theological.Did anyone see this as being "cursed by God" or being punished somehow? Did anyone think that it would lead to the end of Islam or the world?

What made the northers despise slavery in the first place, as my little understanding at that time having slaves that you wouldn't have to pay them for work meant greater revenue for businessmen, so what happened? (On a side note, I'm an Egyptian who really wants to understand that era but Google couldn't help me, and I apologize if I said anything that mistakenly offended any person)

So whenever I delve into previous historical eras between the 20th Century, I barely see any difference in the cultural mainstream or the significances between the decades (such as cultural, political or technological differences between the 1850s and 1860s for example) while in the 20th Century, the differences between the decades are often quite apparent such as

the 1900s and 1910s was the beginning of the modern era and the adaptation to more modern technology and the implementation of said technology in the First World War and the political shift that happened during the war and after;

the 1920s as the political shift after the Great War, from the beginning of the declining influence among the Imperial Powers

the 1930s as the Great Depression and the rise of Fascism

the 1940s, the Second World War

the 1950s, the Baby Boomers era, American exceptionalism, the rise of the American Economy and the beginning of the paranoia against Communism during the Cold War

and so on.

How come this is the case? Does the familiarity (or the youngness) of the timing have any significance on the clarity between the decades in the 20th Century or perhaps there is more clarity in the archaeological remains of the decades? Perhaps the technology that was used during that century allowed for better preservation of historical and archaeological evidence when compared to other centuries which might have been lost through time or were influenced by other factors during that time (such as how the other nations were identified during the Age of Discovery or the Age of Imperialism)?

To my knowledge, lots of Eastern cuisines rely heavily on spices and other ingredients to add flavour, and are more reliant on other ingredients like vegetables, fish and fermented foods (like in Russia, they have the Kvass which is basically a fermented rye bread beverage) while Western cuisines rely heavily on other ingredients such as carbohydrate-heavy dishes like bread, pasta and pizza, and use meat is the main ingredient of the dish; or even have more sweets than Eastern or even African dishes.

Even cooking techniques are often different like Asian cuisines involve a lot of boiling, steaming and stir-frying and often cook in large pans or woks; while Western cuisines involve frying, cooking, oven-baking and grilling and so on.

Even in terms of utensils, Eastern cuisines relied heavily on chopsticks or using their hands for eating while the Western part of the world adapted to the knife and fork.

So how come there are these differences between the two cultural cuisines?

Have we ever had groups from the active president’s own party form PACs/coalitions (Lincoln Project, Republicans Against Trump) to prevent re-election?

Ever since grandfather came back from the Great Patriotic War and talked about his amazing encounters in Europe with American and British soldiers, I've always wanted to travel. I'm fortunate enough to have the means to do so for a few weeks, but I'm not sure how to go about getting a passport. Where do I go to start the process? Also, will my Rubles be accepted overseas? How do I go about getting foreign currency?

On a related note, my sister from Kiev has expressed a desire to move her and her family closer to me in Stalingrad. How would she go about moving from one part of the country to another?

It certainly sounds like a super badass way to deal with corruption, but I'd like to know if this is legit.

I suppose this question would depend on when. Perhaps at the height of WW2 would suffice?