I have heard that Zoroastrianism was the first monotheistic religion and had a huge effect on the Bible. I believe the concept of evil and good in the Bible comes from Zoroastrianism but I don't know the details. Could someone further expand on it?

Surely by 1939 the Japanese must have realised that not only was further advance prohibitively difficult, but it was also impossible to hold the territory they occupied over the long term. Why, then, did they not seek to extort concessions out of the government in Chongqing before the strain began to show?

Did he receive any disdain because of his religion? Even jeering from other high ranking confederates? To a modern sensibility and understanding of how antisemitism and racism go hand in hand it just seems such a shocking fact.

In various posts I've seen it said that Europe was a backwater and offered nothing to their Asian trading partners save silver and gold until the 1800's. Is that true or is it just a popular historical myth?

Honestly on rewatching this 1968 "classic" (eh...), the depiction of the Canadian troops comes across to me as extremely British. Canadian uniforms would not look out of place on a British soldier, bagpipes and kilts are everywhere, and vaguely British Isles-y accents aren't uncommon. How much did this reflect the actual identity of Canadian troops fighting in World War 2, and how much of an individual identity did Canadian troops have (culturally-speaking) amongst the rest of the allied nations in WW2?

I am writing a book that in part takes place during this time period. I am struggling to figure out how these few hundred years of medieval disagreement has effected the big picture and current Popal election processes.

After the western schism there seemed to be only one interregnum while there was four or five during that three hundred year or so timeframe.

Anything helps. Thanks y’all.

Could the Taiping be considered the first step or revolution, that leads to other steps like the Boxers Rebellion and eventually progressed to the Communist revolution during the Chinese Civil War?

I've seen a lot of memes and "red pill" images that say Jews had control over American slaver, I'd put one of those here but images aren't allowed

I've heard awhile ago that the term "Anglo-Saxon" wasn't even a term used for Anglo-Saxons themselves but instead became a word to distinguish the people before the Norman conquest of England. Is this true? Also, if they didn't call themselves Anglo-Saxon, then what did they call themselves? Did they call themselves English or was that even a term that existed at the time? Did they ever consider themselves one cultural group? I know that the "Anglo-Saxons" were a collection of Germanic tribes from areas such as Saxony and Jutland. However, if they were different germanic tribes, how long did it take for them to consider themselves one group of people when they migrated to England?

I am comparing religions and i really wanna know if i can trust the bible historically This is important to me

Whether they be European or Asian ship wrecks, I feel like with the currents, there had to be a good number of ships that drifted ashore onto America and they would of had to have contained some sort of advanced technology such as metal tools and the likes.

In a battle I realize different situations would occur and it won't always be the same number but how many volleys would two sides of the line infantry, in say mid 18th century through to the Napoleonic Wars, exchange on average before they would engage in a bayonet charge?

And once the bayonet charge occured how would it have looked like? Would it be a wild melee or would they try to maintain a formation and engage in some sort of push of pike?

Last question, did officers use the bayonet charge to try to get the enemy to break once they've been withered down by the volleys? I imagine it was seen as less effective to charge in, rather than simply keep shooting the enemy from range, as I imagine more casualties were to occur in a melee than in an exchange of volleys.

Thank you advance!

I lived in China for a year, and it wasn't until I came home to my western European country that I realized most everyone in China was a normal weight, and pretty much everyone in my country has a bit of a belly. Safe to say being in shape makes you an outlier where I'm from. That got me thinking, what was obesity like in medieval times? Was it common or was there so little food that most people were underweight and only the rich were well fed?

Any statistics or accounts on this topic would be fascinating and much appreciated!

In the last five years I’ve seen a few articles about non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Looking it up, I can see articles on the subject from The BBC, Die Welle, Al Jazeera and The Guardian. From about five to fourteen I was under the impression that only Jews died in the Holocaust, and was surprised to learn that there were significant numbers of others murdered, and I don’t think my experience is uncommon, at least in Australia or the USA, where I have lived. I was wondering how we’ve come to forget these victims, if we ever remembered them, and if we never did, then why we didn’t.

Most religious conflict seems to be either between members of different religions, or within the same religion if we belong to a different sect, don't like the authority, or have a different interpretation about the teachings or precepts of our shared religion. However, most conflict within the same religion I've heard of seems to happen in monotheistic ones.

Is this the case, or is it just the this type of conflict (between members of the same polytheistic religion, because a faction thought one god was more prominent than the other) not well documented?

It just baffles me how people deny it considering the camps still exist and there are countless testimonies from survivors.