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How did early Roman Christians worship? When was the Bible made as a collection? How popular and widespread was it compared to the pagan beliefs of Rome before? If anyone here has an answer to these questions and/or has any more good information they’d like to share regarding the subject, please comment! I’d appreciate it very much. God bless, I love you all. ❤️🙏✝️

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I want to write legal thriller and i fancy ancient rome or ancient greece for unique setting it offers, but i dunno anything about ancient rome legal system.

I want to know how legal system worked and what cases there would be.

How was legal procedures conducted and how it came to so called truth or real truth.

I know I am asking for two different countries, but by you who are better for legal thriller.

And where could I found more resources for their laws or how they worked.

Just give me the facts. Y'know how it worked, who could work, how evidence to the case were gathered and how it would be decided. The general about it.

Any advice is welcomed, but be civil.

Thank you for reading.

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So after the War for independence, the Irish Free state was declared but remained a dominion, with the monarch of the UK as its head of state. But by 1946 (edit: whoops, 37 I guess?) it seems that Ireland was basically able to declare itself officially a republic and there was 0 pushback from London.

Given that the Irish fought a civil war over the difference between being a dominion and a bona fide independent state, I’m guessing that the difference wasn’t purely academic in 1922. But the ease with which Ireland left the commonwealth later on makes it look like it was by then. What happened in the interim between Ireland and the UK?

They could've easily took back the port and Germany won't try to take it back. And also, China didn't border any country in the Central Powers. Doing this would've removed German influence in China as well.

Let me preface this by saying I’m not a historian and well studied on Pliny the elder or his Natural History. That’s why I’m coming here to ask for someone more well read on it than me.

I know it was ground breaking and has a lot of very good data and observations of the time, but there’s also a lot of fanatical clearly untrue things in there. This is supposed to be a book about the natural world, and not mythology, right? I can’t cite specific examples off the top of my head but he had a lot of things in there that, to me, seem just plain made up and unsupported by any real evidence.

For an example of what I mean I checked Wikipedia. Why did he write about the Cynocephaly, or dog heads? Why did he write about Monopod/sciapods, or the human like creatures with one giant foot?

As the title says, I want to read a Japanese history book/s in Japanese as I want to learn how the concept of the samurai was born and developed during Japan's medieval period (while getting my immersion in Japanese for my language studies).

The period that I wish is covered is from the start of the war with the Emishi during the Thirty-Eight Years' War of 773 AD and ends before the onset of the Sengoku period after the Onin war of 1467.

This question may be really really broad, and if it's to broad, sorry let me know and I'll rephrase it.

Mainly I was thinking about the works that were made in the medditeranean. So Greek, Roman and the like.

Was it just that this kind of stone was reasonably plentiful in the area? The only other culture I know anything about in regards to their statues is Egypt where I think granite was more common for things that had to last.

I listen to the Fall of Civilizations podcast now and then, and it seems like every episode starts with a nineteenth century traveller stumbling across some ancient ruins which the locals people have long-neglected and making extensive observations in their diary. It seems like I hear a lot about endeavours to understand and excavate ancient history which begain in the era of European colonialism. Was this the first time in history people started rocking up and digging up fossils, ancient ruins and dead bodies from centuries past?

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Did Qing era scholars ever make attempts to study Qin era ruins? What did Babylonians make of abandoned Sumerian cities? When did the 'science' of the deep past as we know it take form?

the reason i ask is because when i look at reproductions, i see both bronze and steel, but when i look at museum pieces on the internet i only see pieces that are definitely bronze, or look a lot like it

edit- typo. it is spelled khopesh, not how i spelled it in the title.

Title basically says it all. Since Catholic Mass was in Latin and (I believe) most people wouldn't have been literate, how much did your ordinary person in Medieval Europe understand about the theological details of Christianity? Did they have an understanding of things like the link between Jesus' sacrifice and the Fall in the Garden of Eden?

I recall a (Catholic) English teacher in High School saying that for a long time Catholicism was verging on polytheism, as Saints with different domains of influence took a larger role in day-to-day spirituality, but I have no idea if that's true.

(Q was unresolved) So correct me if I'm wrong but I don't know a lot about history but I believe the axis powers consisted of Germany, Japan and Italy. I was asking my Grandad who's a qualified historian what it was like after the war and how did people get back together and how countries rebuilt bridges that had been burnt and he mentioned that he believe somewhat through sport and informed me that the first Olympics after the war was 1948 showing that they wasted no time getting back to normal and I was curious as to if the axis power countries attended and noted that Italy did attend and was invited whereas Germany and Japan were not why is this?

I read that the Appalachian settlers (1700s+) often had a hard way of life trying to live off the mountains.

Why didn't they just push on a bit further and get to the midwest where it would potentially be better agriculture for them?

As I write this post in the comfort of Air Conditioning and eating oreos, I realize "just pushing on" is easier said than done at that time. I don't mean to sound dismissive of the ordeal of setting out and finding somewhere to live.