How did Romans and Britons break the Language Barrier?

During the Britannic Invasion how did Romans and Britons communicate with each other? Did they always bring Translators?Specifically the Story about Caratacus and his Speech before the Roman Senate in Rome:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caratacus

"Tacitus records a version of his speech in which he says that his stubborn resistance made Rome's glory in defeating him all the greater". Was Caratacus speaking in his native language before the Senate, or was he able to speak latin to some extend?

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Was there an anti-immigration movement in Ancient Rome during the barbarian migrations?

Did the people or government of ancient Rome ever consider measures to restrict migration into the Empire, or restricting granting citizenship to migrants?

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In the movie '1917' the trench in the ending is made of a sort of white stone, is this accurate? in that same scene the battlefield is still covered in grass, again, is this accurate?

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Did Viking communities suffer from inflation?

I've been watching Vikings lately and I was Wondering if this was a problem in that age. When Ragnar returns from his first western voyage, he brings a lot of treassure with him. Did viking voyages bring this much treassure in general and if they did, how did the local communities deal with the inflation?

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At what point in history did the Greeks in mainland Greece basically say: “wait a minute, maybe these Romans aren’t just a backwater joke?” and really start paying attention to them politically, socially, and economically?

I imagine that it must have been before Pyrrhus of Epirus attacked because they’d been gobbling up lands way before than that. I remember reading a book by Anthony Everitt wherein he says that at some relatively early period the Greeks were jealous that the Romans could achieve through consensus and compromise in their own society what the Greeks themselves could barely do through internecine war and strife, and I seem to remember this being in either the late 4th or very early 3rd centuries BC. They had long thought of them as part of the Barbarian rabble, but some also noted that they governed with a constitution with complex laws and a series of checks on the power in their Republican government. So when did they go from a Western backwater to a group worthy of attention?

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Did the monarchies of Europe have the same fearful reaction to the result of the English Civil War as it did to the French Revolution?

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What civilisation existed before Sumer? I know a little bit about Jericho & Cathalhoyuk, but I’m not too sure about anything else & can’t find too much around the internet

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Was the Hutu Power influenced in any way by Black Power?

I have found that name of the movement is always listed as "Hutu Power" regarless or the language, in spanish and french for example the word Power is left untranslated, i dont know this was also the case in Rwanda, but it make me wonder if, like with "White Power", the name was an apropiation of the Black Power movement

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How united were the Norse people during the viking age? And a few questions about the Norse Culture.

From what I've learned/been taught about the Norse people is that vikings were culturally more than just people raiding places. So since I don't know much about the viking/norse culture I thought I'd come here with a few questions.

Exactly how united were the norse people during the viking age? Being that they were from different places separated by land and water, did they often share monarchs? Did they differ culturally/religiously/linguistically from region to region (eg. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Danelaw, Normandy, or more I don't know of)?

How did the norse people/culture come about (did they differ from other parts of Europe because of their location and if so did that help develop their culture/religion)? Were/are they considered to derive from germanic tribes and if so why was a place like Denmark not part of the HRE being that it bordered it?

I know they had raided places from North America to modern day Russia, but I can't seem to find online if they had invaded the HRE, and if so were they invested there as much as they were other places like invaded the British Isles and Ireland?

How far did their influence reach? I've read they made it as far as North America and even established trade with the Middle East, but did their influence reach any other far places as well?

I apologize for the many questions I imagine they can have very in depth answers but I'm a simple person so feel free to keep the answers simple, I'm new to the topic and reddit so I apologize if I come off as ignorant on the topic as well as redditing (I tried to stay within the rules of the subreddit).

If you take the time to answer I appreciate you reading through this as I know this is a lot with to many questions I'm just very interested in the topic.

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According to feudal Japan, what was to the east?

Did they know of anything that existed in the Pacific? As far as I know, the Portuguese and the Dutch sailed around Africa so they arrived from the west. What was the cultural conception?

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Corinthian Helmet at "rest position"

I recently purchased a full size replica bronze Corinthian helmet from Greece. In some Greek pottery images and sculptures notably the one of Pericles of Athens, the helmet is placed in the "rest position". Now I've tried this with the bronze replica that I have and when I place it in the "rest position" it is top heavy and easily able to fall off my head when I moved my head rather slowly from side to side. it is also uncomfortable since the bottom half of the helmet is placed on my neck, I'm practically balancing the thing on my head.

So the conclusion that I've drawn from this , is that I can see it being in sculptures and pottery images since it does look aesthetically pleasing but I can't see it being actually used as a "rest position" since it would make more sense just to take the helmet off.

Maybe on the smaller helmets I could see it being used this way...?

see images below

Pericles of Athens

Corinthian Helmet; pottery

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Help identifying a mystery seal from an old church in Whitfeild, Ontario.

I have a seal that was given as a family heirloom that I need help identifying. It has a triangle with a 7 in the middle surrounded by the words "fraternity, aid, protection", along with a chain. It's marked "Council no. 317 C.C.C.F." or "C.O.C.F", I can hardly make it out. The year is 1895 The seal on paper

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When did circumcision of males become a thing and when/why did it become associated with certain religions ie. Islam and Judaism?

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Since the Persians fought on enemy soil, what happened to the bodies of the Persian soldiers that were killed during the Greco-Persian wars?

Presumably any Greeks who were killed would be given a proper burial since they were on Greek soil and they won the war. Since the Persians lost and were on Greek soil, would the bodies have been buried by the Persians wherever they could or were they left on the battlefield? Did the Greeks bury them for them?

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Was there toilets at the concentration camps and were the prisoners given toilet paper?

I was curious to know how the bathrooms were like at the Nazi concentration camps during the World War 2. Was there even any bathrooms and were they given toilet paper? Also were women given any sanitary products?

Ps: i am not a native English speaker so sorry for my broken English

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What happens to the 'original' French settlers in Louisianna

I'm aware that the Cajun peoples are defended from the Acadians who were expelled from modern day NB and Nova Scotia, however, I was wondering, these expelled people have left a lasting pression on the current population of Lousianna, but then what happened to the original settlers in New Orleans and the surrounding area? Why haven't (to my knowledge) the french settlers in the area had the same impact that the Cajuns did? Assuming that they were assimilated into broader American society, why didn't the Cajuns assimilate to a similar extent?

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What was the culture around smoking amongst Victorian and Edwardian upper class women?

Was it frowned upon for ladies to smoke in public back in those days in England? Did they smoke in their own time? It seems from what media I've seen of this period, only the men seemed to smoke. And I can't find anything about aristocratic women in that era smoking from simple googling.

This is for a short story I'm writing. If someone could help me out, that would be great!

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Why did theater companies use safety curtains historically?

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What were the streets of Germany like during the Holocaust? Was it filled with people, or was it very quiet, almost like people were in hiding?

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Are there any historical primary sources of Army tactics (books, operation manuals etc) preferably 1800s

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Are the gnostic gospels older than the New Testament, or are the gnostic gospels fraudulent?

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I loosely remember reading a text about how the Roman Empire, and Han Dynasty had managed to contact one another. How often did ancient states communicate with each other, and have there been instances where two distant states older than Rome made contact?

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Would destroyed tanks/planes in WWII be recycled for metal to form new tanks?

So I’m watching a YouTube video on a random battle in WWII, and they mention the number of tanks destroyed in a town, or right on the outskirts of a town. It got me thinking, if and when did these destroyed be recycled?

Obviously proximity was a factor because I’m assuming you would need an industrial smelter to melt down a tank tread or shell-riden paneling? If a large smelter is needed then did they actually actively collect parts, load them up in trucks and use valuable fuel transporting them to the smelter? And if they did collect parts, did the get the whole tank? -like the super heavy frame ? (I’m not sure what you would call these part, but you get the point) I’m just wondering if that would need cranes or plows-and if those were available during wartime.

I’ve seen clips on bunkers being striped down for parts, but I always though that was them removing and reinstalling somewhere else, not thinking they were re-melted. And a city would be a preferred spot to find a nice destroyed tank,easy for the picking, but what about in the ardennes forest? We’re there just destroyed tanks that stayed around until after the war ended?

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what made hitler start killing the jews?

this isn't asking why did hitler believe all that shit about jewish people, i'm wondering why he decided to start killing them off. in history class i vaguely remember being told that originally they were just segregated into small areas of germany and said areas would be walled off and they were forced to work. i remember he had them wear armbands, and that the nazi's would look for any excuse to be mean to them. so what caused his sudden shift in mind? how/why did he go from segregating them to straight up shipping them off to concentration camps and killing them?

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Why didn't Andrew Jackson duel Lewis Robards?

I was listening to a history podcast talking about Andrew Jackson's life, and they said that the reason he got into so many duels was due to the fact that he was in a relationship with a woman, Rachel Donelson, who had tried to divorce her former husband, Lewis Robards, but later found out that the divorce wasn't valid, so lots of people at the time called Rachel a whore for being with Andrew Jackson while still (legally) married, and Andrew Jackson would then duel those people.

The podcasters joked that this was like targeting the symptoms of a disease rather than the root cause, and that Andrew Jackson clearly should have directly challenged Lewis Robards to a duel rather than all of the people reacting to Rachel's continued legal marriage to him. Although it was said partially in jest, I still feel like they made a really good point. Why didn't Andrew Jackson just duel Lewis Robards directly?

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