I recently watched the movie and had previously been under the impression that the Confederacy had little support in the North, and what it did was probably in rural areas. After watching the movie however, I wondered how historically accurate the “Down With the Union” chants were.

Japan's land in China shares a border with the Soviet Union an enemy of their friends (Nazi Germany.)

Hi, so I like history. I really enjoy learning about the confederacy and the civil war, but any interesting history books would be nice, my history teacher recommended one to me I believe it was call gun powder steel and something else I forgot if anyone knows that books title please let me know.

I'm currently in two college level world and European history classes and would like books to read to help me with the classes, but not text books I dont need study material just books that are interesting that encompass either of those.

Please let me know any suggestions, thanks!

I know the most famous ones are the Norse Pagans who worshiped Odin and Thor and stuff, but what about the other ones? I know there were more than that and anything I try to find on them is pretty limited and dry. Who were they and what do we know about them?

It's been awhile since I've done much reading on the French Revolution, but perusing through some older answers on similar topics leads me to a couple key questions. First, from my understanding, at least part of the downfall of the Ancien Regime could be attributed to the horrible state of the crown and states finances in the later half of the 18th century. While a few posters mentioned the loss of French North American colonial possessions, no one seems to draw any connection to funding a costly intervention into the American Revolution. Second, from an intellectual standpoint, how well known were American Political thinkers within French Revolutionary circles? Obviously there's Lafayette, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Jeffersonian connection, but how well known were the founding fathers and their (admittedly diverse) philosophies in France?

I know I asked a few pretty big questions that technically go into different areas, but both contribute to my general question of the affect the American Revolution had on the downfall of Bourbon France?

And I am also interested in the Middle Ages overall(from cultural, social, religious, etc. standpoints), the histories of Japan and other Middle East countries(as I have no idea about those, I would really appreciate some guidelines).

Since I am not a scholar, I would appreciate something accessible for a layman, but still, not overly simplified.

And if you have any other suggestions on periods, wars, etc. that are especially significant and present interesting and important ideas and concepts, I am looking forward to your suggestions.

For most of my life I thought that the Tree of Knowledge was an apple tree, but recently someone told me that it is not completely true, that the Bible doesn't mention anything about which type of tree it was, and that the idea that it was an apple tree comes from the Middle ages. How true is this and how do different cultures understand the Tree of Knowledge?

As there can be quite much of snow in winter where I live (although not this year), I have always wondered how they cleared the snow from the streets before motor vehicles. Obviously, there must have been different ways in different parts of the world, but I’m curious nonetheless. Did cities have horses that were used for this? Where there rules for house owners to clear their part of the street?

I was recently in china visiting my girlfriend and at midday whilst she was at work air raid sirens went off at every police station in the city for nearly 5 minutes.

I asked my girlfriend what it was for and she replied that it was the Dongguan People's safety day and that she nor any of her colleagues could explain anymore than that it was the anniversary of an event that involved a Japanese massacre on that day in 1938 in the area.

I have spent quite a lot of time looking this up online and I cannot find a single thing about a massacre on this day in that area. So I suppose the thing I want to know is what happened to make this a memorial Day.

While the Middle Ages is a broad time period with many French monarchs, I'm wondering if there was any sort of relationship between the bodies associated with enforcing the law and the Church at some point. I can and will ask follow-up questions!

Hello, I'm designing a strategic ancients wargame and I am trying to figure out how war elephant use such as by carthage and epirrus should fit into the strategy.

Considerations would be march speed, terrain disadvantages, and weaknesses to other unit types.

Right now units are divided into 5 categories representing heavy melee infantry(legions), phalanx infantry, light infantry(gaul, briton, etc), slingers/archers, and cavalry.

So my questions are: how should elephant march speed compare to infantry in level ground?

Do elephants become useless if caught in hilly/forested terrain?

Lastly, what are they strong and weak against? I was thinking that their weakness would be light troops and missile troops and they would be strong against cavalry and phalanx infantry which rely on keeping formation but I am not a historian.

Obviously this is a game soI have flexibility but I want it to be believable. Thanks!

The US discovered and removed all of the artwork and money that Nazi Germany had hoarded in the mine. Do we know what the repatriation effort was like for this hoard? Was all of it returned to its original owners? Did the US keep any of it (whether on purpose or not)? Given the damage caused during the war, were the original owners capable of housing the art again?

For a long time there have been stories (theories) surrounding africans having gone to the americas (olmecs and whatnot) before Columbus. Somebody told me those theories Were started because of the fact that people found it strange that africans had not attempted to sail towards America from the cape verde islands.

Since its relatively close to the southern american coast and apparently there is a very pleasent wind accompanying you over there. The cape verde islands were discovered a couple of years before america was.

I am aware of the fact that maybe they didn't just because they didn't or hadnt thought of it or something.

But i did think it was strange that nobody started their journey from there since it apparantly was the best way to get to the new world. And since people always wondered why the africans never took this route, i thought it might be interesting to ask that same question about for example the portugeze since they had already colonized cape verde around this time.