Outside of the context of a Crusade (or even any sort of military context), could, I don't know, a French baker go see Jerusalem by taking a boat in Marseille, and come back a month later after having seen what he wanted to see, like nowadays I can book a round-trip to Sweden with no reason other than me wanted to do some sightseeing?

If it was possible, how would it be organized?

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What I mean is:what did they want to take after WW1,if they won? I heard things like that they wanted to make Mittelafrika or they wanted to puppet Belgium,etc. I'd also like to know about Bulgaria,Austria-Hungary,and the Ottomans,but it's not the main point.

The senate approved to assemble one legion. Who were the responsibles for such a task? Who were the smiths who build their armors and weapons? How many time they took to do it?

When I was a non-believer, I was amazed by how Christianity went from a religion banned by the Roman government to being legalized, and then becoming the main religion of the Empire. Aside from God’s grace, how did Christianity grow its popularity in the Roman Empire?

Forgot to add this in the question, but would children walk to school or take some train or carriage? Also, I meant London England, and up until the child would be 12.

Cultures like the Aztec, Inca, Mayan and Olmec seem to always be specified. The term Native American can mean anything from Inuit to Apache to Seminole or any cultural group in between. Also, Central and South American groups are usually referenced in a time specific manner but North American groups are often presented as static cultures that never changed over time. What caused or causes the difference in how these groups are viewed?

So i have been recently reading up on the Bismark and her sinking, and when looking for pictures of her wreck, the pictures dont seem to line up to the written material I have read. In fact, most of the pictures that show anything beyond either the forecastle or superstructure of the ship are computer generated images or paintings. With the computer generated images and paintings showing that the stern is still attached and both bow turrets completely missing. Yet written material I have read said that the stern was detached from the bismark and still has yet to be found. And while the main battery armament was disabled during the battle which sank her, they also mentioned that the hull of the wreck was in rather decent shape so I doubt a magazine explosion occurred and blew the turrets off. So is the Bismark still relatively in one piece, or is a large part of her missing? (excluding the stern)

And one minor question if you want to answer it too, i will be very appreciated

Why Tito's legacy ruined hard by his followers in a short time after his death ? But not Lee Kwan Yew? Does nepotism play a part here?

Howdy guys and gals, I am a History Major for the University of the Cumberlands and I'm attempting to locate some good primary sources for the topic of my research paper due here in a few months. The topic is: How did Marius and Sulla contribute to the fall of the Roman Republic. Any help would be much appreciated.

As the title says, was there a shortage? I know it sounds odd but since WW2 was mostly fought by men and since there was such a large number casualties, was there a shortage of men to date women?

I have always wondered how come the american colonies united as one large state after driving the British out of their territory while the spanish colonies in South America never integrated themselves in a similar manner into a large state even though they had just finished winning a well coordinated, long and bloody transcontinental war campaign against the Spanish Empire in which they won their independence. Not to mention the incredible official cultural homogeneity of the Empire (which ran from the northern US to the south of Chile) in which they all spoke spanish as lingua franca, they had the same currency, same state religion, same laws and similar mores.

One would logically think, as in the case of the 13 colonies, that the newly freed spanish colonies would also unite to form one country but obviously this did not happened. Why though?

Was it the greed of the regional elite creole classes? The extraordinary size and fragmented geographical nature of the Empire?

Or was the well established and mechanical imperial structure of power and governance in which Spanish America was divided into four Viceroyalties and not colonies (and inherited by the newly freed spanish americans ) with the same rights as any other province of continental Spain, the very same reason why the nodes of political power remained separate even after Independence?

World history would have been much different if instead of about 20 separate similar states, they had become one large continental power. Why did they not unite?

From what I understand, modern-day borders in Africa were drawn based on former European colonial territories and not based on nation-states/ethnicity. French North Africa controlled a large portion of territory in North Africa, but today it is split into multiple countries. Why did this happen?

EDIT: I meant to include territories in French West Africa and Equatorial Africa as well (which seem contiguous), not just French North Africa

So I was playing red dead redemption 2 for the 4th time and was wondering when did it actually end because on google it says 1895 but the game is set in 1899-1907 so it doesn’t really make sense.

Also, was crime legal back then?

Supposedly, James Buchanan attempted to influence the result of the Dred Scott decision. Is this true or just a conspiracy theory? This is cited as one of the reasons why he may be the worst President in U.S. history considering he may have had a hand in the worst Supreme Court decision in U.S. history (Not doing enough to stop slavery and seeing the Union almost fall apart are the other 2 reasons). Did he really attempt to affect the result of Dred Scott and what is the evidence?

By this I mean stuff like how Spice is valuable to Europe as to want to control the trade, or how China valued silver coming from Europe.

Did the Ottomans have a valuable resource they can grow or extract themselves to sell? Most of what I read is that they sit on lucrative trade routes, but not sure what this really entails.