Hey! Tomorrow Imperator Rome, a Paradox game, is going to be available to the public to play. In it, there's only one Celtic(?)/Irish tribe that you can play as, Ulaid. While you can colonize the rest of the lands, Ireland as a whole remains fairly barren. Do we know what was happening there during Alexander's Greece, and shortly after the fall? Were there any tribal organizations, or was it filled by nomadic people only? Are the Ulaids Irish, and if so are they historically recognized as one of the earliest Irish tribes?

I've recently started digging into the history of the Crusades and what led up to them, but I've been doing so basically through Google searches and Wikipedia articles. What's a good, accurate, source that I can learn about them from?

Wouldn't it be expensive? Philip II was able to develop a well disciplined professional force of pikemen and shock cavalry. How did he do this? Wouldn't it be too expensive for the small Macedonian Kingdom? Even in late medieval period larger states struggled to field large standing forces, using campaign armies.

Why was late Joseon Korea’s military so small, despite the threat of Japan? Even with the Gwangmu reforms, I’ve read that the Korean military regularly consisted of 5000 soldiers and increased to only 28000 right before the Russo-Japanese war. This is in contrast to Japan and China, which had around a million soldiers. Why was this so?

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For those unaware, RDR2 is a video game set in the last days of the old west from 1899 to 1907(ish). The setting is a somewhat condensed region approximately covering Texas and the states around it.

Additionally, the catalogue, by description of the in-game retailer, apparently had multiple models of pre-cut home that were implied to be somewhat customisable. How realistic is this?

"1984" and "Animal Farm" were aided by the Cold War, I'm sure, but the point remains.

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Were there grammar books or dictionaries that a budding polyglot might be able to get ahold of?

How appropriate is it for non-Nêhiyaw to refer to historical figures using their given names? I've heard that using their name after a person's death is disrespectful. Should history books use descriptions of historical figures instead (when possible)?

What about in historical fiction? I think I'm supposed to ask an Elder to give me a name for a character, but what if anxiety makes that impossible? (I haven't found anywhere online I can ask questions of elders, and struggle with going non-verbal, or having panic attacks when speaking in person.) Should I refer to her as 'Nêhiyaw-iskwesis' ('Cree Woman') for now? Choose a name like 'Mâkwa' ('Loon') that is common enough to not be too personal? Something else?

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I recently read a book about the late Roman republic and was struck by the number of times some leader or higher-up in a faction vying for power within the Republic would commit suicide rather than attempt...something else like going into hiding, or fleeing Rome.

What's going on here? The will to live seems nearly insurmountable in people of sound mental health to me. However, I assume that perspective at least partially the result of contemporary cultural mores. So what was it about society at that time that made suicide a feasible option for these people?

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Banks have existed since Renaissance. However, how did they actually work back then? I put some deposit. When I come a year later to collect it and get some interest, how do I prove my identity? Can I simply transfer deposit to someone else's account? Can I collect the deposit at another place/office?