Here are the following list of such phenomenon:

1. Roman Optimates faction used blue as color, while Roman Populares used red.
2. Minamoto clan during Genpei war used blue-white colors from Rigel to represent them, opposed by Taira clan that used orange-red colors of Betelgeuse.
3. The Byzantine Empire traditionally used purple and blue, while a new rising powerhouse, the Ottomans adopted red.
4. Most famously perhaps, the identifying color for NATO is blue, and those of Warsaw Pact was red.

I do get blue usually represent Nobility and Red represent Commoners, but are there any research on this?

I'm half way through reading Paul Preston's 'The Spanish Holocaust' and it seems that it was fairly regular practice for captured Spanish opponents of the Nationalists to be subject to brutality including abuse and execution, but were captured foreign fighters including from Western countries like the US and UK treated the same?

Napoleon was promoted all the way to General by age 24. How did this happen so rapidly?

How much did the US government suspect about the dangerous radiation from the bomb tests? If they knew it would be harmfull, why did they still choose a site that would endanger so many people? (Specifically the new Mexican native Americans?)

I hear alot of people online saying how europeans murdered the native americans etc and the word genocide, but did europeans intentionally kill native americans in masses with the intention of wiping them out, or did they die by europeans diseases like i hear other people saying?

Ps: Just a clueless guy online trying to get educated

Good evening Ask History. I was watching Game of Thrones in prep for the new season release and I started wondering about the true lethality of arrows.

Excusing a perfectly aimed shot to the face / skull, what is the real lethality of a longbow? I ask as modern munitions are designed to tumble through the body or fragment to create massive trauma, where as an arrow contains a reasonably fine tip and narrow shaft. Aside from the aforementioned perfect shot, was the focus of archers designed to prevent troops moving through an area for threat of being wounded or were archers really the ancient pre-curser to the postcode snipers (artillery) that we have today?

Thanks for your time!

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The Garha Kingdom was considered to be one of the most prominent kingdoms of all of Gondwana. What led the Gonds to form kingdoms when most other tribals were pretty much forest dwellers who weren't organized?

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So i know that The invasion of the Ottoman Empire failed, but why did it?

Approximately how many months or years did being Jewish in the Third Reich go from being good/ normal to absolutely terrifying (knowing you were marked for death)? Did it come very suddenly or a long, slow process?

So I’ve been in an argument with a friend and I’m under the impression that they didn’t have either.

Also this would be all of the America’s, north central and south.

What is the story behind Turkey taking Ankara as its capital, instead of Istanbul?

Hey there! I was looking for more info about the 23rd Engineers, a U.S. Army Regiment that fought in WW1. They were under a Colonel Frederick B. Kerr. More specifically I’m looking for info about Company C. under the command of Captain H. Edmund Burke. as my Great Great Uncle Pvt. Louis Nave fought in that company during the war.