As in, how would someone in the year 55 BCE have indicated that point in time? Or was it a completely different system during that era?

I’m currently reading the Bible cover to cover and am struck by how linear the story is early on. It literally seems like God and the story therein is just simply from one son, to the next, to the next. All the while other people’s and kingdoms are sprouting up everywhere.

How did such a small story, seemingly of one tiny family/tribe become so big (Judaism later Christianity) while religions that were worshipped by entire kingdoms with rich traditions (Egyptian, Roman, Greek) disappear?

As someone who primarily does British history, it has always seemed odd that US history would adopt this regnal period (and no other, to my knowledge; I never hear about Edwardian America). What's going on there?

It seems like every other culture can’t live without cheese. What’s up with that?

From what I've read, it seems galleys coexisted with sailing ships in Europe for several centuries, which means combat between these two types of ship happened at least some times. But I'm having a hard time picturing how this would work.

I mean, galleys were mostly used for boarding actions, right? While sailing ships relied more on cannons and such. Archers vs infantry, essentially.

So how did galleys avoid just getting pummeled as they approached? Or did galleys simply avoided goings against cannons? Do we have any records of such a battle?

Thank you for the info. And sorry for the rambly question.

How did they get food there? How did people travel back and forth? How could people in Berlin go to the countryside? Did many people leave Berlin because it was too awkward?

And did it change over time? I know there was one famous point where they had to airlift in supplies.

Were taxes as grueling as popular folk lore described it? I'm playing medieval 2 total war and set all my taxes to max output then started to wonder what that effect would leave with the populace. How would a village go about paying taxes if they only produced goods and what would happen if they couldn't pay the questor?

To justify the division of Chinese recorded history into imperial and pre-imperial, I imagine, there must be some persuasive explanation as to how Chinese society was fundamentally different in these two periods.

Werner Karl Heisenberg is of course a phenomenal physicist, but as he helped in the german nuclear project, did he support the racism and genocides done? If it has no clear answer, what evidence do we still have to each side of the debate?

Maybe I missed it because I hadn't slept for a full day while waiting for a connecting flight in Nantes... but I'm reading Rome: A History in Seven Sackings and I think I missed an important detail. But in the 1527 Sack of Rome, why were the ardently Catholic Spanish allied with the heretical Lutheran Landsknechte?

I get that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but clearly I missed something.

Was there some delegation that decided or was it more intuitive than that?

I was thinking about this the other day and became curious: would a wealthy industrialist living in a major metropolis during this period have viewed a Southern plantation owner as an equal, or a more rural "farmer"?

And I guess as a side/follow-up question: was the slow Southerner stereotype something that existed before the Civil War, or did that come about during/after?

What was its structure? was there the equivalent of a CEO? What were the ranks, and what job did each position have?

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Is there any simple pc program that could create timelines? For example I would like to see when different rulers lived and how long they were in reign.

Like by adding a starting and ending date the program would put the timeline on a canvas and you could add infinite amount of timelines.

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Was it something they were expecting or did it come as a surprise?

I have been reading a lot about the early foundations of Zoroastrianism in Persia and its evolution in antiquity. I know that Darius I justified his reign as himself being the secular ruler under Ahuramazda.

"By the grace of Ahuramazda am I king; Ahuramazda has granted me the kingdom."

Is this a case of divine right to rule, akin to how catholic leaders were merely a secular authority and not necessarily divine themselves? Or is this a case where he is essentially claiming to be Ahuramazda incarnate, like a God-King?

Additional question:

Did the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, etc. of Mesopotamia mark their kingships in a similar light of being granted their ability under a divine presence or did they legitimately imagine themselves Gods?

During the Battle of St. Vith in the Battle of the Bulge, an M8 of Troop B, 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron was able to destroy a German Tiger heavy tank after getting in behind one on the Schonberg Road. It's a relatively famous account, but recently I've heard claim that there were no Tigers in the area at that time, and that no losses were reported. Could it be that the report lied?