I'm new to this sub and I know this might get deleted but can someone quickly give me the name or source to the ma used as this subreddit's banner?

I have a hazy understanding of the history of humanity in terms of our technological development - bronze age, iron age, etc. The bit where we rode dinosaurs around jousting each other.

As per TIL, there have been 7,500 generations since modern humans emerged, and only 20 generations since the scientific revolution.

I feel the progress we've made in the last 20 generations dwarfs by orders of magnitude that of the 7,480 prior. Why was progress then so slow? Why did it take us tens of thousands of years to go from good swords to slightly better swords, and then a hundred years to discover electricity, split the atom, visit the moon, land spacecraft on mars, crack DNA, etc etc

Or is my perspective completely warped?

I'm interested in finding resources on this to see if I can write something for a class about the Occupation on language contact during the period.

Did the French resist using German? I know it was fairly common to study it in French schools before the war (and after there have been treaties between France and Germany that explicitly state they will continue to teach it as part of good relations).

Did German soldiers speak mostly French? I know there was a strong push to sort of placate the French population and give a sense of normalcy, but also a very strong presence/huge changes to daily life.

Very curious to hear any related thoughts as well, or if you know of a book or other resource I should check out on this. (My French is solid enough to read in, but no German)

Particularly, after the capture of Antioch and Edessa, were there any plans to e.g. besiege Baghdad or even Isfahan, or was that considered an insurmountable undertaking?

In movies about the war, soldiers are often shown not wearing their uniform "correctly" and i was wondering how accurate this is?

I've seen/read a bit of conflicting information on the subject. Some say Hitler wanted peace with Britain so he could turn his focus to the East and establish the Greater Germanic Reich to create room for all the German people. This seemed to be further corroborated by the fact that Hitler was at first enamored with the British as he saw them as successful Aryans, something he was hoping to create in Germany. When reading about the flight of Rudolf Hess on the other hand, other sources say Hitler was dismayed at the flight as it would of upset Japan and Italy as they were eager to seize British lands. My question what is the actual truth? Did Germany really want peace? It seems to me it would have been beneficial for Britain as they would of traded a relatively weak ally in France for a potentially strong ally in Germany against future Soviet aggression?

I asked this in response to u/Celebreth amazing answer the other day to another question. He asked if I could make a full post for the questions since it would be a pretty long answer.

What would the average Roman city dweller do for work? Would he have to go through our equivalent of the morning commute with shitty traffic? What about young folk in the city? What would they study in schools or do for entertainment? Where would they go for university (or its equivalent)? And was travelling to Africa or other parts of the empire for leisure a thing?

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Edit: Also, do we know anything specific about what the supposed geography of these other realms is? Like, maps of Niflheim or some such?

Despite Spain's 300 years of rule in the Philippines, most or all Filipinos do not speak or understand Spanish, not like their other colonies in the Americas, why is that?

After the bombing of Hiroshima the U.S dropped its rather infamous warning leaflets over key cities in Japan. What i'm wondering is whether they were successful in preventing some loss of life. Did some Japanese actually flee from Nagasaki in between the first atomic attack and the second.

There's a translated quote from Russian tank researcher Yuri Pasholov, that seems to pop up now and then:

"I studied the Tiger II and VK4503(H) documents, thought about it a lot. The 105mm gun on KT can be explained simply – split ammunition. It’s possible the German lovers will suffer when they hear this. And in general, the German engineers, those were jokers. The VK4503(H) suspension that had on each bogey two DOUBLED roadwheels with rubber banding – that’s some sort of tank porn. 19.10.1942, the German genius was as gloomy as never before. And yes, studying German documents makes me proud about our tank engineering. I have a feeling that first grade university students were creating tanks in Germany, they were far behind our design school. Well, and technical approach of German engineers sometimes just delivers."

If any, what are the signs that the German WWII tank designers were inferior to Russian or the Western Allieds?