So I was reading about Alexander and I’ve seen large fights in the comment section over whether or not the Macedonians were are very much separate group or were culturally Greek. So what’s the historical view in this

Was there racism in the ancient world or is it phenomena of newer times? If yes, was there a difference between different cultures?

It seems extremely plausible that Hitler moved to Hungary to live out his days there... Plus there have been claims of people seeing a withered old Hitler when he would be aged around his 90s...

To build upon that question, why did only a handful of European kingdoms attempt colonization of the New World? Why didn't other nations do so, especially ones outside of Europe like those in Asia and the Middle East? What factors motivated that handful of nations (Spain, Great Britain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Russia) to colonize that wasn't present for other nations?

I was listening to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History and at the beginning of the latest episode he said

something about the Khmer Rouge killing everyone with glasses in Cambodia. I am vaguely aware

of the events that took place there but unsure if this glasses cliché was actually what happened.

Could someone explain maybe where this came from, or if it is true? Thanks

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The Winged Hussars were a defining factor of Poland and Lithuania so why did the Duchy of Warsaw not form them? They were effective in warfare and could increase nationalism so it makes sense to reform them.

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I read somewhere that it actually motivated Reagan to switch parties to become a Republican. Was he in the minority of people who didn't like it?

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I was thinking about this and realized I couldn't really place any major civilizations to this area at the time immediately preceding the Muslim conquests... It's far too late for the Assyrians or Babylonians, but well before any Turkic people come down from Central Asia, so no Ottomans or Safavids. The only major one I can think of is maybe the Persians, but I guess I don't know enough about their time periods to be sure.

Basically I'm wondering what the general political structures were in that time period throughout the Middle East, not just Persia or the Levant, but Arabia and Anatolia and North Africa. What would the average person's social/religious/political fealty be?

I'm reading "The Opium War" by Julia Lowell and I'm struck by how halfheartedly the Qing fought the British. The Second Opium War happened concurrently as the Taiping Rebellion.

Was the rise of the anti opium Taiping Heavenly Kingdom tied to the rise of opium importation? Why did the Qing expend millions more lives fighting the THK than the British? How related are these two (three really) conflicts?

When darwin first was in the galapagos, how would he have gone about organizing categorizing and recording everything he found? Obviously taxonomy was still young and he hadnt come close to starting on the origin of species yet, so did he make it up as he went along or was it a very measured thing

(I tried asking this in r/askscience and i was directed here)

This might be a loaded question, but the fact is that I never learned who Che Guevara was but still I see him being mentioned everywhere, from people who idolize him and from people who demonize him. What exactly did he do in a historical sense? What was he known for? What did he contribute to? Why some people love him so much and yet a lot of people hate him?

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Has water ever been used in really cold climate regions to drench the enemy and make things worse for them?