If my understanding is correct, there were numerous crusades undertaken by Christians in attempts to reclaim the holy land, as this area was of huge religious important to the Christians. When Christians would eventually come to unify the entire region following the Ottoman defeat in WW1 however, they created an Israeli state in the region instead. Why?

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Can we define cod, cattle, or capybaras as active agents in historical processes, or are humans unique in this sense?

The loudest things people hear today are inevitably gunshots right? So before gunpowder was discovered, what were the loudest sounds known to men?

Mongols, Tartars, Turks, Byzantines, etc. all employed horse archers to great effect. As far as I know they were the most powerful fighting force that could be employed on a grassy flat region. Now I know horse archery was never that useful in forested and rugged terrain, like most of Western Europe, but it seems there was a point where it fell out of favor in the Eastern Steppes too. When did it finally die out? What rendered it ineffective?

Instead of invading Belgium, which they knew would bring the UK in on France's side, why didn't Germany simply hold the line in the west, while focusing on defeating Russia first?

Such as Helen she is beloved to be the daughter of Zeus but obviously that is not true( I think). There’s various account that achilies was not real, And there is various mentions of the Greek gods helping/intervening in the war when in current time people do not believe this

To the best of my knowlodge, the creation of Iron is far easier than making Bronze, due to the rarity of Tin, especially within the Mediterranian region. Why then did it take so long to discover the technique for the creation of Iron around the start of the first millennium BCE, and how did it come about?

For example, the neighborhood of Mexico City where I live is called Santa Cruz Acalpixca, and the next neighborhood over is San Gregorio Atlapulco. In the State of Mexico--which borders Mexico City to the north, east, and west--there are towns such as San Juan Teotihuacan and San Mateo Atenco.

After all, I can imagine that a Holocaust survivor who had moved to Britain might have been uncomfortable (to put it mildly) with jokes about Mr. "Hilter," "Ron Vibbentrop," and "Heinrich Bimmler" hiding in plain sight in a small English town circa 1970.

I am a brand new history teacher and am preparing to teach World War II. My hope is to lean a lot on primary source analyzation from the men in the mud which brings me to my question. Were PFC Robert Leckie's letters to Vera as they were read in "The Pacific" legitimate? I was just really struck by the writing and was hoping they were real so I could share them with my students.

I recently played a lot of Kingdom Come Deliverance. While the historic circumstances seem accurate, how likely is the main protagonists story?

So I am a young adult in some village during the 15th century. How likely would it be that I directly take part in a military conflict? Would I be pressed into service or would I have a choice to not fight? And considering I am probably not noble (or anything similar) what are my chances of playing hero. In the Game you are given a sword early on, and no one bats an eye of you walk around in armor.

tl;dr Is the fantasy like peasant/blacksmiths son becomes a war hero historically realistic? Where there skirmishes everywhere and the people mostly fighting?

I was listening to the Irish History Podcast and they were covering the topic of Cromwell’s invasion of Ireland and the subsequent sack of Drogheda & Wexford. The podcast calls out the brutality of these events and how the lack of mercy shown at Drogheda led to near by places like Trim to surrender. My question is would these sackings be considered brutal by the standards of 1649? Would it be comparable to the sack of Magdeburg for example or was that what any city that resisted an army could expect?

Most of the other countries where Hinduism has spread such as Fiji, South Africa, Canada, USA, Australia, etc. seem to have Hindus practicing more in line with what is seen in India.

Why is it that the deities and practices in Bali look so different, with the forms and features of the deities looking a lot more Chinese-influenced and a much stronger focus on rituals and daily offerings?

This has been on my mind for some time now, so I thought I’d ask here.