Why did he only remain in prison for one year ? After commiting high treason and an armed revolution against the state ?

I put the words in quotes cause there’s generally no definite start date to any religion, and there are modern practitioners of just about any religion to this day. I guess if I were to expand my question out, it would be “what is the earliest evidence of Greek paganism and/or the estimated dating of its early practice; and when did both Greek and Roman paganism become minor world religions, completely overtaken by other religions, especially Christianity?”

A.C. I assume means how many years passed after Jesus but I don't know if it means birth or death.

In almost every history lecture on the subject I've heard that the Lost Cause began in the 1870s and 1880s and it was solidified in the 1900s by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

I came across Marx' Oct. 20th 1861 letter to Engels where he said that he was tired of seeing the British press classify the American Civil War ("The Economist, The Examiner, The Saturday Review and tutti quanti expounded the theme further.") as a "tariff war" and he seems to clearly address most of the popular Lost Cause talking points.

This left me confused. Do you start with Jubal A. Early's articles to the Southern Historical Society, the contemporary British press, or elsewhere? If it was the British press, why would that argument have been popular for the at the time?

To provide a little bit of backstory:

My dad’s parents come from the Caribbean (his father from St. Kitts and his mother from the British Virgin Islands), and very little is known about his family history. My grandfather was an orphan and thus didn’t know where his parents or grand parents came from. While my grandmother did know do some older relatives, she passed away almost 6 years ago. I am very interested in my family history and it is really unfortunate that I may never know where my paternal family came from.

I am aware that my ancestors most likely came from Western Africa, but I would really like to have a more specific insight on the specific ethnic group or nation they once belonged to. Does the UK government keep any archives with ledgers that may provide information on where their slaves came from?

Another interesting thing I would like to add is that it seems like my dad’s family has adopted European names. For example, my grandfather’s birth name is Cerdric, while his middle name is VanDyke. Are there any historical reasons behind this as well?

TL;DR: Would like some specific information on the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Everyone knows that Henry VIII divorced his first wife in part to have a living male heir, but I’ve always been confused by his choices. He married Anne, who was in her 30s. Then he married Jane, who was in her late 20s. I’ve always wondered why he would not have chosen a much younger wife, who is more likely to be fertile and has more time to have children. Is there any reasoning in his choice other than him simply preferring these women? Wouldn’t his advisors have recommended someone else?

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Today gymnastics is a popular hobby, and since many tricks don’t require any equipment, I was wondering if people did tricks like standing backflips back in the Middle Ages. I was imagining medieval knights in full armor doing tricks but I realize that might not be very realistic. So if gymnastics was a thing back then, what part did it play in different cultures?

I know they used to be called the “People of the Book,” but were they aware of the shared ancestry of their religions, so to speak? Or was there a time when Christians or Muslims or Jews did not see it that way? Thank you!

I am aware that thousands of Poles fought on both sides of the war, in the hopes that their countries would reward their sacrifices with independence and that Germany and Austria-Hungary tried to set up a puppet Polish monarchy in 1916, but did anyone, in either the Allies or the Central Powers, really give two seconds thought about Polish independence? Had the Allies won the war with Russia still in the war, would they have encouraged Russia to give Poland it's independence or would they have been perfectly willing to allow Russia to keep Poland as part of their territory?

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I am part of a reenactment group of roman soldiers, and we recently talked about the cult of Mithras and its reputation of being popular with soldiers. After a little bit of personal research, I was only able to find little information (except a lot of things saying mithraism is either very similar or very dissimilar from early christianity).

How much do we know about the Cult of Mithras, what do we know, and how popular was it?

(A personal follow up: if we wanted to reenact being followers of Mithras as soldiers, what would be some basics we would need to know?)

I've noticed my lack of arguments when I'm having discussions on certain topics, and so, I want to learn more about them (listed below). Considering most of these topics attract people with different views, how can I form an opinion in a way that I'm not deeply misguided by a specific author?

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Say, for example, that I want to learn about Fidel Castro and some of Cuba's history. Texts written by right-wing authors would probably be very different to texts written by left-wing authors. What's a good approach to learn, then?

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Off the top of my head, things I want to learn about:

1. Augusto Pinochet
2. Fidel Castro
3. Che Guevara
4. Venezuela

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Thanks.

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My understanding is that lances would break upon landing on a target, or at the very least they would become embedded in their target. Would knights and other heavy cavalry have to have multiple lances prepared for multiple charges? Would they cycle in and out of the front of a formation? Would they have to go back to a squire who would have another lance ready? Or were lances capable of multiple uses?

Edit: Or were lances only used on the first charge and arming swords used in consecutive charges?

Just wondered how it came about, sorry if this is the wrong sub to ask this question