World Diabetes Day is coming up in a few days, and I have been unable to find any information on whether type 1 diabetics faced the same oppressions that disabled groups faced from Nazi Germany. I was wondering if there is any information out there? Thanks!

What I mean is, while democracy, and civilization, and cities, and politics, and philosophy, and language, and Rome, and Caesar, and Greece, and Athens, and Jesus, and and Catholicism was happening in Eurasia, was there really nothing going on in the Americas?

I know about that there was resistance movements against the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy as well as the occupation of France. However, I actually know very little of the details of the resistance and would like to learn more. What do you think are the best books on this subject? It can be as comprehensive and scholarly as you want. Or, if possible, personal accounts by people partaking in the anti-fascist resistance. I look forward to reading your suggestions.

I read a claim online that Socrates may have been a literary device invented by Plato. The person claimed that Plato and his students were the only sources that mention Socrates. I find this doubtful given that Socrates and his life seem to be treated like a real person by Plato. Have historians entertained the idea that Socrates may not have existed?

I always thought it was when a war is contained and fought between two sides within the same country. But I'm realizing that every civil war has outside influence, for example, the International Brigades and German/Italian intervention during the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s. Many thanks, /r/AskHistorians!

I've heard of the Haudenosaunee Confederation, but I also wonder what other government systems indigenous peoples also utilized?

Considering the amount of gold stored in King Tut's tomb, and assuming that other pharaohs had similar burials, that seems an incredible amount of gold to bury in the ground and never see again (which, I suppose, the grave-robbers also agreed upon).

Where did the Kingdom of Egypt get all that gold? Did they use this gold for trade (was gold an import based on their exports)? Did other historical kingdoms (not necessarily at the same time as King Tut's burial) have more or less gold?

Tolkien himself equated Middle-earth's weapons and armour to that depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry, so let's take 1066 as our reference. Were Britain and France comparably desolate and depopulated?

There is plenty of documentation about African Americans in the military during the Revolution, but I'm interested in how free and enslaved Blacks participated in civil disobedience throughout the 1750s and 1760s before the more legendary Crispus Attucks became familiar.

Hope you guys can help! Thanks!

TL:DR How much more or less did Europeans murder other Europeans in ceremonial contexts

The image of Aztecs in popular media, and more broadly Mesoamerican peoples (thanks Apocalyptico), portrays a people that were far more bloodthirsty and murderous (sacrificial slave raids, skull temples, etc.) than 'civilized' Early Modern Europe. How much of this is simply blindness to how European states conducted 'justice,' rooted out 'heresy' and engaged in warfare? IE Did Europeans murder their own people within a culturally understood context (to this day understood) to a greater extent than the Aztecs?

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kinda moving with that idea why was a professional military never attempted (successfully) by an ambitious lord. surely a professional legion would be far better then the levies?

and by professional I mean more then just professional soldiers i mean like the organization too

I'm realizing that my grasp on that is very tenuous and wanted to get a better understanding of it.

If so what did the slave owner usually do about it? And why did the slaves do it?