I've been doing some research in the history of humanity and have done some digging in anthropology and shit but this one stumps me.

God this is such a morbid question, but wouldn't there have been other more efficient methods?

A friend of mine is attending college in Southern Mississippi. Apparently many at the college argue that since only 2% of landowners had slaves, that many Confederates felt that the North was attacking them and seizing land. She also argued that the soldiers themselves were unaware about the true nature of the conflict, and argued it was over the North “invading” the South. Which resulted in the classic “War of Northern Aggression” phrase being used in our conversation. Does this hold true to modern analysis of the conflict? Thank you.

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According to Wikipedia, Congress did not count the electoral votes of Tennessee or Louisiana in 1864 even though they had cast votes. I have a few questions:

1. Why were elections held in those states even though they were part of the Confederacy and it had not been defeated yet?
2. Why did Congress reject the votes?
3. How was Congress legally allowed to reject votes?

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Genghis Khan famously led his mongol horde across China, the Middle East and Europe. Laying waste to many before him. Indeed, I have heard that the Mongol invasion of Arab territory caused a destruction of books and treatises on a scale such that Arab learning is still trying to recover from its impact, and the losses it incurred even unto today.

So, what remnants of Mongol philosophy, religion or general teachings remain in the Middle East or Europe? I mean we have the philosophy of Plato and Socrates in western Europe, and Arabic mathematics and astronomy. So what remains of Mongol teachings?

I read that modern Greeks are not related to the ancient Greeks so are modern Greeks closer to ethnic Slavs and is there any modern group of people that could be considered ethnic Hellenic Greeks?

I'm reading Ultra in the Pacific by John Winton and the author mentioned that prior to the planned Midway invasion, Yamamoto and his staff played war game scenarios including, ironically, one in which the American carriers were already present at Midway. This war game scenario predicted the loss of 3 carriers.

My questions are as follows: did this particular scenario really happen (the war game that is, I know how the battle happened)? How detailed were reports or documents on these war games? How much credibility did the Japanese give to seemingly unlikely scenarios? Did they ever adjust their plans "just in case" or were their plans too inflexible?

I remember reading somewhere that pants were considered uncivilized, as they were worn by the Celtic and Germanic tribes. So I was wondering how the legionaries kept their legs warm

When searching up on google "the richest man in history" Mansa Musa comes up. After that, searching up his net worth gets you $400 billion. However, when you searched up Augustus Caesar's net worth, you find that he has a net worth of $4.6 trillion which is about 10 times more than Mansa Musa. Then, according to history how is Augustus not the richest man in history?

I was wondering if countries that were involved in ww2 like France or the Soviet Union experienced a baby boom.

As I understand it a mob murdered Joseph Smith and a number of his followers in Illinois. But why were the Mormons so hated?

Family legend has it that my great-grandfather was pressed into service by the German Empire on the Eastern Front at some point during 1915-1917. He and a few thousand others were sent to rush the trenches with clubs and other crude weapons as "cannon fodder." I was not able to find any credible sources on this topic online.

Is there any merit to this story, and if so, what battle would this have been at?

This is something that my history teacher told me but it seemed strange to me so I tried checking on google but I could only get things related to the Apocalypse Now movie, because apparently this is shown in the movie. Did it actually happen? And, would it actually make the vaccine useless? Because I would think that you could get a vaccine on different parts of the body, not only on your arms and once it is injected, the effect can not be reversed, am I wrong?

While there won't be a specific year, I'm curious as to how long after the sack of Rome that people living in the city of Rome--or say modern day Milan or Naples--started viewing themselves as something "other" than Romans.

I realize it can be interpreted in different lights and the ending takes on a more pious note but it’s hard to see how that doesn’t seem somewhat tacked on. With other biblical texts being taken out and declared non-canon over time, I just wonder how this survived.