Certainly your average modern Christian would not be able to distinguish a Chalcedonian from a Nestorian or Miaphysite, but would an average 4th-century Christian have?

It'd seem to me that most wars Portugal was involved in (and ultimately won) against other European powers would have resulted in utter defeat for the Portuguese Crown if a European war theater existed - Portugal would simply have no manpower to face the likes of France.

Why where these wars limited to the colonies? Why didn't France - or Spain - wage wars in Europe to further their colonial goals?

The major problem is that I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to the geography of the Middle East when the Hebrew texts were recorded and throughout a lot of history. I want to read the old and New Testament, apocrypha, and the Quaran.

I’m currently using the app olive tree, but it’s obviously marketed toward believers and it’s features are more devotional than historical/geographical. Any help/ suggestions would be great and I’d really like to stick to reading strictly the primary documents for right now (please don’t make me explain what I mean here, I understand the statement is problematic in and of itself). Thank you for any help on resources for a bored nerd!

Since gays were so widespread in acient Rome and Greece

I was at Versailles today and ended with a few questions. How much of the rooms (walls, floors, carpet, etc) and furniture is typically original in older palaces and museums? Is a lot of it recreated and how accurately can it be remade? There are also a lot of signs limiting access, is it due to those spaces being dangerous, being worked on, etc? Is there an "easy" way of telling what spaces in older buildings are authentic? I am working on possibly getting an archaeology degree and was also wondering is there is a profession or academic program that allows you to be allowed into "behind the scenes" and off limit rooms (like at Versailles the royal chapel)? My questions can be taken specifically or broadly. As a learning historian and archaeologist, places like these are so interesting and immerse you in the past.

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Equally interested to hear how this would play out on the German side as regards who gets delegated the MG duty as it's a heavier load despite the assistant gunner/loader

Hello! My mom recently came back from a visit to PR to see her family, and she brought back a canister of documents her and her siblings found in the garage of one of their homes. It consists of old logs, deeds, and even proof that my great-great-grandfather was the mayor of a small town on the island in the late 1800s!

I've done a bit of research and haven't found any established museum or historical society in Puerto Rico that would want these papers.

Now, there is nothing very historically significant (no picture of Winston Churchill on the toilet or something like that), but I wonder if anyone could point me in a direction that might have an organization that would want to archive these kinds of miscellaneous documents.

Title pretty much sums it up, would love to know.

Many other civilizations developed unique ways of doing things as well as discovered many advanced concepts such as astrology with the Mayans, irrigation in Mesopotamia, gunpowder in Asia, etc. But much of the advancements of modern academic understanding through history can be traced particularly to a Eurocentric view and origin. While such advancement and the course of Western history likely has skewed my viewpoint, what, if anything, prevented other large civilizations such as China or India or even Native American civilizations from developing knowledge to such extents?

If this makes any sense?

Assuming that we've got some sort of magic universal translator so that language isn't an issue, of course.

Clarifying "educated": Educated in Catholic theology at a layperson level. Not a theologian, scholar, or clergyman.

Foch is credited with the quote: "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years". With the benefit hindsight this is prescient and seems somewhat obvious to us here in the 21st century.

Did the UK government take this threat seriously at the time? Did they expect a second European war to happen soon? And what steps did they take with regards to military advancement? For example, did they funnel money into tank development? Was there a build up of naval forces in the 20s and 30s? Did they anticipate using the tube stations as bomb shelters or was that just an ad hoc response?

If so, do we know if this style of execution actually worked as intended?

I want to know how did people get to the Spanish colonies in the Americas during the Empire. There was like a regular sea line? They had to buy "tickets"? Did they need something like a passport? It was only for those in the army? Also, how did regular people know the colonies existed in the first place, as they had no radio, television or internet?

He was building Tokyo in a fortress known as Edo castle, and asked Edo clan to change their name to Kitami, but, if he wanted his new capital to not be associated with another clan, wouldn't it have been easier to change the name of the place?, call it Tokugawa Castle or something?

And if it wasn't because he didn't want his new city to have the name of another clan, then why did he change the name?

What is the history behind the languages spoken in Brazil; what did they speak before they spoke Portuguese and why do they not speak "Brazilian"?

Edit: *Portuguese.