As things in the bible kept being disputed by scientific developments what was the public at large (beyond the church) thinking? Was there any existential turmoil and fear of knowledge as a result from either the general public or the educated elite?

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So immigration seems to be a major issue in the United States and US politics today, but in the past it seemed all you had to do was sign your name in a book and you became a citizen. People moved to the United States pretty freely, but now there is a long drawn out process for it. Just wondering when and why this became an issue considering everyone, but native Americans, immigrated here in their first place.

I read that Darius claimed to be very firm in his faith in Aser. So I wondered why he would build an Egyptian temple or support foreign priests. In Cyrus's case it says in the Bible that he believed that the God of Israel had given him his success. Did he really believe this? What did these men have to gain by supporting these foreign faiths instead of supplanting their own?

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I'm writing a short story for school on the Salem Witch Trials, and it has to be historically accurate. In my story, the main details are that a woman named Rebecca has been accused of being a witch and is placed in jail to be put on trial. She receives help from her brother and manages to escape before she is executed.

I've heard that the jails of that time had no bars or anything to prevent escape. If so, then why didn't more prisoners try to escape? And if they did have bars, how do you think should I go about making it possible for my character to escape jail?

Bonus question: What were sibling relationships like during that era? Would it be more realistic if it was her husband who helps her escape?

Please include sources in your answer if possible.

Thank you

The word propaganda carries quite a negative connotation these days. It seems like every article I read, documentary I watch, he is referred to as the Minister of Propaganda. I would imagine the German population at the time would have known him by a different title.

Did they know about Sargon? The Akkadian Empire? The Sumerian Empire? The Bronze Age Collapse?

Could a civil war soldier have known about or even read The Communist Manifesto? Any examples of your average solider both union and confederate having read Marx?

Almost all aliens in movies, drawings, ‘pictures’, etc. look like this👽. Where did this originate from?

I've seen medieval art depicting people kneeling before kings, but I've never seen the same in Roman art. I'd like to know how did Romans behave before the Emperor.

This is kind of a bunch of questions in one. These two terms get thrown around quite a bit in my classes but I'm still unclear on what exactly they mean, besides the fact that the Ashkenazim lived in Cental/Eastern Europe and the Sephardim in Spain. When and how did this distinction develop? How (if at all) relevant is it today and if isn't anymore when and why did it cease to be relevant? Are/were there any significant differences in religious practice between the two groups? I have also read that there was very little contact between the two groups in the Middle Ages and that when contacts increased due to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain this often led to conflicts and there being seperate Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities in the same city (this was only mentioned about a single city in an essay on a tangentially related topic, so I'm not sure how common this was). Why was there such a large divide between the two groups? If this is too much or too broad to cover in a single answer I'll also gladly take book recommendations on this subject.

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