Today when we talk about Germanic mythology we invariably use the Old Norse names for mythical figures and places. But it's known that the same mythology was held (more or less) in common by all Germanic peoples, including the English (as evidenced by the names of the days of the week), so what would the English names have been for, let's say, Odin, Thor, Loki, Ymir and so on?

From what I gathered from my textbook, the Indian subcontinent's people couldn't protest against colonialism if the English didn't educate them. They general mass began to protest after they got educated about the fact that what the English were doing to them was very wrong.

Also what drove the nobility and yeomen to joining one Order over the Other? Templar vs Hospitaller vs Teuton vs Swordbrother vs all the other smaller ones?

In all my 18 years of education, I have only learned about Charlemagne once at the start of my history course (never even heard of him before then, and learning about him here was in the context of his mustache...), and I've only heard mentions of the Merovingians in the context of his empire.

This makes me wonder why not only the post-Roman period is so scarcely taught at any level before university, but also why it is so ignored in popular literature/media. There are many games, movies, and shows covering the Medieval period, but these usually only cover either the Vikings (understandable) or from the Norman invasion of Britain. The Romans obviously also get a lot of love in the public consciousness, and so do the Ancient Greeks to some extent.

Is it because of the lack of sources we have relating to this period for why it's so unexplored? Or is it because Charlemagne is the 'Father of Europe' and set the context for much of Europe's more recent history such as the crusades?

The common understanding is that prisoners in German concentration camps, especially Jews and Russians, were treated as expendible slave labor who were killed practically on a whim.

But, the Nazis were also very serious about order and discipline within their military. So, while certainly prisoners were executed regularly for little or no reason on authority from higher, I feel it would be unlikely that an ordinary low level guard would have been allowed to arbitrarily execute a prisoner on his own whim.

Would it have been allowed? Would there be more than a cursory investigation? What kind of punishment might such a guard face?

I'm trying to understand where exactly the line would have been drawn between the sanctioned killing of undesirables and maintaining discipline within their own ranks, and it just seems like allowing random executions by people without any military authority would undermine that discipline.

It could have prevented Italy from joining the allies with financial incentives maybe?

Can parts of the new testament in The Bible, like the letters and the Book of Acts, be considered historical sources or just religious texts?

Is 20 years of 19th or 20th or 21st Century historic development worth a hundred of say, the Classical era? Maybe more?

For example if Rome rose and fell all of almost a thousand years, does the entire pattern of development reflect in just two or three hundreds of the British Empire or the United States?

In Karl Marx's Value, Price, and Profit, he cites a Mr. Urquhart (I don't know who this is) in suggesting that Russia prompted the US civil war to cut the US' competition in the European corn markets. Here's the specific quote:

…and Russia, if we are to believe Mr. Urquhart, prompted the Civil War in the United States because her agricultural exports were crippled by the Yankee competition in the markets of Europe.

Is this a relatively accepted idea? If not, is there a minority of academic historians who agree?

Why do you guys remove all the comments that aren't a paragraph long an? not super intellectual? If I wanna ask a question and its not a paragraph long or it's to simple it gets removed. Sometimes I don't have much to share or comment on and I just wanna know more about the subject but most of the time it gets removed, I just wanna learn. :*(</3

This is probably going to get removed but oh well,but if a mod answers this before it gets removed I'll be happy.

I just can’t wrap my head around how people set out on boats into the open ocean and discovered all those islands in the South Pacific. Did a bunch of them just die when they didn’t find anything?

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A broader question might also involve which groups are still inclined to deny the Holocaust up through the present day, and while that might be more of a current issue if you have any insight into the development from immediately after the holocaust until now, that would be very helpful.

I know you have to write a lot of papers in history classes. so I feel written communication would improve but would general verbal communication also improve

I already posted this but I accidentally typed it wrong and I also posted it at a bad time. This has always fascinated me so if I can get a good answer that would be great

Norse mythology holds Idunn as barer of the apples of immortality, only fit for the gods. The garden of Eden bares God's apples of wisdom. Are these connected? Internet searches only bring forums of people asking the same question with no concrete answer. Shamelessly made the connection reading Gaiman's Norse Mythology Book