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This is a question that my class if furiously debating and I was wondering if you guys could answer it.

I'm curious, I know that later in life Jefferson and Adams wrote letters to one another to talk about various things. Did Alexander Hamilton ever come up?

I know that Trotsky had been systematically defamed under Stalin's regime and the post Stalin leadership came out of that regime. But also it's hard to deny the importance of Trotsky's role in the Russian revolution and civil war. How was this awkward circle squared?

I’m watching Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States and he mentioned the extermination and hatred against Polish people, but what he didn’t talk about was why. Why were they so hated as a people?

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The Jewish Virtual Library lists that 26% of French Jews were killed in the Holocaust, which is a comparatively low proportion of deaths compared to other occupied territories, like Poland, where 90% of Jews were killed, or the Baltic Nations, where a similar proportion died. Given France was occupied or under the control of the Vichy government for more or less four years, why was the final solution so "inefficient" in France compared to other territories.

In ancient and medieval times, the nobility often formed elite forces of heavy cavalry or other troops. When these formations suffered massive casualties, how would a country replenish it's stock of nobility faster than new noble sons were born and trained? Was it just a question of time or would non-nobility be elevated in status?

I have several questions upon the aforementioned topic;

Who did the Ottoman Public believe to be responsible for the war? What was their opinion on it?

Had the Ottomans ever demonized Nicholas II or anyone else in an attempt to encourage public support of the war? If so did they portray them as Iblis, Al-Masih ad-Dajjal or something else?

What did the Ottomans do when Russia fell apart?

With the Ottoman Empire being Islamic, How often were soilders allowed to pray whilst on the field?

Thank-you

I should preface this by saying that I did look on the wiki, but all the central Asian books looked specifically at the Mongols and the Middle East section wasn't much help either.
I've recently found an interest in the history of Central Asia, everything from the Hun invasions, to the sloppy borders of the former SSR's, I particularly enjoy that any instability in Central Asia has instantly been a portend of doom for both Europe and Asia.
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for books on the subject; I don't particularly mind which period it details, but if I had to specify, I'm most interested in the rise of the Ottoman Turkic people, from the border disputes with Khosrau and Justinian, to the conquest of Anatolia and invasion of the Balkans.

I came up with this question when I read a comment somewhere on Askreddit about how slaves being treated more fairly would be more productive than those who were abused and threatened. I think it would be incredibly difficult to create a social situation where slaves who are used for the purpose of labor somehow end up respecting their owner/master for being an all around down-to-Earth person doing their job side by side. I also imagine it would be easy for everything to devolve into a 'work, or else..' circle of consequences. Were there any known people who had such a behavior to avoid demoralizing slaves?

I asked this question once before. However I phrased the question so poorly that the post got taken down immediately. This is another attempt, I hope I express my inquiry more precisely with less probablity to think of it in the wrong way...

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As far as I know, there was no nation of Greece before the 1820 war of independence against Ottomans. That Greece was first a collection of citystates, and then under the rule of Macedonian, Roman, Byzantine or Ottoman occupation. Yet, it seems odd to me. That there was a distinct people without a nation for thousands of years. Am I wrong?