The USA has many of its largest cities right on the East Coast. However, Canadian cities in New Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia are on the smaller side, with the larger cities up the Saint Lawrence. Why this difference? Does the advantage of the river outweigh the advantage of being on the ocean?

They got pushed back by the Serbs, Russians, and Italians (all with relatively weak armies), only to get bailed out each time when Germany sent troops and leaders over for support.

I've heard that it had to do with their armies being multi-lingual and unable to fully understand orders. Surely it must be more than this?

All of the classics courses I've taken seem to focus on Christianity's rise (persecutions from Nero to Diocletian, conversion of Constantine I, conversions by various barbarian kings and chieftains, etc.), but I want to know more about the decline of Graeco-Roman polytheism.

At what point did the pagans fall into the minority? At what point did they themselves begin to suffer persecution? What is its last attested evidence in Christian Europe? Did it die out later in the Latin West, or the Greek East? I just want a general outline of how the old religion clung to life then disappeared. Were most farmers in say, Gaul or Italy still praying to Bacchus, Jupiter, etc. in 300AD? How about in 600AD?

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For example, in France - you go from "Clovis, King of the Francs" to "Louis XIV, King of France". At what point did the nomenclature change to be based on the land that the monarch 'owned' (de jure or de facto), compared to the people who inhabited it?

How did they plan the infrastructure and buildings?

Is there any literature or primary sources on this subject?

Since the anti-war protests against the Vietnam War during the 70s, many people attained a different view about warfare and managed to see its ugly and destructive side and the glorification of warfare has diminished since then and it is not the same as it was during older times such as the Greeks and the Romans viewed warfare as triumph, honour and glory (more emphasis on personal glory from the Greeks), the knights during the Crusades demanded to have Jerusalem becuase they believe it was rightfully theirs even though it had no strategic purposes and the saying "Deus Vult" was their warcry.

So if anyone protested against warfare (especially against their nation's side of the war) were they treated differently or shunned upon by others?

Every time I read about a Viking hoard being discovered the treasure seems to be silver. Was there a religious purpose to silver? Or was it simply more common than gold?

Karl Marx wasn't around to witness the rise of the Soviet Union led by Lenin and Stalin, but has Marx ever thought if Communism ever being ran in such a way. Leaders like Stalin, Mao, Pot, Kim Jung-Un, did he ever think this would happen? If so, to what extent?

In other words, what did they do to him that caused his utter disdain. I like to think I know a lot about Jackson, but this is an area I'd like more info in. Thanks!

And why was is it seen as such a turning point in the war?

I’m watching a documentary on the final days of the Vietnam war for the second time now and there’s just one burning question that I have. Why didn’t president ford take action after the north invaded the south again? I know that ground fighting was disastrous because the Americans were not prepared or trained for guerrilla warfare, and support for the war was extremely low. But from what this documentary says, the north Vietnamese didn’t invade earlier because they were afraid that Nixon would bring back American air power, so at the very least why didn’t ford use the Air Force?