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I imagine it would have been an incredibly contentious issue. How did this play a role in future Civil Rights issues?

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I’m in AP Latin currently and upon reviewing Caesar’s description of the Gallic gods, I noticed that they seem quite similar to the Norse deities. Is there any other evidence to confirm or contradict this?

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By that I don’t mean individuals but their beliefs and worldly views

I know the highest scoring allied Ace had 66 kills to his name, but around the top 50 WWII aces were part of the Luftwaffe, most using the BF-109 E-G variants. Erich Hartman had 352 kills to his name, almost six times as much as the highest scoring allied ace, Ivan Kozhedub.

I understand that the average civilian in Ancient Rome or Greece probably was more concerned with surviving and probably had lots of exercise simply working day-to-day. But did upper class citizens ever concern themselves with maintaining physical fitness, or was there not a need for that?

Evidence meaning primary sources such as: were there diaries that had people saying it was because of the inequality shown in the meeting that they decided to revolt? etc.

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I saw a comment recently that claimed gay sex was encouraged by commanders within the spartan army as a way to encourage unity/form bonds. From my understanding, gay sex was prevalent but it was mostly older men having sex with younger boys, oftentimes more of a power move than anything.

You often see Ancient Greek art depicting men with very well toned muscles. How did they achieve such high volumes of muscle mass given their, what we would consider today, limited diet? Or are the depictions of men from Ancient Greece just exaggerated representations of what their ideal of a man should look like?

I'm reading it for English class currently and it's got my curiosity stirred. How many people actually lived like that? What caused it all to stop?

If I'm not mistaken, China had the navigational and shipbuilding skills to cross the pacific, so why didn't they?

As far as my understanding is, the Byzantine Empire as we know it today was known by contemporaries as the Roman Empire. When did this distinction arise? Why?

"Ojalá" is a relatively common word in modern-day Spanish. I've always been taught that it originated during the Moorish rule of Iberia during the medieval era, deriving from the Arabic expression "May Allah will it." This seems a bit strange, given the animosity of Spanish Christians at the time towards their Muslim rulers and later the persecution of Muslims under the first monarchs of a reunited Spain, Ferdinand II and Isabella I. Why did the word "ojalá" persist in the vocabulary of Spanish Christians, despite its Islamic roots? Was their any pushback to its use?

At any point in history, did the two major U.S. political parties - Democrats and Repulicans -switch platforms? Is it true that the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln has more in common with today's Democratic party? Or is this all a myth?

The question is simple, the British Royal Navy, and I assume other European navies, had alcohol rations, since we served as a colony for a good while, I would imagine we did l, too. So, if we did, why did we stop? And if we didn't, why didn't we?

I found out today that the Dust Bowl is apparently a man-made disaster and not a natural one like an earthquake (If I'm wrong about this definitely correct me). So that made me wonder if they knew back in the early 1900's that by kicking up so much dust and dirt it would create a big disaster, or if that just came later after research.

My area is food science, which often takes me into food history as well. Parmentier and some others claim to have been successful in making satisfactory bread from potatoes alone, while still others continued to deny it to be possible to make bread from greater than 1 part potato content to 2 parts wheat. I am curious whether these vastly differing results could be attributed to the significant starch chemistry variation between different potato varieties (this spectrum can be simplified as ranging from waxy to floury). Given this variation, it would be necessary to identify what type of potato may have been used in this time and place in order to attempt to recreate the bread. However, I have not managed to find any significant information on the properties or cultivar name of the specific potato that may have been used.