Bonus points for the following.

A.) They regularly monitored and executed political opposition.

B.) their policies legitimately improved the well being of their people.

C.) People outside of their dominion saw the people inside as disillusioned about said autocrats competency.

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Has any party put up a primary candidate against an incumbant president? Or any executive for that matter, like mayor or governor?

The only nation in Africa not to be conquered/colonized was Ethiopia. They even managed to defeat the Italians in a war. What made the Ethiopian state so resilient to European colonization?

I'm referring to the UK proper (including Northern Ireland) not the colonies. I know Oswald Mosley was arrested along with other members of the British Union of Fascists but other than that were arrests common for people that expressed open anti-war or pro-fascist sentiments? Is there any total number for the amount of people that were arrested for these sorts of activities? What sort of activities could land you in prison?

Nowadays if someone fails basic training, such as failing to meet physical fitness standards, failure to meet rifle qualification standards, or just seems to fail at adapting to military life(doesn't get up on time, doesn't use customs and courtesies, etc.) they are processed out of the military. I was wondering what happened if someone who was drafted in the military in the US failed to meet standards? I'm not talking about malingering but legit just can not run fast enough no matter what type of training happens. Wouldn't there be some that would try to get out by faking effort, but intentionally failing?

The HRE had gone for nearly a thousand years without tons of small minors uniting into larger nations, but as the French Revolution began, Austria, Hanover, Westphalia and Prussia all either merged into existence or expanded greatly across the empire. What caused the dramatic change? Was it merely the threat of the French revolutionaries that made minor states willing to join into larger ones?

Following the decline of Rome, the world experienced human migration, plauge, declines in the sciences, arts, and trade.

But was the average person living in Europe worse off than a few centuries before?

Culture and Civilization - the living body of a soul and the mummy of it. For Western existence the distinction lies at about the year 1800 - on the one side of that frontier life in fullness and sureness of itself, formed by growth from within, in one great uninterrupted evolution from Gothic childhood to Goethe and Napoleon, and on the other the autumnal, artificial, rootless life of our great cities, under forms fashioned by the intellect ... He who does not understand that this outcome is obligatory and insusceptible of modification must forgo all desire to comprehend history.

I read this in "The Lessons of History" but find it hard to comprehend it.

Did the japanese army know about the atrocities of the holocaust? If they didn’t, would they still support Germany after they found out?

The depiction of Jesus in things like Jesus Christ Superstar, South Park, and numerous sketch comedy series is interesting to me from a historical angle. Namely because I've never heard of similar depictions occurring in majority Muslim countries for Muhammad (despite there being a recent Iranian movie I'm unsure how well it actually depicted Muhammad's life), similarly with Hindu or Buddhist nations in the depiction of their main prophets/deities. Is this purely an American/European phenomena?