How were they able to organize such masses of people back then, giving out commands so that every single soldier knew what to do?

How were they able to march such a long distance to the middle east? Which were a few thousand kilometer if I recall right.

How did they manage logistics, fatigue and moral of each soldier?

How did they navigate?

I can't remember where I heard this but it sounds wrong. Is there any metric by which it's true? Land area/population etc

When soldiers from the west coast ended up in the east, does that mean they mostly marched across the entire country? How likely was a soldier to have used a horse at some point on the journey?

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I believe it was the Israelis who designated it the 'Six-Day War', and I read somewhere that this was for Biblical-symbolic reasons. Does anyone know who came up with the name—I think it may have been a minister—and what the significance of it was?

Were there any areas in England where there was widespread support for the Jacobites? Also was it illegal to support the Jacobites during this period, or were they only prosecuted when they tried to rebel?

I'm having difficulty determining what religion the majority of Russians followed in the early twentieth century. Whatever jt was, I don't understand the power Rasputin got from it. The way I've learned, he basically had a sex cult and made himself into an important religious figure, Father Grigori. He met the Tsar in 1905, and became a friend in 1906. What were the circumstances that led them to meet? Was he a celebrity, or whatever that periods term may have been? And how did he communicate with the Tsar between those years. I'm also curious about what his religious beliefs were and how they influenced others, as well as the monastery he took a pilgrimage too. Is there a record of where the monastery was, or who he met, or what exactly happened there?

TIL that the earliest reference to the term "classical music" was in 1829 by Oxford English Dictionary. So that makes me wonder: what was this music refered to as before the popularization of the term "classical"?

Australia and the United Kingdom are approximately 15,021 kilometres apart on two different hemispheres.

Between colonization in 1788 and federation and 1901, how did these faraway lands stay in contact with one another in the event one or all of the Australian colonies suffered a invasion, natural disaster, civil unrest, etc?

Hi Historians, thank you for your time!

A question regarding German democracy/the development of political institutions in Germany before World War One- oftentimes, in my personal experience, many people will explain the rise of Hitler and the general instability in the Weimar Republic by saying that Germany wasn't ready for democracy, having lived largely under monarchical governments for centuries. However, from what I can tell both imperial Germany and the individual German states had been well on the way to developing modern democratic political institutions since the mid 1800s, and even before on a localized level. So my question is, what was the state/development of German democracy before World War One, focusing on the immediate pre-WWI era, but any historical context before that would be much appreciated! (as well as suggested readings, of course!)

Thanks!

Hi There,

I was wondering if there was any information regarding the relationship between the ancient kingdom of Macedon and Greece. I have read some battles such as the Battle of Chaeronea and it seemed like they "disliked" each other significantly. And if Macedons were Barbarians, why do they say it was a dialect?

Thanks in Advance

Apparently during the events of the Tiananmen Square student uprising, Xi Jinping was already a Party official in an administrative leadership position in Fujian.

What do we know about his whereabouts, quotations, actions, and emotional reaction to the student uprising and the subsequent massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989?

Particularly the pulverization of students' corpses into "human pie" with armored vehicles.

Hi, I checked the book recomendations, but what I´m looking in regards to the Sumerians is books on their early civilization, the late Uruk period and the early dynastic period, before the establishment of the Akkadian Empire. My knowledge about the subject is limted, and your help would be much appreciated.

It seems like they would be useful...

I understand that Kulaks were essentially "rich peasants" which is why the Soviet regime wanted to liquidate their class. I am just confused about how they could be "rich" and still be considered peasants? What separated them from average peasants,who weren't specifically targeted?

I assume they didn't have daily news, so would histories be as close as they could get to a "press", and how 'free' could they be?