I know the Tribune of the Plebs could veto legislation. I also know the consuls could veto decisions of lower magistrates and each other. But my question is if the consuls could veto laws passed by the legislature like the Tribune of the Plebs could.

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I've often heard it argued that Russia has never been conquered and when the Mongols are brought up it's hand waved away as Kievan Rus' wasn't Russian they were just a loosely affiliated set of Tribes so that doesn't count. So how Russian was Kievan Rus' exactly? Would it be a leap to say modern Day Russia is one of the long line of successive states following Kievan Rus' or no?

Somebody told me over 1000 white Republicans were killed by the KKK. I found this hard to believe because I have never learned this in US public schooling, only about white supremacy.

They would have had to go around Switzerland but that seems like a better plan than storming a beach with no cover.

As far as I know, until the few supporters of women's rights, women weren't valued for anything other than sex and menial tasks and were (if born to a wealthy family) excluded from artistic, administrative, and intellectual endeavors.

What time period did racism begin to develop in society? I feel in ancient periods slavery and discrimination was more cultural/economic but obviously racism has developed into a large issue everywhere in the world. When did this start? Can it be attributed to any one person or train of thought/theory?

I was just speaking to my friend’s Grandmother who was a child in Denmark during WWII. She said that British planes would fly over Denmark to Germany and back during the night, and in the morning, there would be “silver streamers” out in the fields that were dropped by these planes. She said all the kids would play with them, turn them into crafts, etc. What were these?

I know some shows of the time have episodes both in black and white and color. How did this all go down? What were the common reactions of the day? Were people annoyed (as in the switch to HDTV) that they had to buy new equipment?

Hitler's Luftwaffe was over four times the size of England's RAF and radar is acreddited with Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain, why? And why did Nazi Germany not use the same technology?

Rome was a slave state. We have all heard about how slavery was the main economic driver for Rome.

Now when I research the history of slavery, history seems to talk a lot about roman slaves and gladiators. But then when the roman empire falls slave history switches to the Middle East and Islamic slavery...

I want to know what happened to slavery at the end of the roman empire. Like, 400-800AD, I know that Christianity was spreading and that supposedly helped to make slaves lives better, but I don't think the Christians were freeing many slaves.

After the Germans invaded and the western empire fell it seems that Europe evolved/devolved into feudalism.

I want to know how slavery died out in Europe between white people, when it died out, and how the economy changed from a slave based economy to a feudal economy based on serfdom?

Yes, this is another question about Weimar Berlin brought to you by another AH user binge-watching Babylon Berlin. (I'm rereading Voluptuous Panic right now, so there might be more. Probably about sex work.) It caught my eye in one scene of the show set at a boathouse where a bunch of the young male members and some of the young women are wearing matching orange-and-white striped tops, like the stereotypical navy-and-white or black-and-white striped Russian sailor shirt but in vivid orange -- not blazers or even singlets for when they're actually on the water, just shirts. Is this a depiction of an actual youth fashion thing, or is it purely fanciful?

As someone who wasn’t alive at the time, I don’t understand why people couldn’t have just ridden a car or bike out of the city and driven back to the other side, or why they couldn’t have just climbed the wall.

Frequently, the treatment of the United States of the Native American population is described as genocide. Nearly every time, multiple people claim it was not genocide, but rather the conquering nation taking the land of the conquered, even invoking the Latin phrase voe victis.

What is the historical consensus and what are the arguments for and against if this was genocide? Was it genocide or merely numerous acts of genocide? Was it even acts of genocide or are people correct in stating it was a war of conquest that Native Americans lost. Is there really a difference vetween a war of conquest and genocide?

Long story short, I am trying to look up some family history. My family has documents saying we are German since the mid 1800's, but my ancestors were born in the Lithuanian region and used to live in what is now poland. I identify more with Lithuanian heritage and we eat Lithuanian style food, which is now considered a delicacy. Can anybody explain how a German person has lived in the Lithuanian/poland area can still be considered german?

Some 85,000 Polish soldiers were raised to fight in France in 1940, and everyone knows about the Polish fighter aces who fought in the Battle of Britain. How did these people escape from Poland when it was attacked from both sides and closed off from the sea?

Main question as above.
Services refer to the army, navy, police force, prisons, road construction and the likes. Guess the question asked is how did a government get the funds to afford all these things with such a small tax? Other taxes?

There are some accounts about a tyrant called Pythagoras, who seems to be at the same period of the philosopher, but in cities so far away from Croton and Sybaris (in Western Sicily, concretely the cities of Eryx, Segesta, Selinus and Heraclea Minoa) that I am not sure if it is feasible to be the same. I hope it is though.