Was there ever an established religion in mainland Pre Christian Europe other than local Pagan beliefs? I say this in comparison with Pre Islamic Persia who had Zoroastrianism, Pre Islamic Egypt had Christianity....

We all know the US had the industrial capability to support the UN forces with switching to a much higher firing rate machine guns along side with huge quantities of bullets. So why didn't they supply all allied forces in the Korean war with this machine gun?

Doesn't seem quite efficient to be shooting M1 Garands while at least 20,000 Chinese troops come running at you every night.

Let’s give three scenarios.

1. I’m a farmer who wishes to start a tobacco farm in the new world.
2. I am a citizen of London looking to start a new life.
3. I’m a noble who is looking to make a vacation home across the sea. How would each of these people go about immigrating. Would they take a lot of stuff with them? How much would it cost them to get a ticket on a ship? How hard would it be to start a new life?

There's no doubt that Soviet Union had a special alliance with Cuba, but how did the supplies, people, and boats reached the Caribbean and essentially travel almost halfway around the world? Did they go through the Panama channel, no questions asked, or by reaching the southernmost tip of South America then go northwards? I assume they could also fly, but what about nautical travel?

A lot of slavic areas are named very similarly, distinguished only by being "Red" or "White." Like, Red/White Croatia, Red/White Ruthenia, etc. I had this question when I noticed how much those two colors come up in slavic history. Not only that, but the White and Red Armies in communist civil wars, white and red being two pan-slavic colors, all that stuff. Where does this naming convention come from? How far back does this go?

Thank you for any answers. I can clarify if need be.

I have had a interest in buying them for a while now and wanted to know how accurate they are, and how “good” they are to read (is it a slog or not).

I’m also interested in learning more about the advancement of tactics in WW1; and the eastern and Chinese theaters in WW2 if you have any suggestions for me.

If it didn't is there any record of similar attempts by the emperor to call others to resist Cao Cao?

I am under the impression that most sources that have taught me about the Persian Empire depict the Persians as brutal and evil, especially in regards to their quests to the West. Were they really evil in their ruling and treatment of the people that they conquered, or what?

Hi, I'm reading this book as a project for a class at University, where I have the explain differents aspects of medieval ages through it using the book as a historical source. I would like to know what do you guys think about the book and to ask you if you can recommend some complementary bibliography.

Thanks for the help.

I've noticed this in a bunch of books produced in the late 1700s-1800s recounting the history of Louisiana and wanted to see if this applied to other history books in general during this time. (E.g. Francois-Xavier Martin's The History of Louisiana Vol. 2 and Gayarre's History of Louisiana). I'm not sure if this "trend" is only in Louisiana or America in general. And why would historians not cite anything?

Many modern neopagen sects seem to think that they were relatively open sexually and that they used ritualistic sex in their religious practices. Is this accurate? That seems like a dangerous proposition in a pre birth control world.

I understand both Nazi Germany and the Empire of the Japan set the bar pretty high up there, but were there instances of War crimes/Crimes against humanity committed by the Allied side of things, besides the no-holds-barred attitude the Soviets had?

I saw a documentary recently on the history of sugar, and it surprised me to learn that the British still used Indian migrant workers in their sugar plantations in Asia. Sorry I can't remember exactly which country was mentioned, but I seem to remember it being Papua New Guinea. Surely slavery had already been abolished and these workers would have been free to chose their fate and more akin to modern economic migrants?

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I.e. Rommel's Infantry Tactics

So as to know if the tutor poisoned him on his own or did it upon orders or for the possibility of a reward or upon coercion or whatever other possibility there is that it happened.

It's a quote from Jarhead, by the way.

I came across a comment a while ago (that i saddly can't findt) that basically says that the majority of the gruntwork was done by skirmishers, archers and auxilary units before the main body (Roman legionaries) commited to the actual pitched battle against an already exhausted enemy.

I know that the Roman army took many forms over the course of it's thousand year history, so if this is the case, when was this the case?

And more generally, did they have a broad enough geographic view to ascribe shapes to any land mass?