I want to build myself a library of all the most important texts that shaped the world politically, socially and culturally. Here's the list so far, am I missing anything?

Epic of Gilgamesh

Mahabharata

Titanomachy

Odyssey

Illiad

Works and Days

Theogny

Aesop's Fables

The Histories

Corpus Aristotelicum

Republic

Bibliotheca

The New Testament

Tanakh (Old Testament)

Beowulf

Historia Regum Britanniae

Magna Carta

Anglica Historia

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

US Constitution

Frankenstein

The Book of Mormon

The Communist Manifesto

On the Origin of Species

Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie

La Conquête du Pain

Dracula

Mein Kampf

Action Comics #1

Detective Comics #27

Fountainhead

I, Robot

The Lord of the Rings

Atlas Shrugged

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

The Art of the Deal

A Brief History of Time

Long Walk to Freedom

And did this happen with other major modern languages?

Growing up my father always told me stories that my grandfather told him, about Normandy and the battle of the bulge, liberating camps. Don’t laugh, I know it’s just a game, but the story of the 101st airborne division that is portrayed in the latest Call of Duty game is identical to what I heard about my grandfather. Which got me to thinking if my grandfather was a part of the 101st, I️t seems like kind of a big deal.

Anyways, does anyone know how I can find out what division my grandfather was in? I’ve found his draft papers on ancestry but that’s about as far as I ever got. My grandfather died when I was very young and my father died a few years ago.

Any help appreciated!

Every western genre films I see seem to depict mass murders of some sort. (e.g. the ENTIRE town's population killed, etc.) How true is the popular culture's portrayal of "wildness" of Wild West? Was the crime rate in the Wild West really exceptionally high? Was the nature of crime really much more gruesome? (like the entire population of a town getting killed, etc.)

specifically sticking to the 1710's, as the value of a country's currency changes a lot.

I just saw Abdul and Victoria and the one plot thread that didn’t resolve was the queen and her mangos. Did queen victoria ever get a chance to try mangos (is this detail from the movie even real?)

I would think with all the work they put into writing pieces, they'd give them more of a title than just "Bhrams concerto number three" or "Beethoven's fifth symphony", but I guess not. When and why was this a thing, and when did it stop?

Both have very distinctive visual appearances with a strong degree of design continuity--I feel as a general rule you could show a picture of any Soviet submarine or any US sub w/o markings and be able to tell whose ship it was. What differences cause this?

How were they treated after the war?

Did many people of Jewish decent even return to Germany?

How long did it take for them to be respected again in German society?

To clarify, I've been reading how when Rome accepted Christianity, they were many laws limiting pagans and there practices. Like how the only writings to be permitted were those supported by the line currently regarded as orthodox, pagans were discouraged from writing anything, or rulers sacking and destroying pagans temples. I just wanted to know if this was true, done for religious reasons, and were these really enforced or just lip service for emperors?

What was the consequences of the raiding to the ottomans? How much of the berber raiding did they stop?

Looking at Germany and Russua, they had Emperors (kaiser and tsar) why is it that the British chose to be a king/queen?

Why I am asking this question: In a discussion whether de-criminalizing drugs will dry off the income basis of criminals and therefore massively reducing crime, somebody made the point that most of the countless criminals involved will simply switch to different criminal endeavours (like buglary, robbery, or kidnapping for ransom); he claimed that nearly no of the drug dealers and middlemen will say "oh, this isn't profitable anymore, lets learn programming and join an IT startup"

I am not sure what to make of this point, so to know what happened in the aftermath of the prohibition might give valuable insights. Of course people like Al Capone had 'free lodging' for the rest of their lives, but there must have been tens of thousands of people involved who needed an income afterwards. As they were humans, they surely tried to keep and increase the level of lifestyle and income they were used to. Did they compensate by switching the type of criminal business?

With searching askhistorians I only found a similiar question from a year ago which didn't receive any replies.

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I want to learn more about the transition of High to Late middle age, and about the Late per se. It can be videos or articles too. What do you recommend?

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