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Did they include the states which had left the Union? If the Union had allowed the other states to leave, would they had reverted to a previous flag design?

I'm looking for research that explores the rise of the state to present day. I'm mainly looking for something that explore's the general rise and fall of the state's power relative to its people's culture and region. Hopefully such research would be able to answer the question are modern rulers more powerful or less powerful than earlier states?

I've noticed that a lot of simple questions her recieve extremely complicated and disorganized answers. Someone might ask: "Did medieval knights perform battlefield repairs on their weapons and armor?" The essence of this question's answer is a yes or no. Obviously the answer is never going to be that simple, and I greatly enjoy getting extra background and information. Well researched answers are what makes this subreddit great. But often you have to read an entire two-part answer to get a simple yes or no, and missing a detail can make the response impossible to follow. Ideally, wouldn't you have an introduction with the main points, and then expand upon them later?

I'm not a professional historian, but in all my experience writing, this style would be seen as having very poor organization. Is this something different about the study of history, or is it something the subreddit can work on?

Sorry if this is trivia seeking, but whenever I think of Nazi Germany, I think of this monolithic society where after purges, there was nothing but absolute support for the Nazi party, and I've never heard of any dissenters who weren't expelled/fled. Were there any major activists/opposers who stayed and campaigned against the regime until they were taken out of power?

I admit this is a very niche and probably uninteresting question but I can't find an answer anywhere.

His sarcophagus is the oldest we have from the Roman world, removed from the Sepulchre of the Scipios(Scipii?) and held in the Vatican. I assume it must have been opened or other wise examined in some manner. Does anybody know? Thanks

I'm asking specifically about Adam Smith and his book the Wealth of Nations. It is said that he was responsible for first describing the theory of modern capitalism, but I'm wondering how that distinction is made when people were free to freely trade and accumulate wealth before then. I'm aware of mercantilist policies that may have limited international trade, but on street level, weren't most people free to set their own prices and production before Wealth of Nations was published? So the question really is what did he write that was so revolutionary that it is considered the basis of modern capitalism.

I am genuinely curious.

I would imagine religious threads, those relevant to current topics (nuclear weapons), and "popular" wars are the hardest to moderate.

As the vast majority of threads have a few dozen deleted replies I just rely on the mods.

Edit: title typo should say, "mainly for the mods".

What responsibilities would she have and how would she occupy her time?

Machines, gyms, diets, clothing etc. when did the idea of exercising for physical/mental benefits become a “normal” thing.

The Mongol Empire included a reasonable amount of Asian Nestorian Christians. A few visited Europe, while some Catholics visited central Asia and met Nestorians. What did they think of each other? Did they think "great, Christians just like me?" Or did they find them strange and heretical?

How much did it cost annually for the state to fund for the average soldier in a professional army (as opposed to armies prevalent in the medieval era) annually (wages, housing, food, medicine...etc)?

Like many of the good people on Reddit I grew up through an American public school system - as such I feel as though my knowledge of the history of the world is a little lacking. I love to read and while this is not r/books I was hoping history buffs might be able to point me in the direction of some really not boring books (or podcasts) on histories of specific countries in Africa and South America, especially books written by people in those countries and translated into English. The scope of what I want to know about is so broad that I'm at a loss on where to begin but my Barnes and Nobles has exactly 7 nonfiction books on those two continents and I'm upset about it.