The province remained under roman control for at least 15 years and the population of rome was way bigger than the germanic populations, enough to make sure germanics would remain a minority in the empire at best and Germanicus Julius Caesar had an amazing success in restoring the rhine as the border (instead of the previous elbe), under this prospective it seems rome had the means to continue expanding north, and if they indeed expanded north what effect would this have on the later germanic invasions ?

If so, what would be a possible reason to risk losing an heir--even if you had another son. And at what age would it have been expected for the son to participate? If not, what would a prince do instead? Manage the supply line? Guard a castle?

For specification, we can aim for High Middle Age in England.

My roommate is trying to tell me that there were more than just the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, but I've never read that. Sources would be appreciated.

I'm Spanish, and I'm teaching History to a Brazillian boy in a Homeschooling project- he travels around the world because he's an athlete. Although the history of his own country doesn't seem to be part of his curriculum, I think we could use some lessons to get to know his country a bit better than he does. I'm concerned that he doesn't know that much of where he comes from, and I think he should. The problem is that Spanish bachelor's degrees in History do not care that much for anything but mostly the West and former Spanish colonies, so I know really little from Brazil.

So question is very obvious has there ever been black Roman senators in Roman Republic? I know there were some in Roman Empire but I'm not sure about Roman Republic. I would also welcome more information about black senators in Roman Empire?

Also another question would be what was the ethnic composition in Roman Senate? Were there any senators that came from very different ethnicities that would surprise us?

Thank you for your answers and sorry for broken English.

I bought a copy of E.A. Wallis Budge's translation and plan to read through it, but before I begin would like to know what the experts say about the translation. I saw that it was originally published in 1895- what has more recent work on the Book come up with? Is there anything I should look out for?

I know this post probably won't be PC and will sound conspiracy theory-ey, but I hope you can appreciate by scepticism and critical thinking.

I've seen photos that the Allied planes took of Dachau and analysis has shown that the smokestacks don't cast a long enough shadow to possibly have serviced the killing machine of Hitler. Also, wouldn't the SS guards have gotten the cyanide on them when they opened the chamber doors and died as well? Can anyone explain this anomaly? I have yet to hear a good explanation for this.

Just to be clear, I'm not denying the horrificness of anything that happened. Something bad happened. Whether it was 6 million or 600 killed, it's still terrible (though Stalin killed hundreds of millions).

They had the ability to use auto or semi auto, so whats the reason?

Growing my mom would tell me that people used to think that tomatoes were poisonous. A royal chef was almost executed for trying to serve tomatoes to a French King, no idea which one, and he was forced to eat them to prove they were not, in fact, poisonous.

Is there any truth to this story? And if so, when did tomatoes become a regular food item?

If so, where there any disputes?

How much was atheism frowned upon? Were there any punishments?

A lot of intro to U.S. history courses in college are titled "U.S. history before 1877" and "U.S. history after 1877." I know that 1877 is the end of Reconstruction, and after that is the rise of industrialization, but I guess I'm not sure why 1877 is used as the dividing line between early and modern U.S. history.

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Based on the approximations I could find, one pound of beans makes 2-3 gallons of coffee depending on strength, today a pound of decent coffee costs about $10. So to do that now would be $3,650/year. I can only imagine that a century ago it was much more expensive to obtain and transport coffee from the growing regions, I am curious how much it would cost to drink that much coffee back then.

Did Switzerland continue trading with the surrounding Axis powers as it had with the surrounding nations before the war? Did it experience any economic hardship? Were there significant numbers of Swiss people who wanted to join the war, on either side?