I'm researching family history and one line of text caught my eye. In dutch it reads, "Hij was mogelijk één van de bannelingen die in 1671 in Venetië als slaven te werk werden gesteld." The man in question was a farmer in Erlenbach, Switzerland born in 1601. If it matters, he was also accused of being a tauffer or Anabaptist.
I know about the Swiss Peasant uprising but that was about twenty years earlier. He was fathering children before, during and after that upheaval. I'm struggling to make sense of this information. Is it even remotely possible that he could have been conscripted in some way to work galleys in the Morean War?

The information comes from Kwartierstaat van Anje van Til; "Ancestral history of Barbara (Weber/Weaver) Gander, wife of Peter Gander" (P); "Archiv des Historischen Vereins des Kantons Bern", Volume 63; "De familie Kneubel: doopsgezinde landverhuizers uit Zwitserland naar Nederland en later naar Amerika" van Harry Berg ("Gens Nostra", september 2016, nummer 9)

When Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire and became the official religion, how long did it take for people to stop worshipping the old gods entirely? When is the last documented worship of these gods?

I have ordered "The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire" by James Allan Evans (I would've put this in the title but I was over the character limit.)

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Larger question, when I look up the history of Southern Italy on wikipedia it seems to be a history of countless foreign rulers. I almost read nothing about actual Southern Italians.

Were there a lot of genocides? Am I right to think that that the Norman, Arab, Byzantine, German, French, and Spanish governments wiped out the local people? Were the local people involved in rule?

Why was it so easy for Garibaldi to march through the area? I heard there were many peasants who were 'tricked' into rebelling? Any experts here who can elaborate?

Also heard the British military openly helped Garibaldi because the Bourbon dynasty was pro-Russia

No other European nations colonised Australia, so why do we still refer to the event as "European colonisation" when it was only the British who did so?

Nowadays, we usually think of science and religion as opposing forces (or even enemies), but it wasn't always like this. A few centuries ago, they were very close. Descartes, for example, is an icon of rationalism and a scientist, but that did not stop him from being profoundly religious.

So what ideas, events, discoveries, or school of thoughts led to what we have now?

When a significant proportion of the male population was killed in combat, what happened to all the "extra" women? Prostitution? Polygamy?

So, if we're to say if she had an overall good effect or bad effect, what would it be? For instance you can look at Bloody Mary and say she was really bad because she burned 300 people at the stake, but a lot of people might say she was undervalued as a monarch because of her financial/social reforms.

So I guess the main criteria to look at is finances, foreign policy, and social policy.

I haven't found any mention of the Gatling gun being used by either side during the Franco-Prussian War. Is there any reason for this? They were being sold abroad by as early as 1867, so there doesn't appear to have been an effort to limit their sales. The French at least were interested in mass-firing weapons, given their poor attempts at fielding the mitralleuse. Thanks

In the book when speaking of his wife they say that Goldsmith's "Rome" would have been a staple. I can find no book from the 1700's or around that time by Rome. Can anyone shed some light on this book?

How did the Great Depression impact global politics?

AFAIK the area just out of the city walls was generally clean, so to not give attackers any hiding place (roman pomerium comes to mind). That said, cities can grow. What happens when there is no more room for people?

I'm talking up to middle-age, early modern era European cities, where the chance of a siege is on the table - maybe not very likely, but not impossible.

It seems like bonding wheat (or other grains) into an edible staple requires little more than ground-up wheat and water. Yet, the many variations of bread (leavened, unleavened, loaves, naan, flour tortillas, heck even crackers, I guess) use an assortment of ingredients, like salt, honey, eggs, spices, etc., and, most importantly to my train of thought: yeast. I'm unsure of how or when yeast even made its way into someone's mind as a feasible ingredient, but were I dropped into an early agricultural civilization, I doubt that I'd be able to revolutionize their cultural cuisine very much if all I had was my own knowledge of how to prepare basic foods without a supermarket and the global web at my fingertips. And, while my personal frame of reference lies with Europe's history with wheat, I have, by no means, sole interest in that lone grain, but for me it's synonymous with early civilization and baking.

Specifically, what I'm curious about is: What was the path that brought humankind from grain crops (including whether to cultivate them or not) to our modern concept of bread?

For example, in the documentary "What's with Wheat?" on Netflix (U.S.), one person interviewed mentioned that before yeast we used a "souring process [??]" that essentially fermented the bread and took days, whereas now it only takes a few hours to make a loaf and bag it in a factory. Whether you have huge, sweeping timelines or just small details like this, I'd be fascinated to hear more about the history of bread, as it strikes me as a real source of human ingenuity, in a staple we take for granted.

(If anyone else is interested in old, old, old school baking/ cooking, I've been really into the subreddit /r/ArchaicCooking lately. To the mods: If a plug isn't allowed, and I couldn't see anything stating as such in the rules, then please let me know and I'll delete this part. I'm in no way affiliated with that subreddit, I just like it (like this one!) and wish there were more resources like it.)

Thanks!

EDIT: Post WWII