So far as I can discover, the territories that now form Belarus have relatively little history as an independent nation, having passed from Russian principalities, to Polish-Lithuanian dominance, to absorption into the Russian Empire and then the USSR.

How did a Belorussian national conscience develop, and why did it emerge as an independent state after the fall of the USSR?

From the middle ages to the modern period, European Christians moved from being prepared to fight and die to recover Jerusalem to seemingly accepting that it would be controlled by Muslims. What precipitated this change, when did it occur and how did Western support for Zionism play into this?

EDIT: Perhaps this question is slightly unclear - what I'm asking about is how and why European Christian countries went from being in the position of wanting the Holy Lands but being unable to take them at the end of the Crusades, to being able to take them but unwilling to do so during the late modern period, and what role, if any, political Zionism played in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

Greek mythology is great to read about, but is often times also really stupid and random. Did the general population of Greece truly believe that Uranus was a primordial being that got his dick cut off? Did they read it like stories with moral messages, like we read the lord of the rings?

In early medieval Ireland, the correct dating of Easter was something that put the local church at odds with the rest of the western European Christian church. Other religions did and do have celebrations that fall on different days every year, like the Ramadan for the Muslims. Are there examples in history of religious controversies caused by different interpretations of the calendar?

I know that the Protestants in the North were Unionists, but in the South was there any part of the population that wanted to stay in the British Union?

Could the British government have satisfied Legitamte Irish Complaints without having to go for Home Rule or Republicanism?

In hindsight, was Independence inevitable, or if the House of Lords had lost influence and the Welfare state had been founded before Irish Independence, could that have scuppered republicanism?

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I know some Canaanite group ruled in Jericho but I don't know which one. All people really talk about is the biblical account of Jericho and I cant really find any information from extra-biblical texts

I am thinking of famous ones like Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc. And if the answer is 'No', do we have evidences that at least some of them were aware of the existence of Old English literatures? Thanks.

How could ancient Roman architects calculate things as precisely as the drop rate of the aqueducts or the pressure of water when building a canal, projects that today need a computer to be modelised and tested before even starting the building stage ? Did they do calculus and arithmetic...with the Roman numerals ??? Did they use an abacus like the Chinese ? Any insight is welcome!

I know it started with an assassination, but I know there are events leading up to that moment that really made the region unstable. Could anyone shed some light on what was happening in Europe at that time?

Ive recently become entralled with the history of Rome, beginning with a youtube channel called Historia Civilis. Great videos describing Roman war tactics, but now im interested in pretty much all of Roman history. The biggest challenge ive faced is finding any credible sources regarding Rome. For example; many websites ive been to dont even reference Romulus as the founder, yet i know he existed to some extent. Maybe im mistaken in thinking him and his twin brother started the wheels of Rome, but so far any sources i find that dont even mention Romulus ive learned to distrust. Obviously it would be far too much to type in a reddit comment, does anyone know of a great source for Roman history? Idealy I would love to see a robust timeline with emperors, there actions and events within Rome, there campaigns and relations with other countries, and so on. Thank you for your time!

How close are they to the actual family crests? How have they been manipulated for tattoos and that sort of thing?

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I'm in the research stage of novel writing. It's set in Kentucky in the Appalachia mountain region, 1904. I want to be as historically correct as possible. Looking for insight into what the rooms were like (kitchens, bedrooms, etc.), furniture, etc. Open to as many details as possible.

My assumption is that a couple of hundred years ago the monarch was all powerful, but now they have exactly zero real power.

How did that change happen?
Was it a set of small changes of certain privileges/laws that eventually allowed for the removal of all the powers?
Or was it a deliberate change, (maybe instigated by the monarchs themselves).

So, I'm a big fan of rum, mostly nicer sipping rums, and I'm curious if anyone knows what rum that sailors were drinking in the 1700's was like compared to rum now?

As I understand it, during the American Civil War several counties of Virginia agreed to break away in order to side with the Union instead. However Article 4 Section 3 of the United States Constitution says

"New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State... without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.""

I Highly doubt Confederate Virginia consented in the United States congress to a large chunk of their land be seceded to form West Virginia, so I'm wondering; why was West Virginia allowed to become and stay its own state despite the Constitution seemingly specifically forbidding it?

On the Wikipedia article on Gilgamesh, it's stated that Gilgamesh is believed to have existed because other characters from the Epic were attested in written sources predating the Epic. However, Hitler, Goebbels (IIRC) and Churchill are very real figures from history, predating Basterds, that also showed up in the film.

How do historians deal with historical fiction?

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A friend of mine believes that studying History is a waste of time and of no value to modern society. I want to try and convince him otherwise.