I've been watching Rome recently and I asked myself this question and wasn't really satisfied with what I could find on Wikipedia. Did it have any really purpose after Octavian took over? When did it end?

I swear to god, every single time I come to this subreddit, 95% of the posts have no comments because the mods removed every single comment. It is always because the comment is "Off Topic" or "Not of high enough quality".

Well hey mods, not sure if you have heard, but there is this handy-dandy little thing called the DOWNVOTE BUTTON!! People will simply downvote the bad answers and upvote the good ones. You don't need to come in and literally destroy the post with you "Remove Comment" hammer.

Another issue is that the mods don't just remove bad answers, they will remove ALL answers, no matter how good or accepted they are. The answer could have 300 upvotes and tons of sources, but the mods will remove it anyway. I have no idea WHY they do this, but they do. My theory is that they get some sick kick out of removing an answer that clearly had a lot of work put into it.

That is why I propose that the subreddit be renamed to "AskHistoriansAndRegretYouEverDid" Because the moderators will do exactly that!

Sorry if that was worded weirdly; I retyped it four or five times.

This may extend to Europe and the rest of the western world as well, but I can only speak from experience growing up in the US.

Throughout my K-12 education, I learned more about Greek mythology than anything else. We read books about it, had entire units/semesters on the subject, etc. I can think of a couple of weeks on Egyptian mythos, but even that unit was mainly on Egyptian history than mythology. I also recall a week on Roman mythology, but mainly discussing the similarities to Greek.

If it weren't for Thor/The Avengers, I feel like we would never hear about Norse mythology. But I fee like Greek is always prevalent. References in our lexicon, as a basis for modern movies/TV shows, stories...Greek mythology is more or less a part of the culture and education in the US.

Why is Greek mythology seen as more important to study than others?

I've done some reading about the early Scandinavian settlements at Staraia Ladoga, Riurikovo Gorodishche, etc. and the Kievan Rus' in general, but this is puzzling me. F. Donald Logan said: "In 839, the Rus were Swedes; in 1043 the Rus were Slavs". How did this happen?

It seems to me that the majority of the people being ruled over were not Slavs at all, but Finns and Balts. So when and why did the Rus' begin worshipping the Slavic gods Perun and Veles as Vladimir the Great did before Christianisation, and using East Slavic and Church Slavonic instead of Old Norse?

Is there a definitive point when the Kievan Rus' princes (and general population) stopped self-identifying as Scandinavians (or Balts or Finns) and started considering themselves East Slavs?

I teach AP World, but there are some questions that I wasn't exposed to in college or the material I teach with, so this question came up today at my morning tutoring.

Sorry if this question is a bit broad. It struck me today that in the period following Octavian's annexation of Egypt, a city like Alexandria might be teeming with people of all skin tone's, from the lighter skinned Roman's to the dark skinned Nubians.

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In the 11th Century, i could say that most muslim lands were ruled by either Shi'ites or Ibadis.

The Fatimids in North Africa and the Levant, the Buyids in Iran and Iraq, the Qarmatians in Eastern Arabia, all of these being Shia, in addition to all the Ibadi dynasties in Morocco and Oman.

Like a lot of folks, I got interested in history by reading pretty broad, macro works of history. A book on the history of ancient Greece, Rome, the crusades, that sort of thing.

But I notice that there seems to be a trend of academic historians focusing on very narrow social/economic history. Is there any reason for this? At what point did social/economic microhistories become the norm?

Or do I just have a mistaken impression of the field?

Not just condemnations and such, but I'm more interested in the reaction to the might and yield of such bombs when nearly the entire population head never even heard of anything outside conventional explosives.

It's been awhile since I have read the book, but in the English translated version I read, Hermine says:

"Nobody wants to avoid the next war, nobody wants to spare himself and his children the next holocaust if this be the cost."

From it's placement in the novel, I remember thinking it was in reference to the first world war. Why was the term "holocaust" used? Is this found in the original German text? Was "holocaust" a more used term prior to WW2?

Have historians come to any sort of conclusion on what Greek Fire consisted of? Are there also any reliable sources for which I research greek fire?

For centuries England and France were at war. Not constantly, but it still seems like it was more common for them to be at war than not. I am unsure about any other conflicts, but in 1815 England and France were at war, yet in 1914 they were allied in the Triple Entente. What happened in those hundred years?

Granted, "Europeans" is a very broad term. For a specific European, let's assume Average Joe living in London or Average Jacques living in Orleans. A follow-up question: Would they even have had the practical ability to learn about foreign animals?