As in the idea that African Americans are actually Hebrews who settled in the slave coast and were subsequently brought to America.. Or something along those lines. I heard something about it in the new Kendrick Lamar album and met a guy who told me it was true... Is there anything to this theory or is it just afrocentric fluff?

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Title's pretty self explanatory, by experts I mean essentially leading industrialists, economists, etc.

Since kings in the Medieval era relied so heavily on their vassals' levies to make up their armies, how could they know how many opposing soldiers to expect from their rivals before making a move against them?

Edit - Pardon me, I should have definitely been more specific with a timeframe. I'm curious to know as to how they could gather this knowledge from neighbouring nations around 700-1100 AD, before most European nations had a standing army.

How could a leader know the capacity of an enemy leader's armies before they are called to arms?

I'm of spanish and portuguese descent so I'm always wondering about the chance of me being descended from moors. Did they usually marry and leave descendants or was it looked down upon?

I have seen the Soviet war in Afghanistan compared to the American war in Vietnam and I know that American draftees were not always the best trained. So, how comprehensive/how well was the average Soviet soldier fighting in Afghanistan trained?

Hello, I was reading some sources on lend lease including the ones wikipedia uses for their article on lend lease program and came across some interesting statistics. Some of these include the fact that the Soviets were supplied enough to supply 60 combat divisions. However it does not say for how long. Other of these basically say that without lend lease the USSR would have been without supply and lost early decisive battles and lost the war. Is this true? Was the Soviet victory in the East impossible without US supply?

If we try to understand the Allied view of the world in, say, 1941, it is by no means certain that Franco will stay out of the war. Spain entering the war would have significantly altered Allied war plans and resource allocation.

So: did Allied planners fear Spain's entry into the war, or 1) was Spanish military involvement considered unlikely 2) was Spain considered strategically irrelevant and no plans were made to divert substantial military power there?

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Was there any more revenges like that ? What says Bushido's code about revenge ? Was the master so important for Samurais ? I found this story amazingly interesting

I've been reading up on the 1993 peace accords (brokered in Oslo) recently and I'm struggling to identify something definitive that caused it's failure - I understand both sides essentially renegade on their side of the deal but was that because of the asymmetry of the process (Palestine having little to offer)? The representatives having little legitimacy (Isrealis/Palestinians population didn't accept this)? Or something else?

Are there any modern, reputable historians that argue against the Rommel Myth, claiming it to be revisionism? Or, is the modern historical community in agreement about the man being overrated? Or, is there no consensus in community?

When Austria refused to honour the Russian alliance, instead declaring neutrality, and pinning down large Russian armies along the Danube, it clearly estranged itself from the Russian Empire. Yet, it doesn't seemed to have gained any consideration from France or Britain for this position.

Just a few years later, France and Austria would be at war in Northern Italy, and a decade later, British neutrality would permit the Prussian reorganization of Central Europe. How/why was the Austrian position on the Crimean War reached?

How/why was Austria left diplomatically isolated, instead of forming a new alliance with France or Britain?

AskHistorians have their unique report options, appropriate for their rules. However, the apps I've been using, the default Reddit app and Relay, only provide Reddit's default report options. Are there any apps that use AskHistorians's report options?

Today we have the Imperial and Metric systems of measurement, but what would medieval Europe, say around 1,000 CE, have used to measure?