I've been trying to find out historically accurate films on the Incas, but whenever I look it up, I just get results about the Aztecs.

In other words, did the Southern Confederacy believe that the Union had simply corrupted the views of the Founding Fathers and so the Confederacy was formed in order to continue those traditions/ideas/beliefs they believed to be of the Founding Fathers? Or was the Confederacy actively seeking to split away from the nation/ideologies of the Founding Fathers and attempting to form their own nation from scratch?

I've been watching documentaries on Gothic, Franciscan, and Anglo Saxon battle tech and conquest around Europe. I love Bill Bryson and his sweeping style that seems to sum up large tracts of history in a succinct and often funny way. Writers like Bryson save me an enormous amount of reading time. Can anyone recommend a big picture well written history book that covers all of Europe and hits on all the competing barbarian and established empires that rose and fell from the fall of Rome up until like WWI? A special focus on weapons, cultural traits, technology changes and (I hate to say it) sweeping generalizations would be preferable.

I also enjoyed Guns, Germs and Steel.

Another note:

There's a book titled The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 that I really enjoyed but I'm looking for something that's the complete opposite of this. I don't want every detail; but I do want something that's accurate as well. I would be open to a series of books.

Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything except for European history is basically what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance for your help. There are so many books written on this subject that I don't even know where to begin. I do already have a history degree so I have some basic knowledge on this stuff. I don't want a 'history for dummies' type book.

I worry this may be a bit too broad of a question given that each culture or person has their own motivations for conversion. I am curious how the catholic church was so successful in getting so many different peoples to move in part or fully from their long established beliefs. Are there any primary reasons that have been attributed to this success?

Just kinda popped into my brain. Is there any possible records to know who actually touched the ground first? Sort of like the first man to walk on the moon situation.

I know that The Good Huswife’s Handmaide for the Kitchen (1588) has a bread recipe, but what other pre-17th century bread recipes do we still have from Europe? Specifically levend bread.

How does it work for a First Lady after an assassination? How long does she have in the White House afterwards? Is there a policy in place that allows her a sum of money to help after her husband's death?

I started thinking about this specifically in relation to the pre Colombian cultures in America versus the cultures of the Fertile Crescent. Although culture and civilization is believed to have developed thousands of years earlier in the Middle East, this is still surprisingly close in time considering how long anatomically modern humans have been around.

Is this just coincidence or are there potentially other factors like climate involved?

I have read that he was born in Transylvania, and lived there with his family in his early days, before his father seized power in Wallachia, and that Vlad III visited Transylvania during his time in Hungary, but is there annother reason Bram Stoker chose Transylvania as Count Draculas base of operations?

I would like to go through resources in English that describe the activities of the Indian leader Subhash Chandra Bose, and his attempts to create an Indian army of independence in Nazi occupied Europe. I understand that the Indian Legion was first trained in Königsbrück, and then near posted to the Atlantic Wall.

I am familiar with the work of Leonard Gordon (Brothers Against the Raj) and other works (Peter Ward Fey, Lebra Joyce) that focus more on Bose and the Indian National Army in S.E. Asia.

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In old shots from WWII of B-17s I always see murals on the sides of the planes and they have names. Today I would never expect to see something like a stealth bomber with a pin up painted on the side. When did this stop being a tradition? Why?