How densely populated was the kingdom of Macedon compared to other hellenic ethnicities/states at the time?. It seems from what I've read and listened to like diadochi manpower was dependant on Macedonians even for the rank and file troops. Was it just a byproduct of Philip and Alexander building up the army or were they actually a larger ethnic group as well?

Side note how is diadochi supposed to be pronounced? I feel like I've heard it 3 different ways and I'm afraid to say it now lol.

I am curious because I get the majority of my history from YouTube channels like these ones.

When the Third Reich annexed France, did France's colonies (in particular, Syria and Lebanon) go under German control?

Did hitler make any demands regarding it or protest any laws, for example Mussolini banning all minority languages, wich of course included german.

When I read anything on wikipedia, every subject and concept seem to have their roots in Ancient Greece. Mathematics and Euclide, medicine and Hippocrates, literature and Homer etc.

And then there is that fella called Aristotle. How can one person name so many essential concepts and be influential in so many fields? Like there have been millions of people before him.

Why Greece? It just boggles my mind that the foundations of so many basic concepts of culture and life have been laid in Ancient Greece.

To be more specific:

Hmmm, I should have specified: I'm not exactly talking about trained historians that happen to not be employed in academia at the moment (after all, there's already tons of those sorts of people contributing, communicating, and interpreting regularly right here! And one of my favorite books on history was written by a law professor):

I'm talking about not formally-trained amateurs leveraging their auxiliary or non-scholarly skills, time and attention for the benefit of what historians are already working on. Like how thousands of amateur astronomers point their telescopes at stuff that might be interesting and alert the astronomy community about interesting stuff they've found (they also comb over tons of data that human brains are good at finding patterns in that existing computer programs might not be - that's part of what led to the interesting observations of KIC 8462852/Tabby's Star/Boyajin's Star).

Did they think it was cool

On the opposite side, the original Hebrew name behind “Satan” is השטן or "HaaSatan" - pronounced “hah-sah-TAHN,” and means “The Opposer.”

How come the pronunciation of Satan's name is pretty much unchanged after 2,000 years, but not the Messiah Jesus (Yashua?).

Hi there, first post here so I apologize if I mess up with the etiquette! I was on Wikipedia (not always the most reliable, I know) looking at the list of World War I versus World War II casualties and I noticed that it listed the Austro-Hungarian Empire's WW1 population as 51.4 million, whereas in WW2 Austria had 6.6 million people and Hungary 9.1 million people. I'm aware that the Austro-Hungarian Empire then owned more territories, like Subcarpathia and their annexed parts of Poland (Wikipedia claims these parts of Poland were home to about 3,5 million people), but from what I understand those territories would not explain such a huge population loss, even with the Empire's WW1 casualties. I'd love to hear from someone who has an explanation for this!

Thank you for any responses!

Is there a publicly available online archive with the mentioned information?

Also interesting: Do we have the leaflets which were dropped over japanese cities before nuclear and conventional bombing?

Recently I’ve read the following books, and I was looking for more recommendations on relatively recent (in the past 10 years preferably) books on the topic.

The books I’ve read are:

The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez

When Montezuma Met Cortés by Matthew Restall

A couple books I was considering are:

Inca Apocalypse by R Alan Covey

Strike Fear in the Land by W George Lovell, Christopher H Lutz, and Wendy Kramer

Has anyone read these, or are there any other good suggestions? Much appreciated!

In the Netflix series he seems to have physical evidence backing up the age of said megalith, but since he seems to be a kook I wonder why his evidence doesn't hold up in the academic world? There have been some excavations, ultrasound images showcasing tombs and structures way older than the top layer, geological evidence (the stones came from an area that is across the current sea, so it must have been before the end of the last ice age and rising sea levels) and radiocarbon dating of some unspecified samples (I believe?).

That's what I remember. Curious about the answers.

So I am watching this Netflix series featuring him discovering ancient civilisations, and the first episode sounded astonishing. 20,000 years old civilisations! Wow. And his conclusions seem to make sense, because they seem based on physical evidence (from the way it is presented at least).

He seemingly is disregarded by "real" archaeologists, and he is constantly criticising them. Why is that? Why do archaeologists not take his discoveries and value them? And why is he treated like a kook?

It seems rather arbitrary. I know that any age could be considered arbitrary, seeing that adulthood is more a process than a milestone, but it still bugs me that it is specifically 18. Is it a compromise between 15 and 20, which are rounder numbers? Is it just completely arbitrary?

Please delete if inappropriate, but as Christmas is approaching and I face the prospect of 16 days with my long lost to sensible world father and recently lost mother, I thought I would chance my arm. I have a reasonable general knowledge grasp of history. My deep interest lies in historical fashion and textiles however, so as regards “mud floods”, “alien gods” and “ phantom time”, I sometimes find myself short on specifics for those time periods. Besides it’s not like those people listen to reason and logic. So I am humbly asking the experts for tips on how they handle these questions without it resulting in an all out conflict and shut the discussion down altogether. Again apologies for not being a specific historical event question, but I feel that it is important to start fighting back.

Edit: Thank you all so much! I genuinely did not expect so many wonderfully insightful answers.