I'm working on a school project about the Norse peoples and cant find a distinct answer as to what happened to the Norse. All I'm getting is when the viking raids ended and I'm not so interested in that.

Was he really that widely regarded as a great president only 18 years later? I would think that if Mount Rushmore were being built today, anyone from even the past 30 years would be met with backlash from the other party.

I just finished watching The Imitation Game and decided to look up some things on the internet about how historically accurate the movie was. I'm very curious as to how historians and statisticians came up with the length and amount of lives that breaking the Enigma code saved. How could they have predicted what the Nazis (hypothetically) would do next, how long it would take, how many lives would be lost in said hypothetical battles, and last but not least, whether or not the Allies would have actually defeated the Nazis had they not decrypted the Enigma machine?

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Were there fads that would die in and out quickly, say, before the 1900s? Did they separate culture by decades? Was 1480 drastically different from 1470, the way would would consider 1980 different from 1970? If not, what caused this to happen? Perhaps the radio?

Hi, i want to know if the greeks, old rome kingdom, or any other civilization know about the pyramids in Egypt and what they say about it ?

there is any papyrus, or books saying something about the pyramids ? or something saying, this emperador visit egypt and say they where white, golden, something. or what the Romans thought of the Egyptians

sorry for bad london.

I assume this varied a lot over the course of the Empire, so if it's too much to give a long overview, I guess limit it to the era of Marcus Aurelius (but I'm hoping for a long overview)

I've been watching a lot of the CNN documentary "The Eighties" on Netflix, and speaking with my mother here watching with me, there appears to be a lot of political rhetoric about how the United States was "fighting for freedom around the world" and how we needed to outspend the USSR on defense in order to accomplish this goal.

Conversely, it occurs to me that the USSR's attitude, at least from my armchair perspective (mind you I have taken zero history classes or formal learning of any sort of post-WW2 history), was mostly defensive spending against a perceived aggressive United States. The people of the Soviet Union in this documentary seem scared of the United States and just want to be safe, I don't see the "evil nation" that the politicians are speaking of, at least from this footage.

Was the USSR really bad? What did they do to garner this international opinion, and what could they have done differently to not have become a failed state?

I already know about the eight stages of genocide and the basic process of dehumanisation. What i want to know is an exact historical example of how an otherwise good person can be capable of such atrocities, or how a leadership can condone a policy of extermination and still think they are doing the right thing, or how a minority group can become so dehumanised and marginalised that a group like the Nazis can come to power in the first place. What has historically geared a society to genocide?

The best way i think to understand this would be information on the individuals involved themselves? Did any of the SS guards keep a journal. Is there a good Heinrich Himmler biography that goes into detail about his ideological beliefs? He is considered the architect of the holocaust. What did he tell the SS when he was asking them to exterminate entire demographics of people? How did he justify what he was asking?

Instead of making the very difficult trek over the Alps, that is. I did some poking around and some sources (random people on internet forums) suggested it was to avoid Massilia or Scipio. Was one of these the reason? Why not just besiege Massilia and/or defeat Scipio's army as a prelude to invasion, if those are the reasons?

I am referring to people saying that it was (especially mandatory education) designed from ground up to teach people this "hidden curriculum".

What stopped a slave running off the the other side of the city they live in and claim to be a freeman and not a slave?

Considering that society have become more progressive and civilized over time and most of the cruel way of things in civilian life that were common in Early Modern Era(from hanging drawing quartering to slavery) was long abolished by the 1914, I don't see why the military would be more cruel/bloodlusted/whatever you name. But common image is that way, especially the atrocities committed against civilians are never mentioned in the Early Modern Warfare while they're portrayed as a central part of WWII/Russian Civil War, and to a lesser extent, WWI. How accurate is this?

As not born in the UK (Nor any other English speaking country) I thought, when i was young, that the whole country spoke English, but not until recently (More like moths..) did i discover that there is a Welsh, and an Irish seperate language (I thought they were only accents) as well!

**Now this is what I know **about the history of the British Isles. The natives there were celtic people (Some lived in very nothern France if im correct as well) who had a language from which Irish/Welsh comes from today. After the Romans, who didn't have a major influence (Just held it as territory and build a few towns/camps such as Londom) So a Germanic tribe called "Anglo-Saxons" moves to the area of today southern England and stays there speaking their own language ("Ancient" english?) Then Normands (Which i would like to ask of what nationality they were? French? German? Italian? I know the term nationality didnt even exist but what would they be considered now?), who completely conquer the isles, only really rule the area giving Romance/Latin language "assets" to the already existing Germanic-English language. Fast forward a bit - Vikings come and go and leave some more germanic linguistic influence.

So was anything right? Why did the Welsh and Irish hold their Celtic culture while the Scotts and English became so influenced by one Germanic tribe? Lastly what are Normands? I remember from school they were Scandinavian aka Vikings. However Romance language? I may be wrong (Also isn't it weird to call a group of people based on a modern nation? Idk i believe it creates confusion and makes people think that English are like Germans (No offense of course))

By the way I am not interested in learning each kingdom's name and ruler. In another questioned I posted, i got so complex answers about each freaking kingdom in Britain which was just too much, so please simplify your answer...

I've read several American accounts of what they saw, but nothing from the Soviet side

I'm doing a module in American memory studies at university and I was just hoping for some insight from any Americans/experts in American history here to give me some pointers on where to start on a topic so fundamental to American identity (I'm British so I'm really not an expert). Thanks!

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