I know that the world was a different place a long time ago. I have been reading the bible but a few things (non-religious) don't make scene. One example of this was when Israel was near Mt. Sinai, Moses destroyed a false god, burned it, then threw its ashes into a brook. However, to my knowledge there are no flowing rivers or brooks or streams in the entire Sinai peninsula. Was the Levant/ Middle East wetter back then? I know the earth was still warming after the last ice age too, were sea levels lower back then, meaning that the bible could be referencing landmasses or bodies of water that no longer exist?

How did the ancient Egyptians solve disputes? How did they deal with crime?

I realize I'm asking about an incredibly long period of time and there might have been considerable changes over the course of 3000 years, but feel free to focus on any particular era that might be of interest.

I know that the Greeks had discovered the various scales of Western music, but what was the common style of music in the Roman world? Did it pull from this background? What scales and instrumentations were common (if we knew them)? Did they have notation? Were there well-known composers? Are there accurate replicas of their instruments today, with recordings one can listen to?

I find this astounding. Has any other country seen such a radical drop in its population?

How much of this is attributable to the famine?

As I understand it, levies (legions) were raised at the beginning of a campaign season, with officers being elected, and disbanded at the close of the season. Was there typically a period of training before the consular armies set out on their campaigns? When the legions were being raised, was there any preference for men who had previous experience? On the face of it, disbanding armies every year, raising new legions full of randos, with officers chosen by election, and without a period of remedial drill, doesn't sound like a perfect recipe for a disciplined and tactically capable army, but maybe the Romans just had different priorities.

It looks as though many historic regiments were dissolved or reorganised after the war, particularly during the 1960s. Anyone know why?

The video was about how we have insight on Viking Runic Language due to cross-referencing them with the way Muslim Vikings used the language, but at the beginning it claimed what I just asked in the title. If this is too specific, how, if at all, did cheese come to have a role in the 11th or 12th century Iberia?

In episode 2 of Oliver Stone's "The Untold History of The United States" at ~48min, Stone casually mentions that Truman's mother claimed that Harry Truman was supposed to be a girl, and that "gender issues plagued him for years". I've tried to look into this on the internet but have been unable to find anything out about this. Stone is asserting that dropping the atomic bomb was in part caused by Truman needing to reassert his masculinity after a childhood of feminization. Where is this claim coming from?

Question is pretty broad, but I couldn't find the exact words to express this. I'm an eighth grader with a strong interest in medieval history, if a history professor or active historian would be kind enough to help tell me the steps to make a career of history, I would be eternally grateful.

Primarily interested in pen-and-paper (or really, just the general concept of RPGs) here, as I'm already familiar with the the history of electronic RPGs, but insight into RPGs on computers/consoles is also welcome!

Movies depicting this, that come to mind (not saying they're historically accurate at all):

• Braveheart
• Last Samurai
• Patton (speech scene)

I understand that children were taught English in school, so that's what they grew up speaking. But how isn't there a U.S equivalent of Canada's Quebec where most speak French? Weren't there enough German migrants at the time that the language would be spoken more (in the states) today? I can't imagine Spanish speakers could just reduce to less than 5% in 200 years because of Americanization.

The oldest work of Anglo-Saxon literature is about Geats and Danes... didn't they have heroes and epics of their own?

as Jared Diamond's thesis in "Guns Germs and Steel" proclaims.... Europe, particularly, the West domination over places like Sub-Saharian Africa, The Americas etc. Of course, Diamond is a controversial scholar, and his thesis is widely debated, but would you still think Geographical Determinism is the best argument for why the West won.

What about the idea that there was something "unique" in the make up of Western culture and thought that might of played a role. (Of course this is also a very controversial stance)

was it just pure luck?