Did the average Roman, for example, believe that Jupiter would bless him no matter where he stood; or did they believe that as the Romans advanced upon a land, so did the domain of their gods? Would he believe that while in Egypt, his gods held no sway? ESPECIALLY curious about how this idea would've changed under the Ptolemies.

I understand that often connections were made for the sake of assimilating cultures, like making Thor into Zeus. But at times there don't seem to be any connections at all; the only similarities between Ra and Apollo Helios being the sun itself.

I'm also curious about Zoroastrian relations with foreign faiths, what with the monotheism and such.

Hello. I have been wondering a bit lately - do we have any lists of civilians from ancient civilisations? Obviously the major players are the ones who tend to get remembered, but do we have access to censuses listing the average joes and their careers?

I know of the 'lions led by donkeys' stereotype of the Great War and that tactics did change but in how?

This question was asked with the Western Front and the trench warfare in mind but I'm interested in all theatres of war, in Europe and other continents.

I've been doing light reading on the colonization of the Americas and I'm a little confused by the timeline.

Pardon the badhistory:

Columbus discovered the Americas for the Spanish in 1492. Cortez and Pizzaro conquered most of South America by 1533. There were a bunch of limited interactions with present day USA, but it wasn't until 1620 that Europeans landed on Plymouth and even then it didn't exactly instantly conquer the place.

My question is why wasn't there a Cortez/Pizzaro style conquest in the early 16th century on present day USA?

Given that he was president and virtually a dictator of South Korea from 1963 to his death, did Park Chung-hee at all try and enrich himself while he was in office?

It seemed he took great lengths to hide his disability. Was he for the most part, successful? When did it become public knowledge he had a major disability?

With so many dukes, counts, knights, and lords, I find it hard to believe that nobody's sigil/herald/crest was the same as a different duke's sigil/herald/crest. Has this ever happened, and how did nobles prevent this from ocurring often?

Aside from the obvious, like money?

I started wondering this the other day while watching a lady struggle to find something in her massive shoulder bag, thinking that these have been normal fashion accessories for as long as I could remember.

I asked this in the Wien reddit.

"I have read 3 books since on the Habsburgs, Austria-Hungary since and I cannot get enough. In all my readings one of the queries I still have in my noggin' is, why did FF hate Hungarians so much? The books mention many times that he despised Hungarians more than anything but, none of them go into detail explaining why. Wondering if anyone here could provide any insight on the matter or, is this one ot those things that everyone knows but, nobody knows why. Thanks!"

I understand he was offended when the Hungarians in a regiment spoke Hungarian while he was around but surely, that cannot be the only reason he despised them.

Curious if anyone here has any insight on this!

Thanks

What did Petrarch and other people in the 14th century think about the Avignon popes and their court?

Thank you

Also, how knowlexgable would a regular pagan have been? And did they have their own versions of church depending on the pagan religion? Sorry if this is a bit messy thought just came to me before bed and I don't want to forget it.

My teacher gave me a project to do about the 18th century Austrian Empire. In school we aren't taught about 18-19th century Europe and i was fascinated about how so many different ethnicities were under one empire. And by that time people started thinking that they are unique 'most revolutions happened at that time, so it isnt the same situation as the roman empire. There were Hungarians, Austrians (German speaking people in general), slavs (Czechs - Slovakians etc.)!

I know Timbuktu may have exceeded 100,000, and there were a number of cities like Kumasi in Asante whose populations were in the upper tens of thousands. But were there any cities with more than 200,000 people?

The story goes that the Yongle Emperor killed 2800 concubines, serving-girls, eunuchs, and others in the Forbidden City in 1421, apparently to quash humiliating rumours by killing all the witnesses. But most accounts I've found are from tabloids and blogs, and I'm having trouble finding any real, reliable literature.

Did it happen? If it did, why and how? It seems overkill relative to the motive.