ELIM Version: What was early day to day life like for our very first ancestors?

Even though it was an accident in a jousting tournament, would there have been any repercussions given the concept of lese-majeste, and the eventual political fall-out of the Wars of Religion?

Prior to the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) that was created in 1951, how did the process of military punishment go?

Who determined whether execution or confinement was necessary?

Were executions/confinement/trials regulated or were they simply dependent on who was in command at the time and place they were held?

I'm just wondering because I was reading about the UCMJ and wanted to know some history about the US Military's legal system. I'm interested in not only the time period right before UCMJ (WW2) but also everything prior, such as the military penal system during WW1, Civil War, and even before that.

Whenever they taught about WWII in school they usually only talked about America, Asia, and Europe. I was wondering if Africa or the Middle East were to involved at all.

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He has taken an interest in WW1 mainly due to playing the new battlefield. But hey he wants to learn more about it and I won't argue with him. Any suggestions? I think he is wanting something with first hand accounts.

I know this may sound dumb, but did people before sattelites and space exploration believed there was life on other planets such as Venus or Mars?

At school we've come to the colonization of Africa. In our teacher's powerpoint there was this picture that showed a map of the world before and then after the colonial era. From the pictures it was pretty clear Russia had done some colonization of it's own, but we never learned about it.

So why did they take land east-wards? Woulden't it be more lucrative to secure a spice plantation in India or Africa instead of the fridge that is Sibir? Why did Russia refuse to join the race to Africa and why were they just allowed by the other european powers to anex half of Eurasia?

And how do historians view the Great Potato famine? Did the Anglo-Irish improve agriculture for a formerly pastoral people, or did they, in their cultivation of land, use resources that had previously been sustaining a healthy Irish population? Also, a recent TIL comment had that the British blocked ships from delivering food to the Irish. Is this true? Thank you!

Growing up in North America, we are often told that the dropping of the atomic bombs were used as an alternative to a land invasion. We are also told that the bombs succeeded in forcing the Japanese to surrender. However the official surrender was signed almost 3 weeks after the bombs, meanwhile the Soviets had already taken most of Manchuria and were planning a land invasion of mainland Japan along with the Korean Peninsula.

So basically, I'm wondering if someone could walk me through what the Japanese military were thinking and whether they weighed the American threat or the Soviet threat with more or less importance.

I recently watched a piece that offhand mentions the failure of Egypt to industrialize after gaining independence instead bankrupting the county. What happened?

In the Mexican American War, Mexico lost every engagement with the US despite almost always outnumbering and having a home field advantage.

Were US weapons just that much more superior? Or was it more to do with tactics and leadership? What made the war so incredibly one-sided?

Secondary sources will work too if anybody's done research on this, but I'm primarily interested in things like journal entries by early explorers, colonists, or soldiers. I'm not out to prove or disprove anything, I just think this would be fun to read about. Thanks Reddit!

Say from 1000 - 2000, what did people in major population centers around the world do as part of their toiletries? Did they have some sort of past to prevent rashes, use their hands, or have some kind of alternative (a fecal rag of some sort that was burned later)?

I have this notion, someone in the times of Solon, Pysistrates and Clystenes,was an Athenian ruler who gave a lot of benefits to the very poor, against the interests of the aristocracy/oligarchy, he forgave debts, but most clearly I remember something about this ruler giving land and some property to soldiers and thetes/poor citizens so they could build themselves up.

I remember reading an insight about this that stated that this policy prevented a rebellion, helping the development of Athens,which could flourish, the author also stated how this was a healthy policy for it kept the lower classes busy in their own development rather than resentful against the powerful aristocracies that wanted to withold even more power. Hell, this author said that this Athenian ruler had discovered that the best policy is to have a strong middle classs that would stop the underprivileged classes from attacking the most privileged ones!!And that in contrast with the Spartan Oligarchy the Athenians would floursh and not stagnate because they didnt have to live in constant war/intimidation against its slaves!!!

And for the life of me I cant find the pages in which I read all this, I remember everything except the name of this Greek ruler that imposed said policy!

This is pretty much like Tip of my tongue, I cant quite remember the name and i cant find the pages of the book I read on the subject, but im in need of this fact for a public policy paper im working on any help is appreciated!!!

Thanks!!

Edit: this could be flaged "labor"? I mean it kinda goes with the topic of the week doesnt it?

As I understand it, the Holocaust was by no means an aberration of history. Other examples off the top of my head are the Armenian genocide, the extermination of the Tasmanians, the fate of Native Americans during the United States' westward expansion, and countless other examples going all the way back to antiquity. Why did all of these other genocides not result in the same horror as the Nazi Holocaust? Was it changing social values, how it was carried out, etc.?

The octopus is such an alien creature, and especially to early humans who would only be used to land creatures and common fish.

Do you think it first happened when one washed up on shore and some hungy Joe decided to have a go at it? And for it to be recorded, he must have told people about it, right? Perhaps he shared it.

When was the octopus first recorded in human history?