I'm curious about monarchs and inheritance of the throne beyond this specific example as well. For example, had a King died when his expectant Queen was, say, 5 months pregnant with the first child/boy, would they have waited until it was born, or would someone else automatically inherit because there is no baby yet?

I am curious how much the German Empire spent on its navy compared to its land army? And which sources might be useful to look at.

Let's say that I'm a slave owner that purchases 50 slaves. I tell each and every slave that to free themselves, they have to work enough to pay off their purchase and another slave purchase so that more slaves can be bought and freed. Thus, 50 slaves work to pay off themselves and another so that now I can buy 100 slaves. This goes on and on. Besides the huge costs for food and shelter, were there any people in history that did something similar? Even if it took many many years, has this ever happened?

I mean, did it cause them to develop much harder attitudes to foreign pagans, their own pagan past, pagan-esque festivals and traditions that had only been semi-Christianised, etc?

Was it by intentional destruction of currency, or other reasons?

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It seems that being able to watch and listen to SCOTUS arguments and decisions would not only be fascinating, but beneficial to the citizenry. What is the logic to having such important debates be hidden from the larger public view and only available as written summary after the fact?

Ok so I know it's not nessarly a historical game, but regarding the battles and the stories that are told, did they exist to the extent that the game said they did? Were war trains used offensively (I know large artillery were used on rails) were the guns accurately represented?

I am by no means useing entertainment to learn history, but I don't know enough about ww1 to know and it's interfering with my gameplay.

It's a very obscure book and I can't locate a copy anywhere other than for $50 on Amazon. I can't find excerpts either. Can someone enlighten me or point me in the right direction?

I have seen it written that the book contains irrefutable evidence that they orchestrated and/or set the fire

Is there even documented information about this?

I just visited a "Buttnmandl Lauf" in Loipl near Berchtesgaden in Germany. St. Nicholas was accompanied by a group of men wearing fur masks with a red tongue hanging out, large straw "costumes" and carrying cow bells on their back. There were also a smaller number of men wearing leather costumes and masks who carried whips, with which they would try to hit onlookers.

This is similar to the Krampus parades in other parts of the Alps, except that the men wore straw and their masks were not as ornate.

What is the origin of these traditions and what do they mean? It seems likely that they are pre-Christian winter festivities, but is this documented anywhere? Is there a consensus on this?

I'm not exactly the most knowledgeable about Christianity, however if im not mistaken, the entire story about Moses is dedicated to the freedom of Jewish slaves. General school studies teach that much of the western world was religious to a fault.

How did Judeo-Christian countries and their rulers rationalize the affiliation with slavery, if the basis of their religion denounced it?

Psychologists tell us that processes of mourning are essential for personal healing from grief; anthropologists tell us that cultural rituals of mourning are essentially to heal community ruptures caused by loss.

Let's put the transhistorical theories to the test and see what examinations of mourning and grieving throughout history can tell us about what it means to love, lose, and live.

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I'm asking this question because I am currently playing Hearts of Iron IV. It starts on 1/1 1936, and the Soviets have a big army of 1,1 million men but lack a lot of equipment. Some divisions are fine, but a big majority have only enough infantry equipment for about 10-20% of the men. Is this accurate?

I'm unfortunately not much of an expert, hence I'm asking the question here. I'm looking for a book that describes Buddhism's history, it's main tenets, the different sects, as well as social, family and cultural practices in their day to day life (how life was in the temples, etc).

At any rate, thanks for your attention.

Also how did it help Disraeli's political career? How did his contemporaries and opposition react to it

So I have been studying the Civil War time period for a little while and realised that the general view of failure of Reconstruction is simply that the North failed to ensure a stable Republicanesque (not sure that's the right term) government before allowing them to rejoin the Union.

Christianity and other religions that had their roots in the Axial Age are sometimes referred to as the 'moralising religions'. The implications to a non-scholar like myself are that there was no morality before them, or at least no morality justified with supernatural beliefs.

Yet surely people had expectations about the behaviours of others before these religions (lets go back to the Bronze Age), and surely if they did have such moral beliefs, they used their ever-present and pretty flexible pagan religions to justify them? Why would they not have marshalled the supernatural to help bolster people's willingness to act in a socially cooperative manner?

So what do we know about morality in pre- 'moralising religion' times and places, such as the Bronze Age?

Thanks

Difficult as in they just didn't seem to be good soldier material, either unfit, bad shots, difficulty following orders, the works?

Particularly the Anglosphere.

i see the term "Jacobite" thrown around in various documentaries and historical discussions, but nobody seems to elaborate on who they where, what did they do, and why did they do it.

so please historians of reddit. can you please tell me about these "Jacobite's"?