Okay, so I saw a post asking about WWI urban warfare, but the answer only covered the Western Front.

Did urban warfare occur on the Italian Front, Eastern Front, Balkan Front, Chinese Front, or Ottoman Front?

Were there any specific global events, trends, or common-but-localized occurrences that historians believe led to these myths? They occur around the world and often have striking similarities despite total lack of contact. For example the Cherokee believe they took refuge in the Big Canoe during a cataclysmic flood until the top of Enotah was exposed and the Hebrews believed that Noah refuged on the ark until it ran aground on Ararat. Just curious to know if historians have any clues why that theme was so widespread.

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I recently watched a Discovery documentary that claimed the original swords were inlaid with the name "+ulfberh+t", while the rip offs were inlaid with "+ulfberht+". It was my understanding that things were the other way around. Can anybody clear this up for me? Thanks

I took an intro to ancient history as an elective at university. I remember my lecturer explaining that the writer of 'Mark' did an especially good job because he was factual. He left us with a paradox essentially, that the tomb was empty, and therefore it is on us to conclude how that could be - of course with the hope that we conclude Jesus must have resurrected.

However, I asked my lecturer about it afterwards, but more to do with how reliable the gospels are. He began by asserting (in passing) Mark himself wrote it. When I clarified some other point, which contradicted the idea of Mark being the author, he intellectually took a step back, and said the unknown author did this and that etc. I also remember he confessed he was a catholic during this lecture.

Now, my point here is that as a professional (the lecturer), I would have thought the historicity of Jesus' life would be very plausible and easy to explain, if that's what he, as a professional, believes to be the case. Of course, there was the bias of his religious beliefs. But the fact that even I noticed he was skewing details makes me wonder just how factual it is. Or maybe, like 'Mark' alluded, you really do need faith to believe, not just in the resurrection, but that the whole lot is even remotely trustworthy.

I guess my question is, what is the best way to approach this subject? What can we get out of the New Testament as being factually true? And how do we make sense of other things beyond Christian writings, such as no roman records of Jesus' crucifixion, and Josephus not even batting an eye about something he explicitly would have been interested in (Jewish affairs)? Even Paul/Saul lacked a huge amount of knowledge about the man he decided to follow - Mary's name, the Virgin birth, Sermon on the Mount, Joseph's name, events around Galilee... I know a lack of evidence isn't evidence in itself, but when things systematically stack up to paint a gaping hole in history, you can't help but wonder.

Granted, we are talking about the KMT at the beginning of WW2 and it was the CCP that we are talking about during the Korean war. I also understand that the CCP had better morale and Soviet arms and quite a bit of actual war fighting experience during WW2 and the Chinese Civil War.

But if you look at the elite German trained divisions of the KMT which fought in the battle of Shanghai in 1937, they were also well maintained and very modern; but they only lasted a few weeks against the Japanese army. But the PLA, despite heavy losses, fought the US to a standstill.

Was it due to superior arms? (The PLA were largely dependent on Soviet and old Japanese military equipment and the US had firepower and air superiority)

Larger forces/human wave attacks? (the KMT also fielded much larger armies and suffered heavy casualties without being able to check the Japanese advance)

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I heard it's around 17th century, but i still don't get why they abandon it, since armour can still give protection from musket balls to some degree

Hey folks. I have a situation. My family received an ancestry report dating back all the qay to 1060. In that report, my ancestor is stated as the Duke of Charante. Apparently he was a vassal of the King of France, near the Swiss border, and was killed in battle against the King, along with his two eldest sons. Is there any more info you would have?

It was a massive empire in the first millenium AD that stretched from Xinjiang in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south.

I live in Staffordshire

I cannot get my hands on Luttwak's Grand Strategy but an insert from a Roman Imperialism sources book summarised that he believed the policy of the Julio-Claudians led to a stabilisation of the frontier. How did Luttwak come to such a conclusion? Did those emperors have clear frontier policies?

I've recently been getting interested in different interpretations for the reasons behind cave art and mobiliary art, any good journals or articles I should check out? I'm very new to archaeology so apologies if this is all very well known information, I'm still learning! Thanks in advance.

I was told by a friend that one of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not detonate properly. He said that one of the bombs just went out when detonated and didn't do the mushroom cloud properly and caused more damage this way. I've never heard this and can't find anything about this. Can anyone please let me know if there is any validity to this? Thanks

Saw this on the TIL about him.

Additionally, what level of press coverage was there of the internment camps? Did the average American know about it? What was the public response?