Would a half-Indian half-White man have been allowed to vote, for example, or would he have encountered any issues trying to marry a white woman?

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I know that a few African Kingdoms like the Ashanti, Baganda, and Zulu built somewhat sizeable kingdoms. However, it appears the Ethiopians built a much larger state. What factors lead to the rise of the Ethiopian Empire that was lacking in the rest of Africa?

I have heard a lot of talk of ideas like mutually assured destruction and now with Trump being elected many people say he will start a nuclear war and can't be trusted with nukes. So my question is what laws and policies have presidents (20 years ago so starting at Clinton) put into place in order to prevent the US from entering in nuclear conflicts which might have caused massive damage to the country?

Knights were considered in Europe at the time as the best of the best. Yet the Mongols tore them up.

Like were Germans just told it was their Aryan right to expand their borders as much as possible? Or did the Nazi's frame imperial conquest of neighboring territories some other way?

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Also did any Mongols ever pay for it or work on the wall itself?

Specifically, I'm wondering if there exist instances for either side where the government unambiguously enjoys consistently high popular (domestic) and international approval, including from at least a significant part of the opposition.

I'd like to point out that I don't consider however many people either side managed to sway throughout time, or however many governments they came to rule throughout history relevant as a measure of success.

Edit: In other words, what I definitely DON'T mean by success is the ability of rhetoric from either leaning to convince voters. I mean the successful performance of a government in real, quality of life terms.

Is the amount of tragedy associated with death, or a particular kind of death, necessarily lesser if a culture exists in a time when such deaths are common place?

Did people in 18th century view child death as less tragic than we do because they knew they’d have to contend with it a lot more then we do, possible many times within a single family?

Hey r/askhistorians! I am in the planning stages of writing a report for one of my classes and I was trying to 1. find a topic and 2. collect sources. I was wondering if there was a database with historical documents from this time period. If there is a database that doesn't cover this time period, but is still filled with interesting and useful documents, please comment as I am still interested in it as a student of history. I am proficient in latin, though I likely wouldn't pass up on a translated document. There doesn't need to be a specific topic, so that shouldn't be a limiting factor. Thanks!

I've heard the theory that syphilis was brought to Europe from the colonies, but were there any confirmed major foreign diseases introduced to the Europeans from native Americans?

BOOKS, not journal articles.

In Tomislav Dulic's dissertation, "Utopias of Nation", he writes:

"While genocide constitutes a concerted effort at physical destruction of the targeted group, ethnocides aim at forcibly removing people from a given territory. Since most individuals refuse to leave their homes, such forms of homogenisation are accompanied by mass killings. Although the killings may be of fairly large proportions and at some point may even develop into genocide as a result of policy shift on the part of the perpetrators, "ethnocidal" killings remain instrumental in the sense that they aim to incite people to flee."

Using these definitions, he then goes on to "demonstrate" that the Ustasha weren't guilty of genocide against the Serbs, only of ethnocide.

Is this controversial? An Ustasha apologia? Using similar logic, he details that there have only been three genocides to date (Jewish, Armenian, and Rawandan).

Augustus liked to imitate Caesar and always more or less follow in his footsteps. So how come he didn't want to leave something behind like the Caesar's Gallic Wars describing his own Civil War?

I've read that conflict over arable land was one of the main reasons that Greek city-states were often at war, but I was wondering if that was true, and if there were other common reasons?

In 1948, incumbent Democratic President Harry Truman ran for re-election against Republican Thomas Dewey. In the days before the election, Truman was widely expected to lose, but he actually had a fairly comfortable victory in both the popular vote and electoral vote. Why were pundits so confident about Truman's supposedly impending defeat, and why did they turn out to be wrong? With what states or demographics did Truman perform more strongly than had been expected?

This is something that I've been wondering about for quite a long time. In the Second World War the aircraft carrier changed naval warfare. Strike planes could attack targets far over the horizon, but how would they find their way back? The ocean is a big place after all with no landmarks. Was the best bet of the pilot a map, compass, and a watch for navigating to and from a ship?

I posted this question about a month ago, but maybe since we're closer to the holiday we'll get a response or two!

Preferably looking for books for adults, as most of the Thanksgiving books I've found have been for children.